Spirits Tavern

Top notch neighborhood establishment. A great spot to escape the drunken idiots thatn tend to infest Fells Point on the weekends.

Great neighborhood bar to grab a drink. Its not grungy or rough enough to qualify as a dive bar, but it does have that relaxed feel where you can just hang out. I met up with a few locals there, and they seemed to know everyone that walked in the bar.

We just moved into the neighborhood and stumbled upon this bar. It’s divey, yet perfectly homey. Try the tub of fun! We will definitely be returning to this corner bar.

Very personable owner and awesome atmosphere. Definitely divey but a great spot to grab a beer and a bit of food. Limited menu but given their kitchen set up its very solid! Worth a visit.

This is a fantastic dive bar! It feels like a real neighborhood place and is pretty much representative of everything that is great about the Baltimore bar scene. Good beer selection, or if it’s late enough that you don’t care what you drink, try your hand at the Tub O’ Fun and potentially get a free shot with your crappy $ 1.50 beer. (I always guess the crappiest beer in the tub, so that way if I don’t win I’m never disappointed.)
Plus, the food is really good. The burritos are my favorite, but you can’t go wrong with the tacos or quesadillas either.

I started coming here for taco night on Wednesday and I’ve been a regular ever since. Recently, they started serving coffee and breakfast in the morning… It has been a mitzvah. Plus, you can watch soccer on Saturday mornings which is really nice!

Super friendly place with great tacos and happy hour prices. We stopped here for «a beer» after house hunting and ended up staying all night. Steak tacos are very yummy and super cheap during happy hour. Pool table is free to play and the atmosphere is a warm, friendly pub. Excellent, we’ll be back soon

I really enjoy this local bar — it is sort of hidden in the neighborhood (except for the amazing black and red sign in the window). I have been here quite a few times over the last few years and have had a great time. The food is good — the selection isn’t huge, but the fish tacos taste fresh, the salsa is good and the price is right! The beers on tap are tasty, and the best part is Tub-​Of-​Fun! I just discovered this on my latest trip to Spirits: there is a list of 30 cheap (sometimes terrible) beers in the back of the bar, you go up to the bartender and ask to play. You guess one of the tub-​of-​fun beers and if he reaches in and pulls it out the beer is free and you get a free shot of your choice! If he doesn’t pull it out it’s $ 2.50. The group I was with played it about 7 – 8 beers, and one of us won. It was fun, and a cheap way to drink at the bar (even if I was forced to drink icehouse, keystone and pabst). I also really enjoy the pool table — it is a fast table, but it is free and there is usually some good competition. If you aren’t used to pool, just know that you will have to win to stay on the table and play your friends. The other thing to note is that they close up at 1am! But still a great bar to hang out in :) and lots of fun people to meet there.

Great neighborhood bar. Had a joint bday celebration here a while back-​we brought friends and cake galore and were able to accommodate everyone and have a fantab time.
Love that it’s a fairly quiet little bar. No pretense!

I am a huge fan of dive bars so I decided to try this one out. Went there on a Friday night. Mt Wasnt too crowded, free pool, decent food, and good happy hour specials. I didn’t realize 5 – 8 they had bogo beers and rails. They didn’t tell us that and when I asked they said” oh it’s for drafts only”. This is after we ordered about 8 bottled beers. I personally thought that was messed up. I will go back because I liked the place, but the specials thing was a bit upsetting.

Nice neighborhood bar, kind bartenders, interesting crowd.

I’ve been to spirits a few times and have always enjoyed it. The bartender knows his beers and isn’t bashful about pouring spirits. As other reviewers have stated there is a pool table and yes it is free, there is also video games, and two TVs playing movies or sports in the background. You can tell this is a local dive bar, that is frequented often by the locals and not so locals.
I recently stopped in on a Friday for happy hour with friends and they were dishing out a free taco spread. It was just what the doctor ordered, I got a few cold cheap drafts and while I filled up on tacos and chips. I was impressed because not many bars have free food nights and this was a treat for the patrons, the layout had chicken, beef, re-​fried beans, diced tomatoes in salsa, cheese, fresh made guacamole, and chips. It was created your own tacos so I tried both the chicken and beef with some of the re-​fried beans and whatever fixings I was in the mood for, they tasted great. I eventually decided to make nachos with the chips because I needed some crunch mixed in. Next time I come back I will have to try something off the menu.

Low key. Bucket of fun where you can guess what crappy beer you’re about to drink for the chance to win a shot. Bartenders are cool. Pool table. Nudey-​touch. Hopefully the secret doesn’t get out.

