Quaint restaurant on a cute town square! Old buildings have been refurbished and have businesses in them. Lovely! Firehouse Tavern is small but obviously a local favorite as they were quite busy on a Sunday morning! The food was excellent! My burger was the best Ive had in quite some time! The homemade chips were great! Everyone I was with loved their food! I would definitely recommend this place. Nice variety on menu, excellent service and decor! read more

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Sizzling New York Steak and Chili from heaven, WOW, what a treat! We haven't been there in years but decided to return just to see if it is still as good as we remembered. We were not disappointed!!! This is not a luxurious place, just a down to earth great place for delicious food in a casual atmosphere. read more

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Firehouse tavern is a local bar and grill that has a lot of burgers and sandwiches on their menu. The waitress said the beer selection changes every couple of days and we struggled to find a decent beer (Menu pictured). I ordered the blazin chicken sandwich with the house made chips. The chicken breast was juicy and tender and came with cheese, pickles and a sauce. 4.5/5 - so good!! The chips were cold, unsalted and overcooked. I ordered homemade ranch with them, which made them edible. We also got the grilled steak dip sandwich with sweet potato fries (additional $6.65!!). The sandwich was good and the fries were frozen, nothing special. The sandwiches were $16 and $17 which seems overpriced to come with those chips. Fries are an up-charge. The ambiance reminds you of a bar locals like to go, lots of firehouse signage and decor, very casual. The service was prompt and efficient. read more

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Omg!!! The jalapeño bacon burger is ON POINT!!!! Service is as good! If ya'll haven't been here it's a must in Sunbury! Ambiance is money as well, and the bathrooms are clean. 9.5 or of 10.....ok, it's a 10/10 read more

Stopped in on Monday night for some beers and appetizers. They were busy! They've added outdoor seating in front, which is a nice touch. Despite the crowd, we were seated and waited on right away. We ordered beers, quesadillas, and mozzarella sticks. The beers were ice cold, and the quesadilla was packed with chicken and bacon--super satisfying! read more

Firehouse Tavern - Ice cold Beer - Gastropubs Near Me - Sunbury, Ohio

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Nice location on the square in Sunbury. Not what I expected, but cool, hip, neighborhood place. Jamming Pink Floyd (surprisingly a group of elderly ladies only other customers). Was waiting a while before anyone acknowledged me. Ordered carryout... update that part later. Nice selection of drafts Guy hitting his vape at bar kind of rude (showed up with bartender at 1130) Ok, I guess bartender was late so a server took care of me!? Carry out food: (5 minutes to home) Mac and cheese was cold and flavorless and dry. Burger (the reason I went) was well done and then some. Again no flavor, bun was dry on the edges. Chicken tender meal with fries. The best part of this order, but just ok. Maybe better at dinner, when everyone is awake Don't go at lunch.... Too bad, neat little spot read more

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Haven't eaten out in 8 months. was SO looking forward. canadian Club was either watered down or low proof. No smell, no taste. complained & they didn't even offer to make it right. Had others taste it...same conclusion as mine. didn't finish drink. Gyro was cold but others liked their sandwich. won't return. read more

Just another visit So there I was, stepping into the Firehouse Tavern, a place where the walls are decked out in enough firehouse and military memorabilia to make you feel like you've just enlisted or joined the local engine company. This isn't your average bar - this is a blue-collar, no-nonsense, get-yourself-a-cold-one kind of joint, and I loved every second of it. I came for a quick bite, but what I got was a full-on taste-bud rescue operation. I ordered the chicken wrap with their hottest sauce, and let me tell you, this thing was like a controlled burn--just enough heat to make you sweat, but so delicious you keep coming back for more. By the time I was done, I was convinced that their sauce is the kind of stuff that could make a fireman drop his hose just to grab a bite. But here's the kicker: It was so good I couldn't stop at just one. I ended up ordering a whole spread to go, like I was trying to feed an entire battalion. When I walked out with enough food to feed my friends (and probably their friends), I felt like I was bringing back supplies after a successful mission. If you're into great food, cool vibes, and a place that honors our heroes, Firehouse Tavern is the spot. Just be prepared to leave with a full stomach, a fiery mouth, and maybe a to-go order that could feed a small army. read more

