Richard’s Under Main is a true underground bar and restaurant as the establishment is located beneath Main Street, as the name implies.
Richard’s opened in 2001 and then they closed in 2018. But it was resurrected and brought back to life a year ago last summer and I thought it would be a nice place to shine the MBIP spotlight on as we celebrate another MBIPTGIF Happy Hour!
Let’s head to beautiful downtown Peoria and go underground for this post!
And here we are on Main Street in the aforementioned beautiful downtown Peoria. Hey, check out the sign, how did they know we were coming here? Nice!
Okay, down the stairs to the underground home of…
Richard’s Under Main! There’s the bar, let’s go over and see what’s happening in here!
Gene was behind the bar on bartender duty and on the other side of the bar, there’s the owner of Richard’s, Raul!
Great to see both of them and when I laughed about Gene’s “Dick” sticker, Raul gave me this explanation: “The place is called, ‘Richard’s’ but no one here is named Richard. We’re all just a bunch of Dick’s!”
Ha ha ha! Okay, let’s get some photos in here for today’s Friday Happy Hour post!
Tables and chairs line the brick walls in here with classic Peoria archival framed photos hanging over them.
There’s a large dining table in this brick alcove back here.
Here’s two shots of both sides of the highly polished wooden bar in here.
I love the Devon McGlone chalk art in here!
The dining room is back behind the bar area with tables, comfortable booths and a nice mural on the back wall.
If you want to go even further underground, there’s a room down these stairs with more tables, another bar, a pool table and two state-of the-art dart boards.
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Richard’s Under Main doesn’t have a specific happy hour, but you can follow their facecrack page for daily drink and food specials happening here.
On June 18th they’re hosting a “Hello Summer” Beer and BBQ Dinner. This is a five course meal paired with five Destihl beers along with a sixth “welcome beer.” Check out the information for that by clicking here.
They also have “Mystery Buckets” for ten bucks in here all day and all night. A Mystery Bucket is whatever five beers the bartender picks out are the five beers you’re going to get! At two bucks a beer, beggars can’t be choosers!
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Every hour is a Happy Hour here at Richard’s Under Main! Stop in for their fabulous drinks and delicious food and have a fabulous Friday, everybody!
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311 Main Street
Peoria
309-674-8007
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Related Posts: MBIPTGIF Happy Hour @: Olympia Sports Bar & Grill, Tavern 41 and The Untamed Chef.