Boulder Tap House

In town for business. Looks like a good place to watch a game. Tv’s everywhere. Not a huge place, very open. Came on Wednesday when no games were playing and it wasn’t overly busy. Happy hour 1 $ off 5.50 $ taps. Wide arrangement of taps, craft styles. I ate the brown sugar and cheddar burger, with a side order of sweet potatoes fries. Burger was large, messy, and tasty. Sweet potatoes fries were over cooked. Heard 3 other patrons order Cajun fries, maybe should of ordered those. Beers and service were good. Comfy bar stools. Would of been a 4 maybe 5 with a better side dish.

This place is amazing. Great food. My husband and I ordered the ½ pound mushroom and cheese burger and we split it. If you love love French fries this is the place to go hands down

I have had several of their menu items and the burgers are, of course, fantastic. My favorite side is the Cajun fries. Love their constantly changing beer menu. I think it is fun to stop in and see what they are pouring. Last time I was in (¹⁄₈), I had the Asian pulled pork and think that it would have been tastier with a vinegar coleslaw, but that’s really a minor criticism.

Food is always delicious here. The pork carnitas tacos are the best! Staff is really friendly and prompt and helpful most of the time! Would recommend for lunch or dinner dates. The beer selection is great too!

Brown sugar cheddar burger is one of the best I’ve had. The cheese curds are superb also!

Late Tuesday dinner with the family. Fishing got in the way of a timely meal. Everything was great. Chicken wrap, steak sandwich and tap house tacos. Lots of flavor and who can beat the tap selection.

had lunch here the other day with a group of 5 before a wedding. Friendly and welcoming staff… Great beer selection with both local and national craft brews… ordered burgers which were mighty tasty… would be a great place to catch a game as they have an abundance of TV’s. Would return if ever in the area. Thought pricing was good on food and drinks… around $ 10 for a burger, and $ 5 to $ 6 for tall, 22oz, beers.

We really tried this place because we thought they would have Boulder Beer. They did not. They did, however, have quite a variety of local, and regional beers. I like that. They also have some good sandwiches, including a Black Bean Burger that is as good as any I have had anywhere. The burger was more firm than most, and it had good flavor. You can get that burger substituted for any burger on any sandwich they offer. That’s a bit rare in the land of meat, butter, and cheese.
What we really like about this place was our waitress. She was good, and attentive withoiut being annoying. She was also vegetarian, and we felt sorry for her living in this place. We had no problem at all with the sevice, the speed of service, or the quality of our food. It was a very enjoyable expereience.

I would say my experience was average. My husband and I ordered tacos. The carnitas tacos were very greasy. I usually have not seen greasy carnitas and it seemed like the meat was sitting around in the back all day and not freshly made. Pico de Gallo was very good and so was the deep fried pickles. Cheese curds are odd, square shaped and huge! Overall a good beer selection but not the place to get a good meal.

Great beer selection and prompt, professional service. Had the Grand Teton Lost Continent with a build-​your-​own-​burger «tap house style». Burger was juicy with just the right amount of sear, and the bun was perfectly toasted. Would definitely return when I’m back in the Brainerd Lakes area.

The hubs and I had a good time here. We were in town filling our tanks in Brainerd during a camping trip and were hankering for a late lunch of burgers and brews. The gal at the dive shop recommended Boulder Tap house for lots of good beer and burgers, so off we went.
Just a bit of awkwardness upon arriving, it looked like there was supposed to be a hostess to seat us but she was no where to be seen. The bartender saw to us right away though and said to just go ahead and grab a booth, so we did. Our waitress (Jackie) stopped by just a minute later to take drink orders, then to bring us menus when she realized we hadn’t been seated by a hostess.
The tap menu is pretty impressive considering how far out of the metro we were! And good prices, all of our craft brews were $ 5.50. The menu is reminiscent of a Chili’s or TGIF’s in design but was chock full of tasty sounding stuff. There were about 4 different burgers I wanted to try but ended up going with the black and blue, with a side of parm fries. Hubby got the cheddar burger with a fried egg and dill fries on the side, and a 6pc order of the jerk chix wings.
Our burgers were solid. My black and blue was LOADED with blue cheese, grilled onions, and a tasty special sauce. Quite pink in the middle, which was delightful. I inhaled that sucker like there was no tomorrow. Both versions of fries were good, only slightly disappointed that the parm on mine didn’t melt all over and coat those bad boys. Hubs pounded both his burger and wings. I had a small taste of the wing sauce, it was OK, I’m just not a huge wing person.
So 4 beers, 2 burgers, 6 wings later, and the bill was $ 54, which is great. Some of those beers easily could have been $ 7 in the cities.
Service was spot on the entire time, with that little exception at the start (which solved itself quickly anyway). Ambiance is definitely sports barish, lots of projectors with games on all walls.
Definitely a keeper in my book. We are not in this area… ever until last weekend! But anytime we have to fill our tanks in Brainerd, I think we’ll be stopping in for more tasty burgers and delicious craft beers!

