The Stone

Their happy hour is perfect for a drink after work! Great tap selection and all you can eat peanuts! Don’t be afraid to throw the shells on the floor

A small neighborhood hipster bar for no one under the age of 24 years of age. I caught a game there and this place does have an excellent craft beer selection and just a better than your average corner neighborhood bar. A very urban area this bar is away from the other countless bars in the area and most likely has the same group of regulars coming and going. A good study of how to run and keep an urban bar going in a crowded field nd this place gets it right from the beer selections and prices.

Things that are awesome about the Stone:
1. It’s a 2 minute walk from my house. Obviously a plus.
2. Crazy good beer selection. In bottles, but especially on tap.
3. Good prices.
4. Pull-​tab Sundays.
5. They don’t serve food, so for Packer Games they order pizzas, bring a taco bar, grab ham and rolls, whatever — they feed you for free.
6. Bartenders are awesome.
7. They let you bring your dog.
Things that are not awesome about the Stone:
Nothing!

The Stone has become my go-​to bar for Packer games, and for good reason. It’s a great neighborhood bar where you don’t need a bunch of $$ to enjoy some super beers. Pull-​tabs on Sundays for discount drinks make the games even more fun, plus they do touchdown shots and set out a buffet at halftime.
They have 15 beers/​ciders on draft that rotate weekly/​whenever the keg gets kicked. The turnover is *fast* so you’re always getting nice fresh craft brews. They also have an extensive selection of bottled beers.
They do a stellar 2-​for-​1 happy hour, so you can treat yo’ self to 2 fine brews for a mere $ 5!
Dog friendly as well, so stop in for a pint when you take the hounds for a stroll.

Descriptive phrase: comfortable, subtly-​cool bar.
The Stone seems to be flying under the Bay View radar, hard. I know people who live a block away who didn’t know about it til we stopped in on a Friday night. Crowd was light, but varied, with bikers and hipsters and older locals mingling at the oddly-​shaped bar. It’s better-​lighted than most bars, which I think helps encourage conversation. Free peanuts, throw shells on the floor. Rare beer selection out of nowhere. Darts. Friendly bartenders. There was nothing not to like here, except for its random location on Howell (now only a few doors down from Lazy Susan). Will be returning fo sho.

I like the Stone. It’s chill and welcoming and a solid, dive-​ish spot.
This Bay View «dive» (a term relative given the reader) boasts solid specials and pretty rad offerings given the fact that it’s unassuming from the outside.
Tons of great specials and apparently this is a pretty great/​fun place to watch Packer games too! (I always stick close to home so I haven’t been for football, but who knows? Maybe home will become Bay View soon enough…)
Play your own jams on the internet juke and get yr bar game (s) on + on as well!
Four stars for a spot that I don’t visit too terribly often but totally dig. Yay the Stone!

Best beer selection in Mil? Got to be one of them will all the chalkboards and coolers. Plus ²⁄₁ tap specials — on a Fri night! Real darts, touchtunes. Cozy enough space. Seems to attract a slightly more rough-​hewn crowd, but is better than vast majority of those that don’t. Way above average overall.

A terrific, low-​key alternate to the hustle and bustle of KK and Lincoln!
It ain’t much to look at, and it doesn’t pretend it should be. But this is a great little bar that keeps a low-​key atmosphere into the wee hours of the weekend. You can actually hear the person next to you at normal speaking volumes! Whoduthunk it?
It’s got a great selection of tap beers that (in my opinion) respects the boundaries between «Variety» and «Confusion». The prices are also more than fair. We bought some beers that would have cost $ 2-​$ 3 more a block away.
And… AND… wait for it… they’ve got 2 bristle boards in the back with honest-​to-​god chalk scoring boards! I know I’m probably in the minority here, but bristle dart boards just gives me all sorts of coziness inside! Looks like I’ll have to dust off my darts and loosen up the old throwing arm.
What else? Because it’s off the beaten path, parking isn’t so much an issue. The bartenders I encountered were friendly and helpful. And it’s really nice to have bartenders that actually know what the libations taste like, AND can qualify you on what you may or may not enjoy. It provides for a much better experience!
Not much more I can say other than «Yay! I’m a fan.» Oh wait, I already did that with my 4-​star rating.

