Stopped at this spot for lunch and it never disappoints! I had the Steak Salad. It was so crisp and fresh. The steak was cooked perfectly and was so tender! Service was prompt and we didn't have to wait long for the food to come out. While we waited, the server brought out a bowl of popcorn - it was great! The ambiance was fun and relaxed. Highly recommend this place for great food and quick service! read more

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Billy's is a large bar located in downtown Anoka with an outdoor patio. Our experience started off a little rough as it seemed like we may never get seated even with a lot of open tables inside - it just took forever for someone to come and help us! As for the food, it was a bit above expectation as both the wings and Prime Rib Dip Sandwich were good. The wings might even rival those across the street at Serum's as they were much meatier and definitely had a solid buffalo sauce they use. Service did continue to be a bit lackluster, but given the solid food quality, it balanced out to an overall decent experience. read more

Billy's Bar & Grill - Prime Rib Dip Sandwich - Bars Near Me - Anoka, Minnesota

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Who doesn't love a good 80s feeling, carpeted bar??? Okay, I could probably do without the carpet, but outside of that, Billy's in downtown Anoka is a solid spot for a beer and bar food. Popped in late evening on a Thursday for dinner. Place was relatively quiet with a handful of bar seats open and plenty of tables. I sat at the bar and was promptly greeted and given a menu. Bartender was friendly and attentive. Ordered the "Fire" Bone-In wings which far exceeded my expectations. Downtown Anoka is known for killer wings (I will leave the bar across the street unnamed IYKYK). Nice sized and perfectly cooked. Super juicy, light crunch, easy pull off the bone clean meat. The sauce was delicious and had a solid heat level to it. I'm sold and will be back. read more

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Great food. Ciara, our waitress took good care of us. Nice layout and an overall good vibe. Will definitely be back!

Every time my husband and I have been to this bar it was bad service! We were there this evening and the bartender was very rude!!! Never going back to this place ever again!!! read more

Service was good we had a party of 4 the place was busy good ambiance dive bar but the food was low quality and not very good we would not order food again if we went read more

Just bad all around. Couldn't get our order correct on any aspect. Food was sub-par. When we walked in we weren't greeted as she was too busy looking at her phone and fooling around with a waiter. Ordered beers with olives and they had to come back with some for only one of our beers. Tater tots way over cooked. French dip with nothing to dip into. Waiter could care less. We will not go back. Another waiter dropped someone's food all over another customer. People that came in after us sat forever to have their orders taken. read more

Great people, great food. Will come again! Owner is top notch. Not much more to say than that

Solid dive with neighborhood bar vibes in the heart of downtown Anoka. Lots of free public parking nearby, which is super convenient. Large menu with standard pub fare and drink specials. Given its St. Patrick's Day I ordered a Reuben, which didn't disappoint. Was a little surprised at the $2 up charge to get fries instead of chips, but I may have missed a mention of that on the menu. Reuben was excellent and so were my 3 happy hour drinks. Each at a bargain $2.75/each! Friendly staff make this a welcoming spot to hit up. read more

Molly was amazing! Our wings were yummy and the salad was so good....tasty blue cheese!

My sister and I stopped in Billy's for our first time on Sunday. We sat at the bar and found the bartenders to be very friendly and attentive (even with us being somewhat indecisive). We had a few beverages, a margherita flatbread, and a side of fries. We have found that margherita flatbreads can be pretty hit or miss, but Billy's was on point. The fries were great too. We will definitely be back! read more

Billy's Bar & Grill - Margherita flatbread (with some pieces already devoured) - Bars Near Me - Anoka, Minnesota

Great experience for dinner last night with our table of 7. Great wait service-bringing 2 big bowls of popcorn immediately to the table before the rest of my party arrived. Good food from all reviews at our table! I love the historic building and the spontaneity of this spot. I do enjoy the patio (but it was raining during our visit). When we left, Billy's was starting to rock (so if you want a quiet meal-come early). read more

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Great happy hour! Food is good! Popcorn and half price drinks! Nightly specials are great, too!

