The Wreck

Terrible atmosphere, rude staff and mediocre food. Table was dirty and sticky. We were literally the only two people in there and it took 15 minutes for the server to acknowledge our presence, however when an obvious friend of hers came in he got vip service. Its a poor coyote ugly copy at best

First Impression: Terrible.
Why god why? A Country vibe with awful ambiance and the most expensive canned beer I’ve ever had. $ 5 for Dos Equis, really it would cost me 70 $ to get drunk at that rate.
The wasted space in the back is used as some sort of wall of trash. Hanging tacky and painfully niche items on the wall that juxtapose purpose and forethought the way a drug addicted trailer home owner would.
The young people spinning on the dance floor were less impressive and more obnoxious as they skillfully abused their right to space. Entitled by the cowboy boots /​Stetsons they were wearing they effectively pushed everyone around them away from dancing as not to be drop kicked in the head. The bartenders were kind and served us quickly, but the outfits they are forced to wear are demeaning and evoke the kind of chauvinism you expect in the south. Objectification is apparently part of the job description.
I felt bad for myself as my spirit left my body and watched myself from the Astros play the video game Buck Hunter. This is the only reason I give it a star.

I really enjoy going to The Wreck. I’ve always love the whole Coyote Ugly/​Dukes of Hazard vibe that they got going on down there. The bartenders are cute too, I won’t lie. They got some good drink selections there. I’m mostly a beer guy (Budweiser, Miller Draft, and Miller Lite only because they got the classic can look back) but I tried out one beverage from one of the bartenders. She gave me this mix of Coffee-​flavored Whiskey and Coke. It was pretty good. I really enjoy their service too even though they can be packed at times. Overall, it’s a pretty cool dive bar. Check it out while you around 4^th Street, I know I have.

People are snooty, the drinks are over priced, kinda cute they went with a red neck theme they should of stuck with it instead of trying to be a country bar. It’s over crowded, they do most of the line dances wrong, there are couples trying to throw their dance partner around like they have the room to and they don’t. I mean no cover, Stop in and see it if need be, but don’t go alone you’ll need a group of friends. The people of Tucson can be quite rude, don’t expect «southen» hospitality. Pretty embarrassing to he honest. I use to be a Arizonan, and I use to be proud of it… I don’t know if it’s the mix of people together or what. Just go to a down to earth bar there are so many great bars around with happy nice people. I would ovoid the wreck. especially if your a visiter or new to town. You’ll wanna pack up and go back to where you came from! Promise we ain’t all that bad!!!
Bartenders where nice though!

Not clean, not fun, not sexy! My first impression waking in, was all the ugly crap hanging from the ceiling (deer skulls, army jackets, bras and panties!!). It was just gathering dust and creeping me out I doubt that any of those things were securely fastened to the ceiling, it was an accident waiting to happen.
The service was poor but it was NOT the servers faults! The service being bad due to the way the place is run, I feel bad for the girls! They have to wear «Daisy Duke» style clothes which can attract tips but will also attract drunk assholes trying to play grab-​ass! Then there was also a «Coyote Ugly» dance routine (for anyone reading this who is too young to remember Coyote Ugly was a movie about a young women who wanted to be a singer despite the fact she had terrible stage fright, also she worked in a shitty bar) anyway back to the Wreck the girls had to stop what they were doing, get on the wet slippery bar and dance for maybe like 2 or 3 minutes. It got old really quickly and the weren’t able to serve drinks during their dance.
The drinks were served in cheap plastic cups which let to more spills, which would lead to more possible slips and more clean ups for the employees. I hope the bar changes so they don’t have to rely on old movies and uncomfortable clothes to get tips.

A wreck it is!
The place looks like a rusted Chilis, with all the crap hanging on the walls.
I ask the bartender for a Tetanus Shot, she did not get the joke.
Had a crappy homemade shot that cost me $ 8 and was undrinkable. After that I stopped drinking all together.
I really wasnt impresed with the architecture, the acoustics, the asthetics or the layout or the sanitation levels.
Want a crappy smelly old rotted bar? go to the Buffet at least the drinks are cheap and the bartenders are nicer. Want Country? go to the Maverick.

The bar tenders are nice but know how to get a tip out of men. Very stuck up. I have had one very nice and not stuck up bar tender. They do play good county music and over time more is growing on me.

Usually any bar can be great if you have the right crew. But not the wreck, it’snot fun, ever. I’ve been more times than I want to admit to and always get bored after 5 minutes. It’s perfect for people who are 21 – 22 and don’t know that there are better places out there. Or people who are already too intoxicated to care.
If you have a need for very dirty bars, very poor service, frequent brawls, difficulty getting a seat, lack luster alcohol selection and an overall lack of females aside from the paid two-​steppers on the bar, then by all means go to the wreck.

I want to start by saying that they have a new radio advertisement that states they never have a cover charge. Unless that has changed within the last 17 days, that’s a big fat lie, and so annoying. I went Thursday June 6^th and was told that the cover charge was $ 10 a person. Ohhh but don’t worry, I was assured that all drinks were only $ 2 that night. First off, $ 10 on a Thursday? And the bar was empty no less! Needless to say I did not end up paying their overpriced cover charge and ended up going to Mavericks, who had free entrance for ladies since it was ladies night. All other nights at the Maverick it is $ 5 and to me that’s totally reasonable. I have actually been inside The Wreck once and attempted to get in another time, and both times were a disappointment. I’ll be sticking to the Maverick for my country bar fix. If only Cactus Moon was still open… Still so bummed about that one!