Firehouse Tavern - Firehouse Buffalo Chicken Wrap (I did the inferno sauce). (Cubed grilled chicken) Very good - Gastropubs Near Me - Sunbury, Ohio

Went for lunch with two girlfriends. Really enjoyed it! I had the steak sandwich. And guess what? It was a real steak! Mind blown! Lots to look at too. People bring tees from other firehouses and they adorn the walls. I live in the Cleveland area but I'd definitely go back if the opportunity presents itself! read more

Parking is difficult. (Street parking with other businesses.). We went at 1:30 in afternoon which was crowded. Our waitress, Samantha, was fabulous but they are always short of help (not our first visit). Chicken gyros n crispy fries but drinks. Gyro chicken was chilly. Fries were not drained n leftovers from previous frying came with them. read more

Firehouse Tavern - Grease glistened with fries not drained but dumped and cold. Fryer basket had over cooked items served with my fries. - Gastropubs Near Me - Sunbury, Ohio

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Not a good experience at all. Nice small place in the middle of town (which I have typically had good experiences), but that's about where it stops. Waitress was fine, but she really didn't seem to know the menu very well when people asked questions. Nice, but I would have expected a server to be more knowledgeable. We were optimistic as we didn't have a crazy long time to be there, but had plenty of time to have lunch. I only mention this since there were not very m any people in the restaurant. I should have known my luck would run out eventually in getting food quickly. It took at around 40 minutes to make items like chicken tenders, wings, quesadillas, a chicken wrap, and fries. None of this type of food should take more than 15-20 minutes tops, especially with as few people were in the there. We had to get everything into to go boxes which of course weren't even labeled, so we had to open everything to find out which was which. After getting everything, we found that one person's order wasn't even made yet. Fortunately we had multiple driver's she just waited. The food itself was just okay. I wish I would have checked, but my wings were basically without sauce. There were also very small. The chicken wrap was way small for the price, but I will say the mac and cheese was very good. Quesadillas were average. Maybe it was just an off day there, and I really don't like giving 1 star to anywhere, but this time, it just wasn't worth it at all. Would not consider going back. read more

Today's weather was glorious and this was our first opportunity to "dine outside" on the patio. We were at the Firehouse Tavern - right on the square in Sunbury on a beautiful afternoon. The service was excellent - especially since we were the only ones outside on the patio. Our waitress brought our menus quickly and took our beverage orders - she returned with the beverages pretty quickly and took our orders. We both had the pork tenderloin sandwich - my wife had hers with the house chips that come standard and I ugraded to the hand-cut fries. BOTH the chips and the fries were excellent. When ordering a pork tenderloin, you never know if it will be a traditional (Indiana) style tenderloin that has been pounded very thin and is normally twice the size of the bun or if its going to be a thicker, breaded tenderloin. In this case, it was the thicker, breaded and fried pork tenderloin. AND - it was delicious. I'm usually partial to the more traditional (wide and thin) version but this preparation was EXCELLENT. The pork was moist and was topped with BBQ sauce, an onion ring, and cheddar cheese. Exceptional preparation. I will definitely be back to this restaurant. read more

Been here many times and loved it. Tonight, not so much. Mushroom Swiss Burger was way over done and pretty bland in my opinion, especially @ $15.00. Onion Rings lacked flavor. The wings were OK, but the celery that came with it (actually 10 minutes later) was slimy and covered with something "brownish". The service was slow and refills were non existent. Water was not refilled, cola sat empty and I had to ask twice for a second beer. Sad. read more

