Best food in the area. Fun bar atmosphere with music on the weekends. Great service! Ivy was fantastic and accommodated my special requests for alterations to the menu items. We will definitely be back! read more

Great restaurant/bar on our way to... everywhere! Had great burgers and super friendly service tonight! Will be back again.

Stopped by this place twice while I was up there for some training. Super nice staff and great food! Had steak and sweet potato fries. Definitely recommend! read more

The 231 Bar & Grill - House Steak & Sweet Potato Fries! - Salad Near Me - Thompsonville, Michigan

Delicious place. Fun atmosphere with live music, pool table, and plenty of space! A great bar area, certainly coming back. The liver & onion special is a treasure trove for the old man. I knocked some stars off because of two factors: 1. The perch dinner on a Friday around 5:30 pm was already sold out and 2. $8.50 for 5 jalapeño poppers is a complete ripe off. read more

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The 1-75 burger is insane. So good and our waitress was very sweet :) definitely worth stopping by after skiing!

Best decision we made all night. We love a dive, and this checked all the boxes. Great food great service. Don't miss this place. read more

The 231 Bar & Grill - Great place - Salad Near Me - Thompsonville, Michigan

Food is great and reasonable prices, and portions are guaranteed to leave happy belly.

I came here for dinner, the food was good, waiters were nice, and live music was great! This restaurant is nice in the inside, it has a pool table, darts, claw machine, and a shuffle board. Overall, good food (nice, big 1/2 pound burgers for a good price) and service. Nothing special but a nice place to have dinner. read more

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We were eating dinner tonight when another patron had a fainting episode. Your employee Lizzy was cool calm and collected taking care of patron. Kudos to her and her prompt action! Great job!! read more

A decent bar and grill with live music on the weekends. The food is always good and they have a large drink menu. It's right next to Crystal mountain so perfect for dinner after skiing. read more

Burgers were perfect. Very generous portions. Staff was attentive and kind. Good experience all around.

An hour for a burger, and this wasn't during the dinner rush. Avoid unless you want to pay nearly $20 for a meh meal and a lukewarm apology.

Great local bar. Several tables both traditional and high top. Large horseshoe bar. Shuffleboard and Touch Tunes. Great burgers!! You can ask for a 1/4lb patty instead of a half. My only complaint is the iron in the water ... easy solution ... drink alcohol!! read more

The 231 Bar & Grill - Burger with chips; draft cider - Salad Near Me - Thompsonville, Michigan

The service was good. The turkey Rubin was good. The quesadilla was ordered without onion, but it came with them. The liver was ordered medium & it was very well done Disappointing. read more

Great time hanging out and playing shuffle board. Drinks were cheap and they had a menu to eat off. The bartender was awesome and helpful. Definitely will go back when in the area. Sorry no pics! read more

***DEEP FRIED PICKLE FRIES RECOMMENDED*** In town for a wedding, Cathy and the rest of the staff took great care of our little group. We felt safe, welcome, and right at home. read more

Great food and drinks. Place picks up for dinner around 730. Perch dinner was epic! The mushroom burger was good too read more

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Our go to in our hood. Great burgers, great Fries. Great service great beverages. Plenty of room great atmosphere great ownership and staff. read more

amazing food with a very kind staff! ambiance was great, with a large bar and big tvs.

They make the BEST French dip. Friendly service and reasonable prices. We go there every time we're in town.

Wow, what an incredible hole in the wall! The locals were incredibly welcoming and the wait staff was great. It's not every day that a group for a bachelor and bachelorette party walk in and order loads of drinks, but they handled us with grace and made sure we had full drinks. Kathy was a particularly great waitress! read more

Came to visit during our vacation out crystal mountain. Service was good. Waitress was very kind and patient, I dined with my very indecisive 7 year old. Can't remember the waitress name but she mentioned she is a preschool teacher. They were out of wings but I think it's a national shortage on wings anyway. read more

Just had a fantastic perch dinner at 231 Bar &Grill. What can I say but thank you! Great service, wonderful perch, good atmosphere. Perch was plentiful and cooked perfect. Fries and tarter both great. Drinks were priced correct and family's all around. Look forward to coming back and trying other menu items. I saw a double burger that was picture worthy!!! read more

The service was amazing! very friendly waitress and staff, the food was amazing, im visiting from out of town and very satisfied with my choice of this restauran, they are fast and the food is fresh, very friendly environment and the pricing isn't bad either! read more

We had the best experience here! Food was excellent, service was even better. Anne and the bartender were so nice and took great care of us. The fried pickles were amazing and burgers were great. Coming back every year! read more

Got food poisoning on valentines night from the steak. Three days of hell and lost income at my business and they didn't care.

