River Bottom

I love this quirky place. Just beer is OK with me, although I understand why that frustrates some folks. GREAT tunes on the juke box. If you like to drink basic beer on tap, shoot pool and listen to blues or classic rock, The River Bottom rocks. The floor is uneven, the booths could use some repairs, but it’s cozy and unpretentious. Love the fact that it’s on a shady lane with sprawling pepper trees. It’s a hideaway, an unremarkable lounge, but it’s an honest, low-​budget watering hole and local artifact. They’d do well not to change a thing.

I heard someone got drunk in this bar the bar let me drive hom drunk some friends yuck, anyway this person got into a car accident so now the bar is being sued. it should closed down.

I don’t know what some of these guys are talking about. This place is good. This place is a true dive, dives aren’t glitzy, cutesy or thematic, despite what hipsters like to think. You don’t hang out there to pick up women, it’s not where the «crowd» hangs out. Your standard clientele are older Marines, you’ll get some Bikers and off duty Law Enforcement on some nights. Its one of the older buildings in the area it was built in the 1920s as a post office. Sometime later it became the River Bottom. It serves beer and bar snacks, nothing too special. If you’re really hungry and its early enough there’s a little bakery down the street that’s pretty good. I used to drink here with my grandpa (retired Marine). I always had a nice time there. If you behave yourself and keep your standards and expectations low you’ll have a nice time.

Yes, it’s a dive bar. Are you an active, retired or prior service Marine. HISTORY! Has been here since roughly 1927. It was a post office, MANY past Marines have been here and some still come. You GRUNTS in Horno, Cannon cockers in Las Pulgas, and and grunts in San Mateo, ever heard of Iron mike hill? Yes the one you have to climb prior to just about every hump EVER!!! Either starts or ends with this beast. Well he is real and he drinks here STILL! It’s under repair and new ownership, visit enjoy know they love the service and they will take suggestions to any beer you want. For hard alcohol, well it’s a tough battle, they need 51%approval from surrounding places and some are churches. They are working on it. Honestly, pool (2x tables), beer pong (water on table but drink the same), cork board darts! If you want off mainstream to have a blast come here!

Oh yes, this place is truly terrible. But to call it a «bar» is an insult to all other bars. For starters, it only has beer. And all the beers they carry suck. And twice the barmaid slipped off with our friend’s beer when it was still a third full (two-​thirds empty?).
The place also smells like a pair of stale underwear after a day of bad farting. And the outdoor smoking gulag looks like the guards’ break area at a concentration camp.
On the upside, it’s nowhere near home so there’s not much chance we’ll ever go back.

This bar is terrible. It only has beer. One time myself and a friend went in there and the main attraction of the day was a bag of the Walmart brand tortilla chips with velveeta cheese dip. I get it, it’s a hole in the wall dive bar, but it’s like this place tries to suck. Recently they’ve had problems with the tap and have only had bottles or cans, not even as cheap as one would expect either, I think it was like 3 bucks a beer. They don’t take credit either. I wish the place would burn down so someone could put a better bar up, because its pretty close to where I live.

Biggest shithole I ever been in my life. Avoid like the plague. I rather be raped and my liver removed in TJ then ever step into this rotten place again.
Seriously, walking in there you’ll feel like your on the set of the «Walking Dead.»