Platte River Bar & Grill

Great food! Salads are so fresh! Cheap drinks and amazing outside deck for sunny days. Love the atmosphere. Did u mention prices are affordable? You gotta go!

All I’m going to say here is don’t get scared off by the row (s) of motorcycles that often can be seen in front of this establishment. It’s very welcoming (including families with small children), the food is enjoyable, there is a good selection of drinks, and they host some really fun trivia contests. The atmosphere can occasionally be «mildly rowdy», especially during televised sports games, but in a fun and friendly way.

Delicious food, always seems there is an event here. Not a place to go for a relaxing evening.

Good food and good drinks! I love the taco salad. It’s huge, filling, and inexpensive. The patio is the best here in the summer, but can get really packed. It’s a total biker bar, but everyone has always been nice. Service is friendly and decent even when it’s really busy.

Platte River Bar & Grill is about ten minutes from where I live, but it’s not a place I go to very often. I think my wife and I have been here about six times in the last twenty years. It has a great view of the Front Range from the patio, but that’s about all that sets it apart from a lot of local competitors. In its favor, the beer is cold, if you can track down a server to bring you one and get it to you before it starts getting warm. The food is typical bar food (wings, burgers, nachos) and tastes, you know, typical, although the prices are higher than you’d expect. Getting a server to take your order may involve tripping one of them as they pass your table for the 8^th or 9^th time («It’s not my station»). I think they spend more time comparing their latest tats than actually waiting on customers.
And did I mention that the service isn’t very good? Why yes, I believe I did.

Went here yesterday with a group of 11 and there were no issues. They did separate checks for all of us with out complaint. It should be noted that they open at 10am on Sundays not 11am as stated. I have significant food allergies and they were very accommodating and helpful regarding finding something I could eat. Bathrooms are a big deal to me and I have to say their bathroom was almost perfect. 4 stalls and 3 sinks, paper towels instead of hand dryers. Large roll toilet paper with two rolls so it’s less likely to be stranded. And seat protectors! Only thing I would change is a trash can by the door because the door opens in and when using a paper towel to open there was no place to throw the towel away. Food was good and I had no complaints about the service.

Pork/​chicken burrito was tastier than I expected to be. Local draft beer was great. Some pretty bartenders here with tattoos they’ll likely regret later in life. They gave away a motorcycle the night we were here. That giveaway attracted about every outlaw biker gang and/​or wanna be gang in the area. Patio didn’t have much of a view. Not a bad place to drink but we found better places in the area.

Great place for some beers and a meal. Great food. Cold beers although maybe a tad pricey. Love the place all the same!

If you’re going to eat at The Platte be prepared to be nickel and dimed for every little thing you order. We used to come to The Platte for the great food and prices but going forward we’ll give our business to other local bar and grilles. Today I paid for ½ order of chips/​salsa, combo plate w/​2 tacos and 2 side dressings. $ 14.77 — after tip $ 18.00. So basically I paid $ 15 for 2 tacos and fries. I think I can do better and find more affordable, even Las Delicias would cost less and you get free chips/​salsa.

Great place to meet friends! The deck is great to enjoy the day. Food is average the usual bar menu.

I must say that I have loved most of my experiences at Platte River Bar & Grill! I used to go every Sunday because I had a friend that worked for Jammin’ Trivia and we would got to partake in not just that, but soak up some time on their awesome patio. As you can see I also enjoyed their 32 ounce strawberry margaritas’ too! They frequently have bands that play out in the patio area. They have some awesome fire pits. Did I mention the patio?! Well their patio puts most to shame. With large garage doors that roll up to bring that great Colorado warmpth inside how can you go wrong? You cant, that’s how. Let not forget about the food. The food was actually pretty awesome. I don’t know why I would expect anything less. Oh wait; I didn’t! Go there, go there now.

I have to say this was one of the worst experiences I have ever had. I ordered a Bloody Mary from the build your own bar. She came out with one from the bartender. This could have been solved very easy. She didn’t want to fix it. Maybe she was sacred to ask the MOD to fix her mistake. We tried to order the 2 combination platter, she wouldn’t let us order all tacos on the platter. She said you could only Oder a combination. Well tacos are one of the options so why couldn’t I ordered 4?

Okay food, crappy service. Ordered the Sample Platter which had a variety of stuff. It was pretty good with the exception of the clam strips, they were just about burnt.
Waitress was MIA most of the time. We sat down, she asked if we wanted water while we looked over the menu, we said yes. Table to our right was finishing up. They paid their bill, chit chatted for a bit, left, table cleaned, new couple sat down, same waitress greeted them, left and a few minutes later they had water, we still did not. Eventually she came back and took our order. Someone else brought our drinks as well as someone else brought our food.
We seen her again half way through our meal and then not again until about 15 minutes after we were finished eating and our glasses sat empty for at least that long.
We then had to wait almost another 10 minutes for our ticket just so we could leave.
Had the service been better we might have gone back someday, but there are way too many restaurants/​bar grills to spend our hard earned money at than one where we may get crappy service again.

This is like one of those spots you end up (or I do). It is great to go to if you are at Hudson Gardens or walking along the Platte. It has a super laid back vibe, live music on the weekends, and a great bar. Food is average, but you kinda go more for everything else. I would go back if in the area. It is a easy laid back spot.

We came here for beers and appetizers recently and it was a nice little bar. Great views and all the staff seemed very nice.
The nachos were great and they had a wide selection of beers to choose from. That’s the way to go!

I absolutely love this place! They have live music every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday! If you want good food and a great atmosphere, you definitely need to come here! Plus, they support a lot of good causes!

How can you beat cold beer on the greatest bar patio on a Spring or summer day? Five stars overall.
Ok yes, the service can be mixed good/​bad but it’s not a gourmet restaurant. It’s an insanely busy bar. The food is good bar food. The people are awesome bar people. The patio rocks. The beer is cold. Live music some nights is killer.
Really — what else can you ask for?

Well I have to say I absolutely love this place they did make a lot of changes they have a nice patio also the menu has changed a little bit very nice servers there

The Platte is what I would call a schizophrenic bar/​restaurant. Sometimes if can be real good — but most of the time servers are bad, the drinks are very overpriced and the food mediocre. Thanks to an excellent location and a loyal clientele of bikers the place is nearly always busy, especially on weekends. The place is the definition of rambling, they keep tacking on new rooms and decks.
The chili rellenos are very good — and keep me coming back. Other than the rellenos the food mostly seems to be the kind of heat and serve stuff that comes in 50 lb boxes from Sysco. The beer selection is lousy and expensive for megaswill.
Plenty of parking in back. On a nice afternoon it is a quick walk to the Platte River.
Weird restaurant in this day and age that does not have a working website. Maybe that is reflection of its mostly older blue collar regulars.

I am not a huge wing fan, but my boyfriend is. We heard that we had to check out Platte River Bar & Grill and have their wings, so one night we did. Dan described their wings as the perfect spice temperature. For me, they were too hot, but I am a wimp, to him they were the perfect amount of spice, but kept you wanting more. He said they still aren’t his absolute favorite (i wont mention who holds his top spot) but he said Platte River Bar & Grill holds a good 2^nd place.
One item I personally wouldn’t recommend would be their smothered green chili cheese fries. Or ask for them crispy. The fries were soggy, and there were just way too many jalapenos.
Great beer selection, huge place with tons of room and parking. Right off Santa Fe so you can’t miss it.