Alger Bar & Grille

We love Alger Tavern! The best chicken ever! Lisa and Troy are our favorites! We come here at least twice a month!

Nice place to grab a drink. But, the food is beyond terrible I would not recommend this place to anyone even those I hate. They get their food from the trucking company called Aramark who provide food for prisons. The place is extremely rundown from front to back. The last time it was there I ordered the chicken fried steak dinner and my dinner roll was so stale that I could skip it across a pond like a rock. When I asked for it to be replaced the waitress told me that the biscuits have been that way for days and they haven’t gotten a new shipment in. It bothers me when a restaurant would serve something they know is nonedible.

This place has OK food. The place is run down and old. Bathrooms are really bad !! Does not have consistent hours. The owner really needs new management !!
Just clean the place and get staff that are interested in serving. If you enjoy getting drunk in a dirty bar this is a place for you.

Went there for the first time in a long while. You get exactly what you would expect from a country bar out in the middle of nowhere. You don’t go somewhere like this and expect new and updated everything, it adds to the charm. Friendly folk, good service, and nice mix of domestic and micro beer selection. Props for home made fried mushrooms. The burger value and price that go along with it are comparable. Had a just fine experience.

Here’s the deal. It’s a local tavern w/​cold beer (13+ drafts and more in bottles) and decent food. It’s been here forever. Recently someone blew through the adjacent 4 way stop in their car and impaled their car into the side of the building. No problem, they just put a #12 sign over the hole and it’s business as usual. No biggie.
For those of us who live nearby it’s a reliable option for food and conversation. We’re nice, friendly and occasionally talkative but around here we aren’t nosy. We won’t pry and we aren’t too big on small talk. Don’t be offended, it’s not you, it’s us.

First visit to Alger Bar & Grill. Right in the center of town.
This is the kind of bar/​tavern that used to be found all over Western Washington… but this one is still here and doing well. This place has more windows than I would expect, there was quite a bit of natural light. We stopped during a fall ride. We ordered dinner entrees and beers.
Service was good relatively quick, sufficient, unremarkable.
I had fish and slaw, it was a dark beer batter fry with ok slaw, not the best I have ever had. The slaw was a little dry and mostly a mayonnaise flavor. The Fish was good, fresh, and a good size serving.
The Alger wasn’t busy and there were mostly folks there for an evening meal and a beer. Only one patron was at the bar.
This is a decent bar in the country, with okay food and drink. I’ll probably return in the future.

We stopped in here Saturday evening on the way home from Bellingham after driving by the sign for it on I5 a hundred times. I always wondered what kind of place it was since it seems like the middle of no where. Well, it is pretty much what you’d think! We walked in, were greeted and sat down where we wanted. Our server was so sweet and friendly, and she helped me order a perfect dinner. Fried chicken and a garden salad. Sounds simple, and it was, but it was prepared perfectly! We left feeling very content. Thanks Jessica! We will definitely stop in again.

I was shocked to see the previous reviews. The broasted chicken at this place has caused me to put them on speed dial when I am passing through from Seattle to Bellingham to pick up «to go» food. But recently I took some friends there, and they took some other people another time, and ten of us are going tomorrow night. It’s not fancy, but it’s friendly and the food is very tasty.

Honestly don’t waste your time. Although our waitress was friendly, between the awkward looks from regulars, the rank smell from the carpet, and the mediocre food… you’re better off at Jack in the Box.

Great oysters. reasonable prices. Seems lively. we came in just before Halloween and there seemed to be a lot of setup for a party.

I was sad to read the other reviews here! I had to add my two cents.
Non-​Locals are unwelcome? How untrue is this? VERY! I spotted this establishment while I was out on my sidecar motorbike and ventured inside on a Saturday night. To me it seemed like only locals were present but I was welcomed in as one of their own. Age group ranged from 21 to eighty. The best part? NO MINORS ALLOWED (awesome!). The bartender and waitress were super nice and even chatted w/​me for a few moments while I got settled. I struck up a conversation w/​a bloke at the corner bar for directions and he was as polite as could be.
My beer was cold, food was hot and delivered quickly (and it was very tasty). I will definitely stop back again when I’m in the area. I’d even go out of my way to being friends here. I would say this place holds true to all my expiations of a local drinking establishment.

The previous review essentially sums it up; this is a local place. As a non-​local, you will be unwelcome. Your drink will be watered down and you will be sized-​up. I don’t imagine they care and that’s probably some of the appeal for locals. Go if you enjoy feeling like an interloper, but pass if you aren’t going for novelty

The long time hang out for the local Alger resident, I first visited this place while still in the womb. My dad ran a small business out of this bar during the late 70’s and early 80’s. He also used to beat up Canadian tourists with Friends for fun back in the day. It hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years. Cheap food and drink, pool tables and cheap beer. Sometimes live music. If you want to see some Mountain hill people this would be the place. Great for memories and nostalgia of Alger, the place of my birth.