Reviews of Kilroy's on Kirkwood (Night Club)

evansjdog7

College bar scene, just not for me. Lacking in beers on tap, staff seemed preoccupied with phones and their own conversation than serving, bar was sticky. Left after 20 minutes and 1 beer.

Randy Bush

Top College hang out.

John Machesky

You can put money in touch tunes and it will say it is playing your song while it plays a completely different song. Management doesn't care.

A Monee

The chefs need to get tip from Brothers on how to make the wings.

Spencer Miller

Good college bar experience

Keiland Cooper

Must see in Bloomington

Sami Dierolf

Party Hard, cheap drinks!!

Chris Helou

Great drinks, good food, terrible service, smells like pee and vomit

Joseph Britton

KOK WINGS ARE FIRE!

Jared Lee

Super fun!!

Erin Fitzgibbons

Lovely time (very college-y of course). Amazing bathrooms

Josh Copeland

Fun place to go just be ready for a huge crowd!

Lonny Spitz

The best bar in Bloomington...

Reed McClure

Nice patio

Christopher D Blanton

2$ Tuesday food and drink specials.

Do Gyun Kim

Come for the Thursday T-Shirts and that's about it.... Go to Sports. It's better.

Cliff Kent

$2 Tuesdays

Austin Flask

It's alright. Not bad atmosphere and decent prices, but in the end it's a college bar.

Roderick Lane

Good bar. As college as it gets but fun

Gregory Moore

Gotta get the bread sticks!

Matt Marnocha

You employed Melanie Davis that tryed to get my boyfriend to break up with me at your crappy bar nothing but shady fucking losers here

Edoardo Cicchella

Legendary place

Savannah Suggs

THE CHEMISTRY OF THE SLIDERS ARE UNCOMPARABLE TO ANY BAR IN INDIANA. MORE LIKE THE UNITED STATES. The fluffed texture of the sweet, savory bun combined with the juiciest single patty you’ve ever tasted is an experience to fill your darkest, deepest fantasies. Incredible. ❤️

Bryce Caster

Kilroy's is THE Indiana bar. Any day of the week, there will be a sizable crowd here. Expect a long line on weekends when school is in session.

Sarah Long

Good food, friendly staff...but why don't you answer your PHONE?!

Kirk Sanders

KOK is always an amazing place to go to get drinks and party with friends. Definitely one of my favorite places in Bloomington. They always have some sort of event or drink special going on which is great! Two dollar Tuesdays happen to be my favorite. BUT, for the amount of money this place rakes in, their kitchen gets backed up super easily. If you want food with your drinks, you need to get there before the crowd or be hella patient. Me and my friend waited 45 minutes for bread sticks. We didn't mind much because we didn't have anything else going on but we wanted food before ordering more drinks so we sat at the bar and talked instead. I'm seriously hoping they redo the kitchen to handle more orders or staff it better. Other than that, drinks are on point and the food is good. Still a Bloomington must-go. just be patient if you order food or go somewhere else.

Jay Rennicks

Stumbled in on this fun crowd. Love Bean Town

Hannah Hughes

It smells of vomit and beer. You stick to the floor no matter where you walk. Will not eat anything that comes out of that kitchen.

Chelsea Dee Chapman

KOK!!!! Love the atmosphere here and the long islands are to die for. I saw Ken Nunn here once. Lol

Jacob Tibbett

The service was good and the fried pickles were great.

Steven Chen

Great atmosphere for students and alumni! Always a must if in town for a weekend.

Keith

Management neglects the bar in every way possible. NOT a friendly enviornment or inclusive. Hopefully there are no flaoters in your drinks. If you get lucky you might catch the owners and management doing Coke in the office instead of working. Coudnt leave a half star or i would.

kampfkeks Geschwader

First time going to a bar in the states as a German and 5min in somebody fell over me because I apparently stumbled into a bar fight. I was quite shocked but the guy who fell over me was surprisingly nice and helpful. Never witnessed a bar fight before. Got a new anecdote now :D

Patrick Leistner

Have you really been to IU without a stop at KOK?

Jared Pryor

Great wings

Darwinson Valdez

College Bar. Great location.

