The Pound Bar & Grill

The food is just good. The service is terrible. I go for lunch frequently because it’s easy and the bar is usually empty. The bartender will not ask how things are and will move at a glacial pace. The patio is the only reason to come here.

You’re not really coming here for top food and drink quality, but on a beautiful day, and a game on the tv, you cannot beat sitting on the rooftop with a beer.
Don’t special order a drink and be disappointed: you are in a sports bar for goodness sake.
I did try the Michigan salad and the brussel sprouts which were good enough. (ie, I finished them)
The girls who work here are super friendly and efficient and that goes a long way.

This is going to be a very mixed review. The food was good and the bartender that took care of us was awesome. With that said, whoever owns this place should seriously take a good look at their staff. I am a people watcher by nature. It was like romper room. The manager (I am guessing) was behind the bar «holding court» and never once interacted with any of the patrons. The bar back (guessing again) washed two glasses while I was there (almost two hours). He did however manage to flirt with at least 3 – 4 of the staff continuously. It seems that 3 – 4 of the people that work there do all of the work while all of the others stand around and pretend it’s high school. So if you are the owner of this establishment, you probably want to watch your manager and the girl with the long dark hair that worked behind the bar tonight. At minimum wage, they are overpaid.

This place charges extra for drinks «on the rocks.» $ 7 for Jameson and an extra $ 2 for «rocks.» I hate this trend at bars. Plus, we asked for our checks three times before we got them, which added another 25 minutes to our stay.

Ate there on Valentine’s night. Chose a booth but the staff seemed upset we weren’t there to go to the bar. The food tasted pretty great, however I had food poisoning in the morning.

Not sure what the low stars are about, but I thought this place was great! The atmosphere is a little loud. Turn your TVs down… not necessary. But, the food was really good. We had the blackened chicken salad, breakfast burger, piedmontese burger, and steak dinner. No one was disappointed, and it was sooo much food. The place would be really cool in warm weather, since they have the sweet garage doors that open up. I’d come back.

Their salad and food selection is decent but the service is sub par. At the bar we have had a good experience, outside our brunch never arrived and we left. Good for watching sports. ..

Food isn’t terrible but service is. The waitresses are too busy flirting with customers to notice if you need a drink. I hear the pizza is worth eating tho. This place seems to have cops swarming because of all the fights that go on late at night.

Pros: Decent draft beer menu and casual atmosphere. Good place to catch a game
Cons: Food was so-​so at best. Tried the special appetizer of «loaded brussel sprouts and they were undercooked and not very loaded since all they had on them was bacon. The burgers were ok. I would recommend going for the ½lb or full lb as the ¼lb came out overcooked and dry even though it was ordered medium rare.
Overall, the location is good but I wouldn’t go for the eats. Also, very noisy even though I went mid-​week.

Great patio, mediocre food, and bad service.
We ate on the upstairs outdoor patio, which had great atmosphere. Unfortunately, that is the best thing I can say about this restaurant.
We waited a long time for food and were disappointed when it arrived. The chicken sandwich was pretty good, the wrap was OK, but the ¼ lb. burgers were really bad. Like, frozen and worse-​than-​fast-​food bad.
The service was extremely slow and no staff members were attentive at all. It seemed exclusively staffed by lots of very young, very pretty, and very scantily-​clad blonde girls. They were everywhere, chatting with each other and looking bored in their uniforms of skin-​tight t-​shirts and shorts. I’m all for a pretty waitress but, for god’s sake, train them and keep them busy.
If you are after a nice meal with decent service, you should go somewhere else. With so many other great restaurants in Brighton, I just can’t recommend this one.

I had the Michigan salad, one co-​worker had the steak salad an another had the nachos grande. The food was very good. However, while after receiving our change, we were given only bills. The waitress advised they round up and do not give change. This is our money. Will not be back. Sad as the food was good. Debbie, Brighton, MI

We knew We were visiting Brighton and were looking for a place to meet our niece and her friend for dinner and drinks. After reading reviews for the local bars featuring food despite some bad reviews we chose The Pound. I have to say based on my experience I think the bad reviews were unfounded. Maybe I’m not as picky as some of the local patrons. Between the four of us we dined on two wraps, chicken wings, and a meat lovers pizza. All were good as were the Two Hearted draft beers. Our server Aubrey Anna was friendly and pleasant. I’m glad I didn’t let the bad reviews steer me away we all enjoyed our visit and if we return the area I would visit again.

The owners really care about their establishment. Especially Kevin. Thank you ! I can tell you take pride in your restaurant.
Great food, and good times. A must try!

The location is great but the food I had wasn’t so great. This would be a great place to drink on the rooftop but I wouldn’t recommend the food. What really struck me as odd was how bad the what seemed to be homemade chips were. The chips were greasy and nasty tasting. Club wrap was ok. Bartender downstairs was fast and nice.

