Winking Lizard

Walked in with my kids and my 70+ year old mother, who walks SLOWLY WITH A CANE. The young girl promptly seats us at the furthest point of the store. After we were seated I walked back to the front and told the young girl that she was stupid for seating us there as it took a lot for my mom to walk all the way back there, idiotic even. 5 minutes later the manager, or so he claimed, asked me to join him in the room where he promptly started yelling at me and told me that I had made the young girl, who I was told, had a learning disability. This was the excuse I was given time and again when my mother was CLEARLY physically challenged, but in his mind, his employee did no wrong.
The food as always was exceptional. WONDERFUL even. However, it was clear that this manager and his employees need serious re training. We’ll be going to a different lizard in the future. Not here again.

Solid choice for a place with a lot of screens, wings and an above average draft selection. Burgers are decent as well, but we usually head there for wings. Extra crispy.
Service turn around on wings is good. A pet peeve of mine is wing places don’t have enough fryers to keep up with demand.
Servers have been uniformly nice to us. Better than 3 stars so I kicked it up a star. 3.5 would suit it best.

Planing on a new experience, all of the reviews here are old. Will give an honest review next week.

After a long day didn’t feel like cooking so I called and ordered carry out, got home opened up my Burger and of course fries are cold but bit into my Burger and it was RAW !!! not red but raw opened it up and it looks like the cooked it on each side long enough to look cooked on one side you can tell it fell apart while cooking !
My son and I where in a while back and ordered burgers and it was polar opposite medium was cooked to beyond well done. Last time I will ever eat here again!

In short:
Beer 5 stars,
Service 0 stars,
Ambiance 3 stars (it’s what you would expect)
Final 2.67 stars (rounded up to 3 stars)
For beer selection, it doesn’t get much better than any Winking Lizard. The food, however, is just average, even for bar food.
I visited on a Saturday afternoon around 3:30/4:00. It was empty, but that didn’t last long. By 6:00 the place was packed, and I mean PACKED. People were lining up waiting for a table; to EAT?! It was a bit mind-​blowing really, because at the end of the day, I just don’t see the draw if you’re going there for a bite to eat.
On the flip side, and as I mentioned, you really can’t beat the beer selection. Plenty of different brews on tap, and a plethora of bottle choices. If you’re a beer snob, or even if you just like to pretend that you’re a beer snob, the Winking Lizard should be on your list of routine stops.
That said, the service was near deplorability. The first bartender was a nice young girl, but she was only there for the first half-​hour or so. She left, and her relief was just a flat-​out angry person. I mean, I’m a «judge not lest you be judged» type of person; routinely giving people the benefit of the doubt, and can fully respect that she may have just been experiencing a bad day, but she didn’t even appear to TRY to be friendly. This wasn’t just toward me, but towards everyone at the bar.
I only comment on the service because I have read similar experiences in this regard. I certainly don’t have any axe to grind, and it really didn’t bother me on a personal level, but it was certainly noticeable.
Finally, the ambiance is typical «sports-​bar,» with plenty of televisions to view «the game» on. The music selection, was also «typical» for Cleveland (i.e. an endless loop of AC /​DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and any other outdated «classic rock» artists you can think of), but I can’t necessarily fault the establishment for that, that’s just Cleveland being Cleveland.

Normally I would have given this place a 5 star review… however… the last 3 visits have proven otherwise. We eat at this restaurant very frequently, im talking about 5 times or more per month.
Today I walked into 4 hostesses and a manager at the entrance and not one of them acknowledged me. Another family walked in behind me and were asked right away if they needed a table, at that point I had to speak up and only one hostess says «oh sorry!»
Last week when I came the food was just not great and the previous time, my dinner came out 20min past my family’s meals and when I took the first bite, the center was completely frozen! Luckily the manager took care of it that day. Im very upset at this place going down hill and I feel bad that they are going to lose our on my family as customers, as we were there so much.

We visited there on Friday. Ordered food and the there was a hair in it and we complained. They took our food away and the manager told us it was a hair from corn. Which was fine and believable. Problem: the manager apologized and charged us for the meals!!!

Would give this a 3.5 star rating if I could, but can’t quite seem to justify rounding up to a 4 star review. I have been a couple times to this Winking Lizard, and each time the service has been hit or miss. Sometimes the waitress would give you an attitude if you were only there to order drinks, which was somewhat annoying. BUT one of my favorite parts about Winking Lizard is their huge drink selection. They have different beers on draft based on the season, and tons of options of bottled beers. Other than that, just you’re typical restaurant/​bar establishment.

