Southbound Saloon & Eatery

This place was amazing. It's barely a shadow of its old self. Food is just not good. Tacos, wings, pizza it's whatever water street brewery has but they do it better. Tap room does it better. This place will close in a year. Have a beer. That's all.

My experience at Southbound Saloon and Eatery was a huge disappointment. My friends and I came here on a Saturday night for their wings special ($0.60 traditional or boneless wings). At first, we were really excited about this place because 1) very few places in the general Milwaukee area offer wing specials on Saturdays and 2) they have a wide range of flavors. Once we got to the restaurant we noticed it was busy because of a party they were hosting but we were seated relatively quickly. Other Yelp reviews stated the service was slow, so we were prepared that it would take a while. One of my friends ordered a Blue Moon. When he tried it, the beer was completely flat and diluted (it apparently tasted like flavored water). When we told the waiter, he hesitated to do anything about it until talking to the manager, who then replaced the beer (still flat). We placed our order for wings around 7:15 and the wings came in 4 different batches, even though they were on the same order, with the first batch coming at 8:50 and last batch coming at 9:40. The boneless wings that I got were cold...not even room temperature but completely cold. At this point, I was so hungry I didn't even care to complain because I wanted to eat. My friends got the traditional wings and they said theirs had barely any sauce. We had to strategically ask our waiter for ranch/bleu cheese/the check because it was so hard to get his attention. I was going to praise our waiter for doing a good job handling all the customers at the restaurant but as we were waiting for our check we noticed he was taking shots behind the bar, which would explain why service was exceptionally slow. I hesitate giving any restaurant one star but this was a terrible experience because of the food and service. If the restaurant was going to have a large party they should have hired more staff or closed off the restaurant for other customers. My friends and I will not be coming back.

I ordered chicken tenders and chili from door dash. The chili was all oil and inedible (I tried to eat it). At least the chicken tenders were edible but they were definitely the frozen variety. Perhaps the bar is cool but strictly from a food perspective it wasn't good.

You will be hard-pressed to find better wings in the area! Fresh, delicious, juicy, grilled, variety of flavors; absolute wings haven in the middle of a wing desert. To top it off, the blue cheese is house-made and on-point! Do not waste your time with any of the chain restaurants, they won't even come close! I guess they have pretty good daily specials as well

I wouldn't call this a "hole in the wall," place, though that's what it looks like from the outside. The inside is nice, rustic small town Wisconsin decor, but clean and the workers are friendly. I did initially worry a little that the place seemed just a little rednecky to me, but that's just the local weekend night clientele, who turned out to be friendly and fun so shame on me for stereotyping. Bar food, but good bar food. No hidden upcharges for whisky. Minimum 10 dollar charge for credit card, so if you just have a shot and a beer you may want to buy a bag of chips to meet the minimum.

Omg, so I went here after a photoshoot with the cast and crew, we were starving and heard great things about the wings so we swung by. It wasn't too busy, and kind of a hole in the wall/ local joint so we weren't sure. But people insisted these were the best. One if the fryers wasn't working, so while we waited for our our wings to come out we tried their soups. Homemade, and a meal in it's self. We tried the chili, French onion, and meatball mushroom. They were all very good! But the wings were the best! We tried a few kids, and couldn't decide which was the best! I did the blazin ' buffalo, and I would definately go back! Oh and the beer selection is pretty good!

Went early on a Saturday afternoon for lunch. Sat down and ordered during halftime of the Marquette game, received our food after the end of the game. Our waitress ended up being solo soon after her co-worker took our drink order. In addition to waiting on 7-8 tables (15-20 people) at once, she was cooking and running the food, and making drinks. Given the circumstances, she did a good job and was polite about the long wait for everything. I had the cajun chicken sandwich (grilled), was very good, with an almost sweet cajun sauce on it. Sour cream and chive fries were solid, ranch never arrived, but they were decent plain. If bar food is graded on a curve, Southbound is a 4/5 based on the food. On a normal day, I would think the service is better with 1-2 more people helping out?TL;DRDecent bar to grab a bite at if you're in the area, service was extremely slow on my first (and so far only visit). Overall, I'd give it 3.5/5 if Yelp let me award half-stars.

The wings and other things I've ordered is awesome bar food. The service absolutely sucks. The bartenders/servers act like you are bothering them. It's really slow too. I mean 45 minutes- 1 hour wait is normal, even when it's slow. They are fowl mouthed, grumpy and usually only give their regulars (drinking $3 beers) attention instead of the table ordering food AND drink. Bad business decision. Now I just call in for food and carry out.

We have had their brisket sandwich twice and both times it was excellent. We had fries and homemade chips, they were excellent as well. Great service and value. Will definitely be back.

Called in an order to pick up, food was ready and was good except for the curly hair I found in my food. There were no signs to wear a mask and not one worker including the chefs and customers had a mask on. Also there was no social distancing or hand sanitizer anywhere. Please do better this is not a political issue it is a health issue. The remodel of the bar makes no sense.