We had good service and GREAT food. The food came out within a reasonable time frame. I ordered the Fireline blackened chicken sandwich and hubby ordered the bbq Mac & cheese. When we saw the onion rings arrive at the next table, we ordered those too; I'm so glad we did. They were on point. The place was friendly, they're hosting a wedding today, I figure that says a lot about the hospitality. 4 stars because the server missed a part of the ordered that she immediately remedied when brought to her attention. read more

Alden Bar & Grille - Onion rings - Bars Near Me - Alden, Michigan

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We were very impressed with wonderful flavorful food . The bathrooms for men and women are child friendly and clean . Very happy pleasant employees. Menu has a lot of wonderful options. Warm friendly dining experience. read more

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Great food and service. We just bought a house on the lake and we're excited to find a local place to have as a go too. We found it!! Great food, love the atmosphere and great service! read more

Horrible service! We were seated immediately, but after that it was down hill. Took a waiter 10-15 minutes to come over ti get our drinks. Then he couldnt even remember if he served us our appetizer. Just a really crappy experience! read more

Their new burgers are thin, dry, and relatively tasteless, but as pricey as ever. MacDonald's quarter pounders are great by comparison. Don't waste your money. read more

Good food, great staff, deep selection of beers, clean, upbeat and cheery atmosphere.

We 3 went to watch a Saturday night football game. Not very hungry, so split a main dish for 3. Ordered the perch dinner @ $28. What a rip-off! 3 perch that were about 4" long and some french fries and tarter sauce. We ordered a side of fries afterwards for $4. That means that the tiny perch were $8 each. Will probably stick to the nachos if I ever return. I should have taken a photo, but did not. read more

Some of the best wings I've ever had. Great vibe great people, will come back every time I'm in town

It was all you could eat for perch and whitefish. After 40 minutes I received 2 small pieces of perch. Asked for more which took another 30 minutes. All for $40. Server was nice and kept apologizing. read more

Our food was delicious! my husband and I both got chicken sandwhiches and they were nice portions and really good! however, the service wasn't the best. It took a while to even get seated as there was no one at the front and our waitress didn't even know we were here at first. After we were seated and our waitress helped us, they did a good job and she was very pleasant to us read more

It took 1.5 hours to get our food, then it was cold. Then it took10 minutes to get a waitress to get our bill. Then she had no idea what we ordered and still charged us wrong, which took another 25 minutes. They were busy, but need more wait staff to keep up. There were many angry diners around us. read more

BLT was bland, fish basket had so much oil in it we had to use several napkins to suck it up to save the French fries. We've been here before and this was a bad experience and I'm not sure we will be back anytime soon. Waitress was great. read more

It was trivia night, ok thought what a great idea have fun, well that's where it ended. Waitstaff was behind because they obviously can't handle a big crowd right away. The food is now ordered on a piece of paper marked with pencil, so circle it cross out style etc. I am not sure what the kitchen needs to get there act together, but 45 minutes to 1 hour ticket time is NOT acceptable for a "standard" menu. Especially since you circle the items that you want. Probably won't go back until the end of season possibly when the kitchen can "handle " the work load. In all honesty the fries were actually good. But not waiting an hour for them ever again. Wow being a local we used to commend this place nope we will no longer recommend this place. Aka lost at least 20-40 customers read more

overpriced for what is served. unless things improve we will never go back small amount of fries and chicken fingers were very disappointing. read more

The waitress was nice but didn't listen to anything we said and missed us asking for things like no tomatoes on a sandwiches. The wings had almost no sauce on them that we could not tell which wings were which flavor. They claim they have the " best burger in town", when really any other restaurant could make it better than they did, and it also came out way after everyone else's food. The fries that came with it had HUGE chunks of deep-fried peaces of something ( not fries), probably because they haven't cleaned it in forever. The salad was fine, you can't mess it up. If you like a lot of iron in your water definitely go there, because the water tastes like straight iron. Also there was a lot of extra things on the nacho supreme that were NOT on the menu that we would have asked not to put on them if we had known. They also were out of an item on the menu, and didn't tell us till we tried to order it making one person in my group have to quickly scramble to find something else to get. Over all not a great experience. read more

The service was good here but the food was just okay. Kinda a rip-off, they are trying to be fancy but serve soup saltines on a meat & cheese board. That was disappointing for the price. The pizza was super good though. read more

Alden Bar & Grille - Meat & cheese board - Bars Near Me - Alden, Michigan

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SKIP this place. Been here on and off for 20 years. I can't say enough bad about the attitudes of the staff, low quality food, s l o w service. It's clear the people that work here seem to want to see it fail. I feel sorry for the poor sap that recently bought this joint. We've been here four times in the past two weeks and each visit has been more disappointing than the last. I typically leave positive reviews even for so-so restaurants, but Alden Bar - now called Torch Lake Brew is one of the worst experiences I've had in many years. Asked for a manager. Marla who I had experiences with the past few times (cannot believe she is a manager) didn't respond to our concerns with the food quality. Didn't take a bite of my burger for obvious reasons (see pictures) and was still charged for it. Horribly managed restaurant. Maybe they make it up $$$-wise on weekend booze sales. Strongly encourage you to move on down the road if you're looking for food. read more

