Rustic Cabins Bar

Ok either you get neighborhood joints or you don't. If you do Rustic Cabins is a shoe in for five stars. If you don't I'm sure there's a TGI Fridays around with your name on it. Rustic Cabins has been a Grosse Pointe hang out since, well forever. I'd heard about it, read about it and studied up on the Jack Kerouac aspect of it (he was there, maybe the road begins there?) But I had never been there. Well that mistake was corrected tonight. After a tour of the Ford Mansion and toney Grosse Pointe RW and I ventured south to GPP and Rustic Cabins. Now RW is a local and dialed in so I knew this was going to be great. In a row of hoi polloi (ish) shops stands Rustic Cabins. Rustic indeed from the outside and dive bar on the inside Rustic Cabins hits all my right notes. Atmosphere out the wazoo that can only come with time. Pool tables. Juke box and wait for it.....a cigarette machine! (Hipsters Google it). Still some smokers around so sell them some butts. Remember nobody likes a quitter! The place is fantastic. Locals coming and going. I met a few and it felt like old home week! Each buying a round for their friends (and me). Think Cheers but real. It was a quiet Sunday night but still a great time. Sports on TV, juke box cranking songs.. magic. Places like this are rare and can't be created with a plan, they just evolve. So check out this Grosse Pointe Park gem. If you get it you'll get it. If you don't you'll know and push on. Rustic Cabins. Distill my heart! if I was on the road with Jack Kerouac I would make this my final stop! Go!!

Owned and Operated by family that takes pride in their business. Service goes above and beyond 5 STARS The Bands that perform will not let you down, and patrons will enjoy having the ability to bring in your own food as well as favorite restaurants to bring in orders.5 STARS / worth the visit for a (DIVE BAR)***OMAR***

There is something spectacular about dive bars, they feel like your grandmas house if your grandma lived in an old musty cabin with little light and draft beers. My grandmother did not but they all feel like home. The bartenders were tender and warm, the beer was cold, you can drink inside, outside, play pool, eat potato chips and bring in food from buschemi's next door. All wonderful options. Def go here if you're in the area and have an hour to kill in the evening.

It's odd to think this place is a reminder of my middle school days. A good friend of mine's parents or relatives ran this place. We would get a slice of pizza from Buscemi's next door and sit at a table, it would be a group of us kids inside this cabinesque building with all of the dead animals mounted on the walls.It's odd to say as kid, it strangely felt like a second home here somehow. I have gone back during my early college days and as an adult and it's not as cool as it was as kid. It's still fun to come and have a beer at the bar as an adult and reminisce about decades ago.

I've been coming Ming here for a long time. I'm originally from Michigan and now live in California. It is s must stop place for my family. Love the finicky old atmosphere, the drinks are generously poured with a smile. Feels like home!

Glad they had PBR on tap and $1 pool. Upset they proudly displayed a Trump hat (noticed as we were leaving) and some kind of weird shrine to Mayor Kilpatrick's arrest (it's in Grosse Pointe not Detroit). Bar service existed, bathroom was shabby.

Pool tables and beers that's what people love about Rustics. Again not my scene but I appreciate it for what it is. Old school beer joint that the hipsters haven't found yet or have turned their noses up to. This is your dad's bar, your uncle's bar, the not going to impress your date bar. Carry on Rustics. Don't change.

Nice cheap neighborhood spot. They've got pool tables and a great patio area. Friendly and good service! Cash only though.

I've been here several times and this bar just does not have a friendly vibe. It's a neighborhood bar so I don't get it. The bartender is an a-hole and treats you like he's doing you a favor even waiting on you. Hey, it's a bar, you're the co-owner, treat your paying customers like you're happy to see them! I I've sat at the bar, at a table, played pool, gone out back to the patio, and never really felt like I jived with this place. Even the people at the bar aren't friendly - weird, who goes to a neighborhood bar and is rude? So unless one of my friends insists this is where they have to go, I hope I won't have to go back.

Great longtime owner and supporter of the community. Cozy and crazy feel. Long Live David!!