Hook-Up

Great Micheladas, good crowd, yummy nachos, and daily drink specials: D

Delicious micheladas! Place it in a random location and has a very strong cigarette odor.

I love the hook up bar, they have pool table which is fun! me and my friends always come here for the beer, $ 10 bucks for a pitcher is a okay for me :))) the food is okay could be better but i am satisfied, bartenders are always nice! great service! come to this place a nice place to chill, oh also they got karaōke nights.

I’d like to thank Phillip and The Hook Up for helping me to host a fundraiser yesterday. They provided excellent customer service and were so accommodating to our needs. My fundraiser consisted of donations of spaghetti sauce and pasta. This is for a charity «Caterina’s Club» who feed on an average of 1400 homeless kids in anaheim, California.
The HookUp is a small neighborhood hood bar, it was the perfect venue for a birthday party! It also has a pool table and a kitchen. You can reserve an area for your party and they provide a cake and decorations for a deposit of $ 25. If you have more than 25 people attend you get your deposit back.
We hired a DJ, the dance floor is small but we had no complaints, we danced the night away. We also had a candy bar.
We went back the next day to pick up the donations and candy jars & Phillip had cleaned up the area. Wow I was impressed.
The turn out was awesome, everyone had a great time & we will be back for Christmas!!! Thank you!!!

After an hour of being there, I wreaked of cigarettes. Completely disgusting. The bar definitely has potential, but my health and hygiene are far more important. I won’t be coming back.
Funny how they have a no smoking sign on their door too.
The jukebox was amazing, for the hour I was there.

It’s alright. Chill place for drinks and karaōke. I didn’t appreciate the bartender that was rather rude with us and proceeded to talk smack about customers. He gave priority to the regulars and shrugged off the rest of us. I believe Phillip is his name.

This place has cameras everywhere and the owners make it obvious that they’re watching. So privacy is not an option here. Go across the street and have and do what you like. This place used to be a gay haven but is now a ignominious failure … Tragic

my favorite gay bar, actually favorite bar whether, gay or straight. laid back, everyone’s friendly and the best mechaladas. i would give it a 5 but the cigarette smoke is so thick, i come out of the bar saturated in smoke smell and the feeling i just got a mega dose of lung cancer. otherwise great bar.

I love this place!
First off, if you’re looking for a place that’s like your typical club scene, this isn’t it. This is definitely a dive bar, and not your typical gay club.
The place is really small, but it works. There’s some long tables and bar stools to hang out at, plus there’s a pool table to play at. There’s plenty of bar stools, and the bartenders are friendly as well.
There’s a TV in there, which is cool. I’ve never really noticed what they play on there… But last time I was there, they were playing sports.
Sundays is usually when we go, as they have cheap draft beers, cheap burgers, and cheap hot dogs. It’s a fun bar to just hang out with some friends at and drink some beer. I love it here.

Although I work here I am also a long time patron and all I can say is Christina is the best, always with a smile and great attitude. Sean our new Manager is always looking for new ways to improve whether it be by drink specials or additional days with free pool. James our newest teammate fits right in with our ever changing family behind the bar. And ofcourse then there is me im just fabulous and everyone loves me…;) Cold Beer, strong drinks, great music playing on the jukebox and amazing customers who make you feel right at home. Come on down and visit us!

Christina is the best! I’ve been here off and on over the years and have always enjoyed her personality, drinks and service. The establishment is a small spot, no dance floor per say BUT the digital music, pool table and characters make up for it!

Had some pretty great times here! The bartenders Sean, Christina and Phillip are great always so nice and inviting! Karaōke nights here are fun, it’s smaller than Alibi’s down the street but definitely a place worth visiting if you’re in town, it has a friendly neighborhood bar feel which is usually packed with customers that usually frequent the bar so I would always run into someone I’ve met before. Definitely a good place to come and make good friends and conversation with people

Unilocal’s 365 Review Challenge 2014– #130 — #365
I previously had known that the Hook-​Up has a lot of history here in Pomona and use to be called Mary’s and now I feel fortunate to experience the Hook Up Bar. FRIENDLY is the word to describe this bar with non pretentious attitudes and friendly bartenders. It makes a great place to have some cheap drinks before heading over to 340 or Alibis East. I also noticed people smoking all around the bar and I would expect that in Vegas, not in California.
I’ll admit some of the patrons were being asses talking behind my back because I didn’t fit in. Well **** THEM!
I’m here to have a good time and make some new friends. The bar entirely is divey but the staff and most of the patrons were very amiable and that’s what draws me back to the Hook-​Up.

