John Barley Corn

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1100 American Ln
Schaumburg, IL 60173

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(847) 619-5540
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I was there on a Saturday night & stayed at the Extended Stay Hotel RIGHT across the street, which was awesome! I really liked the John Barleycorn, but it depends what you're look...

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This place is horrible! Last night they had that B96 bash that attracted every dirt bag and low life from the city. The wait staff was rude, the coat girls were completely cluel...

Avoid this place!!!! 12/12/2010

This place is horrible! Last night they had that B96 bash that attracted every dirt bag and low life from the city. The wait staff was rude, the coat girls were completely clueless and extremely slow. The door men were jerks and on the way out they were making fun of people leaving. This is how you run a business? They should get a clue about customer service. I will never go back to Barleycorn and will tell everyone to avoid this place. more

Yuck 4/20/2010

Eeewwwwww . . . . this place is just gross. It is all of the worst kind of people meeting in the same place. Yuck, yuck yuck. I tried to give it a second chance but it sucks! The people here think they are so cool, especially the bouncers and the guys upstairs. Seems like some single girls come here to meet guys. Stay away ladies!!! I can't imagine the kind of girls that go to this place to meet guys. This guys that come here are scum. I would be embarrassed to ever say that I had been, let alone met some there.\r \r If this can save just one person from going, then I have done my job.\r \r <3 Jackie Cons: Everything more

THIS PLACE IS TERRIBLE 4/19/2010

This place blows, very typical suburban club. Don't really care for the city ones either, but much better than this!! The guys that come here are such tools. Given how crowded it is, I was nervous that one of them was going to touch up against me and I was going to get whatever disease it is them makes them such d-bags. It seems like these people are all working garbage jobs, living at home with their parents and blowing their entire checks at places like this pretending to be cool. Nobody cares how much you go to the gym, how nice your car is because you don't pay rent, or where you got your Ed Hardy or Affliction shirt and sport coat. Never go here if you do have to. Pros: Several Exits Cons: The people that come here, disease the carry, the staff more

what a joke 3/20/2010

they have plenty of toolbox bouncers and poor wait staff if thats what your looking for. The dumbest way you can spend $8 per hour (picture high school football team rejects, like the fat dumb ones. Amazing this place is as busy as it is. The bartenders/cocktail waitresses overcharged me when I noticed they took off the charge and then charged me an extra $50 on my cc. Thieves. I hope they get shut down Ive heard of this happening to other people too, but not surprised when you look at the management at this place. Ive been to their Wrigleyville club a bunch of times and always had a great time. It must be a suburb thing. Pros: live bands? Cons: staff more

Depends what you're looking for 1/13/2010

I was there on a Saturday night & stayed at the Extended Stay Hotel RIGHT across the street, which was awesome! I really liked the John Barleycorn, but it depends what you're looking for. At my age of 24 I'm kind of over the big loud dance scene, but I was meeting up with some of my college friends so I didn't mind cuttin' a rug again. LoL If you want to dance, be around a lot of people, and maybe meet a single girl or guy then go. But If you want a more chill bar,with less expensive drinks then probably not your place. Then again I didn't check out the down stairs bar, which was probably a lot quieter & chill, but with the same typical exspenisve drinks. But go and make your own opionion about it, take a good attitude! I had fun there! Pros: Food price ok, many Singles, great Bathrooms, Music Videos Cons: $4 beer & $10 cover expected though in Schaumburg more