Billy's is a dive bar through and through. When you visit Anoka and you're looking for a place to grab a cheap drink ($3.50 for a Jack and Coke during Happy Hour) and greasy bar food this is perfect for you. The interior hasn't been updated since the 90s and the carpet is definitely filthy after so much free popcorn getting dropped on it. This is definitely a place for regulars but there is a ton of space to sit. We sat by the bar area and our waitress stopped by frequently to ask us how we were doing. The drinks were cheap and the food arrived pretty quick. My recommendation? Go here to hang with familiar friends. This place is not meant for a nice night out by any means. The food is fine, the service is good, and the space is outdated and a little gross. It's all fine, I'm sure I'll be back, but don't make it a must-see. read more

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I went here on a birthday celebration. Had a good time. The quesadillas were delicious. I hated the Karaoke night but my friends enjoyed themselves. So there's that! Good experience. read more

Billy's is amazing. They have best food in Anoka in my opinion. Their boneless wings are addicting. Serums is constantly busier but Billy's has better food, less crowded/noisy. Support Billy's! read more

Billy's Bar & Grill - Loaded baked potatoe - ala carte, oriental boneless wings. Yummy - Bars Near Me - Anoka, Minnesota

It's a bar, so it has bar-quality food, but if you drink enough you won't care! Classic suburban menu that is far too large. Great little area to bar hop for cheap (a place nearby offers $5 Jack Daniels). I grew up in Anoka and decided to bar hop the area one weekend with my mom and a group of old family friends. Parking is easy. Street or ramp. You can walk to other bars, and because we weren't downtown Minneapolis, we could squeeze 8 people into each place on a Saturday night. Billy's in particular is HUGE. A historic "haunted" building. I ordered the Fajita Salad expecting something smaller. Instead I was given what looked like two full chicken breasts diced on top of the salad. So I would say you get good portions for the price. It came in a fancy tortilla shell with plenty of sauce. Perfect drunk food. We also got a round of their coffee cocktails. They came out room temp which was weird, but liquor is liquor to the liver so we moved on to the next bar. Lots of live bands playing on the weekends in this area of downtown Anoka. read more

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I wish SO badly that I could leave a five star review, because nine out of ten times we have phenomenal service. Unfortunately, our server today was INCREDIBLY unpleasant. I don't know if this was because we brought our children in today? (Who were very pleasant, well-behaved, and polite) But she walked in the middle of my six-year-old ordering his food. She barked questions at us. And she stomped around like she would rather be literally anywhere but here. I almost asked if she was okay! Anyway, this place is almost always awesome. Just do your best to avoid an older brunette server with bangs and an awful attitude. read more

Went here for breakfast and our server was horrible and rude. She questioned my 11 year old son on how old he was when he ordered off the kids menu. Like who does that? The food was so-so, steak was overdone and not good, pancake came out cold. I never feel so uncomfortable at a restaurant before. Won't be back. read more

Food is awesome! Good everything! My favorite is Lasagna! Owners are good people! The servers and bartenders are great! Made my 60th birthday very memorable! read more

I'm back for the Margarita Flatbread. Best ever. Kelly, the server we had, is just fantastic.

We had breakfast and my husband's steak was practically inedible. He could barely cut it with a knife. He informed the waitress but we were still charged full price for his meal. We have usually received excellent service from another waitress there and were disappointed that he wasn't compensated for his bad meal. This was the first time his breakfast steak was so tough. I had an omelette and it was dry and overcooked. In the past the omelette has been better so maybe it was just overall a bad day today. read more

On a beautiful Wednesday this week they opened up the patio and we enjoyed our lunch outside. Both of our meals, wild rice soup and half turkey sandwich, and club melt were good. Our waitress was also good. The beers were good. I understand doing your best during COVID but it's alarming to me that waitresses inside Billy's are allowed to wear face shields that hang down and clearly don't protect customers from them respirating the virus. Management should require real masks. Surgical masks are better and still allow people to breathe. Shields are for your eyes and protect the wearer while masks protect others. These half shields around the face are a joke. read more

