Silver Creek Saloon & Grill

I'm trying to keep in mind that this is Belleville and my expectations should be low -- but they're not. As all the other reviewers have stated, this place is enormous. This means almost nothing to me. Parking was ample, which is a plus. The menu was severely lacking, so I ended up ordering the salad that sounded the most promising. The content was on point...except for the dressing. Citrus vinaigrette? Eh, not so much. It was glorified olive oil. Bleh!

I really, really wanted to give this place 4 stars. I did! But the service....so bad.

I went in here Monday night, around dinner time, so I can only judge on that and not the nightlife for the weekends. Boyfriend and I are new to the area and wanted to find a new bar to frequent on the weekends, so we thought we'd scope this one out before Saturday.

Okay so, we walk in, and i was already excited. Huge parking lot, awesome outdoor set up, big place, our kind of thing. Place has about...10 patrons (3 at the bar, rest are at tables) and about 3-4 waitresses ( 1 or 2 on the floor and 2 at the smaller bar when you first walk in). No one greets us, not even a nod in our direction. Well okay, we will just sit at the bar then...

Takes a couple of minutes for one of the girls at the bar to notice us, but she does and we finally get our drinks. Look at a menu, decide on the Nacho Pablano's. Took the bartender a minute to come back and take our order but she does. We get it, and they were okay. Generous portion for an appetizer but overpriced for quality. It was velveeta and very little spice. Not spicy at all and barely any chicken. But whatever, not my gripe.

So if you're keeping score at home, we have ordered one drink at this point. Boyfriend guzzles down his beer, I finish my drink. Girl asks if I want another, I say yes and boyfriend tries to say he would too but she walks away. Both girls behind the bar continue to gossip with each other while ignoring us for the duration of the time it took us to eat a plate of nachos. At one point we just decided it was going to become a game, because literally every server that passed us, even one that I assume was in management as it was a man with a polo on, completely ignored us and walked by before we could ask for another beer. I managed to get another drink but the girl dropped it off and left before boyfriend could once again try to say he needed a beer. We had the bottle pushed to the edge of the bar so there was no confusion it was empty.

In the mean time, our bartender wanders off, a server comes up and ignores us, and the other bartender is too busy talking to another patron to acknowledge us staring at her pleading with our eyes for more beer.

In the end, her patron left and she could finally acknowledge us, but only after our plate was almost done. Finally gets boyfriend another beer (he went over 30 minutes AT THE BAR without getting a refill or request for one), and then lingers around hurrying us (or so it felt) to clear our plate and get our check expedited, I'm guessing so she could resume her gossip session about the other bartender (which that was really awesome to have 2 feet in front of us).

So Silver Creek, I will be back to try you out on a weekend and yes, I think you will become our new go to bar, but your service was absolutely horrible. Boyfriend would have thrown back many beers and you might have gotten a better tip had your entire staff not ignored us or treated us as if we were invisible.

Silver Creek Saloon is a large, popular Belleville area bar/club that is housed in an old golf club.  They have several bars, flat screens, and live music.  It's fairly crowded with plenty of people of all ages (mostly the 20/30) somethings.  They serve bar food and they have a tented outdoor area for smokers.The parking lot is huge.  The mood was good when I was there.  Lots of people dancing and laughing everywhere.