Stephen Hen

Kilroy's is a fun hangout. If you intend to go there on a gameday though, expect a packed house. You typically have to wait until a bar seat opens and then make a mad dash for it. Love the Burger with the sundried tomato compote on it.

Adam Spafford

If I could give 0 stars I would. We ordered a mimosa tower and were told that no more towers were available and we had to wait. 20 minutes later, out waitress brought out a tower to the table next to us. Kilroys should try to hire competent adults in the future.

Brian Mills

Good bar with great drink specials. Would recommend if you are with a group that wants a party college bar experience. Don't go if you are sensitive to loud sounds or are claustrophobic.

Jacob Papp

This place is home. All the bartenders are great at what they do. Drink are fun to drink and taste delicious. Great food specials every day. Atmosphere is exactly what you would look for and expect from a great college bar.

Bryan Redenbarger

Nice Place

Adom WhiteRaven

Great atmosphere, Beautiful college girls, a place to hookup

Miss Stacy Nixon

First off,Congrats to grads 2019! Great time as always in B town!

Denise Taylor

Kilroy's Bar & Grill, aka Kilroy's, KOK, Roys, is considered a go-to destination for students, residents, faculty, and alumni of Bloomington, Indiana. Located at 502 E. Kirkwood, management has recently created a new menu to better serve its nightlight clientele as well those looking to grab a quick lunch.

Tom Pleasant

Lots of fun

Evy Johnson

There's a deal on drinks most days of the week.

Phil Fowler

Great atmosphere.

Connie Harden

Awesome cheesesticks and wings

jubayer faruky

Nice bar but making 45 percent of students alcoholic

Chase Harris

Absolute best college bar in America. Good times always.

Kelsey Alexander

Right, better late than never. Liked it well enough, but the last time I went (admittedly about five years ago), one of the waiters tried to give himself an extra tip from my drunk ass's bank card. (I thought at first it was a simple accident, but after review of the amounts and times, well....) Anyway, I was living close enough to the edge on paychecks at the time that it wrecked my finances for a week. My bank was, thankfully, very helpful and understanding, but to fully fix everything we either needed KoK's cooperation, or the police. I tried to keep the law out of it. but this Kilroy's location's day manager was hilariously anti-helpful. She wanted me to both not call the cops, and to try to get my bank to fix it themselves, without KoK undoing any of the charges. Oh, and now she *really* needs to hang up..... I've been in the food industry, and even managed restaurants a bit. Yeah, it's a stressful thing, and there's always some disaster needing your attention just as soon as you can move on from what you're doing then. However, her employee *tried to take money from me that he had no right to*. THAT warrants a helluva lot more than just hemming and hawing. The evening manager, he was a cool guy and helped me out just as much as he could, even though he didn't have the rank and access the day manager did. And ultimately, though he tried his damnedest to make up for her, we couldn't fix things on his permissions alone. So yeah, called the cops, we got things sorted out, and I've never been back. Presumably they've shaped up since then, but felt like ranting a bit while I was on a roll.

John Jonas

Get the stuffed breadsticks

Chris Pickard

Nice little college bar!

Amber Baker

The drink specials were the only thing that impressed me. The service was awful. Asked the server what type of cheese was on the sliders. She said she thought it was cheddar. I said that's fine as long as it's not American and reiterated that I could not eat American cheese. It took over 30 minutes to get five sliders, and they did have American cheese on them, in addition to being very overcooked and dry. We saw the server only when she took our order and to bring out the food. Neither of which times she asked if we needed anything else or if our food was ok. To top it off we had to ask for our check and still ended up having the bartender get it for us after waiting for over 10 minutes .

Steve Ristau

Came to town for a wedding. This place was recommended. Was very disappointed to find they had a $3 cover charge. Who does that? Despite that the food was excellent and the Boom Shrimp was addicting. Service was excellent as well but the food took way to long to arrive.

Chris Pagano

Food apps were pretty good. It did take a while to get all of our drinks. Servers were friendly.

Sontastabica

The water is great.

Brett Sprunger

Terrible service when it wasn’t busy after an IU game. Had to ask 3 times for my Diet Coke. Our breadsticks came out raw. Had to ask multiple times for my wings. Bathroom smelled like a urine bomb

Jeff Miller

Everything you could possibly want in a college bar. The best college bar in America

Kendry Bautista M.

