Tanner’s Bar and Grill

Great bar close to hotels that are basically full of EPIC trainees that want to keep a buzz going after the free happy hour. Get there before 9 as Tanners specials also disappear like the free wine and beer and munchies/​small dinner the hotels provide.
Seriously loved this place because co workers and new friends met that night wanted to keep the energy going. I had to study, but when in Middleton… you get the idea.
People nice, they understand the crowd, they get the receipt correct for business travel, and the food is pretty tasty
What am i missing about lower ratings. I had a wine for 2.50, salad top notch, wings that were fried, tossed and then grilled, rueben skins. tried a black bean burger and the taco specials.
Wish we had this where I live or have lived, prices are crazy cheap and the quality is great and honestly, Wisconsin people are as nice as they come and no one says that anymore. These are great peeps.
It is bar food, expect that. They won’t make your burger rare, but they will make it cheap on Wednesday. My friend loved the black bean burger. Monday’s are wings 50 cents and Tuesdays are 1 dollar tacos.
Get your head out of the books and manuals and relax here.
You will meet some more nice people and have some great bar food. I almost want to say it is like Cheers. Wednesday had trivia night. Easy parking or walking from hotel and large menu items.
When taking classes in Wisconsin, and close by, pretty good place.

Food is pretty good in my opinion.
Waits can be little long if lunch hour or busy.
Prices are just OK. You get alot of food the pulled pork is amazing. Pretty friendly employees with my experiences

YES! My favorite wing place in the world… and I have been around the world. The charred wings are awesome.

Waitress flipped my sandwich onto table but I ate part of the other half. Then noted my SW Turkey sandwich was missing cheese and spice. She said I thought u said Club. I was starving so didn’t notice till a ¹⁄₃ into the sandwich. She agreed to bring me a different sandwich and says it normally comes on a roll of some sort even though the menu says white, wheat or rye. I asked for the sandwich to be on wheat and it was delivered on rye. Again I was hungry and tired of dealing with stupidity so I ate most of the sandwich. Then ordered a Moscow Mule which I have included a picture of with quote unquote fresh fruit.
I found out that the bartender serving the rotten limes is in charge. As expected he didn’t offer to do anything to make it right but he did agree that the lime was bad. Dine at your own risk!

Ate the best egg sandwich ever. So good it deserves a Unilocal.Our server, Jena, was great and went above and beyond. I’m surprised Tanner’s doesn’t have a higher star average.

This is purely on their lack of flexibility regarding football games on Sunday. The place was mostly empty. Lots and lots of TVs. We wanted a particular game on a larger TV. We asked for it in an area of the restaurant where there was NO ONE ELSE. I am talking not a soul Their answer; the manager set the games for each TV, he is not here and I cannot change them (assistant manager). My friend and I left and went to Monk’s. Customer service folks… customer service. We will not be returning!

I love Tanners. But the faucets in the women’s restroom absolutely have to be replaced. Who else do I need to contact about this?

In town for training the last couple of weeks and dropped by here a couple nights. Food, staff, and atmosphere is on point. Love the tots and Hot Lips Quesadilla was fantastic. Will definitely stop again next time I’m in town!

Good spot to watch sports, good location w/​parking. Everything else is just… meh. Which pains me, because in a sea of chain restaurants, a standalone spot could do really well at this location… but Tanner’s has average food, service, and atmosphere. It’s large and open, so you can usually find seating for groups up to 6−8− which also makes it extremely weird for groups of 4 sitting at a large round table. Menu is extensive, but the ~4 times I’ve been there, nothing really jumps out as great or memorable. Soda is really sweet, rum (that they swear is Bacardi) tastes weird, and service is just ok. Based on the location and prices I just expect more.

I came here with around 20 other people, and they were able to accommodate us pretty well (with a call beforehand of course). Server was nice, though a little impatient. Very chill atmosphere and a lot of options.
Menu is pretty large. I got the ABLT, which I actually really enjoyed. Bread was toasty without butter and was dressed well. I love avocados, so that made the sandwich even better. Ordered it with sweet potato fries, which were good (though a tad too salty and very inconsistently cooked). The orders of the people I went with got mixed up, and some people didn’t get the items they asked for, but I didn’t expect much from one server waiting on 20 people (I thought they would assign at least two servers for us).
For the number of people we had, service was pretty good, and the food came out at a reasonable time. I think I’ll come back soon and try something different (with definitely less people).

First time at Tanners and we won’t be going back. The restaurant was busy but the service was horrible. We waited over an hour for our food and one item never arrived. The table next to us was filled with dirty dishes and was never cleaned the entire time we were there (2 hours). The manager came over to apologize for the wait and offer a discount. When the billed arrived, no discount and the item we never received was still on the bill. We let our server know if these mistakes and the manager did fix it but even still the experience was not good so we aren’t rushing back.

Since my last review, I’ve been back a number of times for lunch. First off — the positives — burger is always excellent. Service is always excellent at the bar.
That said, this time around I looked a little closer at my bill and noticed a Bare Booga (burger) with cheese, salad, and soda was $ 14.50 total, plus tip, putting things at roughly $ 17 total for lunch (including tip). That just seems like a lot.
After looking at the bill I realized that the burger is $ 7.99 (with no sides), cheese was extra (forgot the amount), salad was $ 2.50 (fries $ 1.50), and soda was $ 2.50 (!!)
While I generally like the place, it just took me a while to realize how much I was paying for everything.
The $ 2.50 soda really surprised me. Sure, you can take the kinda-ugly-Tanner’s cup home, but I’d rather get my drink in a solo cup for $ 1.00 or more less.
The salad is pretty good but at the end of the day it’s just iceberg lettuce with some dressing, cheese, and crumbled up bacon added. $ 2.50 sounds like a stretch for this.
If I could get a burger, salad, and coke for around $ 10 – 11 before tip (what I’d consider a fair price) I wouldn’t argue. Not sure I’ll go back with the current pricing scenario. I can go to culver’s and get a very serviceable meal for $ 8, why should I pay 2x that to sit at Tanner’s bar?

