Bottoms Up Bar & Grill

This place is ridiculous. …the food is good but damn there is no stopping the drunks. The bar just keeps serving them and never stops even when they are falling down and knocking stuff over. I guess if you want to get wasted and make a total ass of yourself this is the place to go. Someone needs to teach this place limits! !!!

Place has gone down hill. The beef sandwich that is supposed to be the most popular was thick slices of beef with fat running through it. The French fries are those coated type fries. ick! We also ordered the Bottoms up burger and the onions were not grilled, as the menu stated, but crunchy. We won’t be going g back.

They have good food during the day and it’s a convenient bar to go after the other bars close since they are open until 4am.

I go here for the food. It’s really good considering this place is a bar. Sure– there is a dining area inside but if you come evening/​late hours it’s more of the drinking crowd. Which is fine because you can order carry out.
The fries here are awesome! They have this unique, crispy type of coating on them.
The Firecracker calamari is excellent– and I usually don’t care much for calamari
Portions are usually pretty generous as well

How disappointing! This place has really gone down hill. There was only 3 tables including ours for dinner at the time. Service was good but the food was terrible. We were told the soup was cream of potato. Shortly after, our waitress comes back saying they ran out. Um ok. So I order this chicken dinner that came grilled and topped w pepper jack cheese and bacon. We were in a hurry, so I didn’t bother to complain but it was so burnt and dry. It was a struggle to cut it. This place used to have great food. Now, not so much. Skip it.

Good pizza. Never got a drink I didn’t like. Amanda is an awesome waitress. I love to go there on Thursday nights.

Barbecue chicken nachos… Italian sausage Potatoe skins… delicious! However the service left something to be desired. My friend and I decided to visit because it was close and we were hungry it took forever for the lady to take our order and it wasn’t even crowded. We ordered a pizza to go the first came out burnt oh boy try again that one was undercooked oh well at least I was full right!

I live right down the road from this place, and I’ve probably visited around 15 – 20 times since it’s been open (only a few years).
It’s simply a nice sports bar. Their food is better than most pub grub I’ve eaten; and there are plenty of TV’s to be able to watch the game that you’re looking for. They have your typical «darts and Golden Tee» corner, and their beer selection is better than your average sports bar as well. The staff has been very attentive for the most part; and the owners are always friendly and open for suggestions.

I like this more, a few years later from my original review. I started eating meat again, and they have a pretty good patty melt, which is a solid. Most importantly of all, they have a good selection of beers on tap, including Ranger IPA (New Belgium), Blue Moon, and Guinness. Lately I’ve only been going on Thursdays, because their best bartender works that day in the evening, and she’s outstanding. She actually knows how to pour a Guinness, which makes a huge difference.
It doesn’t hurt that the crowd isn’t bad. It’s not one of those bars where you go for a drink at 8 PM and people are already shitfaced and acting like morons. I can’t speak to the late night boozin’ crowd, because I generally avoid those people at everything but my absolute favorite bars, but the early evening crowd is perfectly acceptable for a quiet drink. Music seems to be frequent, but if you don’t mind talking over a band playing shitty covers, it’s a good place to have a brew in the south suburbs of Chicago.
Costs (regular): Guinness — $ 5, Ranger $ 4.50. Coors Light is $ 1.50 on Thursdays, if you’re desperate to save cash. I only list costs of shit I order, so if you want to know how much Bud Light costs… look elsewhere.

This bar has its pros and cons. I love the fact that it is open later than most bars around the lansing area. The bar itself is nice. It is decently clean (for a bar) The prices are great too, they have $ 1 bombs and cheap drafts. They have random activities to do too. Such as Jenga, basketball, a great jukebox I do enjoy going to local taverns like this, but the crowd is what bothers me. This dive bar is full of douchey juiced up bros, and drunk gross girls who think they are hot, yet half of them are only dancing with each other and arent gettign any attention from any guy sno matter how drunk he may be. How This particular bar attracts this crowd, i dont understand. I usually haveto have a good buzz going before I goto this bar.

Dive bar with great Deep Fried Walleye! Food is surprisingly good! Great fries. With your dinner you get soup and salad and its a LOT of food. Walleye is sooo good and buttery, it should be illegal. Lake perch is outstanding as well.
Place is a little creepy, but outside patio is great.
Soup needs to be worked on, very salty and tasteless.
I would definitely be back for some good fried fish!
Oh and service was super!

Well I really liked this place for the entire hour I was there. the people I was out with were apparently into heading out to young idiot night at Margaritas a few miles away, if it were up to me I would have stayed… good calm crowd MY OWN AGE or older and decent music. the guy singin was a bit slow for my taste but better that «bump that thang» playing so loud you can’t hear your own thoughts. Good beer, prices and a heated smoking area… thank you! I’ll be back for sure :) it’s hard to find places like this anymore

a much needed overhaul from the old bottoms up. decent beer selection and open mic night on saturday. they also have a giant beer garden with cornhole and hoops. oh… free pretzels rods at the bar.

I’d say this is more a sports bar & restaurant than a dive bar for two reasons:
1) They have lots of TVs and tons of games to play out back.
2) The food is great!
That’s right — great food. My grandma comes here for lunch, so that should tell you everything you need to know. They have some great fish selections, but I’ve always stuck to the basics and gone chicken sandwich w/​fries, which never disappoints.
We’ve been coming here for a couple years now, and each time it seems to get a little nicer. They’re currently doing a remodel and I imagine will be more of a restaurant than a bar after it’s done.

Well at least with the Illinois smoking ban you no longer have to worry about smelling like smoke UNLESS you get a seat outside. Everyone smokes out there now pretty close to where the dining tables are. Dive bar fits it to a T. It was a dive way back when it was McKinney’s Place, well actually it was A LOT worse then. Now at least you have a 90% better chance of coming out with your face intact. The food is good, I’ll give them that. They have a decent bocce ball court and horseshoe pits out back too.

As a regular place, Bottoms Up would probably get 2.5÷5, but it gets 4 stars as a dive bar. It fits the description «dive bar» to a T. However, the food is well above par for this category. I love the fried shrimp and fish, and practically everything comes with a salad AND a soup — excellent value. In typical dive bar fashion, it is very smokey. You will come out smelling like bar, unless you’re lucky enough to get a seat on the patio.
Edit: My GF’s parents love coming here for the food, and they are by far NOT dive bar people. That should give you an indication of how good the food really is.