River Ratz Saloon and Lodge

Buffalo City, 356 W 16th St, Buffalo City, WI 54622, United States | ★ 4.4 (349 Review)

📞 +1 608-248-2337

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Bar & grill Bar Restaurant

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Sports bar and Grill. Vacation rentals soon

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Taylor Morrison

★ 5

Went their satuday 9-20 and had the swizz burger and I loved it first time from wisconsin rapids will eat here again

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Tom Wilkinson

★ 5

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Julie Fortier

★ 5

The food was excellent! I had a 3 piece cod dinner! The service was also excellent!

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David Dougherty

★ 5

Awesome chicken wrap. Will go back again.

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John Eide

★ 5

What a diamond in the rough, we were looking for a place close that was serving food and we gave them a shot.
Probably one of the best burgers I've ever had, and the sweet potato fries were amazing.
Very reasonably priced also, I can't say enough good things about our experience

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JD Williams

★ 5

Simply the best better than all the rest.

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Kailea Green

★ 5

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Lloyd Walker

★ 5

Stop and check out this awesome bar! I can't wait to go back.

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Jodee Eastman

★ 5

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Cheyanne Boberg

★ 5

06/18/25 We were there on a Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. It was pretty quiet. There was not a lot of business at the time. We had one of the Wednesday wing specials for $10. Didn't realize that it did not come with breading or batter on them. We also had the shrimp dinner for $12. The food was good and the waitress / bartender was very polite, her name was Bobbi Jo.
There's also a place that you can sit outside and enjoy the weather and look out at the water. Apparently, the place is for sale, there was a realtor sign outside.

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Mark West

★ 3

Lots of cussing...

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Derek Fell

★ 5

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David Vang

★ 5

Stay up the street at Big River Escape Escape Cabins and coming to River Ratz for food and drinks the staff was super friendly and the food and drinks were good would totally come back and visit the area again

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Βασίλης Μούλκας

★ 5

Excellent food American style.
The wings Jack Daniel apple bbq was very tasteful.
Cold beer , nice music. Nice view near the river
A must visit if you are in the area.

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Debby Felske

★ 4

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Kari Hanson

★ 4

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Thom Pawlak (Thompaws)

★ 5

AWESOME FOOD AND FUN

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Ross olsen

★ 5

River Ratz Saloon is a cool place to eat great food with an awesome view of river. Look for the air mail!

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Mary Bambenek

★ 4

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Martha Casey (Martie)

★ 4

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Steve Prokop

★ 2

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Colleen Dale

★ 4

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Jeff Ellison

★ 3

Gave this another chance, and I am glad we did. Burgers were excellent wait staff pleasant and attentive atmosphere was great.

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Jess Sobotta

★ 5

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keith b

★ 5

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Matt Wona

★ 5

Looooved the atmosphere here, its very cozy and welcoming. The bartender was kind and attentive to everyone around.

Holy cow the shots were extremely generous pours! Amazing.

We had the nachos which were exceptionally satisfying considering we just needed some basic food, but it was nothing special.

Wonderful Wisco bar, can't wait to return!

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Bill Lockington

★ 5

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Mollie Smith

★ 5

Great little place on the river. Delicious burgers! Fun atmosphere! Patient 😁 staff. Thankfully!

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thomas lorenz

★ 4

Classic WI Bar. Good Burgers and drinks. Accesible by river. Gyros were great.

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Ryan V

★ 2

Food didn't taste fresh.

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Lisa Dawn

★ 5

Food is great. fun stop with nice docks for us boaters!

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Katie Benson

★ 5

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Kaylee Marg

★ 1

Used to be really good and our go to place for friday night fish. Food has been very bad lately. Shrimp overcooked and fish either under or overcooked. Service not the best either. When we said our food was bad they said they would fix it and it was still bad. We were also charged for our full meal. Would not recommend.

