The Original Fox Hole Pub and Grill

Fast, friendly, great food. We’re definitely going to book our next big-​game event here!

It was The Foxhole. Now it is Bar Down. We never got to the food because our Salad and a Wrap order took over an hour to prepare. They weren’t busy – they were just rude. If this place lasts a month I’ll be amazed.

Holy crap, this place is completely awful. Aside from the fact there was a beer pong tournament going on, it felt like a ghetto frat house. The food was a level of awful I can’t I even describe. A simple steak quesadilla was a flat cheese taco, steak and taco meat are so not the same thing. A French dip sandwich that is a fried slap of mystery meat, with some sort of gooey au jus, was an epic fail. All that and the fries tasted like fish too. I have never seen a more oblivious, non customer oriented staff. Repeatedly tried to flag down staff to get some assistance, after ten minutes of waving at every staff member with a truly disgusted look on my face a finally shouted hey to one that was ignoring me. After numerous excuses for the poor quality food, and justification of the hood rat pong tournament, I informed the supervisor that I will not return, will not pay for my food, I will pay for our beer and I will never darken your door again. Never again!

This place has gone downhill since the new owners took over. There’s more space than there was previously, but the service, food quality, and menu has completely made a 180.
I am bummed I don’t have a nice place close by to eat at anymore.
It took literally 50 minutes to simply get one order of house nachos.

Worst service EVER. Went for the Mayweather/​PacMan fight, obviously it was going to be crowded and slow but tonight was unnaceptable. Ordered wings, took 1.5 HOURS to come even though I continued to check in with the waitress. Since those took so long I ordered another order but those never came. Took 30 plus minutes to order my first drink. The couple next to me ordered food before the fight and when it was over they still hadn’t received their food. My buddy ordered just a basket of frys that took 1hr 35min.
The A/​C was inoperable so it got pretty stuffy in there with everyone piled in. I can’t forget one of the best parts, the bathroom had no toilet paper and the owner seemed to not even care after being brought to get attention.
I’m not even sure why this hell hole is even getting 1 star.

I guess this place is going by Bar Down now. Therefore, it’s insinuated that this is a hockey bar, no? Hockey term=hockey bar. A few teammates and myself head out here on a Friday night to catch the Stanley Cup playoffs.
I walk in before the rest of my group arrives, and try to find a table not covered in dust. Seriously, all of the tables looked like they hadn’t been wiped down in months.
So I sit and wait for a waitress. And wait. And wait. After about fifteen minutes, finally someone glances over at me and asks if I’ve been helped. I ask what they have on tap and she can’t remember hardly any of them. I ask for a PBR, super simple.
Fifteen minutes later, still no beer, but the rest of my group arrived. Fifteen minutes after that, no one has taken their orders, still no beer. Eventually, someone comes around, asking us again if we’ve been helped. We asked for menus, and the waitress looked genuinely confused that anyone would want such a thing. Place more orders, I just got fries and asked where my beer was. «It should be coming out soon.»
Fifteen minutes later, we all get our orders and finally my beer. The fries were alright. One star for good fries.
Everything is going fine at this point, the waitress is keeping up on our drinks.
Then, during intermission, I go to use the bathroom. No toilet paper. Or soap. Or paper towels. On a Friday night, no less! This place needs to step up their game on bathroom maintenance, holy hell. I felt disgusting.
So another big group of people come in and fill some tables close by. No problem, the more the merrier — except they had kids with them. As in, ages 4 – 14. And they weren’t controlling their kids. Running around, shining laser lights in people’s eyes and on the TV’s, getting in the way. Since when do bars let kids in? People tend to go to bars for adult time, not communal babysitting time.
Here’s the part where I pointed out that this is a hockey bar comes into play. In the middle of two different playoff games, a waitress comes by and informs us all that one of the TV’s would be changed to baseball. Um, what? You’re interrupting playoff hockey for regular season baseball? In a bar called Bar Down? People were pissed, but I guess patronage opinion has no voice here.
At this point, there had been no sign of our waitress for a while, and I wanted another beer. I walk up to the bar and ask someone for another. The woman literally CRINGED at me, and said, «I can’t have you at the bar.» …WHAT?! «Whoever has your tab has to come and bring it to you. Who is your waitress?» I don’t know, she didn’t give us a name and hasn’t stayed around long enough to remember what she looks like. What the hell kinda bar is this? People can’t order a drink at the bar, in a bar?
At this point, I was thoroughly done with the place, but stuck around to finish the game. For some ungodly reason, management decided it would be a great time to start karaōke. Imagine this: a hockey bar that plays baseball during the playoffs, allows kids in, where you can’t order your own drinks, that does karaōke at the same time. I don’t remember coming to Chuck E. Cheese.
So the game finishes, thank god. Time to pay our tabs. No waitress. Of course.
Track one down, she spends twenty minutes trying to figure out receipts. Finally get mine, she swipes my card after a lot of difficulty with her iPad, then tries to write the tip on my own receipt for me. Yeah no, I’ll be doing that, thanks.
I definitely will not be coming back to this place, not until they fix a lot of stuff. I made sure to be this detailed in my review not for potential customers, but for the owners. Hopefully they’ll read all these reviews and get their shit together.
Plus side: They only charged me for two beers and then fries when I probably had six beers.