Worst experience ever!!!!! After waiting an hour for food they came out and told me they were out of the prime rib I ordered. And then my daughter ordered unlimited fish, but she didn't have time to eat it because they didn't bring it out. And then the salads and soup we ordered, came out after our dinner. The worst part is, whoever was in charge didn't hold them accountable. And then we had a woman come out with a baby on her hip criticizing us because I said I was going to give them a bad review. Time with family, completely ruined! We had good memories under previous management, but sad to say this was not it. We will never, never ever be back. I know covid as hurt a lot of restaurants. But they told us they weren't even short staffed. So there should be no excuse. read more

Fabulous food. Wonderful historical old setting. Great drinks. Love many things but I have a favorite Chimichanga. Love their breakfast and brunches alway fabulous, always fresh. Great friendly staff. Good for our large family or groups. Not a loud sports bar so we always like staying for an extra cocktail and visiting. read more

Ten years ago it used to be a good place to go. Food has gone downhill, service is horrible. The hostess is never at the station when you come in so you end up waiting until she gets done visiting to get around to sneering at you to seat you. After you sit at your table for 15 minutes you might get someone to actually stop to take a drink order and drop off menus. Then your treated like they are doing you a favor by taking your order. If and when they get around to you! Gave them 3 tries and they couldn't get their act together and treat us like they wanted our business. So we are off to other venues in the area that truly want customers in their establishment. If you do have the misfortune of going there, stay in the inbar area. Bartenders there have always been super friendly. read more

Amazing historical destination with amazing hardworking staff! Stop in throughout the week for amazing Happy Hour drink specials, a DELICIOUS full Breakfast menu until 2PM Saturdays & Sundays, Bottomless Mimosa's for $15 until Noon on the weekends, as well as a HUGE patio with a full service bar! Book a private and intimate patio party. Utilize the comfortable sectional couch, personalized music, and food options. Karaoke/DJ's/Bands every weekend! read more

I used to work here and the food and historical ambience are both great! Management always caters great to customers and there are always good deals like 3-6 happy hour on half off appetizers (big portions) and daily entree deals too. read more

I may not me a food critic but I can tell good from bad and there "hot,hot,hot burger" was one of the best burger I've ever had, with a perfectly pink inside, rich flavor, and melt in your mouth texture, it can't get better than that. although I did get fries instead of cheese curds but I didn't mind because the fries were pretty good themselves. another thing was the vintage ambiance, with the white floral wallpaper, and the glorious original roof tiles, it was surely a sight worth seein! One little thing tho was the service, it was fast and quick but the servers tone of voice was not pleasant, but as a person who gives the bene of the doubt I'm sure she's just having a bad day. None the less definitively worth coming back!! read more

I would give it zero stars if I could. My husband and I went there for breakfast on a Sunday morning. We go into a bar with two sets of customers sitting at a couple tables, on gentlemen at the bar, and two or three employees sitting at a table. My husband and I sat for ten minutes before the bartender acknowledged us. He took our order and ten minutes later he comes back and asked my husband Wanted again. Another five minutes later our 7up, and screwdriver arrived (so hard to rememberi guess). After he dropped off the drinks he hurried away. My husband and I had been looking at the menus, and the bartender walked by us atleast 15 times without even acknowledging us again. But he was sure busy taking the employees orders and chatting. We decided we were going to pay for our drinks and leave. I walked up to the bar and stood there for a minute or two before he finally realized I wanted help. He walks up to me and stares at me and says "yeah?" I said "my bill" he looked at me and asked what I had....really dude we are one of three tables and you can't remember what we had. He printed up our tab set it on the counter and walked away... I'm So sorry to inconvenience you with our business. Went to another local bar down in Ramsey and had the BEST service ever. So needless to say we won't be going back. read more