Nice place to hang out.

hrishikesh munj

Worst service! Have no clue what they are serving

Thomas Strömberg

Come here for the stuffed breadsticks, but only during weekday lunch when they are fresh. A full order is too many.

Sondra Davis

Fun envoirnment!

md2128

Kilroy’s should change their “sports bar” designation. A sports bar that has direct TV but not the NFL package? Wut? Went there last Sunday to watch one of the many 1pm NFL games but the only game they could find was the Colts home game. How could that be? They have a ton of TVs so if watching Canadian football or soccer on a Sunday afternoon in the fall is your thing, then this is your sports bar.

Chris Blalock

A bigot owns this bar.

Mark LoGiurato

The go to place in Bloomington. Huge space with two floors and an outdoor dancing area. Lots of fun to be had throughout.

Hayden Paschen

Uhhhh it's kilroys. Duh.

Joey Steiner

Everything is sticky and smells like vomit and Clorox but it reminds me of college so it's nice.

Colton Jung

This is a college bar, and anybody expecting anything different should probably not attend. They're not that busy and you can have a pleasant, peaceful bar experience during the day if you like. When it gets past 9 pm, that's when the students roll up and it gets crowded, loud, and exciting. All of my experiences there have been fantastic, whether I went there during the day expecting good food and deals and being able to just hang with my friends, or went there at night ready to be loud and see/meet a lot of people. Their drink specials are among the best in the country when it comes to price - $2 on Tuesday and $3 on Thursday for 32oz pitchers of Long Island ? Sign me up. This bar is a staple. They do not discriminate either. Everyone is welcome.

Soham Majumdar

Happening spot

Ashton Eller

An IU staple. Must get breadsticks.

Mick Spence

Men's room needs a new floor drain, if you know what I mean.

Anthony Zimbardi

Wow... My family and I walked in here tonight and they asked for our I.D's at the door. My dad, who is 63 YEARS OLD was the only one who did not have his I.D. on him and they would not let us in. We thought it was a joke at first. Unfortunately, not. Unbelievable

Belinda Neff

Nice place for young ones to hang but not really for us older people.

Eric Weigold

Nothing special, nothing awful. Cheap food and booze, generally a drunk college crowd.

Allen Christopher

This is a very quaint College bar that is absolutely fabulous!!! $2 Big O Long Island's you can't beat it!!! @kilroyonkirkwood!!! My grandmother owned a bar on Kirkwood!!! Fabulous students and townies.

Van Denny

super cheap

Sia Kritikos

Great place to party

Austin Norton

"Bottle Service" means winning a case of beer and a 5th...straight trash frat kid lifestyle garbage

Young Priceless

KOK what More do I need to say?!

Preston Miracle

Disrespectful service and awful selection. Drunk bartenders run to their management for help when under scrutiny and can't reconcile situations.

Joe Battista

Been here a lot slow service and wasn't busy. Bartender refused to serve me after I refused to tip him for being rude.

Ryan Borgstrom

How can I rate "0" stars on this place? 6 of us ordered a round of 'goose island' beers and we're all served bud lights. The DRUNK bartenders did not replace our beers and shortly after we were kicked out for complaining about the wrong order. I am a bartender and if this were to happen to me I would gladly replace the drinks. Won't be coming back here again.

Stephen Elkin, Jr

Pizza filled bread stick, amazing!

Erik O'Brian

Servers are good, but management is pretty horrible.

Elizabeth Laskowski

It's a typical college bar. The bar is usually very crowded and has an average drink selection. Prices are not outrageous and they run specials frequently. The floor and seating areas are fairly sticky, but again, it's a college bar. Their breadsticks, though, are to die for!

Curt C

College bar, service speed hit and miss, will never go in filthy restroom again. Maybe I was little tough on them...was there during Spring break ... restroom was clean and rest of bar floor was not covered in Beer either. It gets crazy when students are around.

Brandon Sakbun

Nothing beats a sunny Friday afternoon on the Patio at KOK. Affordable prices for a fun time.