Read that this was one of West Jordan’s top 10 local places. I can’t tell you anything about the food or drinks or prices. What I can tell you is that my wife and I walked in, the bar was full, but only 2 tables were taken. We sat in one near the door and waited to order. And waited. And waited. The waitress went past us 3 times and didn’t even acknowledge us. She was spending all her time with the two couples at the other table. 15 minutes later we walked away. Might be great if you are a regular and friends with the wait staff, but not good for a first visit.

I hope they stick around, we don’t have much in West Jordan where a Feller can wet his whistle. The food here is not very good, they force to buy it or you can not even get a beer. That would be ok if the food was better.

I wont becoming back here, they food was pretty lack luster and over priced. Their drink selection was limited and directed towards people who like budlight and other cheap beer. Another thing that irritated me during my meal was the atmosphere, I know its a bar and theirs going to be banter but I know want to know disturbing facts about the bartenders life.

Fast friendly service here. Burger cooked perfectly but sadly the buns are to dry and crumble apart so you eat a burger with a fork.

Horrible service! The food was good, but took sooo long to get to us and it wasn’t even busy in the place. It took at least a half hour for them to make 3 sandwiches. The one and only waitress in the place didn’t fill my water once. She was on her phone texting at one point for at least five minutes. We had to walk up to her to both get our check and get our change. Horrible horrible service. Will not return.

This is a pretty great (fox) hole in the wall. The waitress was really sweet and energetic. Our food order got messed up but the food was still really good.
I’m likely to check this place out again if I’m in the area and hungry again.

This was our first time here, and last! They do have Schofferhoffer which is great, but the food was not good. Fries were overly greasy and salty. The sandwich had to be sent back, and I’m not sure which time was worse, the first or second. The staff was nice, but the service slow. Speaking of staff, Allorah was awesome. Saturday night and it was pretty slow. We came for the poker game, and Cody, the dealer was rude and unprofessional. We will never play this game here again. If you enjoy West Valley establishments, this is the place for you. Being in West Jordan, I expected something different. Maybe we’ll stick to Salt Lake.

I have driven by this place countless times and never took it seriously because it’s in a strip mall and looked pretty blah. I finally decided to give it a try and was pleasantly surprised with my experience. The place isn’t much to look at but I go for the food and drink anyway. The Stinky Nephi was a piece of the celestial kingdom! I could smell the garlic before the waitress reached the table. The drinks were cold and inexpensive. I will definitely be returning.

I really wanted to enjoy this place, really! Since the move to West Jordan, we’ve been looking for a place nearby to replace our old favorites, but I found it severely lacking. I even ordered all the stuff that the other Unilocal reviews recommended. The «Stinky Nephi» wasn’t very good, in fact, I’ll go ahead and say that I didn’t like it to the point where I almost didn’t finish it, but I was hungry… so I did. The sweet potato fries were drowning in oil and the fry sauce had a very… odd flavor about it, I can’t really place my finger on why I didn’t like the fry sauce, but I’ve certainly had better.
And the conversation in the room wasn’t exactly pleasant banter to listen to. Yes, I understand that I went to a pub, I was expecting a certain amout of crudeness and vulgarity, but I did expect everyone to be over 21 years of age. I really didn’t want a nostalgic visit to the school cafeteria as we listened to the waitress talk to her regulars about popping pimples while I was trying to eat.

After spending two weeks on the road trying every burger I could, imagine my surprise when the best one was just blocks from my destination. The Stinky Nephi was great! Large and juicy, with bacon and cheese and peppers folded inside the patty… It packed a ton of flavor! And the bun was terrific, as well.
The bar itself, tucked away as it is in a strip mall, is unassuming and visually underwhelming. But when I stopped in on a Friday at 10pm, the karaōke was blasting and the clientele was friendly and vocally supportive of the singers. Karaōke is most certainly not my scene, but it’s always heartening to see timid singers get cheered on.
If I lived around here, I could definitely see myself becoming a regular.

It’s the kind of neighborhood dive bar that everyone loves. like Cheers.
It looks a little rough on the outside … okay, okay. the outside matches the inside. But drinks are cheap and it is easy to get in — no cover. It’s a great little place to snag a tall beer and sit and talk.
You don’t have to wait for drinks or yell at each other over awful, blaring music. Plus, it’s right around the corner from our house so it’s convenient. I like this place a lot.