A dark night in Bay View, the streets full of miniature ghosts and ghouls. Their plain clothed guardians using language typically heard from the sailors of the Barbary Coast. Making my way through the throng of candy seeking miscreants, I find myself at a crossroads. A crossroads known as «Smith and Howell». The faint glow of neon beckoned me forth. What fresh hell is this? A Public House I have not yet discovered in my travels? Venturing into the unknown, steeled by the prospect of football and peanuts, I inspected the carvings on the wall. Adult beverages, all of them unknown to this traveller. With a cry that would rival that of Mephistopheles I exclaimed «BRING FORTH THE ZOMBIE MONKEY!» I dranketh from the chalice, and it was good.

THEY HAVE SERENDIPITY ON TAP.
I must repeat, THEY HAVE MOTHER BLEEPING SERENDIPITY ON TAP.
I have to say, there appears to be a couple bad reviews in reference to the owner himself, but he has been nothing but awesome and friendly whenever I have gone! He took the time to introduce himself and shake our hands after we started going there regularly. His gal also bar-​tends there and she was trying out a new tequila and offered us samples, as nice as can be.
If you want flash and drama, this ain’t the bar for you. If you prefer simplicity and friendly faces you’ll be more than welcome here!

Can’t believe I drove by this place a million times. Friendly friendly staff and patrons. Nice bottle and tap selection. 2×1 taps Saturday, great way to start! Watched the game there, chowed on the peanuts and enjoyed some milk stout!

It’s the place you’ve passed by a thousand times and never quite knew whether or not you should go in. Some of the best bartenders in Bay View! Beer, bar dice, darts and a TouchTunes, what more could you ask for in a neighborhood dive. Blue collar to white collar a non-​pretentious, non-​trendy atmosphere where you are sure to make some great friends.

It’s hard to notice this place but once you are there its like cheers. They have a rocking juke box, peanuts, friendly staff and a pretty darn good beer list. They also make a mean Moscow Mule. This place is the PERFECT neighborhood bar and can be seen packed on random week nights.

This bar can be easy to miss if you are looking for it, but please, keep looking — it’s the building with the chalkboard out front and the façade painted in dark grey/​black.
Excellent beer selection on both taps and in bottles. Always good company behind the bar and sitting at the bar with you.
Baskets of peanuts sometimes offered and several tvs to watch if that’s what you are there for.
Happy hour is great, as others have mentioned, but their normal beer prices are very hard to beat!
You have to come and try The Stone!

This is my new «go-​to» bar for Happy Hour: Monday — Friday 2−4−1 taps from 4p-​9!!! There are 12 microbrew/​craft beers on tap that are indicated by the crowded tap handles at the end of the bar, as well as having the brewery and beer name and design etched with colorful chalk hanging from boards above the entrance to the back room. There are high top tables placed throughout the spacious pub and approximately 15 stools at the bar where I have yet to sit (a rarity for me to like sitting at the tables versus at the bar). I went here for the first time with my Wednesday night traveling suds club buddies and prompltly returned two days later on a Friday and brought along three friends. Shawn, the owner, recognized me and took the time and interest to get my name, introduce himself, and thank me coming back!!! During the visit on Friday night there was a screen pulled down in the front of the bar and the owner was projecting the Brewers game, with the sound! There was also NHL hockey on a couple of the tvs above the bar. I could watch games there all of the time but it doesn’t have that douche-​baggy sports’ bar feel. I have a feeling I will become a regular… in fact… where will I go tonight? Hmm…

It’s a friendly neighborhood bar. There are multiple TVs at the bar and it looks like a good spot to watch a game.
They have maybe a dozen assorted beers on tap from all over. There’s a list beers on tap up on a whiteboard, so I assume they change.
They run specials fairly often and advertise them on a sign in front of the bar on the sidewalk.
Not trendy. Not pretentious. Just friendly Milwaukee.

This is my favorite bar in Milwaukee.
Good beer selection.
Good TVs that you can watch more than one game at a time on. Sometimes it seems like a sports bar, but without jocks.
It’s not pretentious.
You can blast Pantera on the juke box late at night if you want to.
Plus, they let you bring your dog!