Dan Niersbach

An alternative spelling of "Home". Just don't order the hot Cheetos grilled cheese on select Tuesdays.

Cherise Davis

If you've been to one Kilroy's you been to them all

Satdeep Gill

Sometimes the staff is rude but still I love Two Dollae Tuesdays

Good_Dawg

Management assualts people

BUDDHA VAPES

Great place to party with friends but not a family setting.

Michael Carson

Charges cover on homecoming and will not stamp, too money hungry for my taste. Also a bouncer pulled a girl's hair to get her attention. If you want to drink cheaper look at other bars.

Nicholas Peters

I'm to old to frequent this establishment but it's still fun to hit up occasionally for the drink specials and the memories

Kabo Muyaluka

Amazing wings special every Tuesday

Maddie Cramer

Waited for breadsticks for an hour, bartender was so rude, and why do they have 5 doormen on a night that is dead?? They don't do anything but sit around.

Cynequa Marie Sain

$2 Tuesdays stay hittin

Cindy Solloway

Great atmosphere. Great food and our server was amazing. We will be back when we come down south again.

Bob Jones

Love everything about this place. Gotta visit the shot wheel every time I go

cory martin

Best Kilroys Location. Great specials, high energy, lots of fun.

Nicole Young

Girls night was a success thanks to george, best lemon drops and biceps in town

John Panos

I'm a frequent customer at KOK and also have a VIP card, but the service I received tonight was astonishing. I asked for a crown and coke at the bar only to return a few minutes later because I could not taste any crown. Usually when you go to a bar they would help the customer and give them a new drink...I was told there was "nothing they could do about it" and the bartender walked away acting as if the issue didn't exist. Great customer service technique right there. I understand you are constantly busy and have much more important issues to worry about but it's customers like myself who really matter because I'm the ones spreading a good or bad name about your bar. It's the simple things like this that really bring customers in or make you lose them.

Todd Miller

Its a dump, smells bad, service is horrible. Much better places to get a beer or drink in Bloomington.

Jimmy Carr

40 minutes. Only employee to talk to me was the guy at the door who asked for my ID, glanced at it and gave it back. Walked out, and writing this from BuffaLouie's. As many others have said, "If I could give a 0..."

Kaitlin Jones

Too much of a college bar for me. No room to even walk thru the place, the bathrooms were dirty and trashed.

Brian Morgan

$2 drinks but the DJ here was downright awful.

Jason Ostendorf

Breadsticks are the best things every created. Go ahead and order 4. You're welcome

Scott Hetrick

Two dollar Tuesdays FTW! Nice deck out back.

Andrew Milstein

The greatest bar in the world.

Slappy Erickson

Not only fine drinks, but superb staff! When deals run, people come. Lots, and lots, and lots of people. No telling who you will meet!

Michael Jung

Beer served in thin plastic cups. 10 beers on draft. Inattentive serving

Grace Dickey

Excellent

Yoshi Tsuji

Horrible music choice

Brian Howard

Fun night!

Tariq Sheikh

Completely irresponsibly run bar. Any fake ID works here. Kids. So the authorities came down hard on Kilroys, and rightly so. It used to be a nice place when I was a student. I'm surprised it's not changed name and started a new format. Just because it's been on Kirkwood for decades doesn't mean they a have a license to overcharge and underserve. Food is horrible.

Will Petrovic

KoK is a lot of fun. They have great drink specials and the bar is very popular. They don't have the best beer selection though.

Lucy Fischman

NIGHTMARE meat market. Gross food, grosser people.

MANJEET PANDEY

Cool but expensive

John Hayduk

Visited 9/1: As undergrads, my late-wife and I never visited this venue, but tonight, I very much enjoyed watching IU's football win while drinking reasonably-priced draft Stella Cidre. The bartenders, two guys, one girl, were super-nice. The only thing that mystified me was the enthusiasm for Notre Dame's dominance over Michigan (actually, a good thing), topping the reaction for the Hoosier victory over FIU. C'mon people .... we're Hoosiers! Make some freakin' noise!

Mackenzie

Decent service but the crowd is trash.

Dennis Hermatz

They dont have a good policy. I think they make up the rules as people come in

Mark Hunzeker

Nice place but the management is poor.

