Pete’s Garage

Wonderful service. Sandwiches as big as your head. Neat option of dining in a vintage car turned into a booth. Fun garage décor. Philly steak & fries were delish! Barbecue chicken salad was good. Hubby had some type of Club sandwich that came with a warning that it was enough for 2. Heed the warning.

The food was excellent. I ordered a burger medium rare and it came to me cooked perfectly! That right there is top notch in my book. I’ve seen too many places get that wrong and cook it too long. The place is perfect for watching whatever game is on. No matter which way I turned I could watch the tigers game which was a plus. I had the «killer Kool-​Aid» which was really good. Went down really easy! I would totally go back for drinks or food. Nice place all around! The décor is very busy and unique. You will have to go check it out to know what I’m talking about ;-)

A favorite spot in Monroe. Family owned. Good food at good prices and plenty of drinks to choose from. Excellent margaritas and appetizers!
Service is great, waitresses always friendly.
Quick service and seating.

Visited for the first time this past Friday. Nice atmosphere (kids loved dining in an old car). The food is very good and the portions are huge. No one could even finish their meal and we took the remainder home for late night snacks. Portabella mushroom soup was very good as was the wings. Service is excellent. A very nice place to get a great meal.

I had dinner last night 10/​25/​2015 with my friends and family for my son’s birthday. I made reservation and still waited for 1 hr to get seats and a lot of tables were empty at time. The food was awful not fully booked. Wings were frozen inside. Then, I found my fish sandwich was not fully cooked. This place is NOT for family with kids. Food are awful. My friend and her kids are sick today (from yesterday dinner). I am very upset. I will not recommend Pete’s Garage to anyone.

Lots of food for the money. Big bar in the middle. TVs all around. Old cars cut out with tables in them. The salads are huge. I will definitely be back.

This bar & grill actually has pretty good food and a lot of draft beer. The only thing I don’t understand is their logic behind their restrictions when it comes to wing night. Like, how are you gonna charge me extra if I’m not able to finish eating my wings and wanna take them to go? Haven’t been back since because of that incident.

Petes Garage always has the best wings in town. Added buffalo shrimp today. On Tuesday wings are special of day but still was place to go today after drive to local Sterling State Park. The many TV’s help also.. Also good are calzones and burgers.

This is a Monroe institution. Great food, lots of tv’s. Wing night is Tuesday, best wings ever. Great owners. From papa Pete, to Johnny and Joe. Have had great memories over the years. Will come back when visiting from Texas.

My husband brought me home dinner from here and after I feed my kids and ate some I found a water bottle lid in the lettuce… how gross wish I would have seen it before we ate the food!!!

went for a co-​workers birthday party. not a regular to Monroe but it was easy to find and signage was clear. the parking is small and weird. apparently there is one way in and one way out but there are no signs to indicate that and I went in thru the exit so finding a parking spot was a tad hard but thankfully I found an open spot next to the motel next door.
walking inside I was surprised at how wide and open it was. there are stairs to the right when you walk in and the bar is backlit with pretty lights and bottles. a lot of tables and a few booths. our party was upstairs and it was very roomy with about three sections separated for a few parties going on.
atmosphere was a bar feel and it was LOUD. very LOUD. there is a lot of stimulation going on with bright tvs and loud pop music. I’m usually ok with that but I lost 90% of the conversations that was going on. thank goodness I can read lips but I still didn’t get some complex information from the conversation because it’s so loud. I did a lot of smiling and nodding at the times that seemed appropriate.
I looked to see the staff and because it’s baseball season, they were wearing different tigers shirts and different pants/​shorts/​skirts. there is no cohesion or unity at all. I thought our waitress was a patron until I saw her pull out a pen and paper. there is nothing that sets them apart.
we were just ordering apps so I ordered the quesadillas without meat and a side of guacamole. WOW, the portion was a dinner size portion and I was happy about that. when I had the guac the first thing I said was whoa, they make this just like I make mine. the right amount of salt and everything. usually guac has tomato and they were either finely minced or they don’t mix it in… either way, that guac is what I would go back for. I ordered an amaretto sour and it was not too strong, not too weak. pretty much what I could handle since I don’t drink that often AND they put in 3 cherries which made me happy. I can’t complain about the drink.
as I was looking around I had to hunt for the garage theme or at least car feel and I didn’t get that until I came out of the bathroom and saw the two booths that had car tops over them. oh. ok. that’s it? I was looking for car décor or tools and toolboxes or SOMETHING but I didn’t get the garage thing. they would do better to just change it to Pete’s.
overall it’s a pretty decent place, and I would go with friends if it was suggested. if you are looking for a quiet place to relax after work, this is not the place for it. the staff were friendly and had no problem adjusting my meatless order. good customer service.

The food is ok. Had nachos today they are so so. Their burgers are good though. Lots of tv’s good place to catch a game. Great craft beer selection. However the parking lot is terrible. It needs to be redesigned for better flow. We go here once in awhile however if the lot looks full we go elsewhere.