My most recent trip to Tanner’s was on St. Patty’s Day 2014. My hunny wanted to watch the Badger NCAA tournament game, so we went for that. I’ve been to Tanner’s several times before for Team Trivia, but had only tried a small amount of food. I mean, you can’t really screw up beer.
We decided to never return to Tanner’s after our experience on St. Patty’s day. The TV was too loud and the food just wasn’t good. I had boneless wings, or as Tanner’s calls them, «chicken lips» (wtf?) with buffalo sauce. I consider myself somewhat of a wings connesieur (after all, I did win the Stony Hill Pub Atomic Wings Challenge in 2011). Actually, I dont really consider boneless wings to be wings anyway, but I digress. These «wings» arrived and were not even coated in sauce. They were like fried chicken tenders with the buffalo sauce on the side for dipping. I usually roll my eyes when people complain of food being too salty, because I like salt and that has hardly ever happened to me. Well, it happened to me at Tanner’s. The «wings» were so salty that I couldn’t eat more than 2. I was so bloated from all the salt that my ring got tight. Yes folks, Tanner’s will give you sausage fingers. People with kidney problems or hypertension should probably avoid Tanner’s at all costs.
Oh yeah, my husband got tortilla chips and queso. The chips were, well, chips. The queso was bland and congealed upon being served. Also, the portion of queso was incredibly tiny (maybe ¼ cup?) and thus the dish had a poor queso-​to-​chip ratio. We ran out of queso before finishing even half the chips. Sad face.
Also, they call their burgers «boogas» which is dumb and sounds like «boogers», which does not make me want to eat one.
Although it hurts me to say this, TGI Friday’s across the street is probably a better bet.
EDIT: I was walking past Tanner’s yesterday (5÷9÷14) and noticed that TGI Fridays is now closed.
The saving grace of Tanner’s, and the reason they get 2 stars instead of 1 is that their Team Trivia is pretty fun. Maybe just stick to drinks though if you go.

It’s a bar, and it’s bar food, so set your expectations accordingly and you’ll be fine. I’ve been here a couple times both to play team trivia, and the current trivia host here is one of our team’s favorites in the entire area, which is probably the most likely reason we’ll return. The layout can be a bit crowded when big groups are pushing together tables if you are trying to get up (to turn in trivia answers, to go to the bathroom, etc.), and I’m sure it’s a challenge for the servers (between the noise and the crowd, ours had to go halfway around the restaurant to get around to the other side of our table for taking orders– but to his credit he never complained and was very attentive!).

I was one of a group of 6 people who came in to watch the playoff football game at Tanner’s. When I asked for the channel to be changed to the game that we went there to watch; the guy behind the bar, Matt, stated «It’s 3:30 now and kick off isn’t until 3:35 — don’t worry, I will turn it on when it’s time!». The server immediately apologized for his rudeness. I told her it would not affect her, I just simply won’t go back. I will go to one of the more established sports bars in Madison, instead of supporting my local community — I live within walking distance from Tanner’s. By the way, I found out that Matt is the General Manager.
PS: Fans like to watch pre-​game.

I had the chicken tender salad. It was good but the «our famous tater tots» were just the stuff out of the bag. I felt that I’ve been had. If they had something in the tots that were different or even ON them, I’d understand but they didn’t.

Meh. Period. Beer in plastic cups tasted funny. Skipped on the food and went across the street.

Recently had Tanners on a Thursday night, bar was fairly packed. We had 3 in our party and grabbed a table off to the side. We looked over the menu and our waitress came out and took our drink orders. We ordered a turkey wrap, chicken lips and some other sandwhich. The chicken lips were boring, nothing special liked the menu portrays them to be… I really want to like Tanners however I can’t stand the crappy food. Last time I visited i had a chicken parmesan and it wasn’t all that great either. Guess I will stick with Cheeseburger in Paradise, Claddagh Irish Pub, or TGI Fridays if i want something even half decent…

We found Tanner’s this past summer. We like sports pubs and eating at Hi-​tops or the bar. So the atmosphere is nice. We have been there at least 10 times since our first visit. Other reviewers are accurate in saying the service depends on the server.
Most of the time we have the burgers, and they are very ggod, usually cooked right, but the fries are always scarce,. I even contacted the manager via their wbsite and all he wrote back was we feel we give comptitive protion sizes – I counted them one time – 14 fries and they were not big fries.
We went last time about two months ago and quit going there when were told a buger was on special, the bill came and I asked about it. The manager came over and proceeded to tell me I was told wrong, but did not offer to meet the told price and I mentioned the fries to the waitress as i ordered and she assured me I would get an adult, not child portion – I got the latter.
We like the place, but now haven’t been going since then. Our first time was the very best service, and its slipped slowly since then. We continue to go to Greenway station, but to the other restaurants instead about 6 or seven times a month since we live near by and shop there often.

Do not bother, really… the food is average, the service simply sucks. I was there on Saturday ¹⁰⁄₈ around 8:30 PM, we waited for about 20 minutes while the servers simply ignored us despite us trying to get their attention, especially a short blond waitress which refused to tell me her name, even though she served the table next to ours… We had to get up and request services, got the food without utensils, they forgot the appetizer as well.
Go somewhere where customers are valued.
UPDATE:
The manager contacted me, his response shows super quality on his behalf, no doubt he really cares about the place, I am impressed. I hope to see more managers like this around.
just wow!