Jonathan Stoller

Great drink specials. The $10 cover at noon was not so great though.

Juancarlo Rodriguez

Its Ok. Not the best bar in town

Joe Compion

Dope club even though it smells like puke. Bring cash because the bartenders are notorious for ripping you off if you use a card.

Jacob

Love this bar

Tim Swinney

Bought my daughter a gift certificate for her 21 birthday.... manager said it would be behind the bar. No one can find it at 1:30AM and no one will answer the phone. Won't do that again

Jace Merkel

Waited 30 minutes no service !!!

Nick B

It's one of those places you 'have to go to' if you visit our go here ... But it still doesn't change the fact that it smells like pee in there.

Dale Smith

Love this place

Chad Lacerte

Aaron was awesome good food cold drinks

Jack Balogh

Wouldn’t let us come at 7pm to get food with people underage.

Aravind Parappil

$2 sandwiches and everything else is totally worth it! Must visit!

Hanah Sloan

Exactly what I expected from a college bar. Fun and young crowd

James Newsome

Amazing college bar.

Scott Gross

Add two stars if you are an undergraduate and it's a friday

Michael Willis

Holy chicken fingers and breadsticks. You get your bang for your buck whether its getting liquored up or just a filling meal. Make Culver's a little more like bar food and take away the creepy part of the politeness of the workers and you're left with the beautiful concoction that is Kilroys

Austin Lee

Absolutely the worst kitchen I've ever worked in. Dirty, lazy staff, nothing gets cleaned and when it does it's half assed. Oh not to mention cockroaches EVERYWHERE!!! i couldn't stand working there anymore so I left.

Zach Zielke

Much improved since it was renovated. No more "birth canal", however if you are old enough to know what the "birth canal" was at this place, then you shouldn't be going. It is for a much younger crowd, stick to nicks English hut

Christopher Young

Loud but the price was great.

Mitch Hider

The definition of what a college bar should be. Packed anytime after 7. Best crowd and environment in all of bloomington

Nick Chin

Typical college town Bae with cheap drinks and games

Clayton Stuart

Cheap food and drink and the heart of the bar scene in Bloomington.

Robert Jurković

Nice burger and fries

Thadeus Staples

This is the main college bar in town. Almost everyone who goes to IU goes to this bar. That being said, prices are cheap, especially on Tuesdays (except for homecoming they raise prices since alumni are coming back). This place gives out “free” T-Shirts (there is cover) on Thursday nights. This bar is very busy and almost always packed come Thursday, Friday and Saturday. However, great place to go and have a beer!

John

This is the dirtiest bar I've ever been to. It always smells like pee, there are mounds of empty cans, and there is usually vomit in the sinks.

Lisa Nelson

The floor is somehow always sticky

Mary Reed

Nice open atmosphere but bad service and didnt have half the menu available.

Tyler Hagan

Sticky floors and very crowded...

Noah Berger

Disrespectful service. Was left with a sh*tty sarcastic joke in my delivery box after asking for a piece of cheese. Nothing like a first impression.

Ben Paulson

Worst experience at a bar I've ever had. The drunk bartenders weren't competent enough to serve us the right drinks and the manager (with no qualifications) had no clue what was going on. The bar smelled absolutely awful and me and my wife were completely disrespected. Would never go here again even if I was paid!!!!! I recommend going to Brothers for great service instead of going to Kilroys where the drunk belligerent students behind the bar are serving drinks. SAD! Do not go!!

Kristen Parsons

Sat there for twenty min, never offered a menu or opportunity to order. Finally asked for a menu, waited another ten min, never waited on. Walked out

Henry Sines

Very sticky floors and the bathroom smells very bad for midday. Very nice bartender though. Bars will be bars.

Michael Hynds

Bring back the Monday night food deals and at that point I will come back, with a vengeance.

Erik sampsel

McKenzie was probably the best waitress ever very good people skills. Great food

Jordan Watson

Love this place and the staff. Very welcoming and cannot wait to return. Oh, the food is amazing as well.

Didi Gradinarska

A great place which attracts a lot of students in the university period. Good food and great place for a night out.