Millcreek Grill & Bar

Millcreek Bar & Grill has changed owners and is finally open on a consistent schedule. I’ve wanted this location to work since I moved to Millcreek over a year ago and it seems like this owner has made the changes to keep a crowd.
The menu changed completely. It’s no longer has a BBQ focus, but a short list of well made food. My boyfriend and I shared the Tanner tots, I had the Elk burger, and he had the stuffed burger. The Tanner tots were amazing. Imagine funeral potatoes rolled into a ball and fried with a side of ranch. The elk burger was fresh and had rich flavor, delicious. The stuffed burger was good, it tasted like a burger stuffed with cheese, but not close to the flavor of the other two dishes.
Can’t wait to go back and try some of the other food as well as see how the ‘beer of the week’ special progresses.

Driving by MG&B over the last few days I’ve noticed that there haven’t been any vehicles in the parking lot and that the open sign has not been on. We drove in and found on the front door a notice indicating that they have received a ten day suspension of their liquor license from the Utah DABC. Ten days means that it wasn’t just something minor.
Their license is suspended from June 1 to June 11. I am wondering if they just decided to close while their license is suspended or if they are going to be closed permanently. I would love to see either Mike take it back over or someone who knows how to run a restaurant take it over. It could have been great. This restaurant is easy walking even with a bad hip. I really want it to succeed but I fear it is gone.

Been to this spot twice. Terrible service both times. Servers don’t want to be there and fighting with managers. Dirty glasses. Cheapest thing to order if you want a beer is 3. Won’t be going back

Really good food. Not kidding. Service was not good for only 5 people in the place, but I would come back here again.

Wanted to try this place tonight but they closed the kitchen at 10:15. Look at the hours of operation. It says they are open until 11:00. I have never heard of turing away customers 45 minutes before closing. Got the feeling they just don’t care. I would be surprised if they are open in six months.

Love that this place has local music every Friday. The food is great. They have had some bumps with service but all in all the atmosphere, food, and music is great!

Soooo slow! Wait staff is very nice but we waited for an hour for food and there were only 2 other tables waiting and a guy at the bar. Only went because it’s close. Never again…30 minutes later never mind. Changed from 2 to 1 star. Food is edible bare minimum. Stuffed chicken looks microwaved and the nachos were better at a movie theater. Added pork and there are literally 4 strands. Go 1 exit further and go to Fiddler’s Elbow!

If you’re looking for a new breakfast spot, this is not the place to go. The menu is quite limited and apparently does not list all the ingredients in the dishes. We ordered the Italian veggie omelet and received something that looked and tasted like it had been cooked in an unwashed pan. The omelet had more olives than anything else which was a surprise since olives weren’t supposed to be in it. The potatoes were absolutely disgusting. They tasted like they had not been washed before they were fried in dirty oil. They were chewy and left a disgusting taste in my mouth. The toast was burnt and yet somehow still cold and all they had was grape jelly. Needless to say, we won’t be returning.

Honestly it makes me sad to see all of these negative reviews. I’ve loved every visit to Millcreek Grill and Bar. It’s a pretty good location, the live music is always excellent, and the food is excellent (which is why we go to restaurants isn’t it??)
Yeah the staff is a little unorganized, so what. My food is ALWAYS amazing and I’m always entertained. What more do you need? I mean honestly, I would rather have a warm, delicious meal with some fabulous live entertainment and a few confused waitresses than have the most efficient, organized waitresses bring me out food that looks like it was scraped off the bottom of a Trax train.

