Dumas's

This is a bar that we always forget about every time we are thinking about bars.  Ask someone familiar with the area to list every bar in Marion and without fail 9 out of every 10 people you ask forget this bar exists.  Those same 9 people will quickly name Wrigleyville though, and Dumas's happens to be right behind Wrigleyville.  It is a strange little bar, because it looks like a small steel building, and doesn't scream bar.  If you are looking for it, it is easy to find, and its an alright place.  When we got there they were finishing up some karaoke.  The bartender was ancient, but she was a peach!  She was friendly, personable, and knew her way around the bar (despite insisting on Red Bull in her Cherry Bombs)  When Jen's brother decided to meet us here, we made sure to tell her to give him a hard time about his ID, and she obliged.  The place isn't really fancy, or even nice for that matter, but it is definitely a "no judging" type of bar.  A lot of regulars and "locals" here, although technically we are locals too I guess, because we just live down the street, but a lot of small bars like this tend to treat outsiders like strangers (read: Coopacabana) and here we did not experience that.  I had been here before, and the experience was the same before as this time.  It is surprisingly small inside compared to how the building looks from the outside.  I guess they serve food too, but I don't know much about that.  Its not my kind of joint, but I bet a lot of people would love this place, and it probably makes great overflow from Wrigleyville (which is FAR too small for its own good.)