Knox Street Pub & Grill

This place deserves negative stars! I can’t review the food or drinks here only the customer service and employees who work here. Never have we been more poorly treated! My husband and I just moved to Dallas and the same day we arrive we park beside this pub for all of 40 minutes. We parked in a place that has no signs indicating we couldn’t park there. We walked across the street had a quick bite to eat only to find our car was gone! They had our car towed. They must have watched us walk across the street called a tow truck and it was gone. We asked the guy standing outside checking ids and he was a total ass about it. Said there were signs behind us and they were attached to the building and we looked but they where no where near where we parked and nothing on the sign said how many feet was designated to their parking only. What a way to encourage patronage have potential customers car towed. If you want to be mistreated than come to this awful place! Forget the nice restaurants with good customer service that surround them choose instead the lowest rated pub that treats people like shit.

DO NOT GO TO THIS BAR. Absolutely ludicrous dress code. Would not let my Dominican fiancé into the bar because he was wearing a «plain white tshirt». The shirt was a grey vneck from jcrew. The white bouncer was clearly having some issue against him for some unknown reason. He offered to give my fiancé a shirt out of his trunk… To which we refused because (first of all who would wear some random guys shirt???)… my fiancé was wearing loafers and very nice dark jeans. He is dressed nicer than half the people in the bar. Absolutely absurd. Will never go back. Racist bouncer.

This place is great! Probably one of the best bourbon and whiskey selections in the metroplex. Great food too. Ryan (the owner) is super knowledgeable and friendly. Justin (the manager) is awesome as well. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you love whiskey.

This place is the worse. My buddy got thrown out because he was wearing a cap backwards.

We have been going to this place for years, but they hired a new bar tender who is rude to women and tries to over charge them. It’s unfortunate because I had just closed a large tab and opened a new one — once my husband started to protest charges on my new tab, he got kicked out for «refusing to pay his bill».
Needless to say, we will not be giving this place our business anymore.

This is my first Unilocal review, and for good reason. AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS. My friend was kicked out of the bar for taking a picture of his own receipt. The bartender notified the bouncer, and the bouncer kicked him out without an explanation. The bouncer said that if the bartender said someone needs to go, he takes their word for it. So he made my friend stand outside in the rain. Not even allowed in the covered area until our cab arrived (because they refused to hear out what we had to say.) I will not be going to this bar again.

Just one of the best local bars in town. Great food, great TVs for sports, if you are a Cleveland Browns fan, a great group on Sundays. Their wings just won the Dallas Observer Best of 2015. But the real deal are the burgers. And after the sports day, the clientele has pretty good taste in the internet jukebox.

This place sucks. All around. Zero positives. Bartenders blow, selection is mediocre and prices are high. Drive to lower Greenville for better places

This place made me laugh. Nowhere else can you order a round of syringes filled with jello and nasty Dimetapp-​like alcohol for just $ 5 each. Plus, it happened to be some special night where they were giving out beers for free. For a first bar in Dallas, that was pretty fun.
There is a dance floor on the other side of the bar, but it wasn’t really filled up. There’s also a good amount of seating outside as well.

Came here with a group of friends to celebrate a friend’s going away party on a Friday night. We were having a really good time. I’ve been here before a few times and it’s always been pretty good. We ran into trouble when a black friend tried to join us. The white bouncer would not let him in because he was wearing shorts that went slightly below his knees. One of our white friends that was with us, who had already been let in by the same (white) bouncer, was wearing shorts that went even lower than our black friend’s shorts. Our white friend even went out to stand next to our black friend to show that his shorts were lower. I told my black friend to just lift his shorts up above his knees and before he could do it the bouncer said «that’s not going to work — he still can’t get in!». Only difference our black and white friend was the skin color. We didn’t see a dress code sign posted anywhere. The (white) bouncer never referred to any dress code sign. I couldn’t get a hold of a manager and I asked two different bouncers several times.
Days later, my credit card statement showed that it was overcharged. I called and the owner Ryan Ferguson picks up the phone. Said he doesn’t give a shit about Unilocal (referring to my first review) and that it doesn’t impact his business at all cause his bar is always full — which is true. I told him my side. He told me his side about how his staff are veterans and good guys. It was one of those agree to disagree situations. It was a good call that made me feel better about the situation. I don’t necessarily blame Ryan Ferguson for what happened — he wasn’t there and he didn’t witness it. He was sincere and apologized several times. At the same time, I know what happened to my black friend because my friends and I saw it with our own eyes and Ryan believes his bouncer/​door men are good people, so there is still some kind of disconnect. At the very minimum, the incident happened, so at the very minimum, it may have been an isolated incident. I don’t believe Ryan to be a bad guy and after talking to him I could tell that he believed every word he was saying. He apologized for the mistake about my tab being overcharged and he fixed it immediately.
Most people going here won’t have a bad time. I’ve been here before and it has always been fun. We all have our own experiences, and I wish Ryan was there to see exactly what I was talking about. Due to what I experienced and what happened to my friend, I will not be back. There are lots of other places in Dallas. Ryan did make a good point that he does get hundreds or more people every night and the few reviews of discrimination are just a tiny portion from all the people that come through his front gate. Maybe this is just an isolated incident, maybe it is a disconnect between an owner and his staff. I don’t know and guessing would be speculation. I have seen this before with my buddy at several uptown venues, so I know dress code discrimination exists in Dallas.
At the very least, I would hope that Ryan talks to his two bouncers that were there that night and maybe reiterates the «About Us» message on website that he claims to have taken a considerable amount of time to write. Part of it states that Knox Street Pub is an «everyman’s bar» where each guest is a «regular». I would also hope he tells them to apply the dress code equally to everyone.
I don’t like giving this place a one star rating, but I can’t overlook what happened to my buddy. I want to believe what Ryan said on the phone, and if it’s true, I hope he has good luck with his business.

