I go to Green Mill out of necessity. Are they a pizza place? Are they a pasta place? Are they Italian? Green Mill casts a wide net for whatever 'American' food you are looking for whether that be burgers, pasta, or salads. They are a step below Ruby Tuesday's, but a step above McDonalds. I could see this restaurant being a good solution for parents with picky eaters for children.
Review Source:My wife and I had a $30 Living Social voucher here and we happened to be down in the Bloomington area. The Green Mill is attached to a hotel,but it had about 15 guests in it about noon on a Sunday. The decor is cool, with a lot of TVs lining the walls. The clientele made me feel like I was walking into a real cool VFW.
I ordered a big Summit EPA, delish. Then I ordered off their "Healthy" menu, the light chicken pizza, and my wife got the light shrimp salad.
Our waitress was cool, not talkative, but just right. Checked on us every ten minutes or so. I ordered another beer for my pizza. Lovely.
My pizza came out with plenty of black beans and lovely Mexican style goodness. A little too much cheese for a healthy plate, but who's going to complain?
My wife's dressing was amazing for her salad and there were a good 20 shrimp on the salad. She really enjoyed it. I can't explain how awesome the spicy ranch dressing she had was. We asked for an extra serving before we left. Seriously, 2 tablespoons full, and she charged us 60 cents for it. Really!? I would have given it 4 stars if it weren't for this. Listen I am giving you 20% on your tip, and you are going to cut into your tip for 60 cents?! Wow! Crazy!
My wife and I are great tippers and we can't believe when people dip into their tip over stupid stuff.
Oh well, the beer and the food and bread that came with my wife's salad  and my awesome pizza were great. Extra star if she didn't charge us for a little thing of dressing.
Now that is an expensive cup of dressing. Don't screw people over the little things. It peeves them off.
Well, I remember going to a Green Mill that was attached to our hotel sometime back and I thought it was really great....but this time was such a disappointment.....
We entered the bar area during happy hour...the prices were not as great as I remembered and the food was just BLAH! We ordered three different types of wings; each was less edible than the last....just terrible terrible flavors.....The drink prices were not too great either.....
PASS ON THIS PLACE! You're not missing much......
This Green Mill location is underrated and overlooked, perhaps because it is located in a hotel. However, once inside, you'll find a cozy bar area and a nice dining area. Â The bar area has plenty of TVs to watch the big game and a full bar selection. The dining area is nice and quiet. There is the typical Green Mill food fare that you will find at other Green Mill locations. What sets this Green Mill location apart is the excellent wait staff who are friendly and always have a smile on their faces. Â There's a huge parking lot since it is located in a hotel. Plus, there is easy access to the I-35 freeway.
Review Source:Ugh! Â Definitely not happy. Â My coworkers and I went to Green Mill in hopes of a good and quick lunch. Â It was neither.
First, the waitress mixed up our drink order; Â not a great way to start off - 1 star. Â
Then she spilled soup on my coworker - 1 star. Â
Our food took over 25 min to arrive, we ended up asking about it and the waitress said it should be up soon - 1 star. Â
When the food finally arrived, it wasn't prepared the way it was asked: Â no onions for one, dressing on the side for another, etc... - 1 star. Â
Lastly, not great - not even 'good' quality food. Â Extremely greasy pizza, salad dressing that was all oil, soup that had chunks indicating the prepackaged quality, etc... Â (Yes, I know it was Green Mill - maybe we just set our expectations high.)
I have had Green Mill in the past and enjoyed my experience. Â With the renovated Holiday Inn as the location of the restaurant, I had hopes to enjoy our meal once again. Â Sadly, I wished I had that 1.5 hour back.
Scheduled lunch to be delivered to my hotel at 1:00 and the driver was right on time. Â I had the Chicken Scampi with clam chowder and both were quite good. Â $16 was the total with a $2 tip to the driver. Â Not a bad amount of food for that money but not a great bargain either. Â
Will eat here again if I'm in a nearby hotel
This store of the Green Mill chain is part of the Holiday Inn at the same site. It is a casual restaurant with integral bar. The night we were there, American Idol was blaring from every screen in the bar and our decision to eat in the dining room did not help much with the noise level. There is an extensive menu of standard items and a large Italian menu.
My wife had mini burgers. She said they were OK - "everything was just OK" I had a half order of Caesar salad, which was itself almost a meal. I also had lasagne bolognese - made with three cheeses - Moscarpone, Ricotta and Mozarella. Sauce was well spiced with adequate meat but did not overwhelm the pasta. Came with mildly spicy garlic bread.
We each had a standard maragarita. The bar offers about 50 choices/variations. Lime was bottled and the margarita tasted that way. A 5 on a scale of 10.
Green Mill is a casual restaurant chain established way back in 1935, at the tail end of the depression, which we may be going into again now with the worst financial crisi since then.
It is a largely a Minnie Soda chain, you betcha, with 13 restaurants in the Twin Cities Metro area, and another 9 outside the Metro area, with a couple more in Kansas and North Dakota, and 4 in Wisconsin.
It has the typical casual food categories: Apps, Wings, Pizza, Pizza Favorites, Salads, a half dozen Entrees, Sandwiches, Burgers, Calzones and 5 "Eating Fit" dishes, over a dozen "Quick Lunches" and Desserts.
The "Eating Fit" dishes are supposed to be healthier/leaner choices, not a crazed food binge.
Although there are a lot of Italian inspired categories, you couldn't call it an Italian chain, because most of the dishes are classic American interpretations, mixed in with current popular flavors of Chipotle sauces, some Asian flavors like Coconut Chicken Salad, Flat Iron steaks, and Hawaiian Pizza. It is more like Olive Garden meets TGIF.
Green Mill offers take-out (called :Take-Away food in the greater Commonewealth nations, but I digress) and also delivers, which is what we did so we could watch the final Presidential Debate on TV in our hotel room, where we could argue who has an economic plan that could best get the nation out of its current mess. Oddly enough, there are no beverages listed on their take-out menu. We just got sodas from the Hotel vending machines.
The food quality is what you would expect from a Casual Dining restaurant (this is a dining category that includes TGIF, Olive Garden, Chilis, Applebees, etc. This category is suffering from age and losing sales to upgraded fast-food chains with lower prices, according to the USA Today).
Moderate prices and convenience is what you are getting here, not great food. Green Mill is better than Applebee's in my opinion, but still , well,....meh!
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