My family and I always love coming in here for a nice dinner every once in a while. Have a VERY WIDE selection of craft beers which is a plus. The wings are always cooked to perfection and have the right amount of sauce on them!

generally, i think Winking Lizard is just OK, though i do like the Brunswick one a little better than most.
WL has a tremendous beer selection. the food can be anywhere from disappointing (pizza) to really good (BBQ Pork sandwich and the wings). really, it’s the food that keeps me from wanting to go there it’s just seems more miss than hit. there’s also the fact that they’re always packed it seems. for business owners, this is great. for a guy like me, not so much. i like it a little quiet from time to time.
anyway, like i said, WL is OK and i’ll certainly go there again to get some good beer. you owe it to yourself to at least do that much.

I’ve been here in the past and love their «beer tour» but notice the sauces are not as good as in the past… What happened? Maybe we were drunk at the time but the garlic sauce is not as good as it used to be. It tasted of overcooked garlic, a little bitter if you know what I mean. The wings were wonderfully crispy which made up for it though. :-D

You can never go wrong with the Lizard! There’s always something going on. Plenty of tvs to watch the big game and always good service. They offer a huge beer list and the food is good too!

Standard bar food offerings. The boneless wings leave quite a bit to be desired, but the burgers are pretty darned good. What makes this bar/​restaurant worth trying is their superb beer list; there is a ton of variety (but too many IPAs for my taste) from quite a few countries.
Service is seemingly hit or miss. Mix between good and terrible servers seems to be about 50−50%.

We came here a few times while in town on business. The place has lots of TVs and tons of beers on tap. We came on Monday and Tuesday, both of which were half price wings. The wings were crispy, and perfectly cooked. We got hot, garlic, and spicy garlic. The spicy garlic was the tastiest of the bunch, and my only complaint is that the hot wasn’t that hot. They had great beer specials, and both of the bartenders were great fun. I would definitely return to the lizard.

Love the food, have had a few bad servers but, usually a great time. Often we call ahead and get it to go.

Management is poor. I ordered the vegetable ravioli that they had as a summer special. It came swimming in balsamic vinegar. Usually the vintage is a drizzle. I did not eat and ordered something else. I wasn’t expecting it to be taken off the bill, but it would have been nice to get an” I’m sorry you did not like” and some type of effort to make experience better. As we sat there, we also noticed other individuals complaining to the manager that the ribs were dry. After working in food service for years, I feel that there should be more of an effort to make customers happy. This is another Brunswick restaurant that will not get my business.

What a fun place for family dinners. I have gone here several times both for lunches as well as dinner carry out. The place is really big so we rarely have to wait did a seat. Also they have a lot of fun games and the lizard to keep the kiddos entertained which is great!
LOVE the buffalo chix salad. (But beware they charge fit any extra side of dressing if hit sauce. They also charge more for grilled over fried chicken). Love the veggie wrap as well. And the Maui Maui chicken sandwich is awesome!
If you carry out be sure to triple check everything as they tend to get mixed communications back to the kitchen. Also if getting a chicken sandwich we always ask did the bin on the side otherwise it tends to get a soggy bottom bun.

The pulled chicken melt is the best «bar food» type item I’ve ever eaten. Be sure to ask for spicy bar b q sauce for a little extra kick!
Bartenders are friendly and more importantly, knowledgeable about beers on tap.

I have not been here since I moved out of Ohio but during the time I was living here. this was the place to be during the weekend. To those reading this, I am writing this review for the tiems I visited back in 2009 so this may not be accurate today but I digress.
The styling for the inside has a lovely tavern feel to it and is wonderfully kept up, except for the popcorn area which they give out complementary popcorn to waiters, I was hopeful that it could be cleaned but when I got into the dining area, I didn’t dwell on it. I usually went with my family so therefore the first time we went, we got seated right next to the lizard. I was younger at the time so just watching it entertained the hell out of me. There were arcade machines hidden behind the corner which I am not sure are there anymore but they still functioned well and didn’t often break; I doubt they were removed.
The service here was excellent… well there was one time we went where our waitress displayed a horrid attitude and was slightly rude. When we came back, she eventually was layed off and the good times returned.
The food here is above the bar for me with the burgers and wings being some of the best in Brunswick has to offer. Prices are pretty low when solo but they become a little more up there if you choose to take a group with you but that shouldn’t be a reason to not visit.
Five years have gone by now and this is one of the many places that I hope to stay open when I make my return.

Had the BIGGEST BURGER IN MY LIFE there last night!!!
Forgot what it was called but I think it was 2 one pound patties!!!
So what do I do? tell them to pour chili over top my fries!!!
Oh yeah…2 32 oz beers and olé’ Davie was feeling like a fat man!!!
VERY GOOD!!!
So why not 4 or 5 stars? Freaken waitress was pulling disappearing act on us to the point I walked the entire floor NOT TO FIND HER… So I push buttons… Asked neighbor waitress if she can get the manager or my server, 30 seconds later she’s magically clearing empty glasses and popcorn and doing her server thing…
After that incident she was QUITE attentive, I now think she might have had to go to the little girls room or something like that so I cut her slack and tipped my standard 20+ %…Food as always was yum!!!