Billy's Bar & Grill

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  I'm usually a big advocate for Billy's, it's been a staple of life growing up in the area.  Lately it has gone WAY downhill.  Went there tonight and not only had half the meals wrong, but had eyes rolled when it was brought up.  Then when they brought out the "new", "fix" meals, they just scraped off what wasn't suppose to be on it... HELLO, some people may be allergic to that stuff!  The food was cold as well.  LAZY cooks and inattentive wait staff.  Glasses going empty for a long time, and took forever to get refills.  The wait staff didn't make sure the meals were correct before bringing them out, just not good at all.  
  
  Extremely disappointed, as I love this place, and have for the past 20+ years.  We won't be going back for a very long time.  Please Billy's hire some staff that cares!!!!

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  Posted on 06.03.13 Tatyana O.

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  I keep meaning to come here more often to at least try something other than the Friday fish fry....someday I suppose.
  This is a nice bar/restaurant.  The bartenders are always hopping and have a good eye for people looking for a drink. The tap beer selection average, but they do have Rush River on tap which is a plus. Another plus is they have pulltabs :)
  Wait staff is pretty attentive and coureous. There is nothing particular from what I saw on the menu, however I think they do a great job on the fish fry. They have a nice beer batter that sticks to the white fish and is not too thick, and it is all you can eat! Friday fish night is always busy so plan on having a beer and eat some popcorn while you wait..

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  Posted on 04.02.12 Joe B.

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  I've been comeing here for 20 plus years and it's still as good as ever. Top notch bar food is on the menu and thats what you will get. The brunch buffet is fairly decent as well and very affordable. My homebrew club the Rum River Wort Hogs meets here the second monday of the month as has for many many years. Billys is a great place to go, in summer time the patio is a nice touch too. Happy hour specials are the bomb too!

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  Posted on 02.12.12 Cory S.

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  I was lucky enough to have a local introduce me to Billy's while in the Minneapolis area, and I was more than impressed by the establishment. Billy's is essentially a neighborhood bar with a classic pub stlye menu.
  
  While I wasn't a particular fan of the  complementary popcorn, my combination of grilled cheese and potato soup (actually more of a cheese soup with a bit of potato thrown in) where savory and not greasy in the slightest.

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  Posted on 07.27.11 Jack S.

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  This was the final stop of our Downtown Anoka bar crawl, and it was my favorite spot.  I was starving by this point and luckily they have an awesome late night menu, Th-Sa 10-1 a.m.
  
  We ordered the whole menu, quesildillas for $5, the largest basket of tater tots that I've ever seen for $3, buffalo wings for $5, and chicken tenders for $5.  Perfect drunk food.  They also have $5 burger/fries combination.  
  
  The outdoor patio looks kind of like a fraternity house, kind of dumpy, but hey its still outside.   It probably did not help that there were two trashy bachelorette parties going on.  I always assumed that these shit shows only occurred in Downtown MPLS, but I was only wrong.  Imagine the typical slutty-ass bachelorette party getting sloppy downtown.  Then imagine the same party with a group of girls that was too lazy, cheap and drunk to spend the evening below 694 and wow, you are in for a treat.  
  
  There is a full bar out on the patio too.  Head inside and there is a dining room, karaoke was happening on Saturday night when we were there.  Lots of drunk people over-using the f-word as added adjectives to the normal song lyrics.  It must be bad when it makes such a prolific f-bomb user as myself blush.  
  
  Anyways, I suspect that this place might stay open later then the other Anoka bars, because at 1 a.m. there was a huge surge of people crowding into the bar.  
  
  Good bar to cap off a fun night in Anoka.  It was a nice stay-cation.  Completely different world, only 15 miles north.
  
  Watch out for traffic, there is a high concentration of bars in Downtown Anoka, most of which are busy on Saturday night.  There are a lot of one-way streets and drunk a-holes peeling away in pickup trucks and motorcycles.

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  Posted on 08.09.10 Dan S.

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