Cancel

    Open app

    Search

    Venture Inn

    3.8 (9 reviews)
    Open 12:00 pm - 12:00 am (Next day)

    Venture Inn Photos

    Business Info

    You might also consider

    Recommended Reviews - Venture Inn

    Your trust is our priority, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews. Learn more about reviews.
    Yelp app icon
    Browse more easily on the app
    Review Feed Illustration

    6 months ago

    Nice little bar. Great prices. It has a comfortable atmosphere, where all can have a pleasant experience.

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    3 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 1

    2 years ago

    It's definitely a local place. Best bartender ever. Quirky decor, good music, good drinks.

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    2 years ago

    Great drinks, nice atmosphere and friendly bartenders. Hours of operation are convenient for patrons

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    7 years ago

    Helpful 1
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    8 years ago

    The beer is cheap but not cold and the place smells of a urinal. The customer are served more alcohol than need be. The place is def a dive!

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0
    Photo of Ken G.
    0
    5
    47

    10 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    11 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    10 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    Ask the Community - Venture Inn

    Verify this business for free

    People searched for Dive Bars 270 times last month within 10 miles of this business.

    Verify this business

    Erie Hotel and Family Restaurant

    Erie Hotel and Family Restaurant

    3.4
    (190 reviews)
    0.3 mi
    $$

    Stopped in here while visiting a friend a few weeks ago. It's a nice place and great atmosphere. It…read morehas an old rustic appearance. The building dates back to the 1890's but I'm told a restoration was done on the bar and restaurant after a fire back in the 1980's. They did a great job as it looks like it's been there forever I had the bbq chicken and ribs and my friend had a steak. The food was great and plentiful and we just couldn't finish it all. The one thing I didn't care for was the nachos appetizer. I'd order something different next visit. Service was above average. Evidently there was some confusion in the kitchen and it took longer than normal for our food to come out. Our waitress came and told us about it as soon as she knew and apologized and comped us a drink for the long wait. Frankly I really appreciated how she handled it and we tipped her accordingly. I give it four stars, with a little off for disappointing nachos but I'd definitely reconsider after another visit or two next time I'm in town.

    The food was ok, the server was nice and doing his job however, during our meal a blaring fire…read morealarm went off inside the restaurant. The staff and patrons looked at each other joking and laughing but NOBODY was instructing the patrons as to what to do. We waited a few minutes but finally left as the BLAT,BLAT,BLAT of the alarm was excruciating to the slight headache I had entered the dining area with. Fire trucks showed up but it was established to be a false alarm. Something they should have let the patrons know right away. I felt we should have been partially compt. for the meal since we only finished half of it before we left. I don't think I will go back as I felt the whole situation was handled poorly. They need better safety protocols for such situations. Laughing and joking while patrons are confused as to what to do is a serious violation of ethics to say the least. Get it together erie hotel! You have some work to do.

    Photos
    Individual booth
    Individual booth
    Baked French onion Soup
    Baked French onion Soup
    At the entrance

    See all

    At the entrance
    The Switch Inn

    The Switch Inn

    3.7
    (21 reviews)
    15.2 mi
    $

    It's kind of a dive bar, which isn't unexpected as it's not in the best part of Middletown;…read morehowever, it's actually got pretty good food. The server was very nice, the guys hanging at the bar left a little to be desired lol but it is what it is. I got the French Onion soup, very tasty and the buffalo wings, they were large not tiny like some places and very juicy. My sister got a burger and said it was good and the fries were good not like those that stick together, the good kind. We went early evening on a Monday so it wasn't busy but I'm sure when they do events it probably gets packed as the dining area is small.

    Google for some reason won't let me post this; it was written with that site in mind…read more If you're going here to revel in the antics of Samantha and the other cute barmaids, read no further; it seems like you'll have a good time. If you're coming here to eat, though, read on. I was part of a 16-set whose reservations were made *three* days earlier for 11 a.m., when the Switch opens for brunch on Saturday mornings. About 14 of us showed up. When we entered, we were told we had the back space all to ourselves ... only to find the tables had not been arranged for such a large group. We helped the staff, which is to say one of the attractive young women probably among those mentioned by name in many of the other reviews, put them together--by which it would be more accurate to say we did it for her. Said waitress was the *only* person working the *entire* front ... there were a few other people near the bar. And none of the cute barmaids. This young woman had to do *all* the waitservice *and* all the bartending. There is absolutely no excuse for letting this much service fall on the head of a single staffer with this much advance notice. They had *three days' notice* that they'd have a big table at Saturday's open. That's more than enough time to get someone else to come to work. That they did not suggests that someone was too busy writing emoji-laden one-word responses to Google Reviews to let this be brought to his attention, or that it was and he didn't care because he needs a little help making this month's boat payment. If this had been the only problem, I'd have left a generally favorable review. But instead, it got worse. A friend in the group who has plenty of restaurant experience themselves and noticed these same deficiencies ordered some iced tea with his breakfast--only to be told there was none available. Uh, OK ... these things happen. Immediately afterwards, I ordered coffee. A few minutes later our cute barmaid returned, and said with some evident surprise that ... there wasn't any. Really? On a Saturday morning when you advertise and serve an extensive brunch menu, you have somehow forgotten to restock something so basic? This is Restaurant 101. As my omelet was being prepared (it was good ... the food is the only thing that got a star here), the same cute barmaid came bouncing out to inform me that ... there was no whole wheat bread to toast for the side I had ordered. Would white be OK? Yes. But I was beginning to feel like the Switch's business model was the cheese shop in the Monty Python sketch, and did something I would never have imagined myself doing before: announced loudly that that would mean another star off the Google Review. I guess Mr. Owner was too busy keeping up on *his* strategy of responding to every single review in order to intimidate people from posting what might be more generally bad experiences from which lessons might be learned to actually check his stocks, much less order more (However, maybe there's an upside to this ... if people want to shoot each other in the future, there won't be any bullets available). And while this experience was not the fault of the cute barmaid, who I should say I still tipped (albeit modestly), since she was indeed polite and charming and (importantly) apologetic the whole time, especially again given that she had to do all the front-end work by herself, she did make one significant error my restaurant-veteran friend noticed. Another of our number had his drink delivered without the lemon wedge that was supposed to be in it. She (yet again) apologized, and came back with several lemon wedges to choose from ... held in *her bare hands* when they should have been in a bowl or on a plate. This is an actionable health-code violation, and the only reason I'm reporting it here rather than to Goshen is that, for all the aforementioned reasons, I don't want her to get into trouble and get fired. When I told my wife about all this, she said that a) she would have stormed out and gone to Dunkin' Donuts (which, for her, is saying something) when the coffee wasn't available and b) $14 for even a well-made omelet was way too much given this display of incompetence. So, Mr. Owner, if this the "trying our best" you bragged about in your response to one of your other dissatisfied customers (and FWIW it seems like those reviews have become more common in the last year or so), you are falling far short. As Yoda told Luke, "do, or do not ... there is no try". Maybe you should consider hiring someone to actually run the house and just limit yourself to being the social-media manager you have clearly always wanted to be. The Switch Inn? It should be Asleep at the Switch Inn!

    Photos
    The Switch Inn
    The Switch Inn
    The Switch Inn

    See all

    Venture Inn - divebars - Updated June 2026

    Loading...
    Loading...
    Loading...