My favorite bar in Pomona, I like the staff and drinks. Everything is awesome here! The atmosphere is very inviting and there is always good music and fun things going on.

This is such a fun bar… I always have a blast in here! Sean, Phillip, and Christina are some of the best bartenders around!

Felt really comfortable here. I got a burger with a salad and fries. Although the burger was a little well done for my taste it still had great flavor. The fries were well made. Bartender was attentive and relaxed. I would and have recommended this bar to several of my friends.

I hate gay bars. I swore I’d never step foot in one. I’ve always held the assumption that every gay bar would either be a meat market with creepy old men on the prowl or full of pretentious WeHo-​style twinks dancing to terrible electronic music and setting anything flammable ablaze. Imagine my surprise when a friend dragged me kicking and screaming down to Pomona, where I stepped foot in a small-​ish dive bar with a diverse crowd of guys and gals, pool balls clacking, and the smell of cigarette smoke wafting gently through the air. I was home!
The Hook-​Up is now my go-​to gay-​friendly watering hole. Drink prices are quite reasonable, the majority of folks who hang out there are super chill, and the world’s sweetest bartender, Christina, pours like a boss! If twinks and dancing are more your thing, you may have better luck at the Alibi down the street, but if an unpretentious dive is more your thing, The Hook-​Up is your spot.
Weekend nights get packed, as is expected, but there’s lots of fun to be had during karaōke night on Wednesdays, and Sunday late afternoons for the $ 1 to $ 2 beer bust.

After coming here on such a regular basis I think it’s now safe to say that I am a regular.
The drinks are cheap in price but high in quality, you’re definitely going to be tasting the alcohol. The crowd is usually very tolerable and manageable, with the place being frequented the most by regulars, but like any other bar it’s usually standing-​room only on weekends. It has a very homey and neighborhood bar feel, with most of the people encountered being friendly and approachable. The bartenders I’m most familiar with: J.R., Christina, and Betty are very nice and attentive and provide bang for the buck and will always chat when they have a minute.
If you go here expecting to play pool you’ll more than likely be in for a wait, as the single pool table the establishment has is often occupied. And like any gay bar you may find yourself getting hit on or made uncomfortable by a creepy older guy or gal or by someone who’s had one too many.
Overall, a nice place to spend a couple bucks and get to know some new people, but don’t go there expecting lots of extracurricular things to do.

Cheap drinks. Heavy hand. No attitude. Loves it!

The Hook-​up holds a special place in my heart. Back in the early 90s, this was a small little dive bar called Mary’s, which catered mainly to lesbians. My much older friends would bring me here, where I was a bit of a novelty: most 21 year old twinks were hanging out in West Hollywood, not in a Pomona dive bar. But it’s a great ego boost being the youngest, cutest person in a place so it eventually became a favorite hang out.
Fast forward nearly 18 years, and now Mary’s is The Hook-​up (has been for many years actually) and I’m the older friend who drags my younger, cuter friends here. But it’s still a great little neighborhood dive bar with zero attitude. Doesn’t matter if you’re gay, lesbian, straight, transexual, young, old, twink, bear… whatever: everyone feels welcome at this «come as you are» venue. They have pool tables, dart boards and a pretty good jukebox. Drinks are strong, cheap, and served with a smile.
It’s the kind of place you go after work to knock back a few brews, or maybe to start your night before heading to a dance club (maybe at Alibi’s on a Friday?) Or it’s the place you may end up after you’re already pretty trashed and want just one more for the road.