It’s hard to review this bar since it’s not really my style. However, I have gone twice now somehow, and as a reviewer, I’m going to try. There’s nothing really wrong with the Wreck. I’m not really into country or western and I am not a redneck. But if that’s your thing, this is your bar. Dancing comes alive here. There’s beer to be had, and people everywhere be a-​dancing. The waitresses get up on the stage and use a bullhorn to yell at patrons and they’re showing plenty. It’s loud and noisy.
I really try to avoid this but last two times I was on fourth I got dragged in. I’m giving it four stars because it seems to fulfill its purpose as a sort of Coyote Ugly/​Bashful Bandit hybrid. What I did funny was being here at 2 am watching the most drunk stragglers come in looking for a last minute hookup for the night. I however, was satisfied with just drinking a beer and heading home.

THESE BARTENDERS WILL OVERCHARGE. I attended this bar on a Thursday night where «everything is 5 $». I ordered a drink, was acknowledged by the female bartender of the order (i.e. she started pouring it) and placed $ 5 cash onto the bar. Her partner in crime, whom was closing her own cashier, took the $ 5 bill and placed it into the tip jar. Excuse me? Ergo my bartender, whom had just opened a register, charged me again for my drink. When I tried to figure out where my $ 5 went, I was treated like a jerk whom was uninterested in tipping. They admitted to taking my $ 5 and placing it in the tip jar, but made me look like a jerk for asking for it back. Needless to say, I paid $ 10 for a drink when the promotion was «$ 5 you call it». Thanks but NO THANKS.

Didn’t stay here long enough to get a drink. Owned by Maloney’s so I suspect prices are somewhere similar. Germaphobic side of me disliked the idea of a man shaking hands with everyone who walks in, but I suppose some would find that a nice touch. Seemed a bit trashy. Walked in to 5 or 6 half-​naked girls trying to look sexy dancing on the bar, and walked out to a crowd line-​dancing to Cotton-​eye Joe. Stay away if you hate country music (I do).

I’m not even sure if I should even be writing a review for this place. I was always really proud that I had never been to Maloney’s or any of it’s children. I told my friends that just walking though there to go pee and get to The Wreck was like a nightmare. (You don’t have to walk though it to go there, we just did because the line was shorter and we needed to use the bathroom.) It was packed. The patrons seemed nice enough, just not my crowd. The staff at the Wreck was also very nice, they even shook our hands on the way out. The idea that a can of Corona is 5 bucks is a little steep though and again it was so crowded that we had to drink them outside.

Dropped by as one of the first bars in our bachelorette party night… and it was awesome. Smoking-​hot bartenders and we really enjoyed ourselves.

My husband and I stopped here for our second drink on 4^th Ave on a Saturday night. I told my hubby, let’s go get wrecked at the Wreck! lol. We walked up and there was some cowboy dude in a trench coat. He didn’t ask for ID or anything, he just shook our hands. Pretty cool. We went in and ordered a drink. They seemed to be playing a mixture of country, and rock… okay by me. We took our drinks out to the patio area. We had a pleasant time, enjoying our drinks, people watching and chatting a bit with the cowboy/​bouncer guy. We would’ve stayed longer and gotten wrecked, but we still had many more bars to check out, but would definitely stop back if/​when we we’re in the area again.

I got dragged here again. Once again a terrible experience, the «Dancers» thought it would be a great idea to shake up beer and then spray it all over the crowd. Nothing I enjoy more then going home smelling like beer
The bartenders suck
Bouncers suck
Forget this place

While Maloney’s, next door, made me feel old and out of place. The Wreck made me glad I went out that night. The people-​watching is awesome! There are two levels, we perched ourselves on a row of stools overlooking the dance floor. Had a hilarious time watching all the college kids try to rock out to country songs. Drinks are served in plastic cups (even though the two bars share a wall, you can’t take drinks from one to the other.) There’s dozens of bras hanging over the bar, saddles, swings, old tampon machine (?), street signs and a mash up of other things hang on the walls. Let’s see if this place lasts… remember The West and Gotham on Ina back in the day?

An appropriately tattered banner hanging on the north end of Maloney’s patio ushers the curious 4^th Avenue bargoer into the dank interior of The Wreck, a «country» bar which has cobbled the worst elements of Coyote Ugly and the meat packing district (if Tucson had one) into a college watering hole. The place was filled with clumsy two-​steppers in flip-​flops sliding all over the metal «dance floor» (I know, too many quotation marks here, but irony is The Wreck’s only niche). A chain link fence divides the smallish upper deck from the lower room, thus saving freshman lives and evoking The Rock or Congress and their underage cages. The enthusiastic bar staff prancing among the drinks are a muffin-​topped corps of gals who take their plastic cups seriously. Either re-​think the midriff requirement or recruit at the Rec Center. The spastic, tribal mosh pit-​like dancers (yes, the DJ plays only country music) had us fleeing to the patio in fear as we watched the young folks skidding across the beer-​soaked floor straight into the unprotected crowd. The Wreck will survive from Maloney’s dregs for a while, but it’s a boot scootin train wreck right now.