Ever since the dawn of my birth I have searched the far depths of the earth for a food that is worthy enough to be tasted by the gods. I have found that here in the most Devine food ever tasted by the flesh. Wings, they are delicious, tangy, spicy, and savory. Not only that, but they are less than 10 dollars!!!
If you never have eaten meat, or given it up, or never planned on that, give up everything, but before you do. try these wings!!!

Pete’s Garage has an identity crisis. Is it a restaurant? A sports bar? A meat rack? It may be OK for borderline alcoholic singles under 40, but it isn’t for families. The food is below average and the bimbo waitstaff is lame. News flash: they are not interested in you… just your wallet.
If it’s delicious wings you seek, the Monroe Rod and Gun Club has 50 cent wings on the 2^nd Friday of the month, and they are bigger and better than anything else you’ll find.

I have been going to Pete’s garage my whole life. I hated going there after getting food poisoning twice over the course of my life. It’s more of a place to go and drink now (can’t really screw that up). Some of there food is good most of it is cheap and nasty. They always have new servers in their every time I go, which in my opinion is a sign of poor management.
Last time we went it’s was 12am on a Tuesday. The place was dead and we wanted ½ price apps. There were 3 servers standing around doing nothing. It took this girl 30 mins to get our drink and order. Then another 40 mins and she brought out the wrong food. The food was greasy and cold. Then she tried to charge us for the food she messes up! And when she brought my card back she slammed it on the table and ran away. We have not been back since.

Came in here last night with my buddy. We split wings and the beef tips. The wings were good, but in retrospect, I probably would have preferred to order them plain and then dipped them in the sauce after the fact. The sauce made them pretty soggy. They are, however, bigger than the standard chicken wing. 7.99 for 10 is a good value. The beef tips were good, but nothing extraordinary. I probably would venture to try something else next time.
They had $ 1 burgers on Monday. Neither of us tried them, but I thought it was a really good deal nonetheless. His first drink was a dewars on the rocks, which came out looking like vodka — pretty much clear. I’m not one to complain about a pour… but I thought this was exceptionally light. I was drinking $ 2 bottles of Bud Light so no complaints there.
The service was phenomenal. I stood in the doorway for about 30 seconds (after I had been helped) and two other servers asked me if I had been helped. So… it was nice that not one person walked by without acknowledging my presence.
The menu seemed pretty extensive and varied for bar fare. I’d like to come back and try a couple other items. I’m kind of at a 3.5 with this place, but when I have to choose between 3 and 4, I think 3 is more appropriate for the time being. Don’t spend too much time in Monroe, but if I’m in the area again I’ll definitely consider giving Pete’s another go around.

This place holds a special place for me, as I had my first date with my wife there 18 years ago. The other night we sat in the exact car booth we did then.
We both ordered burgers medium well, but were disappointed when they arrived beyond well done and quite dry. I had struggled with the menu, because everything seemed boring and nothing inspired me at all, so I ordered the burger as a last resort to see if they could do something special with that.
Though the food was lame, the car booth was really neat and made the visit worth it to show our eight year old where we first dated.

While the atmosphere is fun, the food was a little lacking. Our son really enjoyed being able to eat inside the old car. Their beer selection is decent, and the service was good.
The beef hard tacos were soggy and bland. The vegetarian fajitas were ok, pretty much your average run of the mill fajita. Nothing special.

Update 1÷12÷14
Pete’s still rules when I’m in Monroe.
Even Sunday nights find plenty of people and fun. The wait staff and bartenders are highly efficient.
Not sure what I’ll eat tonight, but Yukon Jack is my drink, and Lori is my sweetie.

Growing up in Monroe, my friends and I would go there literally twice a week for the longest time. We went to other places occasionally, but Pete’s was always our first choice. It was always the place to go. We knew the owner, most of the wait staff, and were seen as regulars. Their wings were addicting, and the beer selection was good. However, in recent years, things have changed, and my friends and I simply don’t go there anymore.
If your group is too big, they will sit you in the dreaded upstairs area, where it seems like service is exceptionally bad. There was no doubt about it: sit up stairs, get bad service. So, if you’re going somewhere to eat/​drink for a birthday party or whatever, don’t go to Pete’s if you have anything else planned for the night. There have been times where our group would be seated and it would be over an hour before we actually got our food. These weren’t just one-​time occasions. I don’t know what takes longer: finding a parking spot or actually getting something to eat.
There was a tremendous decrease in the quality of the wait staff. If they were busy (boo-​hoo, get a different job then) or something went wrong with your order, they were never courteous about it. My friend’s wings came to the table cold, so he said something. They waitress took them back, and it was over 30 more minutes before he got his food. Of course, we laughed at him until we realized we wanted refills that never happened since she disappeared. Make sure you order two or three pitchers for your table at once, because the server won’t come back, especially if she has to walk upstairs. Do NOT order one of those really tall beer thingies either for your table, because that beer is gross… but I guess those things are disgusting no matter where you go.
If you just want some wings, go to BWW (their parmesan garlic wings are better anyway), and if you just want to drink, go to Larson’s or the bowling alley. If you want to spend most of your night in a crowded, loud, and poorly served environment, go to Pete’s.