If they want to seat you in the back room - I suggest you just pick a different restaurant or come back later... The food is good but the service was really bad. I think if you get seated in the back room they forget about you and it takes forever to get service or attention. We started off with pretzeI hoses which were ok. I had their version of the French dip which was really good. Wifey had their fish and chips which was really good. Their Mac and cheese is really good. It took literally an hour and a half to eat there... I think I would have been better if we were seated in the main dining area but oh well. read more

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This place was packed! Didn't eat from here. Sat at the bar for a few drinks and decided that I would eat elsewhere. Service at the bar was great and the bartender seemed to have plenty of people to take care of. Just not sure I would go to eat. read more

We ordered takeout tonight and got burgers, wings, and a chicken, tender basket. Most likely I would've given restaurant a 4 to 5, but on the chicken, tender basket there was about eight fries. So just attention to detail. It also has been nice if the hamburgers would've come with fries, but they came with potato chips that pretty much no one eats. The burgers were good, and I think the wings are definitely a recommendation. I ordered a dry rub (normal) and my daughter got barbecue boneless which she liked. read more

Firehouse Tavern - Chicken Tender Basket with Straight Cut Fries (unfortunately did not get much fries) - Gastropubs Near Me - Sunbury, Ohio

service was ok; waited 45 minutes for food; 3 orders, hamburger, fish sandwich and fish dinner were well below standard. $17 bucks for burger & chips is not good. Terrible costly lunch: we had water: will kit be back. BTW - customers turned away and kitchen closed at 1:20pm. if you are not a regular, don't waste your time. The regulars walked in and sat themselves. in the area, go to Walnut Grill. read more

I've ate here several times and most of the time it's good! My favorite thing is their traditional garlic Parmesan wings. They never disappoint. I've tried the gyro, it's okay.. I actually prefer the gyro salad! I ordered a burger once online and when I brought it home it wasn't what I had ordered. It was missing all the toppings that was in the description on the menu. But i should've checked the bag before leaving. The fish n chips are just meh. I wouldn't recommend them. The service is actually pretty bad. I tend to go during the day before they get busy with the bar. But one time, we walked in and seated ourselves, nobody came to the table. I ended up having to go up and get my own menu and order our drinks. But after that the waitress checked on us frequently. The atmosphere is cool. There's a lot to look at. I would just recommend maybe getting takeout from here. read more

Everything a dive bar should be. A little loud, cold beer, good food. I tried the cowboy burger on my recent visit and it did not disappoint! read more

Edit: I'm not sure what has happened to one of our favorite places. We visited on a Friday night and it was certainly not like it has been in the past. I understand it's a "tavern", but it was so loud I could hardly have a conversation with my wife sitting next to me. They had the music playing so loud that others had to scream to talk to one another. I was happy to leave after dinner and my ears thanked me. It was like walking outside after a loud concert. Plus side, was sat immediately, food was good as well as service. Unfortunately, probably losing a loyal visitor. Over a year ago..... We have been here a few times and it's always been worth the 40 minutes drive north. We were super lucky to snag a seat outside on the sidewalk last night and the weather was beautiful, the service was excellent and the food was amazing. It's one of our favorite Not So Close To Home little gems. So much so we have discussed moving up this way to be closer to this great little town and it's people. read more

Firehouse Tavern - Antique fire extinguisher - Gastropubs Near Me - Sunbury, Ohio

Stopped here after a long day of shopping at Tanger Outlet. There was no hostess so we sat our selves but a waitress appeared immediately. She took our drink orders and promptly brought them out and then we all ordered food. I got chili, wings, and a burger, my dad got a burger, my one sister got a BLT, and the other got the teriyaki lettuce wraps. Portion size is great, could barely finish my food and my dad didn't finish his. Sisters both finished their entrees and absolutely loved them. My one sister said the chips were a little burnt but other than that, great. The lettuce wraps were an appetizer but plenty enough for a meal. The burger was cooked perfect and you could tell it wasn't some frozen patty. I also substituted sweet potato fries and they were amazing, especially the cinnamon sugar dipping sauce it came with, to die for. Prices were great, service was great, food was great, definitely found a new go to after the mall and outlets. read more

