Yesterday's Gone

What a great place! Excellent prices, classic neighborhood bar with good food with clever twists on classics, plus best Bloody Marys (and I agree with their menu: who needs all the fancy additions to a Mary when the drink itself is so good, especially with the house-made horseradish dill pickle). Board games or pool or dates. We had a wonderful evening at half the price we've paid in other tourist places.

Awesome burgers for $9. Stopped by after we set up camp here in Brainerd. Perfect classic rock and roll bar (right next to the Elks Club). Waitress said the beef burgers were fresh, never frozen. Can build your own (I created a bacon pepper jack cheese burger). Wife had the jalapeños burger and son had a plain cheese burger. They were phenomenal! And the onion rings were spectacular. I suspect they are freshly made as well. I we have not had ones breaded as these. They also had an impressive list of tap beers. Mostly larger domestic, but also a few local craft. Highly suggest you dump the large chains and stop here when in the area!

Picked this place based on the pictures I found on yelp and Google. Was not disappointed. One of the best Patty melts I've ever had!

The food was amazing, they are number 1 now in my burger search. It's an older establishment, but it was very clean. The service was excellent as well. Put this on your list of places to try. They also have a full bar, darts machine.

Best burger in the area! We've been coming up on weekends for 20 years. We're now full time up here, and do our best to frequent local establishments. This was our first time here. It will be a routine stop for us.We asked for our burgers medium rare, and they were! Delicious! Onion rings were the best I've ever had. This will be our go to burger joint! And great, friendly staff.

Pretty typical neighborhood bar. Drinks were cheap & they are the only bar with a pool table downtown Brainerd!

Well, I will say the food came out fast hot and was tasty! The service was lacking! Bear minimum at best but what gets me is all the hidden up charges!! At no time was I told it was an up charge for cheese on a cheese burger or that when they asked if I wanted ranch for my fries that it was a dollar more! I know it's only a buck but it isn't upfront till you get the tab! sandwiches don't come with chips with an upcharge for fries, you just buy the sandwich! I guess I might be nitpicking about a few upcharges but just about every other restaurant in the area lets you know what you are paying for!! I'm guessing if they could charge for the bathroom or the air you breathe in the establishment they would!!

That was a good burger. Quality beef. Familar, small town feel. There were even games laying around to play.

Burgers were really good! They cook them to your preference and did a great job with that! Servers were friendly! Both of these things are hard to find so I give them a 5 for that!Cons: Definitely a bar feel, but people seemed friendly, but seemed to have a crowd they knew. What bothered me the most was the nickel and diming. Your $13 cali burger was that, just a burger (very minimalist with the toppings on all burgers, rodeo burger had one thin onion straw, patty melt had two half pieces of onion, etc.) Not even a handful of crappy chips included. We ordered two baskets of apps, tots and o-rings, to go as our sides. The rings were $10 and there were 10-12 rings in it and not big ones, about half of what the picture posted from 5 years ago looked like. The tots were $7 and would've been considered a side amount at most places, like pretty much just covered the bottom of the basket, no heaping. We didn't get our included honey mustard with the rings, but no one came back and checked, felt like they owed us $1 since that's the charge for a 2 oz condiment if you want one not included. If you ordered a side to your burger another $3-5 was added depending on what and that takes me to gourmet or Twin Cities pricing, or some amazing ambiance! Probably not something served in a plastic basket.So bottom line, if I wanted just a really good burger and a beer, I might consider it! But I wouldn't take the family there for a meal again.

Absolutely awesome and superbly clean time warp! As a child of the 70's and 80's, I love the decor and ambiance of this place. It is the absolute cleanest restaurant you will find. I sat at the bar and everything behind there was spotless, including the bathrooms. Sadly, idk if I will ever get back to go again, but the food was fantastic too! All the servers were equally fantastic