Wilson Street Tavern

The spark is gone. Patrons are not treated as guests. Its sad that this is even worse than the Stop Light now.

Cool neighborhood bar in a quite neighborhood of fox valley.

I really enjoy the selection of beers that Wilson Street Tavern has. This is a less crowded and less expensive Coach House. Absolutely love the fact that I can get a Sierra Nevada Pale for $ 3.75 here as well as Dale’s Pale Ale and Lagunitas brews. While I love the selection of beers that WST has I do have a few issues.
Firstly, the idea that this place is the revamped Stoplight should not continue. If you were a regular of stoplight tavern, don’t expect it to be the same just based on same location. If that’s what you wanted you should have bought the place when it went on the market. The «regulars» of Batavia should go somewhere else because THEY are the ones that don’t fit in with the bar, not the other way around. Maybe this is something that WST can’t overcome, hopefully they can. I personally never went to The Stoplight because it wasn’t inviting, Wilson Street to me is inviting.
Secondly, one of the bartenders accused me of not paying for a drink when in fact I paid up front… I brought a $ 20 bill in to this bar and bought a $ 5 drink. I paid her cash as she brought me my beer, which to me is customary. Either you pay cash up front, or you give a credit card for them to keep on file, right? Well I paid with cash for my 1 drink and tipped her $ 1 (20%). Then went home. My friends later texted me saying she claimed I walked out without paying her. Very frustrating to me in the fact that I paid up front and she didn’t remember or take a note, or close out my drink order. That’s bartending 101 really. But no knock really on the establishment on that one, I just don’t like the thought of going in next time and her saying that i owe money when in fact I paid.
Thirdly, and I don’t know how else this place can fix this issue, is the sound level. Sometimes when it is busy the sound gets amplified due to the enclosed space. Its not that the music is too loud, or the people are too loud, but its the reverberation of the sound off all the wood and flat surfaces. This place needs some sort of fabric or texture on the walls to absorb and deaden some of the bouncing sound waves. Easily enough you could make a picture frame and staple some patterned fabric around it or something to that nature to soften the sound.
All in all I will keep coming back to this place as long as they have the beer selection and keep their pricing consistent.

This place was called the «Stoplight» a local joint… a true dive bar! No longer.
Tries to be something it’s not! A trendy dive bar. A identity CRISIS! That does not work.
The Wood Bar and Mirror Back Splash are from a time long ago. The wood has been cleaned and shiney: floors waxed. Credit deserved for that.
Upscale brews and wine. That does not work. No PBR’s ???
I have been a few times, each time period spaced further apart.
This is Batavia. At least try to fit in to your surroundings and attract locals. Wait! Maybe it does fit in. The Downtown area already has an identity crisis as it is!

I agree with the general Unilocal!consensus.
This place is sort of tiny, long and narrow. The bartender ran the whole floor and did a good job. The place doesn’t have much personality. it’s clean but sort of boring and like Jennifer P. mentioned, dive-​y but too clean and updated to be an actual dive. I feel like all Batavia bars are kind of the same. Locals, laid back and no frills. I’d stop in for a drink again since the place is chill and the service was good but it’s nothing spectacular.

A +1, his friend, and his friend’s wife all wanted to meet up here. Alex A. said it best: «lackluster.» It was alright — sort of divey without being a TRUE dive, with some live music (a kid with a harmonica and guitar) and inconsistent service. We were there for hours, and during that time our server seemed to disappear and an owner (?) took over our table when he had time.
It was very «eh» and I wouldn’t be too keen on running back for more than a quick drink or two.

Lackluster and tries too hard.
It’s a bar. They sell some beer-​snob brews, about which they know little to nothing.
The bartender attempted to sell back a mistakenly opened beer I didn’t order.
I won’t be returning.

I think I need to stop in one more time before I give a full review but much better than «the stoplight» it used to be. Small, dark, cleaner, a few outside tables which was nice to sit at and watch the Batavia 4^th of July fireworks.