Came here for an after dinner drink right before the movie, what a great concept! Great local tap…read morebeers and the price is in line with local pubs. We don't get out often but this was a nice change in our routine!

The only place open on Christmas day that serves food (I'm being kind by calling it food) and…read moreshowing football. Definitely a dive bar! Kind of a shady clientele. I ordered my burger rare but unfortunately they only know one way (shoe leather)! The bartender (didn'tgethername) Was sooo slow and had the personality of a doily! I guess maybe my expectations were too high for Christmas dayl

My fiancee Kym Thompson have enjoyed their drinks and it is close to our home in Portage. Wi.read more

A surprisingly friendly local watering hole…read more Things have been going pretty rough for me lately. I was in Portage on sorta a whim, placing myself in the care of close friends and family to help deal with a few things. I ended up going bar hopping with my best friend and a bud from high school that I haven't seen for awhile. We're about as different, the three of us, as people can be in terms of personality and I think it's fair to say we all had a pretty decent time. Drink options are pretty standard. Nothing to write home about there. I was a bit hesitant to stop in here at first because the crowd seemed a bit on the older side. Some folks closer to our age filtered in as we drank our drinks. The crowd was pretty friendly and struck up some great conversation about football and folks we all knew from around town. (Full disclosure: We found out halfway through our drink that the bartender was the mother of someone we went to high school with and we ended up sharing a lot of laughs relating to that. He wasn't a close friend or anything, but it's worth mentioning.)

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I enjoyed going there and would go back again. It was an enjoyable experience and close to my home…read morein Lodi, Wisconsin. I would recommend it to anyone.

This is a very casual bar with "typical" bar food. Being vegetarian, I didn't think I would be able…read moreto eat anything there -- they had the Beyond burger patty on their menu but they didn't actually have it available so I resigned myself to ordering a salad which is usually not my number one choice because I don't find them filling unless they include grains, nuts, etc. Anywho, I ordered their chopped salad sans bacon and ham and I wasn't really expecting much but it turned out to be pretty darn good. The dressing was tasty and the salt itself seemed fresh, it packed quite a crunch! I was pleasantly surprised. As far as the atmosphere -- it's super chill and it's a good place to hang out. You can play an hour of pool for only $5!

We needed a place for dinner while we were staying at our rental and drove past this place and…read morethought it looked interesting. Yelp and google gave it pretty decent reviews, so we stopped in. One thing that was cool was last night the patio was reserved for only those who had dogs. It would have been neat to know that ahead of time and we could have brought our dog. Not sure if that's a daily thing or special for Saturday nights. The inside was cool, you can see the historic charm in this place. We got immediate seating, which was really nice. We were told multiple times the kitchen was backed up and we would have to wait about 45 minutes for our food. That was fine. We figured if we ordered an appetizer to go with dinner it would come out earlier. Our friends appetizers came out nearly an hour later. My husband and I each ordered a cup of the French onion soup and we got it 30 minutes after our friends got theirs. Our main courses came out shortly after that. Two of us ordered the chicken masala, one ordered a steak, and I ordered the salmon. All of our food was amazing. My husband said hands down the best meal in a restaurant in 2026. It would have been nice if the restaurant offered us a free dessert or round of drinks for the extremely long wait. Honestly I was about to ask if they even started making our meals when the soups finally came out, because if they hadn't I'd have said forget it. If I'm being honest, I'd have rated our experience lower, because that wait time was awful. But the food was delicious and this surely can't be something that happens regularly, because if it was, this place would have way less 5 star reviews. If I'm in the area again I'd give this place another shot, and hopefully our wait time is much shorter and the food is just as good.

Super cute decor but food was just ok. Very good priced but it just wasn't the best to me. It…read morelooked amazing but tasted a little blah I had chicken fettuccine salad. Tried to order a Cesar salad and they said it isn't available. Tried to order ribeye for under $20 which was on the menu and the only one they had is a 16oz for $31.

My friends graduation party was held here. The environment is warm and friendly. The staff are…read morefunny and know how to take and make a good joke! The alcohol they have is perfect for my taste. I always get spotted cow or a mikes hard strawberry lemonade!

This is a great classic Wisconsin cash only bar. Amazing regular bar food. Classic neon tee shirts…read more Clean and good people there.

The staff has a poor attitude the bathroom totally match the staffs attitude there are other places…read moreto go in portage i wouldn't go there again.

I mean... It's ok... for Portage... I guess. It's just, if you're going to be named the Whiskey…read moreBarrel, you should have something more than Kesslers and Makers Mark. ‍

Our first time here. Our server was very friendly. The service was a little slow, but we weren't in…read morea hurry so we didn't mind. We were hoping for our soup to come out before our meal, but it didn't come so we decided not to have it. Our chicken wrap was excellent. It was incredibly fresh, and the flavors came together really nicely. Usually chicken bacon ranch wraps at sports bars all taste about the same. This one surprised us at how good it was.

Although1873 Bar & Grill has potential it definitely needs help in the quality of the food. We had…read morethe pork quesadilla. The pork tasted like it was yesterday's left over. There is little else we can say other than the fact that there was a table of ladies in the restaurant playing cards and us. That should have been a big clue as we were there at lunchtime. The restaurant is cute with lots of wood and plenty of seating. Our waiter was fine, but certainly didn't check on us to see what we thought of the food. All in all this is a restaurant we won't be returning to as there are better choices in Portagez