Well, the last time my wife and I came here it was the Crystal Palace. The broasted chicken was the top item back then. Granted, It was no diner drive ins and dives back then and now it is under new management, and called 231. And it is still no diner drive ins and dives caliber! The place looks nice since they changed up the decor. We came in mid week, there was only ONE waitress and she took care of the bar and tables. There was also only ONE cook, possibly new at cooking. But I will get to that here in a minute. We had a beer while we reviewed the menu and what other tables ordered. We noticed right away that burgers were the special, but most of them were getting sent back to the kitchen as either under cooked or over cooked. We did see a plate of the old famous chicken dinner go out and noticed it was very very well done, as in burnt, So we decided to play it safe and ordered simple appetizers, chicken nachos and chicken strips. Can't possibly screw that up, right! Unfortunately, the nachos were more lettuce with stale chips and the chicken strips were extra crispy burnt. We felt bad as the waitress kept having to return other tables food. So we didn't bother to send ours back as we had a clear view of the kitchen and the cook seemed like she was over her head. Only reason I am giving them a 2 Star is how hard the waitress tried! I wish the 231 bar the best of luck, and may give it a second try if it's still open when we head back this way. If you do decide to drop in here, I hope you have better luck than we did! My personal note to 231: since this only 7 months since opening, I feel that you the owner should have a bigger presence along with additional wait staff and kitchen help would be a plus as well. Bar restaurants are not easy to run and they really need to make sure they know how to cook these meals properly and be managed much better. Just my penny thought. . Good Luck! read more

Fun karaoke w Marcus. Bar was dead for a Friday but it could be due to folks hunkering down for Coronavirus. Fun, clean, bar for our girl's weekend. We enjoyed the drinks and dancing. read more

This was some of the worst customer service I have ever experienced. Cathy J, our server was extremely rude and had poor table side manners. If your here on vacation and looking for a place to eat near Crystal Mountain Resort I would look elsewhere. read more

We arrived at 6 pm and my wife and I ordered steaks. It's 7:21......food no where in sight. Send a rescue dog with food as we may starve to death before our order gets here. read more

One of our favorite places to eat Up North and have a good time, the food is delicious and the wait staff are excellent and make for a wonderful experience.......... Unfortunately I would however avoid this place on Fridays due to the OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD music the DJ plays staring at 8pm right in the middle of dinner crowd. Although charismatic and good at working the crowd the DJ has no concept of volume control, I have sat many of nights and watched customers walk in and right back out ( myself included)due to the noise level, when addressed by the wait staff he will turn it down momentarily and then a few minutes later it will be right back up.The DJ is paid a flat fee and has nothing to lose based on his performance yet it's the wonderful wait staff and ownership that suffer week in and week out. A simple solution to correct this issue would be to have the wait staff control the volume level until food is no longer being served. If you want be able to hear the person sitting next you and or the wait staff I would AVOID this place on Fridays, any other day of the week I would give it 5 stars, Unfortunately Friday nights only get 1 star. read more

So, before I dog on this "restaurant" we didn't even make it inside before we got a feel for the service we would have received. All I need to tell you is the attitude here will make you want to spit. Take your earnings elsewhere. read more

Here is a place you don't want to overlook, close to Crystal Mt and easily accessible from M-115. Newly renovated, clean, roomy but still cozy, plenty of comfortable seating at the bar, high tops, tables and "stage-lounge" area. REALLY GOOD FOOD, family friendly and very affordable. Wait staff and bar tenders all friendly and attentive. My new go-to place in Benzie County! read more

I went to this restaurant with our Jeep group, roughly 50 people, and had a wonderful experience! Atmosphere is clean and inviting. Food was AMAZING as were the prices! Can't wait to make the trip back hopefully in the near future. read more

We stopped at this restaurant on Wednesday, July 4 we were there a total of 2 1/2 hours the air conditioning wasn't working very well it took us forever to get our food and drinksthat is because they only had one waitress working The owner needs to plan on being busy on July 4th holiday even though it fell on a Wednesday .The traffic in that area is busy and if the restaurant is going to be open they should be prepared to be busy I will say that once we got our food it was good but the wait was just so frustrating for ourselves and other customers read more

Attention Crystal Mountain skiers!!!! The 231 Bar & Grill is a great place to grab dinner and have a drink. We took our 3 kids there to watch the ND vs Clemson game and had a great experience. The food was fresh and the service was excellent. It's located about 4 minutes away from the Crystal Mountain entrance. I highly recommend this place. Enjoy!! read more

It wouldn't even get a 1 star if I had a choice. 1 cook, 1 waitress and 1 bartender. Food order took over an hour!!!