worst night ever 1/3/2010

Well, after going a few times with much disappointment, I decided to go again for NYE 2010 and well, I wish I would have gone for a colonoscopy instead. Let me recap this night of regret and debauchery...well, for starters, we all had to stand outside for 25-30 min in 5 degree weather in a line that looked like we were all trying to get our hands on 1 of 5 limited quantity 50"" plasma screens at Best Buy.But you know what? After you lost sensation of your ears, toes, and fingers and accepted your fate and made your calls to your loved ones to say goodbye and to tell em you love them.......it wasn't all that bad. I say this because I wasn't one of the incredibly poor souls that were kicked out of waiting in this line and in this weather due to their choice in footwear. I mean this place had their Tool Academy drop outs inspecting our feet like defected barnyard animals who were not suited to be slaughtered for distribution. So, there I waited, quivering, alone, bracing myself, trying not to bring attention to my feet, and saying one last prayer before I am judged at the door. I see many get dismissed before me, and I surely think I am next, but something happens....I am let in. Victory. Oh no....not just yet. ""Hey, what about these?"" I hear the apprentice Tool Bag in training ask his Douchee Lord. He looks down at my feet and by the grace of all that is good, grants me a pass in. I kindly bow and kiss this young douche's pinky and leave him my watch as a gesture of gratitude. Literally....as soon as I step foot inside, I bump into someone. The internal line is all the way to the door! I see two massive lines and hope that I am in the correct one. I am quickly questioned my desire of a coat check, I dismiss this and turn to realize that I am in the coat check line and the line to my right is the line to go upstairs to the ""party."" At this point I am begging for a black out, so that I may do 1 of 2 things: flee this hellish boot camp for tools, or run home on foot and never turn back. I decide to bow my head and turn around and go into the 2nd line and continue this shameful and sad journey. At this point, we are actually wrapping around their dining area and basically wishing for midnight to come so that we may go home and cry ourselves to sleep. If I had wanted to go to Great America and visit the Iron Wolf, I would have done so, however, not on one of the coldest days of the year. Time passes....I am passing in and out of consciousness...but then, all of a sudden I am being yelled at and am jolted back into reality. It is a bigger douchee this time around and he is telling me to keep moving...I brace myself for a pistol whip, but there is nothing. Silence. I am relieved. I am then greeted by a orange bimbo at a register who probably thinks I desire her, when in reality I desire her to look into a mirror and see her interesting shade of orange.. She angrily applies a thin strip of paper onto my wrist that I paid $65 for and blew fire on the edges to seal it together. Magnificent creature. Then, just as I am about to venture into this Holy land, I am stopped! I am face to face with yet another douchee who represents this academy for douchees' and he asks me to hand over a ticket in my hands, a ticket that clearly has not been used and is not mine. I gently tell him, it is my friends and I am waiting for him to be granted entry...he allows me to move on. Again, I am grateful. Today is a good day. Then I take 3 steps up...STOP! I am again, scared for my life. At this point in time, I am facing a swollen douchee tool bag hybrid. Now these are not like the ordinary douchee bags that work here, oh no....this one has special abilities that you must be careful about. So again, I grimace and squint my eyes and prepare for impact...nothing....I am blessed. He asks to see my wristband that the dragon lady below 20 feet from him just placed on my wrist like a tourniquet. Pros: nothing Cons: everything more

If you're late 20's or Older, Stay Downstairs!!! 1/12/2009

I've been a couple times for dinner and drinks downstairs at the Schaumburg John Barleycorn. I think the food is not expensive at all, and everything I've had is really good - it's exactly what you're expecting walking in the door. The downstairs bar is what someone who's over the ""club scene"" is looking for - good drinks, good atmosphere, although you can stay in the restaurant area and have drinks and discussion for hours. I had the ""pleasure"" of being roped into some sort of 13-year high school reunion this past weekend in the upstairs club area of the establishment. I guess it's been way too long since I've wanted (or cared about) that scene - it was ridiculous. The music is definitely too loud to allow for conversation. The drinks were fine - we had two hours all you could drink for $25/person. After that, call liquor drinks were $7. The scene was a spectacle, for sure. Girls (early 20 somethings) wearing things too short and too plunging that shouldn't be, guys dressed like pimps and looking like they could probably shave once a week and be fine, and seriously two girls dressed like tramps dancing on the stage to the ridiculous club music. If that's your scene, hey, it's only $10 to get in - go for it. Otherwise, I recommend you stay downstairs and enjoy the bar and restaurant down there. You'll be none the wiser, and ignorance is truly bliss in this situation! Pros: Great bar and restaurant downstairs, good value on food and alright on drinks Cons: Upstairs isn't for everyone, insufficient parking more

Do not waste your time & money!!!!! 8/11/2008

This place is a complete waste of time and money. On their website they said they were going to be showing a UFC fight and there would be no cover charge. We get there and they are not showing the fight and there is a $10 cover they didn't even have a band playing. The music sucked and was way too loud. The drinks were too expensive $10 & up for mixed drinks, $5 for beer when you could even get a bartender to make you a drink because half the time they would socialize with their co-workers. We had a party of 15 people pay their cover and after one person had 3 beers in the course of 3 hours was asked to leave for no reason. No one could tell us why or give us a valid reason. He was outside talking to people for 30 mins and we he tried to walk back in that's when they decided he had to leave. For what?? There are mooches in the bathroom collecting $ everytime you want to use the bathroom. There are COPS IN THE PARKING LOT right in front of the door waiting for you to go to your cars. The food is expensive and not that great. Pros: absolutely nothing Cons: no parking, rude staff, cops in parking lot, expensive more
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  • Hours: 10 a.m.-1 a.m. Sunday 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Friday 10 a.m.-3 a.m. Saturday
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