Our Tavern

Just a typical dive bar. It is big/​open with pool, shuffleboard, and darts. Normally, Id give this place 3stars because it is just a nondescript drinking hole, but Im making it 2 because the bartender sucked. She was just grumpy, slow, and kept messing up the bar tabs. She seemed irritated that people were talking to her to order drinks.

Great place to hang with friends! Just wondering how many times Jess had even been to Michigan let alone to Our Tavern… they don’t even serve food there. Just chips, popcorn, pretzels and peanuts… great device from all the staff, great cocktails and an awesome selection of beers on tap. So I think everyone should check out OT for yourself and just disregard the review from a little nobody who had issues

So after watching the U of M Spring Game, we came back to GR all in the mood for shuffleboard for some odd reason, the oddest would be that none of us had ever played. The question that needed to be answered? Where the heck in GR is there shuffleboard? Absolutely none of the bars that I had been to down there had it (annnnnnnd that. is. a. lot… heh). So what did my brother do? He googled. Yes, he googled grand rapids shuffleboard bar. Tyler B’s review came up, and that was that… we headed to not the best part of town, parked just off the street and headed into this seedy looking bar with bars on the window. What choice did we have? We were on a mission.
When we walked in, it was awesome! This place was well kept up and had two shuffleboard tables as well as several pool tables. Definitely not crowded but a large enough crowd to still feel like we were out on a Saturday night. Okay, so maybe the waitress was smoking behind the bar only reluctantly putting down her cigarette when she had to go dig the tanqueray out of the back (not really the crowd that asks for a tanqueray and tonic, i guess)…but the drinks were well made and cheap and the wait for shuffleboard was short. What a great find! I almost don’t want to write a review about it because I would like it to stay small and hidden away… but I also feel like anyone out there looking for a laid back fun place to hang out and shoot pool or play shuffleboard should definitely head over! Don’t be intimidated by its exterior, head on in and enjoy.

We were in GR for beerfest and my friend found this place by googling «Grand Rapids + Bar + Shuffleboard» That pretty much sums the place up.
We turned off the beaten path and saw the «Our Tavern» red awning shining like a beacon. The minute we saw it we knew we had found the townie bar of our dreams — replete with two of the longest, most gorgeous shuffleboard tables we’d ever seen. We drank. And we played. And we drank some more — until we were politely asked to leave for the fourth time somewhere north of 2am.
My one complaint — it was damn near impossible to get a drink sometimes. The bar up front is tiny and only had one person working there most of the night. She did what she could, but when I’m in the middle of a game of shuffleboard, I don’t have 8 minutes to wait for a drink. There I said it. Otherwise — great jukebox (its a tad country-​ish, but hey, what do you expect on the west side?) and great people. I’d booze here anytime.