McKracken’s Pub

Now called Venue 13 — perhaps for worst service I’ve ever had in my life. Food isn’t bad, but lack of servers really causes you to wonder about the management.

Good food at reasonable prices. Good happy hour specials. Live music even Sunday night.

Food is horrible, and service is shoddy!
We went in during happy hour time for dinner. We don’t drink so we didn’t sit at the bar. (It’s a seat yourself place.) A waitress finally spotted us and brought menus, but then she only came by to take our order and bring our food. It’s almost like her attitude changed when we asked for «only» water. It seemed like everyone at the bar received their food first, and it didn’t matter if they got there after us. Food was so greasy that’s all you could taste.
For some reason, we decided to give it a second shot (probably because we live close), and it yielded the same results. We’d never go back again.

First time here and will never come back. The food, even by bar food standards is terrible. This restaurant does not honor ANY coupons issued by themselves or
etc. Do not go here!

First time at this place tonight. Got there during bingo hour. Met some nice folks. Ordered drinks and a pizza which the pizza was good but Windsor coke seemed a bit watered down. Later the live show acoustic band came on stage, not many ppl seemed lively and into it but heard that the band plays there a lot and the local folk love them. Anyway to get to my one star rating of this joint. While finishing my night, a super early night at that, I just so happened to glance down into one of the booths and to my surprise there was a mouse just making its self at home there. Now I do understand mice inhabit numerous bars but for a customer to see this I think that is horrible. They make the mice cakes for a reason to prevent these rodents from making a home. Ill leave on this, I’m not saying don’t go there I’m just saying ill never step foot in there again. Lord only knows where else the mice are just hanging around at.

Great place to hang and get a reasonably priced happy hour beer. If you’re into games, McCracken has it all (pool, hoops, golden tee, etc.). Cool staff and interesting crowd (in a good way).
Just regular folks at the place when I went there (Tuesday night), but don’t be afraid to talk to a biker, or even a banker when you go. Believe me, as a banker that thinks bikers are cool; neither of us will bite.

Came here for a Twins unplugged event yesterday. My friend and I got spots at the bar and enjoyed listening to the show. We were also surprised that we could get angry orchard tall boys for $ 4.50. After the event ended my friend and I wanted to eat, so we waited for the bartender to come by so we could get a menu. We waited, and waited some more, so I just went up to the hostess stand myself and got us a menu. After we decided on what we wanted to eat we waited for the bartender, and fifteen minutes later she still wasn’t back at the bar. In fact, the person next to me had been trying to pay for their drink and actually got up and left without paying because there was no bartender around to pay with! My friend and I thought maybe if we grabbed a table we would get some service. We proceeded to wait another 10 minutes and no waitress stopped at our table, but several walked right past us. Furious and hungry, my friend and I left and took our business to Burger Jones instead, and had a lovely meal! Would NEVER go back to this place or recommend it to anyone.
UPDATE: Unfortunately I was enticed to come back here after hearing about BUZN countrys launch party with Tim Sigler, Craig Campbell, and free concert tickets. A friend and I showed up to a packed house with no tables or places at the bar available. We found a table with open chairs and asked to join the ladies that were sitting there. They welcomed us with open arms and we waited for a waitress to come by. After 10 mins of waiting my friend went up to a table and asked to have the menu they were no longer using. After deciding on what we wanted, we waited for a waitress to come by, and even flagged a few down, but our table wasn’t in their section apparently. Finally about 20 mins later a waitress came by to take our order. To make a LONG story short, the food my friend order came AN HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES after we ordered it. The real kicker… she ordered an APPETIZER. My food was no where to be found, the waitress said that the order was never given to the cook and that she had canceled it, because she figured I probably would’t want the food anymore. I was LIVID and the waitress could tell. She promised she would put the order in right away, and 10 mins later my wings came out. UNBELIEVABLE. I don’t care how busy you are, it is NOT ACCEPTABLE for APPETIZERS to come out an hour and a half after ordering. My friend and I told the waitress we would not be paying for our food due to this ridiculousness, and she agreed not to charge us. By the way, the food was pretty poor quality.
Worst restaurant experience ever, at least we didn’t have to pay.

A really big bar area with plenty of seating options. I also enjoy going here to watch live music. They usually draw a good crowd. Depending on the band there might be a cover. You may want to turn your hearing aides off when going though, they have the music pretty loud at times. They also have a nice patio area to enjoy on nice summer days.

I was surprised this place was as busy is it was for being on the cursed hwy 13. I have some co-​workers that like coming out here occasionally so I decided to stop in one night.
They play live music on some nights so there may be an entrance fee. This is a pretty basic not so fancy, but laid back joint. They have a dance floor and some pool tables. What I like the most about this place was the food. They’ve got some pretty good wings and the Patrick’s Pig Wings were especially awesome. Our server was quick and friendly and we enjoyed ourselves.

Food was average, the bartenders were very nice and when we went on a Sunday night they had a great acoustic trio playing!

So I am writting this review a tad bit different than I do my normal reviews. You may ask why, well the reason for it is because I am going to talk about more than just the food. First off when we showed up Thursday night it was jam packed and I mean slammin’. Later on to find out, it was primarily due to Bargo that was going on. I was kind of surprised that bargo made it that busy but I guess let anybody win anything and they will come a running. Me and my buddy actually went to see the cover band that was playing an unplugged or stripped down show if you will. The band is Good For Gary, awesome and great band. Defininately a band that you should see anywhere if given the chance. While we waited for the band to start and even into the begining of the show, we had ordered a pizza, the McCracken’s Ultimate 8 Topper Pizza. The pizza was pretty good. I mean it wasn’t the best pizza I’ve had but when you go to a bar you don’t expect to get awesome food either. I’d have to say that it was at least above average food and the drink Specials were pretty good. The thing I liked the most about the place is the potential to have a kick @$$ setting. It’s way bigger that you seems from the outside, the food is pretty good and well the staff is great, if you can get Jordan as your waitress you will definintely have good service. So great atmosphere, great staff, great band, good food. Overall, I had to score it higher, but there is definintely room for improvements. I am hoping that it continues to grow and do well and that you will support this business. Check them out and also if in the past you had a bad experience, I would say give them another chance. Lastly, It’s a must. You must go see the band Good for Gary if you have the chance. They will rock your socks off.

Went there last weekend with my brothers and our lady friends. I have been there once before and wasn’t impressed. This time was exponentially worse. We sat there for over an hour and didn’t get waited on one time. The waitress walked past us a few times to smoke and didn’t say anything. We tried the pull-​tabs but it seems like they hold the winners for the regulars because we spent over $ 300 and got no winners and one of the locals bought $ 20 worth and won over $ 500… Never going back ever again.

This used to be the Black Dawg bar and grill. Now it feels more like a hooters on the weekend with no table service. EVERY TIME I bring a group of friends there, we never get table service. The waitresses rather talk to the bouncer than serve you. I haven’t had their food in awhile, but last time I did it was good. Please McKracken’s…get wait staff that want to work and uniforms would help us figure out if you do have people working there. Ditch the hooters look, if I wanted to see what I saw your waitresses wearing I would go to Hooter’s!!!