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Bethany Poirier

★ 5

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Lapewprincess M

★ 5

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Cristoferantonio Sanchez

★ 1

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kookie s

★ 2

Quaint little place. Doesn't have enough staff to provide for the people that are there. Waited to be waited on more than 10 minutes. Also had to go up and pay for the bill. The waitress should have bring the bill back when we ask for boxes to take our food home. Actually had to go up to the bar to get our bill. Also experienced...sour cream was spoiled in the packets and when I explained it to the waitress. She only offered me another packet while I already had it on my potato... never offered me a new potato. Probably wouldn't be back here again was not impressed.

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Tonia Schwanke

★ 4

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Kailea Green

★ 5

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Travis Lorenz

★ 5

Cool place for Burgers and beer. Great view of the Mississippi.

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Gracie67

★ 4

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Luther sperle

★ 1

No food after 9:00 pm on a Saturday night, rude bartender.

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Alexis G

★ 4

Nice view of the river from many of the tables and the bar. Server was not fast, but was very friendly and accommodating. Wings were good and nachos were a generous size. Fun decor on the walls and friendly patrons. Good selection of drinks and a variety of food choices.

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Matt Stout

★ 5

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P L

★ 5

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Chris Peck

★ 5

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Ron Crivello

★ 5

Local type bar with good food.

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Denise Plotz

★ 5

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doug seberg

★ 5

My favorite place to go near Cochrane 😁

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Pam Medina

★ 5

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michelle wagoner

★ 4

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Candy S

★ 5

Stopped in for a quick bite. Puzza very good and reasonably priced. Great service too.

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Todd Johnson

★ 5

Always the best food around. Good atmosphere and music level was perfect tonight.

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mat waller

★ 5

Always Great food

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Dawn Muhlenbeck

★ 5

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Captain Art Wilson

★ 5

Ratz is always an experience. Good food, drink and service. Try the coconut shrimp. You'll be liking it.

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Aaron Johnson

★ 5

Great little place to stop when out riding the bike.

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Nick Shoults

★ 2

Seems like a fine bar but was not impressed with the food. Sliders were bland and the $9 plate of spicy shrimp was laughable.

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Dave Krolick

★ 5

Great snacks

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Ray Duncan

★ 4

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Harold Jones

★ 5

We enjoyed stopping there to have a sandwich.

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John Averbeck

★ 3

Great food, service is great, good place to eat but watch your bill. I noticed that I was charged a credit card fee almost 10%. I paid cash, and some other tax besides the normal sales tax. I don't understand, I always tip good. To bad I will probably not eat here again.

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Krystal Webster Dorman

★ 4

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Steve Gerard

★ 5

Always great food. Haven't tried everything but working on it.

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David Baum

★ 4

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Gulshan Chowdhury

★ 5

Such a beautiful place.

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Elizabeth “Liz” Schwab

★ 5

Great friends, food and fun. Lots of wonderful local
People.

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Julie Runyan

★ 3

Food was good, not so good service.

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Darek Holbus

★ 5

Want a drink? They have drinks. Want some food? They have food. Want to complain? Go somewhere else. Real people, treat them well, they'll do so in kind.

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Mark Melroe

★ 3

It’s a fun spot by the water, and the best quick spot around Buffalo City. Their burger was good, but the chicken sandwich was a very thin slice that was probably frozen. If you want a burger and a beer, talk to some friends, and look at the river, this is your spot. If you want a really fancy meal, you may need to head to Alma.

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Michele bowe 1

★ 2

A dive. Dirty. Warm beer - can and tap.

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Roger Reuter

★ 4

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Sandy Kowles

★ 4

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Jessie Winicky

★ 5

BEST FRIDAY FISH FRY I'VE EVER HAD! DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS PLACE! Awesome atmosphere and great servers too. Wisconsin's already way more friendly than Indiana. This place is just another reason why that's true.

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Regina Damjanovic

★ 5

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Sam Eubanks

★ 5

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Nathan M

★ 3

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Susan Premo

★ 4

Good place to stop in when your nearby.