Yet another spot in search of an identity. This one is not sure if it wants to be a bar or an actual restaurant. It very clearly is set up fairly well as a bar, yet the space seems like they also want to try to tack on some restaurant pretensions, with various table arrangements, child booster seats and so on. The décor is totally bar. The smell is also totally bar and they are literally one stage away from being a bar and the space is there. The lighting is that wonderful bar dimness, again, awesome for a bar, but rubbish for a restaurant. The miniature menu again speaks mainly to a bar that also has food. They may as well go all the way over and just be a bar. The location is pretty prime for it, despite the odd arrangement of the parking lot.
One of the real problems with this place attempting to act as a restaurant is that the food is not there. The nachos were quite bland, even with the additional pulled pork sprinkling on it. The chicken strip my kid had was nearly annihilated by over-​exposure to fryer grease and was not on the higher end of things as they go. Fries appeared to have some sort of coating, possibly a breading. They were ok, on the level of bar food. The stuffed burger appeared to be a couple thin patties with the cheese and bacon on the inside, rather than something actually stuffed. Whatever the name, it needed a lot more filling… and flavor. Again, like the fries, it was an ok bar burger, but I drove by Five Guys to get there and the burger I had was definitely not up to that level. One of the best things in life to have is a good bar burger with a cold Sam Adams or two, which they did have, so judging again by bar food standards, this is right in the thick of things. As a restaurant, though… not so much.
Service was pretty good, though a bit on the over-​familiar side at times, but the kitchen seemed to be struggling. The nacho somehow took an excessive time to make it to the table, though the main entrees were closer to the mark. They also do have Coke Zero, though the mix is awful, again, stuff you’d expect in a bar. They also have this really cool free-​for-​all sort of impromptu acoustic jam on Sundays, starting around 2:00PM, which was very cool and contributed to us hanging in there for longer than normal.
I get why they’re tempted to be a restaurant, with the outdoor patios and so on, as well as the lucrative brunch-​with-​mimosas trade that they’d really love to be a part of, but unless they make the investment, both in interior décor and definitely in upgraded food quality, to support that, it seems likely they will gain little traction. I wouldn’t be averse to going back… but only if I want the aforementioned bar burger and Sam Adams in an actual bar… or maybe to jam a little bit on Sundays.

They have 99 cent pbr draft before six (and apparently sometimes after six). I haven’t really tried the food, but I of like seeing bands play here sometimes.

I wasn’t going to write a review yet, but I feel that if the management/​owners care, they could have a great restaurant.
I have been back for brunch 3 times. Each time I am hopeful that something will have changed. I like the location and the concept, but they need to act.
The restaurant could use a good cleaning. (Ceiling fans, beams, table tops)
The managers should help the wait staff, or at least hire a busboy. The tables are left with dishes and food long after the customers have left. It feels like they don’t have enough wait staff, or they need help. Getting a cocktail takes forever! Meanwhile I’ve sat and watched the «manager» sitting at the bar on his phone, texting or whatever. I just want to yell «get up and help! at the very least you can bus some tables, or clean something!!!»
I hope the owner is open to listening to people, because they won’t last long in that location…

The food was ok. However service was a giant botched mess. The waitress ran the wrong bill. Then management couldn’t figure out how to refund the credit card. BUT WHAT WAS TOTALLY CONFOUNDING WAS WHY A 17 YEAR OLD SERVER WOULD THEN FAKE PUNCH MY CROTCH? Seriously. A teen aged girl came up and fake punched my crotch. How is this acceptable? Needless to say we won’t be going back.

Really dissapointing visit today. I used to be a regular and stopped in today after having moved to Denver. The place is struggling for sure (We were the only ones in the restaurant at 1 pm for lunch) and management seems to be a key reason for this. Which is too bad. We were some of their first customers when they originally opened and helped them get their menu in place (you can thank me for the battered french fries)
We have had the fish and chips here before and when we inquired about them the response was «We do still have them but do you see them on this menu? Then, no you cant order them today.» I was dumbfounded.
Two stars are earned because their food is really good, but for how poor the service is and the obvious lack of management actually wanting customers, I won’t be back.

Our first visit to Millcreek Grill and Bar was about a month after they opened and there were definitely some issues.
We’ve gone a couple more times and those issues have been addressed.
The «weird layout» of the place that gets mentioned in several reviews has been fixed. There is now a nice flow to the place and everything seems to work will, including the live entertainment/​stage area.
The servers are much improved and are now among the most competent and friendly you’ll find.
The food… yes the food… it has imvproved dramatically, even though it was already above average from the start. They have typical bar food, but they also have nice entrees, if you’re in the mood for something a bit more fancy and/​or healthy.
Our most recent visit was on a Saturday night and the place was hopping. The live band was excellent. The food was flawless. The service was great. The atmosphere was very cool and everyone seemed to be having a great time.
I can’t ask for much more than that in a neighborhood grill and bar!

