This place isn't anything spectacular, but what they do, they do very well. Burgers are juicy and flavorful, they have quite a few appetizers with some unique ones thrown in (try the Buffalo Bombs, if they have them... they often run out...) and their Italian stuff is good as well. The menu is big, and it is all pub food, but it is pub food done very well. read more

Service was awful. Waited a half hour for a table. Once seated, waiter was disinterested and possibly stoned. Every time we looked he was at the bar counting his tips. After 20 minutes, he brought our friend's food out, which had been sitting and was cold. We watched her eat. She said it was meh. He completely ignored us (we're a gay couple). After another 20 minutes, we sought out the hostess. She didn't care and proceeded to dry washed silverware. 5 minutes later(45 minutes after ordering and after our friend was finished eating), my spouse's salad arrived and my turkey burger with non-gluten free fries all over it. The waiter didn't care. I had to point it out and he wasn't even sure the bun was gluten free. He brought me the supposedly gf potato chips...they were not. The turkey burger looked like they ran out to a convenience store and grabbed a frozen package of no name questionable burgers. The side pickle was 1 and a half round slices from a cheap brand jar. The food was awful and inedible. I asked the waiter if the fiasco was free. No response. The waiter never apologized. The hostess never apologized. On our way out, as the check never came, the manager pulled out the check. I asked if she seriously expected us to pay for this disaster. She never apologized and said she couldn't do that. I asked who the owner was and if I could talk to her. She said she wasn't there. I asked her to call her. She took the check back and said now that you've made a scene... (A scene??? We were patient and courteous in our interactions.) As we walked out she called me a "f***ing b****". We noticed another lgbtq customer getting ignored also. After what little I ate there, my gut was a wreck. We had better luck there in the past, but it's clearly sunk to the bottom. It's a shame. read more

we went for a birthday party dinner. (5) very disappointed with the food. no wood stove for pizza. ordered two spinach raviolis and was told there was not enough for two. It was a cheesy mess. had to change one order to chicken and broccol. broccoli wasn't cooked and it was cold. limited menu options. It was a terrible experience for a birthday dinner! read more

Fast service even for a pretty busy night, and the food was quick too which usually makes me skeptical but it tasted super good! I got fried pickles as an appetizer and loved them. I got the Thousand Island Burger for dinner and it was truly one of the best I've ever had. I had lemonade to drink and it was very good also. The staff was very friendly! For a fast, decently portioned meal, it was definitely worth the price in my opinion. Not to mention it's soooo cute on the inside. The decor is unique and exciting to look at while you wait. read more

We came to eat here twice, dinner and then lunch. The food was delicious, and the servers were nice on both times of our visit. Their caesar salad with cajun chicken was delicious! Too bad I live on the other side of the country or I'll be having that for lunch today. read more

Here is the skinny on "L1G". This restaurant was created by the same lady who owns the flower shop inside the restaurant. She had no prior experience NONE! Not even as a server. The space had been leased to a failed sandwich shop three years prior. What has been done over the last few years is nothing short of incredible. It has expanded four times, won the small business of the year award in central Vermont presented by the governor, all while investing and preserving a landmark firehouse designed after a heralded Boston department. The kitchen was never set up, nor spaced for serving as many as it does but through trial and error they make it work. Yes sometime the food is a little slow, but t is never short of excellent. I have read the reviews and would say more than any of them, I have frequented most often. Through that I have learned the stories behind the service the space limitation but more so than all, it is owned by a lady that wants consistency and to always get better. Summer of 2011 for example, thousands were spent to bring back the original color and paint to the exterior. The menu is heavily laden with current past and deceased local firemen, as well as a history of fire-fighting. It is truly remarkable to see what a "novice" was able to do. One more thing. They have WAY more than pub food. Steaks, shepards pie, fish and dinner specials changing weekly. If you make it to Barre, make sure you stop in! read more

Ladder 1 Grill - American Near Me - Barre, Vermont

Prompt service. Friendly staff. Clean place with plenty to look at. I had the Queso Burger and it was outstanding. Next time time I'm planning on trying the Cajun burger. read more

Unique atmosphere-old firehouse-additionally decorated for halloween(presumably changed seasonally). The menu is extensive and the food that I had, and that of the rest of our party, was tasty and reasonably priced. The service was good, in spite of us being there on what was obviously a very crowded evening. I would go back. read more

Good atmosphere. Burger was great. Wish the chicken tenders were beer battered instead of breaded. Fried tender and popper breading was way overdone, while the inside was perfectly cooked. French onion soup had rye bread croutons, which I thought gave it a unique flavor I did not enjoy and whatever cheese there was melted and sank before it browned and was masked by the caraway seeds from the bread. I would go back for another burger. read more

Appetizer, entree and dessert! It was just that amazing. The service was amazing. And the atmosphere is very very different from other restaurants. I had the all meat pizza and lasagna. Yum yum yum!!! read more

Great staff, great food. Didn't wait, well felt like at all for our food and the server was amazing. I highly recommend ladder 1. The surf and turf was bomb. read more

I have only been to the Ladder One Grill two or three times. It has such a large menu that it is hard to tell what they excell at. My experience is that the food I had was good but not so good that I would make a special effort to go back frequently. read more

Located in an old fire house interior is really nice! Meat lovers 12in pizza was really good!

