Village Grill & Tavern

Went here with my co-ed softball team after a game. It was nice out, so we sat outside. The bar was pretty full with people watching the Blackhawks game. We ordered drinks shortly after being seated. It took at least 15 minutes for our server to come back with the waters, nothing else. He dropped off the water and went back inside to get the other drinks which took another 5 minutes (we ordered a total of 5 beers for the table). He then took our food order. The food came out warm, and everyone's order was correct. I had a buffalo chicken sandwich. It was good, but nothing amazing. Everyone else also seemed to like their food. I will definitely give this place another shot, but hopefully the service will be better next time.

We stopped here because we had a coupon from the Entertainment book and we wanted a deal. We came by on a very rainy Sunday afternoon. There were maybe a dozen people at the bar area (mid-March). We were told that there was a drink special ($5 for a HUGE Sam Adams) so we ordered those and also wings were 50c each and pizza was 1/2 off. We we put the coupon away and went with the specials. The buffalo hot wings, are HOT. But very good, and messy! Lots of sauce and lots of meat on each wing. The 10 inch pizza was on a dinner plate, we ordered the barbecue chicken. It was very good, sweet sauces and a good mix of chicken and cheese. We left full and spent less than $30. We will be back also long as we can get great deals like this.

As gathered from the earlier reviews, this place can be a paradox.  The food can be great while the service is clearly a crapshoot.  We ate here most recently on a Saturday night at about 8:30 and it was almost dead in the dining room.   The food was pretty good this time - the Italian Melt sandwich was great, and my wife's Patty Melt burger was ok.  The Buffalo Chicken fingers, one of our common orders in the past are still a winner after all these years.  Service was fair - eager but not always attentive - no refills on drinks unless we asked etc.   Oddly, we had a "Free Entree - $5 max (nothing is that cheap)" Entertainment coupon, and they rang it up as 20% - or $4.20, off.  Strange, but not a surprise for this disorganized establishment.  Be forwarned but not affraid.