I wish there was a way to not even provide a star. Specials are written on the board for a reason. So I order the drink special. The waiter looks at me like I am crazy, and then says oh well, I don't know if we have that or not? And comes back with something completely different and says, you must have meant this! I said no, but whatever, its fine. I look again. The drink is literally on the chalk board but he swears thats not something they have. Seriously? Dude its right here, I am pointing it out to you. He is just shrugging. We order and wait and wait and wait and wait and our food is delivered. My other half ordered the prime rib special. Rare. It comes out like leather. Not edible. Leather. Awful. So we wait and wait and wait for the waiter to come back. We tell him. Mind you there was a miniature bite taken which is how he found out it was awful. and the waiter looks puzzled. looks at what he wrote (sorry we wuold NEVER order prime any other way!!) and then begins to inspect the steak rotating the plate looking in/out it was like are you kidding me? Just take it away and no we dont want a replacement we just want it off th ebill so we can leave. oh no they still charge him $5 because we took too long to complain about it? What? okay call me crazy but Im not paying for something I didnt eat. Did I? Yes because I dont want them tackling me for non payment (because quite literally they did tackle a friend of mine-which is currently still being investigated!) not payment related it was just disgusting. This place used to be so so good and its a dump. Its dirty. puke on the bathroom floor and terrible service and the manager who apparently told our waiter to still charge us 5.00 never even bothered to come to the table. We tried calling and they seriously give zero f's!! zero! what a disgusting shame! read more

I usually go to Serums as I love wings. Today just as entering we were advised of a water break and they were shutting down for the day. Went across parking lot to Wheelhouse and after 15 minutes and nobody interested in taking our order, we left. Went to Billy's and found they have changed their wings and they were great! Perfect as I asked for xtra crunchy. My new wing spot!!! read more

My husband and I have always found this restaurant to be one of our favorite places to eat, as he loves the fajitas. But all too often, we walk in, seated by a host/hostess and are completely ignored. Every single wait staff will walk by and will not even look our way. There have been times we have sat for well over 20 minutes and we have zero contact with anyone who works there. This happens when it isn't very busy most Of the time and we don't understand this. Going forward, we are unfortunately going to avoid this restaurant because of this. It has happened too many times and it's not worth the headache or frustrations anymore. read more

First time in Billy's The place is beat up rundown bathroom is horrible. Food was OK not good enough to go back waitress seem like she was on drugs. Not a good place to go eat 4/25/23 read more

Love this place! Awesome food, drinks, atmosphere. Fun place to go for a drink, love the live music. The people are super friendly, and we held a surprise bday party a while back and they were so helpful every step of the way. The band even sang happy birthday ! Love Billy's! read more

We sat for twelve minutes with our Menus in the air. Then called the bar asking for them to send someone to our table as the wait staff sent on buy every minute. The bus bit even asked to take our menus, I said no I want to order. Still NO SERVICE! Finally the waitstaff came cruising on by and went to hug the new table and take their order. They barely sat down! I said excuse me! I want to order some food. Oh sorry o didn't see you, 20 minutes without drinks or acknowledgement! I say don't bother. The manager never came by after we called. read more

I keep meaning to come here more often to at least try something other than the Friday fish fry....someday I suppose. This is a nice bar/restaurant. The bartenders are always hopping and have a good eye for people looking for a drink. The tap beer selection average, but they do have Rush River on tap which is a plus. Another plus is they have pulltabs :) Wait staff is pretty attentive and coureous. There is nothing particular from what I saw on the menu, however I think they do a great job on the fish fry. They have a nice beer batter that sticks to the white fish and is not too thick, and it is all you can eat! Friday fish night is always busy so plan on having a beer and eat some popcorn while you wait.. read more

Billy Bar is a great place to have a party everyone on the staff is great they you 150 percent of they time and they are the most friendly staff I Harley recommend Billy for your next party I had my 70s birthday party they my husband is was the they one bill it and they a great Job help him with set it up Gloria and Guy Wheelock read more

Beware they reuse dirty rags i am witnesses poor sevice gang banner for server ie hats backwards asked several times for water several time for salad ie after meal was set down never got water or salad dressing . Food was good but avoid not worth the headache read more

Good bar food and good service! I actually came here today not expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised. The food was very good for bar type good (burgers, sandwiches, etc.). And the service was fantastic. The food came out fast, hot, and prepared well. This is the second restaurant I've tried on this street and this is the best so far. It's unpretentious and a little on the redneck side. But that's okay. -Daddy Maxx Retro read more

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