The Thunderbird is hard to sum up: a dive bar? Hipster venue? A B&T weekend go-to? Depends on when you go (no joke, they are open at like 7am). At heart, the Thunderbird is kind of your every day Pittsburgh-style bar with blue collar day-drinkers watching sports. On the weekends it turns into party-central with the rest of the neighborhood, but without the space to accommodate the chaos. The draft prices match the rest of expensive Lawrenceville but they do have a wide variety of bottom-grade, cheap beer cans.
While a music-oriented venue, the Thunderbird does NOT play any music on a stereo. You are forced to listen to the TV, sit in silence, listen to the potentially terrible band in the background, or give money to the jukebox.