DO NOT GO HERE!!! My husband and I walked all the way there to check this place out. We left the teenagers with the two younger kids at home. We asked to see the menu. We told them we would probably do carry out. The waitress said they were a little backed up and it would probably be 30 to 45 minutes. We said that's fine and walked home. We decided to just walk back to the restaurant with all the kids and eat there. The minute we walked in, the manager told the waitress to tell us that the grills were being turned off and the kitchen was closed - an hour and a half before they actually close. All 8 of us had to walk back home and find another restaurant to go to. We read the reviews before we came to this place and decided to give them a chance anyway. Well, we definitely should have believed the negative reviews. This was the worst customer experience we have ever had in our entire lives. The manager did not even apologize. I am guessing this place will be closed in a month. My husband was so irritated that he walked back to the kitchen and gave them a $100 bill. He said that they will most likely need this as they will soon be out of a job. I would have rather kept the money but that's not his style . Not a good impression of Alden and pretty disturbing for our summer vacation with our family. The locals should try to get a better restaurant in this location. read more

Really sorry to have to write this crappy review of this once lovely place to go and eat and unwind, but today me and the crew from a local business went there to escape another establishment that gave us bad service in the past, the place wasnt that busy and well we ordered our food and drinks , two members ordered cups of soup well even that took forever to get to our table, had to tell our waitress that we would like refills (I didnt get a refill) we sat and watched their lunchhour got to waist with only two people getting something substantial (If you call soup that) Asked said waitress to find out the holdup on our food, was told that a party of three people were the reason for said holdup, and they being understaffed due to new ownership again. Left hungry and thirsty and will not go back to this place for awhile. read more

This place is now called Torch Brewing Company. We just visited it and it was DELICIOUS. Really amazing food. The dill pizza was phenomenal. Will totally come again on our next visit. read more

Alden Bar & Grille - Dill Pizza - Bars Near Me - Alden, Michigan

Very disappointed I'm a local and regular customer. Torch Lake Beer Company has steadily improved since the ownership change. The food is good. Great beer selection. I'll be back but tonight's visit was ridiculous. I was surprised that the place was only about 70% full when we got there but they said they wouldn't seat us for about an hour because the kitchen was running behind. Really? A kitchen running behind is easy to understand this time of year. But, we couldn't sit and have drinks while we waited at an available table? The answer was no and we weren't the only group that was unhappy about it. Just a weird call on their part. read more

I sat at the bar for almost 10 minutes and was ignored, I just want it a hamburger to go for my lunch.

I have given Alden bar and grill another chance since writing this a couple years ago The ownership has now changed twice in that timeframe The food is good and the wait staff has improved I believe the former manager is no longer there which I believe to be at the heart of the issue of poor service based on our dealings with him I would encourage you now to try Alden Bar and Grill and make your own conclusions read more

If you are looking for the local local, this is it. They're currently undergoing renovations, but the casual, friendly atmosphere remains. Generous cocktails, good beers in cold glasses, and indifferent bar food in the classic American style. Plus SHUFFLEBOARD! C'MON, SHUFFLEBOARD!!! The staff makes n00bs feel like locals. There are events every night of the week, ranging from Euchre to Karaoke, with live music on the weekends. The blues band playing tonight is seriously quite good by any standard. read more

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If I could give them less than one star I would.. I wish I could give them negative stars. What happened to this little diamond in the rough? The food and the service along with the clientele has completely diminished. The fish sandwich I was served was frozen prebreaded particle fish... Alden Bar seemed to always pride itself on hand battered fish. So I was beyond stunned. Thank God I had the clam chowder to offset the disappointment. The clam chowder was nothing to write home about either and it was probably can or frozen rather than homemade, but at least it was edible. I watched one of the servers I think I overheard her name was Tammy, (pink camo hat) bus dirty dishes from tables place them in a bus tub then grab fresh food from the kitchen and carry it out to diners without washing or even sanitizing her hands... And I did notice a large hand sanitizer bottle at the corner... This woman server appeared to be a tweeker. In all honesty the bar tenders sanitary practices weren't any better. I constantly witnessed both the server and bartender bussing dirty dishes and never washing or sanitizing hands. We never got refills on our drinks, even though both women had plenty of time to stand at the bar and play with their cell phones and tell stories about other drunken patrons by name. To cash out we had to go to the bar to get our bill. There was only 2 remotely clean cut staff in the kitchen one was a guy who put the food in the window the other was a girl. The other 2 or 3 guys who I'm sure were even employees looked like thugs. There were some sketchy people at the bar as well, with one kid who could NOT sit still. He made me incredibly nervous with his behavior. Between the disgusting service and disgusting food, I will not be back anytime soon! There are far to many restaurants to give my money to for this unprofessional level of service and Sysco prepared deep fried food at the cost they charge. read more