The only reason it’s getting 2 stars is because my meal was very good.
First, we had a reservation for 6pm for 7 people… We got there and was told it would be 5 minutes. 50 minutes later we were sat a a 4 person table to wait until a bigger one opened up… Also you should know we had 3 young children who were very hungry. Thank god they were so well behaved while we waited. Finally a little after 7 we were sat at a proper table. We ordered quickly since we were so hungry. The food took another 40 minutes at least to get to the table.
My sandwich was good. But everyone else’s was mediocre. The best part of the experience was the roof top view: very nice. But we will not be back.

Nice atmospheres a ok and the service. No for the consumable products. So to start off the tea that is offered is out of a gun. Not a good start. For an appetizer we ordered the nachos which was tasty but there wasn’t 2 ounces of hamburger meat on the entire thing. The group of four ordered two burger both were the «pound» not bad not great. We also had the the Michigan salad the best of the items.
At any rate this not bad juts not a great find. Brighton has lots of good food and fun.
See yea.

I wish I could have given this place a higher rating, but there are a couple of major issues that will prevent me from going back or recommending this to anyone else:
1) The drinks are diluted. Very diluted and of questionable origin. They are charging top shelf prices for cheap, inferior liquor. They then dilute this liquor as much as possible. The mixed drinks were, in short, an absolute rip-​off.
2) Whoever is hiring their staff is clearly thinking with little brain, rather than big, business brain. The staff are almost entirely young, attractive, anorexic females with serious attitude problems. When we walked in, not one of the five hostesses actually greeted us — they stared at us and waited for us to speak. Then when we went up to the roof, the hostess (very dirty blonde hair and a sour expression) glared at us and our child like he was the devil and then literally threw the menus at us. And considering how many of these girls some incompetent manager hired, the service is appalling. It took 20 minutes to get our first order of drinks in.
3) Bathrooms are disgusting and you have to walk past the line of employed, but bored girls gossiping and talking about boys outside the bathroom.
In short, I am extremely, disappointed and we felt so uncomfortable and felt so taken advantage of by the inferior, over-​priced products that I will not be likely to return anytime soon. I will walk around the corner to Stout or Bagger Dave’s where both the service and the product are top notch.

This spot was decent. Decent for Brighton. Maybe not the best food. The pizza was ok. But, a great spot to drink with some friends. The waitstaff is friendly and there is plenty of room for groups. It’s the kind of place you go just to enjoy a day off. Good for sports I would imagine and wasn’t too packed the night I was in there. I really had a great time and for me this spot wasn’t the greatest but, more about the friends you are getting together with while at the spot. It’s great for that kind of gathering!

Terrible food. Drinks are diluted. I’ve heard from at least three friends to never get bottle beer there because it’s always, ALWAYS very old beer.
Not sure if they buy old beer from other places at a discount or they don’t manage the books and stock properly. Regardless, I’d skip this place and head to champs if you’re looking for a good burger and a beer.

We ended up at the Pound after dinner because the women wanted to dance. This decision led to one of the most bizarre and ridiculous encounters of my life. Before getting to that, let’s discuss just a few ways in which the Pound! is possibly the worst bar I have ever been to. To start with, management must not have anticipated much of a crowd because TWO of the three toilets in the men’s room were broken. This led to ridiculously long lines for the men’s room. How a nightclub can be so stupid to not have a fully functional bathroom on a busy Saturday night is beyond me. Was the only plumber in Brighton on vacation that day?
Since it was so nice out my group decided to grab a table outside underneath the tent they had set up. The outdoor bar was advertising $ 5 specials of Miller Lite and other pint bottles on special. Not a great deal, but I don’t expect great prices at a nightclub on a Saturday night. What I do expect is for the beer to be relatively fresh, which was not the case at the Pound. The Miller Lite and Coors Lite bottles were branded for St. Patrick’s day, meaning that the beer was at least 3 – 4 months old. Really, the Pound? You don’t care that you’re blatantly selling skunked out beer to your patrons?
Finally, as previously mentioned, I had one of the most insane enounters with any employee of any establishment at the Pound. When we had had enough stale beer and long bathroom waits, we went to exit via a chain rope that a bouncer was sitting next to. The bouncer informed us that he’s «not supposed to let people out this way.» Excuse me? Was the Pound seriously going to try and forcibly detain us? Having had enough of the nonsense, our party exited via some yellow caution tape wrapped around the tent. The bouncer and two of his buddies standing near him proceeded to scream, curse and threaten us as we left. I don’t know if the guy was drunk, high, stupid or some combination of all three, but he should have been fired — and possibly arrested — for his insane behavior. All of this because we tried to exit the establishment.
So in closing, if you want to drink overpriced, stale beer, wait an eternity for the bathroom and have your life threatened by bouncers for absolutely no good reason, then the Pound is the place to be. If none of those things appeals to you, literally anywhere in Brighton not named the Pound is a better place to spend your Saturday night.