Pepi’s Pub and Grill

Can I give 0 stars?
Great beer selection. Good food. Good bartenders. Jerk of an employee (cook? Owner? He did say he was in fear of being sued, so maybe he is the owner) asking kids to not climb on an outdoor fence (not witnessed by any of the 6 adults standing near the children) that he feels is so precarious he had to come outside and yell at them in a rude and inhumane way. Anyway else the situation could have been handled by asking the six adults standing near the door he came out (four educators and two parents) to please ask the children not to climb on the fence (that part is also in question) would have been an improvement. By the gloves he was wearing and the kitchen garb, I wonder how he got a good view of what he says he saw from way back in the bar.
I fear what my response would have been were that my children he had yelled at in such a way.
When back in the bar the four remaining adults (one trying to pay the tab (me) as quickly as possible as to not put another dime into this place) called him out on his inhumane treatment of these children. The employee (manager, perhaps owner, or completely overstating his employment status) said it was a safety issue of the fence falling down. He did not accept he had just yelled at a group of children well under the age of 10.
Sounds to me like any patron could be harmed by this unsafe fence. The employees have safety concerns about the fence; perhaps it should come down all together before an inebriated patron is harmed.. . I hope the city looks into the fence. I think I may contact the city and ask for an immediate inspection of this troublesome fence. I do hope proper permits were filed to put it up.
If all you care about is drinking beer, then this is a good place. If you don’t care to put money in the pocket of an employee who feels the need to berate children in public, and in inappropriate ways, to protect a fence that may very well be a code violation, if it is as rickety as he fears it may be, then avoid this place.

Good food, great beer & service! Huge selection of beer.
Ignore the review by JOHN L. If you look at his other reviews all he does is post negative ones. That alone should tell you that it wasn’t the place it was him & his child like attitude as you can tell my the name calling in his review.

Pepis is a great place. If it werent for the people that work there and run the place I would give them 5 stars. Unfortunately its the people that work for you that give your place its impression. The head bartender is EGOTISTICAL curly haired broad that is stuck in a first grade mentality… Dont ask for a complicated drink like a bloody mary unless youre ready to wait 15 minutes and hear her b**ch about all of the steps (about 3) that goes into making a drink that is actually very simple. The owner is cool and this place could be great if he had the right employees but unfortunately i do not think he does.

Fun place, good food and great bar selection. Best part of this place is all the games; who doesn’t love a place with air hockey and pinball? My favorite thing to eat is the mario’s dream burger. A juicy burger topped with stuff that I can’t remember because I get distracted by the most important topping: rosemary prosciutto. It’s greasy in the best way a burger can possibly be. I haven’t really tried anything else but I’ve never heard of anyone having anything bad from here.

BAMBINO CRYING
I was heading to Racine and did my research on Unilocal about where would be a great place for lunch. I finally choose this place after looking at many restaurants in the area. I was really attracted to the 4 stars on Unilocal and a twitter post from the bar that said all Taps were $ 3 on Mondays. I really thought this place was a slam dunk.
Before I get all negative I want to point out the good things. The bartender was 5 stars. She never told me her name but I noticed Tina was printed on my receipt. She was incredibly sweet and understood customer service. I needed change for my meter and she gave me change with no questions asked. Most places never do that but considering they don’t have a parking lot then I’m assuming it happens often. Meters are going to cost you 65 cents for 60 minutes. Who came up with this parking meter pricing? The 10 minute abs guy! I would highly recommend you pay for the parking on the Main Street because I could have parked for free a block away but my car told me it was a bad idea. I would have to agree with my car and the 1.08 cents a minute is totally worth it.
Tina was so attentive and kept checking in on me. I know the restaurant was really empty but she was on the ball. Good service can be hard to find and she went above and beyond. She gave me water even though I didn’t ask for it. She checked with me before taking my beer bottle away to make sure I was done. She did a great job. If I was just going to rate service then this review would be 5 stars. Thanks Tina for being a great bartender.
We need to talk about the food. When I go out to eat I want something special. I can get an ordinary sandwich anywhere. I was drawn to the reviews about the signature sandwich here called «The Bambino». Many people raved that it was the best thing ever. It came with steak, grilled onions, bacon & hot bambino sauce. I asked the bartender about the sandwich and she informed me that it is the most ordered item on the menu. How could I go wrong? If the reviewers love it and everyone orders it then it’s gotta be a winner. After ordering the sandwich it literally came to me in 2 minutes. I have to be honest this never makes a customer feel good. It feels like fast food without love. The first thing I noticed was that the sandwich was all bread. If you are going to serve a sandwich my advice is to make sure the filling actually fills the bread. It was a very sad looking sandwich. The sandwich had a lot of add ons with additional charges like cheese for $ 1, green peppers for $ 0.75, mushrooms for $ 0.75, giardinera for $ 1 or extra sauce for $ 0.75. Maybe I should have ordered all of that to fill out the bread but then it would have cost me an extra $ 4.25 on top of the $ 6.25 for the 9 inch sandwich. The steak wasn’t even seasoned. The sandwich was incredibly bland and just not very good. I would never recommend this sandwich to anyone. The sandwich doesn’t come with anything but a pickle spear which doesn’t work with the sandwich at all. It is kind of thoughtlessly added to the dish. The best part was the sauce which is actually salsa. They call it sauce but it’s salsa. I wish I had some chips on the side because I would be eating a bowl of this salsa. It was suppose to be hot but on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the hottest then this sauce was a 2 at most. The sandwich actually needed the salsa to give it some flavor. Without the salsa on there it would have been terrible. I will never be coming back here for food.
The second reason I came was the twitter post on their Twitter account that pointed out that all tap beers would be $ 3 all day on Monday. I was so excited until I walked in an saw a red plastic police line across the taps saying «Danger». I could tell that the $ 3 taps were not happening today. I was informed that they are building a walk in cooler. I’m very happy for them but that doesn’t fix my tap dilemma. I was really looking forward to some Left Handed Milk Stout on tap. The bartender did tell me I could get all craft bottles for $ 3 and all domestic bottles for $ 2. So at least they didn’t leave me high and dry. Just some advice to the owners on social media. If you post it, then it must be real. You need to update the Twitter followers that this deal is no longer happening on Twitter. People read this stuff and we actually do show up because of the things you tweet. How is that for measuring your ROI?
The bar is huge and that is what this place is. It’s a bar that serves bar food which isn’t really good food. They have specials all day which are written on the wall. There are pinball machine which are cool, a fooseball table, pool table, air hockey, gambling machines & the Big Buck Hunter game. It’s a great place to hang out with friends and to grab a drink after work but it’s not a destination to eat. I truly though I was walking into a hidden gem based off the reviews but that didn’t happen today. The food is a flat zero but the staff is a 5 star experience

