Sportsman's Bar & Grill

My family and I visited New Glarus over the 4th of July. Found this place while walking through town.

Tried the Spotted Cow and the Totally Naked (locally brewed beers). They were fantastic. Food was excellent, cheese sticks are to die for.

Even though we are FIB's, we were treated well, service was quick and friendly. Looking forward to going back.

I'm going to apologize to whoever will read this review in advance because I am about to get long-winded.

The service was super slow, but other than that our bar tender was friendly enough and he made some good suggestions. Great Selection of New Glarus Taps and decent bar food. Sriracha Chicken Bites were the appetizer of the month and they were different.

I have a problem with tourist towns who are annoyed by tourists. I am in no way that annoying tourist who expects to be waited on hand and foot, but gatdammit if I choose to attend your establishment at least act like you want us there until we catch a buzz and don't notice.

Came to New Glarus to visit the brewery and to celebrate a friend's bday weekend. Walked into this place at around 11:30PM, sat down and weren't even acknowledged until about 20-25 mins later and it wasn't busy. I don't know if they are necessarily used to "coloreds" up that way, but I felt like I was on display at the zoo. We played a couple songs on the juke box and whoever was running it kept fast forwarding them (after we paid) and some delightful man near the front of the bar occasionally yelled out "Nigger Nigger Nigger".

We moved to the back to play pool and it's pretty cool back there. They have a bunch of puzzles, books, board games.

Right before close as we were finishing the last of our drinks the bartender comes back to ask us to close out our tab (which we were doing anyway) because the owner is on his way and he is a "super crazy" dude and he is going to get mad that the bar is still open. Kinda made us feel like if we were still there when he came he was going to whoop our asses or something. I'm from Humboldt Park so that shit didn't scare me and I told him so, but he kept stressing it.

All in all, we probably should have left, but where were we really going to go. It was too early to sit in the hotel.

I really loved New Glarus and would go back, but they dropped the ball on customer service at several establishments we went to that weekend.

I am piggy-backing off this following review since I visited the Sportsman's along with this person and party...

I'm going to apologize to whoever will read this review in advance because I am about to get long-winded.

The service was super slow, but other than that our bar tender was friendly enough and he made some good suggestions. Great Selection of New Glarus Taps and decent bar food. Sriracha Chicken Bites were the appetizer of the month and they were different.

I have a problem with tourist towns who are annoyed by tourists. I am in no way that annoying tourist who expects to be waited on hand and foot, but gatdammit if I choose to attend your establishment at least act like you want us there until we catch a buzz and don't notice.

Came to New Glarus to visit the brewery and to celebrate a friend's bday weekend. Walked into this place at around 11:30PM, sat down and weren't even acknowledged until about 20-25 mins later and it wasn't busy. I don't know if they are necessarily used to "coloreds" up that way, but I felt like I was on display at the zoo. We played a couple songs on the juke box and whoever was running it kept fast forwarding them (after we paid) and some delightful man near the front of the bar occasionally yelled out "Nigger Nigger Nigger".

We moved to the back to play pool and it's pretty cool back there. They have a bunch of puzzles, books, board games.

Right before close as we were finishing the last of our drinks the bartender comes back to ask us to close out our tab (which we were doing anyway) because the owner is on his way and he is a "super crazy" dude and he is going to get mad that the bar is still open. Kinda made us feel like if we were still there when he came he was going to whoop our asses or something. I'm from Humboldt Park so that shit didn't scare me and I told him so, but he kept stressing it.

All in all, we probably should have left, but where were we really going to go. It was too early to sit in the hotel.

I really loved New Glarus and would go back, but they dropped the ball on customer service at several establishments we went to that weekend.

...I liked New Glarus as well but I feel like even it didn't have the brewery that the small town friendliness just wasn't there.  I enjoy small towns and have visited many of them but this was a first where you weren't receiving and reciprocating hello's and I usually don't mind that since I'm from the rush of the city.  The Sportsman's was nothing pretty inside since along the walls, every available space, was used as storage for beverages and snacks or whatever else they wanted to stockpile.  I really wish we would have had a couple beers and left but there weren't many options due to the time and town itself.  The changing of our music left me feeling a little disrespected but the culprits ignorance spoke loudly and though I could play the music a million times over those locals were gonna wake up still dumb, deaf and blind for the rest of their lives.  The Sportsman's B&G was not a solid establishment.