Reviews

• Apparently my girlfriend’s family has a long history with Big John’s.  They’ve been going there for years and invited me to try it out.  The food was good and came in generous portions.  In fact, the salad was freakishly large.  The place had a real mellow sports-bar feel about it.

• Great west Houston neighborhood bar/icehouse. Friendly knowledgable staff, great patty melt sandwich, and diverse-hip jukebox.  Sunday breakfast with Kitty is stellar. Ask Kitty to make you a bloody Mary and Burke to play some Doors.

• Big John’s is the quintessential after-work watering hole. It’s bare-bones and fit-for-purpose. Wood benches and concrete floors ensure that clean-up is a breeze. It has big screens to watch whatever. The beer flows plentifully and cheaply. Because it’s near the Energy Corridor, much of the clientele are oil folks, but the Harley contingent are equally at home here (of course, these days, they are often one and the same). If you’re wanting to meet and discuss something on the West Side, more often than not, someone will say, “How ’bout we go to Big John’s?”

• I was once a “regular” here.  And what is really cool is I can walk in today, after several years have passed, and still feel like a “regular”.  Come in after work and you will see people from all walks of life – straight from the office and straight off the job site.  But here we all seek one thing – cold beer, unpretentious surroundings, and genuine people.  If you don’t stop by Big John’s when in west Houston, you are definitely missing out.