This is such a charming restaurant! Remodeled from an old firehouse, the ambiance was great and the food was even better!

Great lunch spot. Extensive menu. Lots of kid choices. Interesting decor filled with firefighter memorabilia. Just finished our second visit for dinner this time. Homemade mushroom ravioli and steak tips in Gorgonzola sauce was awesome and a sirloin steak was delicious and cooked to order. read more

This place was exactly what we were looking for! My aunt and I were staying at the Hollow Inn and were sent over by the innkeeper. We were thinking of going to the corner pub because it had better reviews, but we were so glad we didn't. The place was decked out for the holidays, which made the already fantastic room perfectly cheerful. The staff was very accommodating. We had the special: lemon piccata chicken and a spinach salad. Both were FANTASTIC. Great sauce on very tender chicken, and the salad was fresh and full of great, high quality toppings. Both of the salad dressings we tried were delish - not the usual boring things. We'll definitely stop back the next time we're in Barre. read more

Ok so my bad. From RI and I order a lobster roll. Not good, more like lobster mush. What was I thinking? Hubby had a veggie pizza, he enjoyed if. Service was ok. Friendly in the beginning but went downhill. Would try again but def NOT the Lobster!! read more

I have never been disappointed with place. Above average food at a reasonable price, good portions, fast friendly service, and a very interesting atmosphere. Parking situation leaves a lot to be desired. read more

Retired firefighter in town for a couple days & had to try Ladder 1 Grill on principle alone. Firehouse burger & fried pickles were excellent! Wait staff was very attentive and helpful & the atmosphere was really cool. The pizza & calzones looked great, too! See you again! read more

Just tried them out and we will be back, great prime rib and very friendly service. Love the atmosphere.

I travel in my job and a co-worker in Barre recommended this place for lunch one day. I tried it and have been back again and again. I like the unique decor and the fact that they honor their first responders. I must say it's the first time I've eaten in a combination restaurant and florist shop! Good, friendly service. Good food. I had the Taco Salad with chili and chips. Very tasty. Another time I had the veggie wrap. Excellent. I will go back. read more

I have given this place 2 attempts, nearly a year apart. The first time was my 30th birthday. My in laws had heard about this place and wanted me to have a nice lunch. This was back in March of 2011. Nearly everything we tried to order, they were out of. The Waitress gave an excuse that it was a busy weekend and they hadn't restocked yet(it was Tuesday.) The service also took forever. It wasn't the greatest experience, thus why I hadn't gone back again. I ended up e-mailing the owner to share what happened during our experience, although I never heard a response. We were given a gift certificate for Christmas from a family member. We showed up last week for lunch. There was only 3 tables in there, 1 had their food and 1 was ready for their bill, another waiting on their food. It took forever for the waitress to bring us drinks. Get around to ordering an app. It was decent, but not worth 10 dollars. We ordered the fireman app. It came with 4 poppers, 4 cheese sticks, 4 mushrooms, and a few bottle-caps with some dipping sauces(which would have been way too much sauce for the amount they give you even if we smothered our items in it.) Next, our food comes out. We both got burgers. I had the onion and pepper burger. It looked like these were canned onions and peppers. You could tell they weren't fresh ingredients. I went to eat my burger, and realized it was still raw inside. I ordered it Medium. I sat waiting on the waitress to come around while my husband was eating his fries. Maybe 10-15 minutes later the waitress finally showed up to see if everything is ok with the food I showed her how the burger was still raw. She apologized and took the plate away saying she would have them do another one before I could even tell her that I didn't need another one. My husband started eating on his food. His also ordered medium, and it was not cooked to a medium. It wasn't as raw as mine, but it was pretty pink throughout. On top of that, he ended up leaving a quarter to almost half of his burger because it was burnt on the outside of the burger. Burnt on the outside, pink on the inside. My husband is a farmer with a decent love of food. It takes a lot for him to leave food on his plate, but he just couldn't stomach it anymore. By the time he is finally done, we are still waiting on the waitress. She brings out another burger and notices we are already putting the jacket on our baby to leave. So offers to get a box and the check. There were no further apologies over me not getting to eat a hot meal with my husband, or my husband's burger that was obviously burnt and a rather large portion of it was still on his plate. On top of that, I got charged for a refill on my soda. You would think when the food was that bad with one of your tables that your customer didn't even get to eat it while there, you would waive the price of the refill she had while waiting on you. Bad food. Slow Service. Poor attention to customer satisfaction. All of these equal me joining Yelp just so I could give this place 1 star and perhaps allow others to share in our experience so they choose a different establishment. read more