If this place wasn’t in a kinda weird intersection, with shoddy parking in the outlying blocks, I’d live here. That pretty much ends my criticisms.
Great bar. Tons of good taps, with a wide variety, and decent rotation. Great selection of bottles and cans — dude, they have old style! Lotsa cool craft and imports, but lotsa shitty hipster beers too. And I like both, so…
The Chicago style Italian beef sandwiches are AWESOME!!! The local favorite is The Bambino, which involves bacon and some specific peppers, but I just go with a traditional dipped Chicago beef with giardinara and cheese. Either way, napkins are a must.
They just added a dozen or so new burgers to the menu as well. The one with the rosemary panchetta is the biz!!!
Oh yeah, pool, pinball, air hockey, darts, video games, trivia nights, a tattoo shop next door — a hipster paradise!

great new location very nice inside worth a look you must try the banbeto great food and can cold beer

I’m bias because these two Wisconsin lakefront cities are my favorite places to go. This is a nice looking bar with a Mexican menu. A young college looking crowd fills this place on Friday nights but the rest of weekend it is quieter The food is excellent and they have a good amount of arcade and pinball games with an attractive bar and comfortable seating. Hey even have a special lounge area with more comfortable couches and chairs and hopefully this place stays open for a while. Their signature burger is the bambino burger and I highly recommend it

Wow! Glad We Stopped.
I took a motorcycle trip around Lake Michigan with my My fiancée and a buddy. Our First night we stayed at the Racine, WI at the Marriott. We rode down just taking a ride through out the town and we went by Pepi’s and something made us turn around, and I think we were all glad we did.
Atmosphere:
–A Dark, Quiet, and Clean College Bar. With People of all ages, shapes and Sizes to fill it.
Location:
10 minutes from the Racine, WI Marriott
Food & Drinks:
— Great Grilled Cheese. Awesome Cheese Curds, and Burgers. A overwhelming amount of Drink choices.
Overall:
–We were all very happy we stopped. Friendly Staff Good Food, and Great Drinks.

We ate lunch here today and both had the «Italian Traditional sandwich:» cappicola, Genoa salami, ham, provolone cheese, Giardiniera peppers, lettuce, tomato, red onion and dressing on (our choice) Italian bread. Really, really a good sandwich. (See the pic).
The bartender was sweet and very nice to us; both answering questions and making us our favorite, custom ordered Bloody Marys, too.
Next time we eat lunch or want a drink in Racine, this is the place we’re going to.

Awesome Beer selection and great food! What else could you ask for

Had the Bambino… Awesome sandwich. Store owner Joe was very friendly. We talked about different micro brews on tap and which ones to try. Waitress was very friendly. She gave me a sample of Oso night train to try to make sure I liked it. I am glad there is finally a nice pub/​grill that has an abundant selection of micro brews available. Definitely try this place out… you will be happy you did.

The Bambino is an absolute must. Fantastic steak fries. Awesome drinks, and the bartenders are so friendly and personable. Lots of games, and the nicest bathrooms I’ve been in. Cute T-​shirts too.