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Rick House

★ 4

The hamburgers are very good

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Amber Workman

★ 5

Stopped in with my fiance for lunch, we both had the big dipper add grilled onions, it was fantastic and priced super fairly! That was our 2nd time down, hopefully will be down soon again to try a burger.

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Kathy Heltzel

★ 5

Love going there for Friday night fish fry!

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Tom Tooke

★ 5

Four of us stopped in and were greeted by a friendly bartender. Cocktails and food were very good.

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Elaine Wheeler

★ 5

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Mike Dahl

★ 5

First time having breakfast there, I MUST say It was the. Best biscuits and Gravy EVER!! A must Try!! Chef even came out to see how it was 4/2/23. I can’t wait to have it again

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Pat T

★ 5

Really good pizza at a great price. Thanks

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Chris Stevens

★ 5

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Keith Bagley

★ 5

Food is awesome the wait staff is super friendly and helpful highly recommend

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Shannon Gruhlke

★ 5

Fun place! Look forward to going back in the summer!!

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tony broxson

★ 3

Run of the mill bar and grill. Food is average prices are decent.

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Sandra Gansch

★ 5

Adorable local bar. Friendly regulars

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Joe Smith

★ 5

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srvsteve

★ 5

Third time back, and its always fun! Great place for drinks!

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Toby Jahnke

★ 5

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Ken Thompson

★ 5

Great place totally enjoyed the food the waitress and the cook great job guys

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Rob Purdy

★ 5

Nice place and great appetizers. Enjoyed

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Christine Marston

★ 5

This place is a hidden gem! Clean bar, great service, excellent food!

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Sara Darland

★ 5

Awesome Breakfast!

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Vilas Adank

★ 3

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dalesson1

★ 5

Great food & drinks with fast friendly service. Great place to stop while on the great Mississippi River.

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Shayna Ramstad

★ 5

Really good food and super friendly staff! Fun environment and really good bloody Marys !!

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Joe Swanda

★ 5

Our group (44 people in 13 dinghys this time) visits on Labor day Sunday every year. We have a great time! We bring our own piano man, Brad.

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Mary Nelson

★ 5

Service and food was great.

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Mari Jo Bell

★ 5

Wonderful all around.

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Nic Loewenhagen

★ 5

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Scott La Forge

★ 5

Alex from Sailing Rhapsody out of Pepin is promoting River Ratz, I was in the area so I had to stop in and give it a try. He was right on! Excellent food and service! Fantastic burger! Great recommendation! I will be stopping in when ever I’m in the area! Thank you River Ratz and Sailing Rhapsody!

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Jon Smith

★ 1

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John Niederkorn

★ 4

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Tim Krohn

★ 5

Awesome food and awesome staff!!!

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Daren Kronebusch

★ 5

Had very good food.

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R Farmland

★ 5

Great food

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brad fritsch

★ 3

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Gary Fryer

★ 4

Good lunch prices very reasonable.

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Lee Smith

★ 5

Great food ,great wait staff

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Robert Markwardt

★ 5

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Don Byrne

★ 5

Awesome place with beautiful view of the river, great burgers and an awesome custom-made bar top that traces the Mississippi from Northern MN to New Orleans.

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Larry Abelt

★ 5

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Eric Moline

★ 5

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Chance Mitchell

★ 5

Great pizza, fun and laid back atmosphere, nice folks. Great place to watch the game.

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Megan Johnson

★ 5

Amazing stuff, outstanding food and drinks. Not to mention a breath taking new

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Steve Zastrow

★ 4

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Joe L

★ 5

Great food and friendly service! Would highly recommend if your in the area! They have docks in the river for you to dock to if you wanted!

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Mark Muller

★ 5

Fun place..fun menu and pretty good burgers

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lon skappel

★ 5

Good time , a Lovely and sweet Bartender, the patrons were mostly Packer fans but really cool people and just a good time all together...

