The Neighbors Bar & Grill

Awesome food! Great bloodies!

Neighbors has become a staple in the Waukesha area because of the quality of the food and the people who run it.  

Neighbors is a place to bring the family, have a beer, play some Golden Tee, watch the game, and have a great meal.  The place is upscale without being pretentious, and the clientele is a cool mix of young and old, professional and blue collar.

Food is homemade and ingredients are fresh.  Appetizers are handmade.  The fish fry is top notch and burgers are great, too.  Also, they have the best GRILLED wings.

Like a desperate woman on a date in dogged pursuit for Mr. Right, I sooooo wanted this eating experience to be a great one.  But unfortunately it just didn't work out.  The place wasn't a bad looking place.  It was modern and clean enuf.  But it was just a little too, hmmm, how can I put this nicely, "RED" for my taste.  When we walked in one of the people behind the bar just stopped in his tracks like a deer caught in the head lights.  Almost with a "what you doing in my Bar Willis" type of attitude.  And being that I am such a fan of Gary Coleman, I found his rude lack of custumer service instead to be quite charming. (sarcasm alert).

Luckily when we got to our seat, our server was alot nicer.  However the service was very slow(And the place was NOT crowded).  We were here on a Friday and I decided to try the "Trifecta"  (I think that's what it was called).  Anyhoo it's a fish fry platter that is a combinmation of cod, walley and blue gil, sounds yum yum don't it?  Well the "sound" of yum is about as close to yum as you are going to get. .  This entre was absoloutley horrible.  And let me use my New York accent when I say this.....  HARRABLE!  It was nothing but a tray full of grease.  In fact there was paper under the fish and it was soaked in grease. The breading was nasty, the tarter sauce was lame and every single piece of fish on that plate tasted exactly the same.   It was disgusting.  

Now why am I NOT givng this place one star?  Because I know that there are people out there who enjoy places that are a little red, so this place may be for you.
I also know that  there are many big fat Wisconsinites out there who love a big greasy plate of slop, so to them, this is gourmet cooking.  Don't get me wrong, I am not a food saint.  I'm all for a nice greasy sinful meal, but for all that is holy, it atleast has to taste good.  If I'm clogging my arteries it just can't be for the sake of clogging my arteries, know what I mean?  I am also not giving this place one star because inspite of it all I think we had a fairly decent server.    But that isn't enough for me to ever go back there and "Neighbors" is something that we will never be.  I'm sure the bartender will be sad to hear that one.