Firehouse Tavern - Chili - Gastropubs Near Me - Sunbury, Ohio

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bre and derek and Ty were absolutely fantastic tonight and held their composure tonight and made fantastic drinks and made sure things were safe tonight thank you read more

First time checking out Firehouse Tavern. Friendly service and decent food is my overall impression. read more

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Visited here with my husband and a few friends a few months back. Had a great time! The place seems pretty small, so we went to the back, which has a nice, quiet and secluded room (which would be great for parties). We didn't order food, only a few pitchers, which were a great deal! Although, I've heard the food is good so we'll have to venture back again. The ambiance in the front of the place seemed dark and kind of divey and the back seemed more like ... basic bar-esque. The service was good, they checked on us frequently even though we were in an entirely separate room, which I could see could turn into an out-of-sight-out-of-mind kind of thing, but it didn't! read more

It's been a few years since I came to Ohio for a Michigan state v OSU game (go sparty!), and I came here with some locals, jack and his brother bob. Awesome food, great drinks, and fun atmosphere! I would 100% recommend and would come back! Although, the entire bar kept singing to me "we don't give a damn about the whole state of Michigan"! Lol! All in good fun! Loved the place! And msu won the game so it all worked out! :) read more

This was the BEST! Tipped Landon the host because he was SO nice super awesome place try it so good

Nice spot to stop for lunch and a beer. The pretzel appetizer was a little bit of a disappointment, clearly frozen pretzel bites and small serving of beer cheese. Our burgers were delicious; great flavor. Good service! read more

Service & food and atmosphere are comfortable, genuine and welcoming. I love this place to grab a beer and some dinner. we truly enjoy the music bingo and kareoke and occasional live set. parking isn't perfect but it works well. We really like the clientele as well as owners! TRUDIE read more

Just driving thru this area. Wow, glad I did. The service was great and the food was surprisingly tasteful... my husband loved the lobster chowder, it had chunks of big lobsters in it. The burger's are huge. We also tried the BackDraft sauce on the wings, very delicious, it was a sweet and spicy sauce. This place was a shock on how surprisingly good it was. read more

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Although the black & blue salad was tasty, our waitress was a disaster! (Never did get her name but she had dark hair & a medium/stocky build.) She totally got our beer order wrong (& she never did bring them, the bartender gave them to our table a full 10 min. after we ordered them at 5:05 pm) & we had to repeat our food requests to her multiple times as she kept asking what we had just said!!! She really seemed clueless (we tipped anyway only because we were treating friends to dinner.) None of us 4 (or all that we tell) will ever go here again. We were here Monday March 4, 5-6 pm, it was 'medium' busy. Unimpressed for sure. read more

Horrible service. Mediocre food. Our waiter was fine, kept the drinks coming but the food took over 30 min (two sandwiches) on a Sunday late afternoon. No games (football) on that would warrant such a long wait. Don't go. Unless you're a local cuz they are catered to here read more

The service was awesome l!! The food came out super quickly. We ordered the Chef Salad with Buffalo Grilled Chicken, Wings with Back Draft sauce and Fish and Chips. The homemade tater sauce and Ranch was Amazing Kara was our server and she was so awesome!! Highly recommend!! read more

A 1 rating because 0 or less is not an option. I or my wife or golf buddies go here somewhat regularly. Probably not any more! Went there tonight after a dance recital of our Great granddaughter at the Big Walnut H.S. I ordered a burger and fries as I have many times. My wife ordered the Fish and Chips with fries. They were forever getting my burger to me and the fries were stone cold! My wife's fish and chips NEVER CAME out. My burger was to be medium and came out too done along with the cold fries! Our waitress apologized several times and asked if we wanted to speak with the Manager which we said yes we did. He or she never came out to see us. Absolutely terrible and we will not be back. PS this and the Big Walnut Grill have till tonight been our GO TO RESTAURANTS in Sunbury. Needless to say we now have only 1 Go to restaurant in Sunbury " The Big Walnut Grill" where the food is always great, the service is always good and friendly and the owner comes around to see if everything is good. That would be John Self. read more