I love this place, great atmosphere, lots to look at in the history of the fire house. The services is great the food is great. They have the wine I love Moscato. I love going to the ladder 1. Recommond everyone to go here. This place is number one in Barre. Ladder One will be in business long after the other resturants in town have come and gone.If I have a choice to go to ladder one or cornerstone pub in barre, I will choose Ladder one over Conerstone pub. Thumbs up Ladder One Valerie !!!!! read more

Went there for lunch today....fabulous burgers! The atmosphere is really cool. It's an old Fire House with all original architecture. The service was very good. We will definitely go there again. read more

Fun atmosphere, great wait staff, yummy food...doesn't get much better. It's our go to place for dinner.

I've eaten at this restaurant on numbers of occasions from a quiet dinner to big birthday bashes....that said the food is good for the price. Today, however, I went with a friend and she ordered the lobster sandwich and I ordered the chicken parm. The waitress asked me what I would like with my sandwich, French fries, chips or sweet potato fries. I chose the sweet potato fries. When I got my bill I noticed a 2.75 additional price for the fries. The waitress was very nice and said oh she should have told me and she would take care of it. The manager said I had to pay as it was on the menu. I hope saving 2.75 was worth my good will and the potential loss of thousands of dollars from my friends and family.....good job read more

Out of all of the restaurants around Barre/Montpelier this would be my go to. This was the first restaurant I went to when I moved to barre and it is one of my favorites. The food is always good along with the service. The inside is beautiful and it's a nice environment. The food is also decently priced and it's usually quiet. read more

This is my new favorite pizza place, fresh ingredients and they got the crust down. The taste of the specialty's are spot on. Prices are good, and staffs frequent and friendly. Warm vibe, you can usually hear music playing but not to loud. Lightings perfect. I've had some of the food but I prefer the pizza here, finally a place my girlfriend can get like food other than pizza and I can get good pizza :) thank you ladder 1!!! read more

Rude service from hostess (owner). Drove four hours to tour college and see dear friends and had it all ruined by rude, inflexible service. Could not have been treated worse. read more

Ladder 1 Grill - Is that a kid at the bar? - American Near Me - Barre, Vermont

I went there for the first time and ordered a salad which came with half of the toppings. It took me 10 minutes to wave the waitress down , who then told me that i had eaten part of it so i could not exchange it. I told her it never came with what it was supposed to anyway and very very little was eaten. In a nutshell, i ate lettuce and torilla shell as a poor substitute as a taco salad. choked down maybe one eight of it then just brushed it aside and went home and made my own food1 will never waste money there again......... read more

Seriously?! So mad I just wasted 20$ on the worlds smallest calzone and 2 fist fulls of pasta with a thin piece of garlic bread. The bread on the calzone was bland and gross. The cheese was good, but they were skimpy on the marinara. Now, the garlic bread with the pasta wasn't even edible. Thin, and disgusting. I actually couldn't finish two bites or the one in my mouth. The pasta (alfrado) sucked too. Just gross gross food I can't even eat. Domino's would have been better. I WANT A REFUND. I am from massachusetts, not vermont, so I know disgusting food when I have it. People in Vt seem to have no taste buds, especially anyone that likes this place. The one star is for the good decorations. Maybe jail food is compariable, I have never been, but anything could be better. read more

The owner is fantastic. Very customer service oriented. Quality of the food can swing from "great" to "okay", depending on who is available. We've yet to have a bad meal there, but I can't say that the food is consistent in terms of how it's prepared, portions, or overall quality. Wait staff refused to accept a gift certificate that we were given by the owner due to it expiring the next day. The manager (and apparently the owner) were not available. We haven't been back to visit since. read more

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Went in for a "quick" lunch. Over an hour and a half later, we were done. It was just two of us, and only one other table of customers, with at least 3 servers. We only ordered nachos, salad and a sandwich. The waitstaff seems to care less that they are fully visible behind the bar, chit-chatting and one waitress actually cut herself, and made a HUGE scene and proceeded to give herself first aid right at the BAR. She was obviously bleeding and it seemed as though it was a health/safety/food issue, having a server bleeding all around the utensils and glasses..??? Anyway: we had chicken nachos, and it was obvious that the cook didn't know how to make them. I saw him put in our nachos, take them out, go to the bar and read the menu and re-make the plate of nachos, which is one reason lunch took FOREVER. So, the nachos finally come out and were super bland, the chicken wasn't "seasoned" whatsoever, just grilled chicken breast thrown on top of the chips. The server didn't even bring out salsa along with it. My cob salad was large and had the same exact chicken on it, and my husband had a turkey rachel, which he enjoyed. But overall, I will never eat there again.... read more