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Alan Weaver

★ 5

Great bar. Great food. Great staff.

We had a wonderful time.

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Gregory Aichele

★ 5

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Lee Lewis

★ 5

Really good food and nice people

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Travis M

★ 5

Awesome place and food!

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Tatum Schmidt

★ 5

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Izack Wells

★ 5

Great atmosphere. Good food. Plenty of options. Would visit again.

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Karsten Kromschroeder

★ 5

Great food and fishing

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Jack D. Simpson

★ 5

Nice real nice square bar, best view from the bar area! Had the Taco's so good!

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Asher Kromschroeder

★ 5

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Robert Landsom

★ 1

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Victoria Mendez

★ 5

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Marcus Brandel

★ 5

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Joe Smith

★ 5

Food and Service was great. The owner seems like he's mad at the world tho!

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Paul Jacobsen

★ 3

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Byron Schmoker

★ 5

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Lynn Wolfram

★ 5

Awesome food great server very friendly

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Marc Opell

★ 5

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Stacy Mikelson

★ 5

Great food, great service! Good place to refuel after a round or two of golf at The Grove. Full bar when we arrived, yet we were waited on upon sitting. Nice selection of beer. Husband & FIL said the best Phillywhich they've had. Mom had the ham & cheese on sourdough and was happy too. Thanks Julie for the great service! We'll be back!

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Josh Streich

★ 5

Love this place, great food cold drinks. Bring the boat over from MN.

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H B Streich

★ 5

Amazing View- Great Drinks - Fun People 💚

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Victoria Capper

★ 5

Great food, great service. Cute bar and right across to the river.

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Jake Mcfarlane

★ 5

Awesome food and atmosphere good people fun time good music drink temps are great all in all a homely and good place

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Allen Bushman

★ 5

We loveve the food and the owner and help are outstanding !!!!

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Paul O'CONNELL

★ 5

Food was delicious the season fries and house chips were different but delicious. Burger was awesome UP Nort'

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Peggy Helwig

★ 4

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Darryl Fox

★ 5

Great breakfast. The staff was amazing. I will definitely be back.

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Debbie Hund Morem

★ 5

Our meal was great as always..

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honie paige

★ 1

Sat by kitchen doors and watched an employee scoop fruit out of cans into plastic cups with her bare hands. Our table was told that we could not order breakfast even though the table next to us had just ordered breakfast. When we brought it up, the waitress reluctantly allowed us to order breakfast with an attitude. We waited an hour and 25 minutes for our food to come out and when it did two of the orders were cold not even warm. After an hour we asked if they knew how long it was going to be until the food came out in which the waitress replied I don't know she's working on it and has been since you put your order in so ya their working on it. Not once in 2 hours were we asked if we needed a refill. Staff was unfriendly to put it nicely. In a small town that has many visitors you would think that the staff would at least do the bare minimum, not in this case and not at this establishment.

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John Stuhl

★ 3

Food was good, but we had to wait a while for the food. It was very busy.

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Alex Luna

★ 2

Ordered fish fry, and when it was brought to my table they let me know they were out of tartar sauce. Not the biggest deal, but I would've ordered broiled if I had known that.
Went there for breakfast the next day, and the food was pretty good. However, it was not worth the hour and 15 minutes it took to get it. I get that you're a little short staffed, but taking almost an hour and a half to get us eggs and pancakes is insane.

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Cheryl Weizel

★ 5

Fun little place, good food!

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Marcia

★ 5

Excellent food and service. Had appetizers and dinner on a Friday evening and went back for breakfast the next morning. We WILL be back.

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Amy Eversman

★ 5

Great food and an awesome view of the Mississippi River!