Alden Bar & Grille - Prebreaded frozen particle fish sandwich - Bars Near Me - Alden, Michigan

Here on a Sunday night, along with another family. The pizza was ok, the fish was soggy and gross. Be aware: pool tables are only for 18 and up, reserved for the pool league. The table isn't regulation size, so not sure how they have a league ? The barmaid was absolutely rude to my son when he asked to play pool. We won't be back. read more

Had dinner with the family out on the porch in an igloo style tent with heat. So good we came back for lunch the next day. We have a few lucky eaters and all were happy. read more

Horrible service, left after we didn't get our food for 35 minutes... the only good thing was the water. Visually saw the cooks eating food while cooking. The Oberon definitely wasn't Oberon either. read more

I like to come to this place because it's friendly but they just gave me a 6 dollar carryout chicken noodle soup that had 2 noodles in it and was 100 percent Mrs Liptons soup right from the package. read more

Under new ownership, unfortunately the service was under par. Seems that the new owners aren't sure how this establishment needs to be staffed during the holiday weekends when people are in town. We arrive at 12:15, and it took them about 15 minutes for menus to be brought to our table. After my husband ordered a beer, 20 minutes goes by, and they do not have that beer, or the second beer the chose off of the menu. We finally ordered, and the food is okay. This new establishment makes me miss when Alden bar was a small little bar to enjoy food at a few years ago. read more

Do better. The waitstaff and bartenders were literally the only thing that was good... they did what they could. The owners should be as embarrassed as I was when we brought our friends here. The AB was at least consistent bar food, star to finish this was an awful experience. I don't know what they've done but we won't be back anytime soon. read more

This was a terrible experience to terrible for words. The staff was rude and the food was disgusting don't go here if you want a good experience. read more

They changed the name to Torch Lake Brewing Co. but the food is still the same quality as the Alden Bar & Grille that I remember. The service was great, bar had lots of options. I wish the food was better quality. The food was never good there, still isn't. Sorry Torch Lake Brew Co! I had faith in you. read more

Awesome pizza. Great staff. Outdoor dining. Would definitely be on my go to place again. Heard that on Fridays they have all you can eat fish and service is slower. Try it out. Enjoy! read more

Eh. Nothing really more to say. Kinda just a bar but I don't reccomend wanting fast service!

So I'm going to cut to the chase, my food was beyond underwhelming. I ordered the sausage platter. For $15 I was expecting something decent. I got a bratwurst and two hotdog size sausages cut in half.... these weren't special sausages or brats by any means. Picture a Johnsonville brat and and two Echrich polish dogs cut down the middle and thrown on a plate with some fries. They tasted fine but come on... I know it's a tourist town and prices are jacked but their cost for this meal couldn't have been more than a $1.00. My wife said her Mac and cheese was fine. And honestly mine was good too it was just a laughable meal to serve at a restaurant read more

I wish we had looked the place up on Yelp before heading there last Saturday. I've been to this restaurant several times over the past couple of years and it was always good food, good service, and reasonable price. That is no longer the case. We arrived about 11:30am on 07/13, on our way out of town. The bartender seemed very upset that we wanted to put 2 tables together so that all 6 of us could sit together, but did push them together for us. We ordered our food and then just kept waiting. After over an hour, I asked if our food (which included a salad and appetizers) had even been started and was told NO. We were told that the kitchen was slow, we were not told that there was no way we'd get our food, even our appetizers, in less than 90 minutes. The place wasn't even that busy. The waitress did apologize to us 1x after about 45 minutes - but still didn't bring us any refills on our ice tea, water, pop, etc. She did apologize again, when we said we were leaving. The bartender, who was doing nothing, told a member of our group to use the machine to play Keno - apparently he was a bother, though she had no one at the bar. It's a shame that our awesome vacation to Torch almost ended on such a terrible note. Luckily, The Muffin Tin, across the road, came to our rescue. We were seated, served, ate, and checked out within 30 minutes. Absolutely terrible experience. read more

Sub par bar food, but staff is friendly and outside dining area is nice for an afternoon restorative.

Terrible service and out of half of things on the menu. We had a group of 10 and were told they could not move tables to accommodate. Waited 20 minutes and still no drink orders so we left for something better. This was out 3rd strike since new ownership so probably won't be back. read more

Fabulous destination for boaters; the Alden harbor is a short walk from the restaurant. Currently understaffed which made it necessary for us to cancel our plans for a few burgers as the long wait for food would have had us negotiating the Torch River after dark -- which is NOT fun. Will call to ask about wait times before heading there by boat next time. read more