Best «Dive Bar» in Baltimore. The owner is an amazing human being and true Baltimore Sports fan (as well as a killer cook.) The menu is limited, but always amazing. The patrons are eclectic, friendly, and fun. The drinks are always good and there is free pool (if you’re willing to wait… and often to play winner of the last game…)
When I think back to the years I lived in Baltimore I will always think fondly on this place and wish, only, that I had found it years sooner.

I’m a sucker for bars with a gimmick. Give me skeeball or arcade games or free pizza with drinks (come on Baltimore, why don’t we get on that trend? It’s the one thing I miss most about living in Brooklyn) and I will happily weather a weird crowd and lack of ambiance. So when I heard about the Tub of Fun I knew I had to check Spirits out.
Let me tell you, it did not disappoint. It had everything you could want in a dive bar; free pool, peanuts at the bar, hot dogs on offer, and a crowd that was 98% men. Okay well maybe that last part isn’t ideal for dudes looking to score but it always seems like the best dive bars have the fewest women so I take it as a good sign.
The Tub of Fun was pretty awesome. Well, not really because I didn’t guess right and I was stuck with a Keystone Light but it was only $ 1.50! For that price I’ll happily continue to drink shitty beer in the hopes of someday basking in the glory of earning a free shot. Someday…

I had a friend in town for the weekend and wanted to show him this great dive bar with a really chill environment. We are both a huge fan of dive bars, especially ones where you can just sit back and chill ALL day in and just waste the day away. I would definitely say that Spirits is one of those bars. We were there at around 9:00 on a Friday night and when we walked in there were maybe a total of 5 people in the bar. The bar is not huge and the space is not very roomy. There are a few tables strewn about the place but it is mostly bar. There is one pool table that offers free pool if you are interested. The biggest draw for me is the old fashion Ms. Pac Man game. You know, the one where you sit and it’s a clear plexiglass top. Awesome. I could mess around on that thing for hours. That Ms. Pac Man sure is a viper!
They have a few good beers on tap, not a huge selection but a good one. They have Young’s on draft which pretty cool. That is a beer you really only see in can form. This place does offer some weekly specials on food, like a bowl of Chili on Mondays and burritos on Tuesday. The funniest thing about this bar however is the Beer Tub. Basically there is a large tub of beer behind the bar and they list what kinds on a chalk board. Most of these beers are basically for power chugging getting wasted college beer like Natty Ice and Beast Ice. For a buck fifty you can guess what can the Bartender pulls out without looking. If you guess right you get a free shot of anything the bar has to offer, if you get it wrong, well you enjoy the pain of drinking one of those liquid crack beverages.
This is definitely going to be a bar I frequent because it is a low key quiet establishment with a solid jukebox. It is also funny to watch the way they keep bar tabs… trust me you will see if you open one.

There are some good things to say about Spirits: good beer selection, free pool table, not too crowded.
But here’s the bad part: at 1:15, the lights came up, and instead of announcing last call, the bartender came over to us, rudely took my half-​full beer out of my hand and told us to get out. This is really not the way to make a good impression on people visiting a bar for the first time. Call me crazy, but I like to be allowed to finish the beer I pay for before being kicked out, so I doubt we’ll be back.

I love Spirits. Free pool table! Just enough off the beaten path that it attracts a fairly chill crowd most of the time. Never so busy that you can’t find a place to perch, either. Two thumbs up.

Early on I enjoyed coming here when I lived in the neighborhood. The Tub-​Of-​Fun kicked ass, and food was cheap & plentiful, the tunes were pretty good, and the crowd had a nice vibe to it.
Eventually the Tub-​of-​Fun went away, as did some of the bartenders I liked, Chad installed a few video games, as well as a pay-​per-​play digital jukebox, and the crowd was less and less my type of scene. They started having pool league nights. And then there were more and more sports being shown on the television set on a regular basis. Additionally, some of the other regulars were just downright rude & obnoxious. I won’t name names, but this one guy in particular was just a real miserable fuck. It got to where any time he came in I would immediately settle up and leave.
So I stopped coming here as much.
It’s a solidly decent place. In fact, I wish I had a place like it near my current apartment. I just kind of liked the earlier version of the bar better than what it eventually became, that’s all.

Spirits used to be my go-​to dive bar. It was solid and reliable. The tub of fun was always good for a spot of entertainment: guess what lowbrow brew the bartender will pull & get a free shot with your $ 1 purchase. Sadly, it was discontinued, but I hear that it may be back in a revised edition. I’ve wasted more money on the Megatouch than I could care to remember. The well whiskey was either Ten High or Cabin Still (oh, happy day!), so I could always get a little buddy with my Natty Boh for really cheap.
I’ve been out of Baltimore for a few months now, but I heard that one of my old favourite bartenders is back in town and serving up drinks at Spirits again. Go by to see Jeff during his shift. He’ll take good care of you.