Main Event Lounge

This place is rad. I'm going again. Real drinks, real people, and not expensive. We popped in on a Sunday afternoon of checking out the off-hours on Main Street. Not packed, but not empty. Super friendly.

Decided to give this place a 1st time try which I did and will never return service is horrible and unfriendly but very rude the bartender tends to walk away and roll her eyes at you when you ask her a questions. If you love rude people with horrible service this is the spot but if you love amazing friendly service jacke bar is the spot Nothing good about this bar we will definitely will not be returning the bartender is dishonest she decided to keep our changes as her tips lol

cool dive bar, nice bartender, neat atmosphere. Mixed drinks were done well, very balanced. Beers were cold. Pricing was great!

This place is bottom of the barrel. The only main event there is the happy ankle biting dogs they allow inside. No music whatsoever. Made me throw away my brand new massive bottle of smart water. He set the tempo early. Zero starts for great value captain jack.

The Main Event is an unfortunate example of what happens when a once thriving downtown becomes blighted. While working in the area, I heard about and witnessed a number of occasions where drunken patrons of the establishment would loiter on Main Street walkways until some verbal or physical fight would spur a call to the cops. Already struggling downtown businesses of all stripes are forced to cope with this mess. The owner of the Main Event recently renovated the front walkway to include an overhang. It looks better, but my guess is it will encourage more loitering. Once thriving businesses along this historic street are now closed. Doors are latched and windows are shuttered. The Main Event is a remnant of a time when it would have fit in nicely with the eclectic mix. Now it is a magnet for daytime drinkers and loud bikers.

Pituresque dive bar, not sure what the other reviewers are talkin, about but my SO is an attractive female and was treated quite well. Sure it's old but it's a DIVE BAR, so really what would you expect? Come with an open mind and expectations appropriate for a small town dive. Pool tables are fine, patrons are small town blue-collar guys, digital juke-box has everything, and the bartenders are funny and exactly what you'd expect from a mining town! Give it a try.

Ah, the Main Event! This is a great spot to stop for a break in the drive between Tahoe & the Bay Area to watch a game. Or at least have some beers and watch your friend watch the game and talk to other (very friendly) patrons. On the afternoon in question, people had all brought in food and there was a *free* BBQ happening. Everyone was so incredibly nice there - when I said I was vegan, the chef was sympathetic and put together a veggie sandwich for me that included tomatoes his wife had grown at home! Beers are reasonably priced and cold, bathrooms are reasonably clean and it's tolerable cool inside on a hot afternoon.

The perfect dive with a perfect Bloody Mary! Lisa is super sweet and funny! There are pool tables, lottery, and TouchTunes for all your musical pleasures. Great spot to stop and cool off!

Not our first time but definitely the last. We entered for also the last time On April 27, 2018. The bartender is rude and petty towards younger, other youthful looking women. She treats women and with complete disrespect. unfairly and causes patrons to leave the bar. We spend money in Jackson several times each year but will never spend another dime in this place. Terrible, terrible, Nasty, rude, and not very clean establishment.

I've been to this bar for a good chunk of time, this was around the time when Dick still was alive, sorry to say after his passing the Bar lost alot of its originality and quality service. A couple of the bartenders were very unprofessional, Steven Hoover and Maggie. One night I was at the bar and I saw a cute man talking to an older gentleman who was some attorney for Jackson, out of no where I saw Steven slap the younger gentleman's hat started yelling at him out of no where went around the bar and forced this man out by means of physical force. He never even conversed with the bartender, I senced jealousy, anyways the young man didn't even have a chance to grab his change off the counter after being thrown out of the bar and the bar tender pocked it and laughed then talked horrible about him. I've met this gentleman before, and he was a sweetheart and very respectful to me. I would come to watch him sing karaoke as well as few others. After seeing this abuse on customers I have not returned to the bar, I felt so sad for the man, I heard a bit of the conversation he was having and it sounded like he was going through alot of past hardship with his family passing away. Prior to that visit, there was another bar tender with red hair named Maggie, I always tipped her good too. I saw her true colors come out, she would be rude consistently to select people and if she messed up on a cocktail and it was returned she would downright remake the drink with the worst attitude and put less alcohol in the drink where it tasted watered-down. I visited amador counties public forums, and of course I see the bartenders talking bad about the costumers that keep that bar open and help tip them. I can't believe the level of immaturity, I wish the main event still was run when they had respect for the customers and didn't act out on them. For this I will be leaving a 1 star. Sorry, I will not be spending another dollar on people who treat others worse than I have ever seen a bar treat people.I wanna ask the other reviews to let me know if you have experienced the same?