I’ve been to the Fox Hole a few times since my original review, so I figured it’s time for an update.
It’s still a solid 3-​star joint. The wings are GREAT! The buffalo chicken sandwich is NOT great. It doesn’t have nearly enough sauce and is overcooked to the point of being difficult to chew/​eat.
The fries are really good, as are the onion rings. I’ve also tried the Idaho nachos (nachos with potato slices, instead of tortilla chips). They’re close, but no cigar, to being very good. First off, the order is HUGE! There must be 4 – 5 whole potatoes sliced up in there. I personally like nachos with the fake cheese sauce they use here, although some people hate that kind of thing. They have plenty of jalapenos and come with sides of salsa, sour cream and guac. The problem with the «nachos» is the thickness of the potato slices. They’re super thick, which makes them have the consistency of a baked potato, rather than a chip. If they were slice more thinly and cooked to a crisp, they’d have a sure-​fire winner.
I really like the décor and ambiance of this place and they have a TON of TV’s, so they’re sure to have your preferred game on one them.

It used to be so good. and then they started messing with stuff.
The farm burger was amazing until they changed it. Now it’s the most expensive burger I’ve ever found. Even more expensive than a buffalo burger at a steakhouse. That’s ridiculous.
Additionally, their servers are ridiculous. 4 of the last 5 times I’ve gone in there, I’ve ordered a farm burger and been served a fox burger. This isn’t really a noisy bar, and those two words don’t sound alike, so I have no idea why it keeps happening. The fox burger is about the most mediocre burger I’ve ever eaten in my life. And in spite of screwing it up 4 times, they’ve never once comped my food or done anything else to make it right.
I can’t say I’ll never go back, but I can say it’ll be a long time before I forget why I don’t eat there regularly. My previous good impression is probably enough to convince me to try it once a year or so, but the consistent bad service will keep me from making the mistake any more frequently than that.

There’s something that feels sinfully delightful about eating in a bar during a work lunch. Maybe it’s the beer taps calling your name or the neon lights in the window saying «no kids! This ain’t Chili’s!» Whatever the appeal, the Fox Hole rewards your darker side with food that is less bar-​like and more on the side of a good sammich shop.
The Cubano was a good blend of pulled pork, cheese, and a secret sauce. (probably not a secret, I just don’t know what it was.). It was a tad dry and I should have ordered a side of the sauce. I opted for the fresh cut fries and was rewarded with the potato goodness with just enough of a tan and grease flavor to let you know they truly aren’t the genetically engineered products you get from the Clown or the King.
I also ordered Doc’s Balls which turned out to be Scotch eggs. I’ve never had them before and was intrigued by the combination of an egg coated in sausage and fried. I wish the sausage would have been more flavorful but the addition of salt and the mustard sauce it was served with made them good.
Carol, the daytime bartender was extremely friendly and offered to turn on televisions, change stations, or what ever we needed. Good service worth acknowledging.
This is a good lunch spot that is off the beaten path and rewards the travel with good food, a nice atmosphere, and a bar setting that isn’t dark and dingy.

Well, well, well… who’da thunk this unassuming little sports bar tucked away in a nearly invisible strip mall would be serving up such an outstanding garlic burger?!
I did, actually. We had family in from out of town, and we were looking for a place closeby for a laid back meal and maybe a drinkie or two. I’m so glad I took the sage advice of Matt W. to come here and try the Stinky Nephi Burger. I had mine with Sweet Potato Fries and an almost-​frosty draft Squatter’s Hef with oranges.
The whole thing was enjoyable, especially the burger. It’s as they say it is; a garlic burger rivaling more famous versions in the Cottonwood’ish area. The bun is somewhat firm and very tasty, but fell apart on the bottom from the juice of this creation. Fresh sheets of green leaf lettuce, beefy tomato slices, and pepper jack cheese melted around the patty all assist with the impressive flavor going on with the burger. Dressed appropriately with a tasty garlic sauce, this was a solid handful of garlic bomb deliciousness. We all ordered it, and we all absolutely loved it.
The sweet potato fries were really good, but not the best I’ve had. Nice texture, not too mushy. In fact, a few of the fries weren’t quite cooked completely through. The spices used could have been kicked up a bit for me. They were slightly bland. Good fry sauce which helped the lack of zest in the fries.
Although I prefer mine frostier, the beers were really good — especially at $ 3.25 for a pint of Squatter’s. Hubby enjoyed the Shock Top at the same price. Domestic drafts are only $ 2.50. Wow. I love saving money on delicious adult beverages!
The service at Fox Hole was all smiles, and fairly quick. Tiff took great care of our party of four, making sure we had what we needed, and answering all of our questions. She was delightful.
They have beer and food specials on chalkboards right inside the front door so you won’t miss them. There are pool tables and plenty of TVs around the large room housing the entire public area. It’s not a big place, but a small party could have a good time here. The sports mood is set by several team flags and marquees hanging on the walls, with mixed memorabilia throughout. It’s not terribly tastefully done, but it’s a bar. Sort of. They only serve beer, and I think a few wine selections, but no full bar.
One complaint — the chairs are very uncomfortable. They’re actually typical bar chairs, but really hard to relax in at all. I found myself yearning for something softer and more supportive. If I were interested in watching the game, I concluded that I’d head home for comfort reasons. After scarfing down a delicious garlic burger, of course…
Overall, a really nice chill meal, cheap drinks, and friendly people!