Chicken Coop Bar & Grill

Was very impressed. Stopped by after a meeting before I headed back to Lincoln. Was told they had been open for 15yrs and couldn’t believe it. They take wonderful care of the place. Food was great and they offer darn good beer. Will definitely be coming back!

Don’t leave you’re tip area open on your receipt. Even if you leave a cash tip, the waitresses «help» themselves to a tip on your card! Management does nothing about it.

Nate is a liar. The coop stills rules. Service is superb. Food is outstanding are drinks are delicious.

Great food and exceptional service. Great Prime Rib on the weekends and good beer on tap. Always friendly service, never a bad experience.

Awesome service.. clean and extremely roomy. Handicap equip
Friendly and fast service.
Food presentation very professional.
We had stopped for lunch

Absolutely love this place! Visiting family and needed a break to catch up on my sanity and I couldn’t have asked for a better place. Outstanding beer selection and top notch drink choices. Overall a very awesome place with a great vibe! If you’re looking for something chill and want an awesome server, ask for Amy!

Stopped by and what a gem!
Great beer menu as well. Came here on a recommendation from the front desk in our hotel. It did not disappoint.
Had an all appetizer dinner the nachos and wings were great! I would pass on the potato skins. Great location, great waitstaff excellent by and Keno’s available as well!

Came back after a visit 4 years ago. A bit disappointed. First visit was 5star. This time the food just wasn’t quite up to par. Service was great and it was packed but the chef must have had to many fires going. Steaks sub par– no taste. To bad great place. Maybe a bad night???

The wings were great! Not sure if they changed the menu of all their locations or just this one. I went in wanting wasabanero wings but chose a couple different flavors since they weren’t on the (this) menu. Very nice-​sized wings too.

We did not get to eat or drink at The Coop after the wait staff was rude and un
accommodating. They could have the best food in the world but we won’t be going back there!

The chicken coop is in one of the coolest buildings in Grand Island. The back of the booths were made using old doors that came from from what used to be a brothel upstairs. It is a large bar/​restaurant with beautiful original brick, a nice covered patio and a couple banquet rooms.
They serve beer from Thunderhead microbrewery out of Kearney, and offer your usual variety of beers. This is a sports bar with a lot of TVs for game day and they offer wings and the usual bar food.

Nice local place to enjoy a casual meal or have a drink with friends. Great wings, decent pizza and good burgers and sandwiches. Recommend this over the chain restaurants in town.

Went in here on a Saturday night and the place was empty except for two guys sitting at the bar. Booze was cheap. I initially thought there would be people inside but apparently they were hosting a private party in the other room they had, so bring your crew unless you like drinking alone, and if you like drinking alone, then why not just stay home and do that?

sat ourselves and promptly greeted by a waitress. polite and friendly. order two thunderhead amber ales with baked walleye special and Bacon Burger. very fast kitchen. fish underdone yet good. Burger was a hit. good value.

Satisfactory service & good food. Lots of TVs & keno.
I’ve been here a few times during visits to Grand Island. My favorite so far: the Chicken Tender Hoagie with potato salad. Good place for large groups.

This was my second bad experience at this particular location so here goes… Decent food and Excellent beer! Thunderhead beer on tap at this location which is one of the reasons we visit the place; the other is they do feature the NFL Sunday Ticket. The service is lacking however. Today I left the place for the first time ever (in my entire life) without leaving a tip. The bartender was lazy and bitching about how he had to change the TV’s all the time etc «I’m not a human remote and when I’m busy I could care less about the football games etc.» We’ll sir you feature the NFL Sunday ticket and any decent bartender knows that’s a part of the protocol… And they wonder why Balz is so busy on Sundays. Moreover there were a total of five people in the bar. Busy? Really? Balz gets it… It’s all about NFL football! Sorry to interrupt your smoke break dereilct bartender but we want to watch football, not watch you smoke! There were two games that went into OT that day and the bar tender switched them away to another game… looking for soccer or something? Anyway we asked him to go back to the games still in contest and caught flack… Never again will I go back.
In summation, go here to have a great pint of Thunderhead brew, food if it’s your next to last choice, and don’t expect great things from the NFL Sunday Ticket. Stick to Balz if your into football.