Down The Hatch Bar & Grill

Oh, right, this place. LOL.
I was driving through Lincoln and decided to stop for the night. Needed to get a drink to wind down so ended up here. I dont know if this was the normal bartender but it was really weird.
Me: Have any Rye Whiskey?
BT: What?
Me: Rye Whiskey… have any?
BT: (slowly turn to look at bottles) Uh, no
Me: Well, Ill take (whatever whiskey it was) on the rocks (gets drink overflowing with ice and less than a shot of whiskey)
*Ordering second drink
Me: Same, but just use the ice already in the glass please
BT: OK (proceeds to dump ice and fill with ice again)
Me: No, too much ice (bartender takes a couple cubes out)
*sigh…feel like Im ordering something complicated here
Next one
BT: Same?
Me: yes please
Watch bartender fill drink with nearly no ice since I had let it all melt…
Seriously, never knew how hard it was to make a good whiskey on the rocks…
That said, prices werent too bad, place was clean… could maybe turn down the lights a little… it awfully bright in there for a bar…

75 percent of the time I love this bar. Have had a few bad experiences with food quality. Love the cheese curds and chicken wrap. Whenever I order a burger the majority of the time it is way over cooked. Guess I just won’t go there for a burger!

Great Sunday afternoon spot! The tenderloin sandwich is delicious and large. The beer is cold. There is plenty of space for folks in a Sunday afternoon!

Wait staff has been pretty great for the past two years I’ve worked on this side of town. Wonderful weekend social environment and also perfect after work beer.

Friendly staff and ok priced food. My favorite neighborhood place to go. Food quality could be better. I go there knowing im Not going to get the best food. I go there because its close to my house and friendly people, lots of TV’s, and good beer.

DTH is a great place to go grab food and drinks any night of the night. Trivia night on Monday is a must! Brei is fantastic waitress and Dan (the man) makes trivia a blast.

I live and work in the area and have eaten here many times. Their lunch specials are good and reasonably priced. They have a trivia night on Mondays in which anyone can participate and is a good time. I would recommend the pizza special where you get a large pizza and pitcher of beer for around $ 7.

Amazing food and service every time! Love Brei and Luke they are the best! Trivia and karaōke are always a great time. They have amazing drink and food specials. Monday pizza and pitcher ous a must!

A good place to hang out. Good food, friendly staff,
I would recommend to a friend…

I don’t really qualify this as a dive. I just think it’s a subpar sports bar. It’s a hit or miss on the food, if they have what you want to begin with. The fries were good, but the nacho cheese looks like the neon yellow gas station cheese. The Reuben wasn’t very good. Breaded cauliflower was decent, just don’t get it with the cheese. My sister and I had to name a few different standard drinks before we got to one that they hadn’t run out of. The waitress was nice/​pleasant, but not without fault. At the end of the day, I won’t say I won’t go back, but I’ll be more careful in selections.

Every Monday night they have Pop culture trivia and its a blast! Great pizzas with cheap beer keep us coming back.
The staff is always great to us and we’ve never had a less than spectacular experience!
Would recommend coming any day of the week, but especially on Monday night to get in on the trivia action!
–Caleb

I go to a good dive bar to listen to music. I go to sports bar to watch sports. Hence the category Sports Bar. Figure it out. Playoffs! I’m talking Playoffs for Criminey sakes.

I’ve been here 4 times during various states of business. The service is typically very lacking. The first time they were slammed and I got decent service by going to the bar. It was a Friday night and they and plenty of people working. The second and third times I sat at a table on the wall. Everyone trickled in at different times and it took 15+min for people to be approached by the wait staff for a drink/​food order. The last time was this last Sunday. The girl working behind the bar was easy on the eyes but unnecessarily rude. One of the guys from our table got up and approached the bar because the bartender had been the one serving our table. He asked for 2 of their specials ($ 2.00 burgers/​chips). She said she’d have the waitress come over and take our order when she got back. What kind of answer is that? There hadn’t been a waitress since we’d been there, and she was just too lazy to ring it into the computer. Pathetic. The waitress came in about 5min later to start her shift. (This was a Sunday during football but they weren’t really very busy.) She was VERY courteous to everyone at our table, but we were really in awe by the laziness and rudeness of the bartender to defer food orders to someone who hadn’t even came into the establishment to start her shift yet. Step it up guys…

The place was busy, after all it was a Friday night. We were just going to have a beer and eat somewhere a little quieter but when the waitress offered the special, we decided to go for it. We had a generous salad, chicken fried steak and the chicken fried chicken, both with mashed potatoes and gravy. It was good, especially for bar food, how busy they were, and the fact that they were looking to hire a cook, or so it said on the front door as we walked in. Our waitress was very busy yet very attentive and got our order perfect. All in all, a very pleasant experience.

This bar/​restaurant is a tale of two bars actually. I have probably been here 10 times over the years. This place really is a Dr. Jekyll/​Mr. Hyde sort of place. 50% of the time the food is amazing and the service is great and I get in and out, no problem. The other 50% of the time the service takes forever, the food is burnt and I leave so frustrated that I swear I’m never coming back. I usually stop for lunch and it usually isn’t that busy but they always seem understaffed like they are surprised that people show up to eat. So, now I only stop when I have lots of time and I am not in a hurry.
Roll the dice and see what happens with you. Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?

Nice place to hang out after work and grab some wings, food is suitable for a dive bar but good enough for what your paying

Slow service. Poor menu. Not sure what I was thinking. How do you screw up a hamburger? They could tell you.

I’ve been to this place a handful of times. It’s not that great. When it opened, I was excited about the idea of having a bar/​restaurant so close to where I live. When I consider going out for dinner, this place is NOT on my short list.
The place always seems dead. It has a spacious feeling when you get in but it just seems like no one is there. The service is pretty slow considering the lack of patrons.
The food is pretty bad. I think I got a pizza the first time. It was a joke. I can’t remember why it was so bad, but it was enough to known what not to get. The burgers are really sub-​par and the sides are very greasy. I got onion rings once and there was hardly any onion in them.
The bar is pretty average. They mostly promote your big name brews. There are daily specials that can make your stop worth while.
There is a pool table and there are a couple dart boards.

The wings we ordered grilled and they were pretty good. Better than fried. We also ordered a ½ lb burger. It was average. Not gross but not great. The side salad was fresh and tasty though!