It is not a franchise or chain of gay bars, but rather a name adopted by bars inspired by The Eagles Nest.
Best Dive Bar in the 'Burbs 12 Volt Tavern The Eagle is a name used by multiple gay bars.
Best Neighborhood Bar Disguised as a Swank LoDo Club The Lure.
Best New Neighborhood Bar Horseshoe Lounge.
Best New Bar (Since March 2006) Rockbar.
Earlier this month, slow business forced a heavy-hearted Peck and Ventrello to ring the Eagle's death knell, but an angel appeared and saved the bar after its last scheduled Underwear Night. The Saloon tends to have a younger crowd, the Gay 90s has something for everyone and covers almost an entire city block. With the exception of Lush, they are all downtown. These designer digs serve as stage to a $2 Sunday brunch, a heated outdoor smoking patio and a 1949 Ford vintage truck (parked indoors) that doubles as seating and an express lane for bottled beer and shots. Minneapolis has a good choice of LGBT bars. The Eagle offers what you'd expect in a traditional leather bar - dark corners, pool tables, pinball machines, dartboards, video games and a Sunday beer bust - as well as the unexpected (luxe-loft look, private mezzanine bar, diamond-plate trim, concrete floors, modern lighting fixtures and two flat-screen televisions). After $400,000 of renovations and six months of blood, sweat and tears, the shiny new perv palace opened last May. James Ventrello and James Peck (aka Jim and Jimbo) are the couple who designed and crafted the 4,800-square-foot behemoth of a bar. Owned by two leathermen who sport backgrounds in furniture upholstery, culinary arts and retail clothing-store management, the Eagle is an unholy alliance of industrial chic meets bad-boy bar decor.