My wife and I went there for a non-fancy dinner, and ordered burgers, and sweet potato fries. The burgers were ordered medium rare, and arrived very rare -that is, hardly cooked. The sweet potato fries were not cooked enough and fairly tasteless. The decor is fun, and our waitress was nice. We don't feel the need to go back again. read more

I used to love going here and am giving this two stars because I really do like food and atmosphere here. But the attitude of the servers/owner recently is the reason for the low score. It is our daughter's 18th birthday today and she wanted go to Ladder One for dinner so we stopped in. There are five of us we are seated quickly, but when my son brings in her birthday cake we were erroneously told it we against the health code to bring in "food" from the outside, it is not. Then the manager told us that the owner is "trying to run a business" so she won't allow any outside food. It was not like we were bringing in dinner it was just a birthday cake. I really like to "shop" locally and not at big box stores/restaurants but we took our business to Applebees which welcomed us like family and had no problem with us bringing in a birthday cake. Ladder One lost around a hundred dollars in food and drink sales in hopes that they might get $20 more by sell us desserts. I guess regular customers no longer matter! read more

Very good food and excellent service. Firehouse theme is fun. Great family atmosphere. One drawback is that the parking lot is not big enough, so parking at dinner time is a challenge. read more

It's a nice place but sometimes when I go in I'm made to feel like an inconvenience. The other night we came in, it was busy, so we decided we were going to order a pizza to go but was told they couldn't do take out because it was busy. It seems weird to refuse service. It just made me frustrated. We decided to sit and was grateful for the waitress we got. She is always nice! The food is good, nothing amazing, but just hope you go when the kitchen staff isn't grumpy! read more

The building as is has potential, but unfortunately customer satisfaction does not seem to be a priority... I had tried this place a few weeks ago, and liked the atmosphere. I was seated by the bar area and ordered a Chicago Pizza w/ my daughter. It was pretty good, and there were so many other things on the menu that looked worth trying I figured it'd be nice to go back. So my friend wanted to take me some place special today, and I said "How about the Ladder 1 Grill in Barre? She seemed a bit skeptical that there would be anything GOOD in Barre, but I Talked her into it. So we went and salivated over the menu for a good while, and when we finally made up our minds she had ordered a taco salad and I had ordered a "Extra Meaty Tenders" appetizer. When our orders arrived, my fried stuff seemed a bit over cooked, but I'm not a complainer so I dealt with it.... My friend on the other hand, she wasn't impressed with her plate FULL of nothing but a tortilla shell, chips, and a few leaves of lettuce with a few strips of chicken... it was missing tomatoes, cheese and any sign of being "Taco-ish" as there was no salsa, nor much seasoning that would wow the senses. So she waited politely, to not make a scene since the floorplan is open and we didn't want to be seen as rude or demanding ....and we waited... and waited...and we waited... for the waitress to *maybe* come see if we were enjoying our meal or whatever. She stopped by finally, and my friend said that she wasn't happy w/ her meal and could she get something else. (My friend literally had *3* bites...the tiny chicken strips that were on top) and the waitress said "Now that you've eaten most of it, no we won't trade it or refund your money. Umm... the plate was still full of what they gave her!! My friend told her this and she said "Well you should've flagged me down and told me before you ate it." and then said to take it up with the owner. At that point the owner walked in, past us, to the counter... and the waitress and she had a discussion... the owner didnt' come to our table to see what the matter was, didn't acknowledge us at all... So the waitress tried to hurry us out, my daughter leaving her burger 1/2 eaten , my skimpy portion of fries remained and my friend's full plate of tortilla mess left behind as well. WOW that was an expensive place to not enjoy!! I rarely ever leave NO tip, but unfortunately I felt robbed by this place and will not return. If they can't treat customers with dignity... they obviously won't miss our business, nor the business of those who read this review and decide to skip it!! read more

Simply put, I love eating at the ladder 1 grill. I find it a gem in an otherwise dull town. No matter what I order there, and I've been there at least a half a dozen times now, (Always bring new friends that I'm trying to impress), I always enjoy what I get. I will say, however that the last time I went there were four of us and the bill was a bit much - $57.00 for just the four of us - the small side of sweet potatoe fries cost us $2.99 when they really should have come with our sandwich, but other than that the food is delicious but I really go for the delightful atomsphere. If you don't already know it's set in an old fire house with lots of cool things to view while you wait for your meal. One thing that's alot of fun to show friends is the bar made out of bottle caps (for real !) . Didn't like the desert though as it was clearly a frozen piece of cake bought from the Cheeze Factory. read more