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Mike Denison

★ 3

I don't know what to rate Ratz. I like Thom (the owner). I've always gotten along with him well enough. My breakfast was good when I finally got it. It took almost an hour and a half to get our food and when we did, the waitress didn't ring it in right at all and part of one of our meals was completely missing and never showed up. I had a view of the kitchen this whole time. The cook was the slowest moving cook I'd ever seen in my life! I've been around the food industry most of my life too. So Thom has really put a LOT of work into fixing the place up, it looks great, but man I hope he can get some better employees soon.

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Tom Eisert

★ 5

Great hospitality! Great food, beautiful view of the river.

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Lori Wyttenbach

★ 3

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carol matiak

★ 4

Nice friendly place

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Braidy S

★ 5

Great service great management and amazing food and the awesome atmosphere is a plus!

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Brenda Frolik

★ 5

Very nice and clean!

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Dawn Rieck

★ 5

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Robert Fort

★ 4

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jeff larson

★ 5

Great. Views. Great bartender, excellent food

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Charles Speltz

★ 5

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J.J brandes

★ 4

Good size place good service seems like friendly people to have a drink and chat with and will point you in the right direction if u get lost lol

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Michael Brown

★ 4

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Sydne Egland

★ 5

Great food and great service highly recommended

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Nathan Sorenson

★ 5

Great drinks and food

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Jeff Fishman

★ 5

Loved it , great atmosphere and the food was fantastic!

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Lori Jewell

★ 5

I love the place I'm the spark 😜

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Kay Lemieux

★ 5

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Tim Selke

★ 4

Awesome place

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Scott Splittstoesser

★ 5

Food was great

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Dan Thrun

★ 5

Neat little place on the back waters of the Mississippi River! Sandy was great!

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Brenda Wood

★ 3

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Terri Swett

★ 4

Good bloody Mary and food

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Michelle Crowson

★ 5

SPARKY RULES!!!!!!!

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Kathy Doepke

★ 5

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Corie Loomis

★ 5

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Mark Meier

★ 5

Best bartender ever! I think her name was Sandy! Everyone including the owner was super nice. Cold beer and great food! All the customers were friendly and made me feel like I was a regular! Great time!

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Debb Lane

★ 5

Great food! Cold beers! Great view and Tanner gave us excellent service!

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noah husman

★ 5

Nice selection of beer and a great view of the Mississippi River.

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Alexandra Hurney

★ 5

Cute place, nice staff!

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Paul West

★ 5

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Kevin Johnson

★ 4

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Whitney Bartley

★ 5

This place is seriously amazing! Great food and entertainment with Sparky as our waitress. She's hilarious! I wish she was my grandma. I wanted to take her home with me. I wonder if she would want to come to my Christmas. Lol! But seriously, go here!

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Tony Eaton

★ 4

Great food
I'll be going back

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Alan Quinlan

★ 5

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Gary ZNIEWSKI

★ 4

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Ronald Valvoda

★ 5

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Leslie Sullivan

★ 3

They do not have any tap beers, the food tastes okay, the service was friendly, and the atmosphere was fun.

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Bill Rutherford

★ 5

Fun plase to see. River a cross the street

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nHector Fernandez

★ 5

This is home,love this bar.

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Ash Volk

★ 5

I ordered a Spizy Razberry Wrap. It was delicious. They use a spring mix instead of iceberg lettuce. The dressing was amazing. It was so good I ate it before I thought to take a picture. My husband and dad got burgers and they said their burgers were good. The bartender/ waitress working was very kind, patient, and actually talked to my kids to let them know what was okay for them to play with/ do.

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Sheila Barsamian

★ 5

OMG there cheese curds are to die for I live an 1.5 hours away and thought about driving their just for their cheese curds

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Michael Riese

★ 4

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Ray Lars

★ 5

Nice clean low key Grill on the River in a quiet town , good food and great prices ... I'm gonna be back again , first time a young kid had an Alligator Gar fingerling in a plastic water bottle ... Looked just like a big one except it was maybe an inch long ... A group of funny local ladies were chatty , so it was good .

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Kurt Bosteter

★ 5

Great food, priced right, service with a little gruff humor :)

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