I love this place! The huge outdoor patio is perfect for Sunday football or happy hour after work. Inside is clean, they serve a great menu and the staff is super friendly. It’s my own «Cheers.» Love what the new owner has done with it!

Like several other posters said, this place is dirty and the staff was rude to our group too. I’m never going back again. Ever.

Knox Street Pub, where you go to be molested by creepy drunks… kicked out when you try to protect a woman… and the best –physically assaulted by the bouncer and called a bitch. As a woman I would never go back to this establishment again, they have no values and are obviously not trained in the proper manner.
Drinks are cheap and bar is gross so if you’re looking to slum it and you don’t mind a couple bruises and gropes, this is the bar for you.

If I could give this place 0 stars. I would. The place is disgusting (definitely get a bottled beer over draft!!!).
The bouncers are rude and unreasonable. There are so many amazing bars to go to in Dallas. Stay AWAY from this one!

We stopped in here for a drink before our dinner reservation at a nearby restaurant. The weather was perfect so we sat outside after getting our drinks. The place was not very crowded at all. I am giving it 3 stars because the beer selection was quite limited, they did not have any kind of dark beer at all, and the only beers on tap when we were there were things like Miller Lite or some national American beers that are not to my liking. The wife’s merlot was surprising good, but $ 8 for about three fingers worth is kind of expensive for that type of bar.

This is in reply to the review JW wrote. Her and her friends were belligerent, intoxicated, abusive to each other and the staff, they vandalized chairs and were in general disgusting people.
Knox Street is a CLEAN, FRIENDLY, FUN SAFE, GREAT FOOD AND COLD BEER establishment.
IGNORE JW’s review, go to Knox Street and have fun!!!

Pull up in a Rolls Royce Über to do Jello Shots out of Plastic Syringes. NO JOKE HAHA Santa outfit on and tons of people dancing. Trash all over the floor and 20 somethings passed out in the corner… CLASSY JOINT! The music needs to change… seriously. IT was not good when it came out… it is not good now.

This place is awesome. Me and my boyfriend went one night wanting to grab a bite to eat and a few beers. The owner, Ryan was behind the bar. He was so friendly and helpful, and went out of his way to make it a good experience. The food was amazing. If you are looking for a great neighborhood bar, this is definitely the place!
Thanks Ryan, we will definitely be seeing you soon!

My first one star review. Hooray!
ZERO atmosphere. Total snoozefest up in here.
ONE extremely rude and unprofessional manager/​owner (not sure which). He belongs in a cage, not running a business.
TWO buckets of opened beers brought out to us… with the wrong beer. Since they were already opened, we just drank them as they would have likely just been wasted AND we did not complain.
THREE great reasons not to return. With so maaany other great options in and around the area… no interest in giving this place any of my business.
I will say, the doorman was one kool kat. He should be working at a place as cool as he is. One star for you, my friend.

In a nutshell — Tons of TVs, Sunday Ticket, great patio (they can do sound from one game inside, and another game outside — brilliant!), great food, handmade bloddy mary’s, and cheap strong drinks. What more could you need?
So, my favorite sports bar closed last year, so I’ve been hopping around trying to find a new home for Sunday Football, and I finally found it!
We went here this past Wednesday night to watch game 1 of the World Series. The vibe was great — just like a Pub should be — friendly, not too crowded, everyone watching the game and razzing each other, the sound loud enough to hear what the commentators were saying, but not so loud you couldn’t have your own comments too. I was very impressed with the service, and even more impressed with the food!
So then I started talking with who I thought was the bartender, and turned out to be the new owner. He’s worked there for years, but just took over ownership 6 months ago, and has been making small changes over the past few months to systematically improve his beloved bar. His passion was contagious, and when he described the hand made bloody mary’s and ½ price tossed pizzas they have on Sundays, I knew I’d found my new Sunday Sports bar! What a relief!