Dukes Pizza, Pub and Grill

Nice local place. Great pizza and cold beer. There’s a patio as well. Quite a few TVs to watch all around as well.

I had sent back a full Stoli tonic because something didn’t taste right. Either the vodka wasn’t Stoli or the tonic wasn’t ran thru the gun. Either way the server was more then happy to make me happy and switch it out for a Tito’s instead. The bartender looked at me and said «I have to charge you for it because I can’t just make you another drink because you didn’t like it». Listen miss thing, because I didn’t like it is exactly why you should make me a different drink! I just could not believe that is how it was handled!

Got here just after tHe dinner rush. It was seat your self, no clean tables as a couple big groups just left. We grabbed a booth that still had the cups napkins and check still sitting on it. After 5 – 7 mins someone came and cleaned off the booth next to us and took their order.(you. Old tell they had been waiting longer than us) I watch as 4 servers cleaned other tables with out guest at them. I stack up the stuff and put the check towards the edge so they could tell it was not our stuff. After 15 mins my wife asked if we could get some help.
It took 5 – 10 more minutes for us to get our drinks (water with lemon, cherry coke, kiddy cocktail and milk). As the waitress set down the kiddy cocktail she told my wife she doesn’t have cherry coke. We said how about grenadine just like the kiddy cocktail? She had forgot my water, and I reminded her water with a lemon, a glass of water minus the lemon showed up.
The food was good. The cheese curds are awesome, but our batch was pretty small. The cheese bread is good, but really small side of marinara, charged $ 0.50 for another.
Finally we had given the waitress a coupon for a free pizza when she took our order. Of course the pizza was not credited so we had to wait another 5 minutes to get it fixed.
I like this place and want to visit local not chain type restaurants, it will be a while before I am back. I will be back, but probably just for drinks.

Reserved Duke’s party room for a family Christmas party and had the pizza buffet. Can’t say enough how great it was! The room is nothing fancy but perfect for a casual get together. The pizza buffet was awesome — all the pizzas were hot and fresh and delicious and were replensihed quickly when anything ran out. We had our own private bartender, Mike, who was great — friendly and professional! Would definitely recommend Duke’s party room and catering for any occasion. We plan to make this a new annual tradition. Thanks Duke’s! It was better than we hoped for!

We were regulars for some time and stopped coming due to horrible service, staff turnaround was a revolving door. There were two exceptions on the wait staff and they’re gone now too. This goes to ownership, clueless with excuses. We went there tonight to give them one last chance, they blew it. 15 minutes at a table in a high traffic spot before even being acknowledged. We asked for the owner Mike, we told him the whole story, last chance and they blew it etc. He apologized and said we’re normally better than that. No Mike, your not and we will not be back. Nothing has changed in two years.

Around May of 2014 I stopped in for a few beers with a friend of mine. Poor tap selection. Standard blah. I order a Sam Adams lager, friend ordered a Summit EPA. My beer was sour tasting, first thought is dirty lines. Summit keg blew, crabby bartender ask her to order something else. Ask why she just doesn’t go change the keg? Responded with «I don’t really like doing that». To her credit she did go change the keg. I got another Sam Adams thinking it could have their first pour of the day, noticing all old men were drinking straight booze or yellow fizzy bottled beer. Sour again. Friend got a mixed drink. We drank em down. Friend paid the tab and told me to leave a tip. I didn’t hear her say that and headed to the restroom. The crabby bartender chased us to the parking lot and told us we forgot our change. Whoops, sorry a miscommunication between me and my friend. Does that justify being scolded by a bartender for what as crappy beer and crappier service. My money is better spent elsewhere.

My favorite place to go for diner drinks. I go to watch sports and stay for the social life! Great staff and great bar food

I’ve come here a few times to have a drink, I like it fine. It seems like a good place to have beer and watch the game. Never eaten here but I’ve seen so many Pizza’s come and go. I wish they sold by the slice. Good drinks, just tip well the first time, if your not a local you may have a wait for anything, I usually do. Its a neighborhood Minnesota bar where people kinda hang Minnesota Nice at the door and be themselves, that with drink can be refreshing as well as intimidating. Don’t expect so much and you’ll get so much more, expect a lot and you’ll end up disappointed.

G-​R-​E-​A-​T pizza, if you’re a cheese lover! I’m from WI and love my cheese — local, REAL cheese, to be specific. Duke’s goes the extra mile (or 30?) to purchase their cheese from Ellsworth Creamery, arguably some of the best cheese in all of WI. It totally makes a difference in flavor and quality on their pies. They don’t skimp on it, either.
The only criticism I have is their mushrooms. I’m a mushroom LOVER, especially on pizza. Canned mushrooms are GROSS. So gross, that thinking about their texture almost makes me gag. Pleeeaaaaase start using delicious, fresh mushrooms — the canned ones don’t belong anywhere near your high quality pizzas!

I’ve been to Dukes a few times now for dinner, and out for bar service with friends. There are a few things to note…
1. This is a dive bar, pure and simple. The tiles are cracked and pulling off the floor, the tables and chairs are stained and dated, and the bathrooms are pretty gross.
2. It is NOT a bargain bar, it will cost you just as much to drink here as it would to go elsewhere.
3. The people that work here have their regulars, and if you are not one of them it can be difficult to get their attention.
4. The happy hour specials are really the only thing worth ringing home about.
Karaōke entailed drunk people jumping on stage and forgetting what they were singing halfway through, the drinks are alright but not strong, and the only entertaining thing we found as a group was the dart board in the back… ((Beware, there are maybe 4 darts that are in workable condition)).
In all honesty though… I will be back. I don’t hate this place, I just see all of the potential in it. I quite enjoy coming here and playing darts, listening to music, or just listening to the bartenders bitch with the servers when the place is empty.
If you just need to get away to a little hole in the wall, have a few beers, and make you feel a lot better about yourself by watching other people, this place will suit you just fine!
If you are looking for some sort of fantastic and reasonably priced bar/​restaurant, you might want to rethink the majority of Oakdale.

Great neighborhood establishment with great pizza and food. The owner Mike makes everyone feel welcome even if you are not from this part of town

crappy service. decent pizza. came during the lunch hour from work. There was a coupon that we had to keep reminding the waitress about and still she overcharged us. AND gave us the wrong change back. I would have skipped the tip, but she managed to give one to herself just by not calculating the change correctly.

I think Dukes is great. It’s not for a first date type of place or where you want to sit and talk, but awesome sports bar atmosphere. The service/​servers can be pretty slow to non existant at times, but the buffets pretty good.