So much potential, but is very sub par. We had garlic burgers and an appetizer of humus and veggies. Garlic burgers sucked and the apps came out with my meal. I wish it was better because it’s right by my house.

Weird spot with layout and servers. Our server kept forgetting everything including my hollandaise on my eggs bennedict. Her family was eating there and she kept sneaking bites. Her niece was singing in the top of her lungs not making it cute past the first 5 minutes. What seemed to be the owner was not aware of whats going on. The nachos were weak served with sour salsa, yuck. My Bf’s frittata was good and so were the 2 dollar bloody mary’s. There are a lot of things this place needs to change to become a usual rotation for brunch, a whole lot!

Positives before negatives.
Heard the food was amazing here… so right! Yummy food and the desert was really amazing. It was their cobbler that had squash in it that tasted like peaches, it was soo yummy and nice to eat something for desert that was half good for you. I took a picture of it and posted bec I thought their presentation of the desert was fun! Had fish and chips, fries were sooo good and crispy. My husband had their wedge salad and it had REAL, thick cuts of bacon on it. We were very happy with the food.
Service was top notch. Our waitress was cute, friendly and very fast. All the employees that we saw were happy, smiley and seems to really like working there.
Now onto the negatives. The layout of the place is not that great. Your greeted at the door with a half wall and a dinning table as a hostess desk? you can’t see into the main dinning area from the door and that bugs me. Dark décor. They had live music, which is always great but his songs were sad (the guitar player/​singer didn’t know all the words to Amazing Grace and started making it up as he went). Needed more up beat music. We sat down at our table that was balanced with napkins at the base… ugh! I HATE that! We moved tables because the low hanging light fixture above the table hit my husband’s head when he lend in. They had these sliver «containers» on each table that held napkins, forks and knives. I didn’t like that AT ALL, I thought to myself, «how many people have touch these!!» My husband beer glass had lipstick on it and my wine glass had water spots.
We got there around 7:30 and it was pretty quite, not alot of people by 9:00, which I thought it should have been busy about that time with the bar an all.
I want to say that we will be back due to the food being so good but the décor and layout is kindof depressing. We will see…

Lunch. I had a garlic burger, she had a salad. I drank water, she drank tea. The burger was exceptional. Well formed patty, juicy, cooked to perfection. Fries were processed and crunchy but good. She had no complaints about her salad. She’s local and has been there several times. They’re recently opened. She had met the owner on multiple occasions, he didn’t recognize her. He was gracious and sincere.
Or waiter was very good but was trying way too hard. I was annoyed and it didn’t take long before I went out of my way to avoid eye contact. Zeal never is a good thing, especially when someone is perfectly capable of asking for something and simply wants to be left alone to eat and converse. A mild sedative for the waiter would have made the experience that much nicer.
There have been at least a dozen restaurants in this location since it was opened back in the ’70’s. Maybe more. The last time I’ve been there was over a decade ago. I think it was Italian and was really quite good. Success in the restaurant business is elusive. It would be nice if the present owner makes it.
I’d go again if I lived close. But I don’t so I won’t. I just don’t get to that neighborhood very much anymore. I grew up just down the street. Used to climb over the fence from Evergreen Jr. High to get to Wally’s Donuts (now defunct).
It’s dated inside. Don’t judge a book by its cover. That burger was one of the best I’ve had in a long time. When they can do the fundamentals that well, I’d imagine everything else on the menu is quality. They’re trying to get live music in there on occasion. You should support them.

Solid three stars. Appetizers were cold (should have been hot,) stuffed burger was amazing, no draft beer yet.
Bottom line:
Stay with the main course dining and give them another month to get their act together and get draft beer and properly heat appetizers.