This was my first time coming here and the food was good but the service was terrible. Me and my boyfriend order our drink and was still looking over the menu. The lady came over and we order the food and before the food showed up we were running low on drinks. She didn't ask us if we needed and refill and didn't even bring us a new one when we ask. Then she hovered when we went to pay and wouldn't leave because i was paying in cash. If there was a different server this review would have been different but the one we got just seemed like she hated her job and was very unhelpful. read more

Awful. Just awful for my one visit. Had the gyro salad. Should have known better. It was very small, more like a side salad, with a handful of "chips" created by overcooking gyro meat until it was almost inedible. The waitress was nice enough but never asked me how it was and when I told her she did not seem particularly interested in my opinions. Looks to me that they rely on firefighters' loyalty rather than their food to stay in business read more

I will post some photos of food if I eat here just meeting up with friends right now. Have eaten here many times it's a great little place. Stop back by here November 2 Saturday afternoon. The place was pretty crowded actually and it took a long time to get food service probably a half hour plus. I ordered the average Joe Burger and it definitely was below average. I was really disappointed because I've had much better food here in the past. Don't know if it was just a glitch or just due to the fact they were so busy maybe they were overwhelmed in the kitchen. Either way I will never have that burger again because it sucked and it was overcooked. Normally I would've sent it back but I was hungry and I've had three beers already in me and was a little buzzed so I overlooked it. read more

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Pretty good stop. Had some nice appetizers and good service. Draft beer was cold. Pretzel appetizer was probably the best one I tried. Pickles were fairly good too. Stop by! read more

Friendly server, cool atmosphere, but the food was so bad I can't give more than one star. I came with my father in law, wife, and two boys - when the food came out it all looked great, but the devil is always in the details. My father-in-law got the fish and chips - it was a good sized piece of fish and was a whole filet (i.e., thin on one end and thick on the other). He started on the thin end and it tasted fine, when he tried to cut a piece off of the thicker end he realized that it was frozen solid. My only guess is that they use frozen fish and didnt take time to thaw it before throwing it in the deep fryer so while the thin end and batter cooked the thicker part of the fish stayed frozen - so, so gross. I got the reuben sandwich. It looked great, but you could tell from the lukewarm corned beef but nuclear hot sauerkraut that it had been made, then microwaved. The microwave made the bread chewy and limp. My boys got the kids sliders. They came out like hockey pucks and the inside of the burgers was a really strange browning red. Not red like they were undercooked, more like they were very low quality meat and possibly frozen before being cooked. My wife got the burger. It came out looking magazine ready but again the patty was so dry it was incredibly disappointing. I'm all for supporting small businesses especially on the tail end of a pandemic, but charging high prices for such low quality food doesn't fly regardless of the circumstances. Had it just been one dish I would have liked to try again, but to have every dish that came out be so bad its simply not worth the return trip. read more

Eh... ordered the grilled steak dip sandwich add onions and mushrooms to go. Steak was supposed to be medium. Forgot the au jus dip - dry and lacking read more

Firehouse Tavern - Grilled Steak Dip Sandwich - Gastropubs Near Me - Sunbury, Ohio

Got carry out. Ordered online and paid with Apple Pay. Ready on time and hot. Order starter Buffalo chicken dip with pitas. Chicken wings, boneless, with honey mustard sauce. Salmon dinner with broccoli. All portions were generous. Salmon was not over seasoned, we've had other salmon from different restaurants that were too salty. Everything was delicious. read more

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