Went on a date, as we are out of towners. Did not know what to expect but we got pretty good results. Food was very good, but I wouldn’t say that the prices matched. We spend $ 40 on wings, cheese curds, and a malt to split. I am from the cities and would say that there are better prices elsewhere. Good food and would recommend if you enjoy cheese curds/​game bar atmosphere.

Stopped in for lunch after a fun morning at nearby Pirate’s Cove. Decent prices… 4 of us were able to eat for under $ 60. Food was very good. Service was good but slowed down at the end and we had to ask for refills a couple of times.

They had a great selection of burgers. I had the Defibrillator and it was 2 half pundits patties with jalapeños, onion rings, and cheese curds on top. The meat was good and it was a super reasonable price.
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Back to the summer understaffing of the Tap house. I am a local and the decline in the service is simply unacceptable.
The food, as always was good but everything else it takes to get the food and the glasses for your beer is ridiculous.
Before the food came we let our beers slowly warm to room temperature before I got up to retrieve the requested glasses to pour the liquid deliciousness into. I happily found our waitress at the end of the bar where she handed me the glasses I went looking for.
After the food came and we finished it off, we waited almost a half hour with empty glasses and were never checked on. It was at that time, we decided it would be faster to go elsewhere since we could do that and be served faster.
Requested another employee find our waitress so we could get our bill to do just that. After another ten minutes, we had to flag down the waitress on our own, so she could then bring us all of our bills incorrectly… On the second try, I hand wrote on the receipt to show her the in-​corrections. I never did get the correct receipt, just an adjusted credit card receipt.
On a positive note, the manager did stop by to display her unworthiness to do anything. She left to check on what the hold ups were and never returned.
I would recommend driving by and finding someplace else.
Not the Birthday dinner I was hoping for my girl.

We went on a busy night — the Wild were playing in the first series of the playoffs. TONS of TV’s and a great bar and beer selection. My biggest complaint was that we were there for late night happy hour and my husband ordered 12 wings — 2 flavors. (Or, two orders of 6.) Their happy hour pricing was $ 2.99 (roughly) for 6 wings but we received the bill and were charged the non-​happy hour price because we order 12 wings. I did ask for them to look into it and the manager came over and said that because my husband stated, «I’ll do 12 wings with half x sauce and half y sauce…», we were charged for what he asked. Ridiculous. It’s not that it’s a ton of money but it was more so the principle of it…
Great beer selection though!

Might be the best sports bar in the world… lacking nothing with awesome food, a huge variety of reasonably priced beer, and an incredible atmosphere with high def TV’s throughout. What can I say. Sports bar perfection.

Low carb (except for the beer) huge TV’s, full bar, Wild hockey! Does not suck! Great staff!

Was looking for somewhere to have some craft beers and watch the game. Pleasantly surprised by this place. Great selection of tap beers. $ 5.50 for a 16oz ! Our server Christine was very generous with the samples and gave excellent service. I had black bean burger w/​sweet potato fries… hubs had build your own burger. Both were fab — patties are hand packed — not out of a freezer. A definite return when in the area.

This place got a lot of slack in their reviews so I thought I would start off by explaining what the Boulder House Tap is after doing some research. The Boulder Tap House has three locations: St. Cloud, Mankato and Baxter, Minnesota and are sports bars that seem to specialize in three things:
— Tap beer selection
— Burgers
— Wings
While those sports bar staples are their forte’, what they don’t specialize in is being unique… which I think is why the haters be hatin’. But in all fairness, from our experience, their specialties were what they excelled at, as advertised.
When we went service was quick and we were seated immediately even though it was busy. We ordered the following:
— Tap beer
— Chipotle dry rub chicken wings (YUP, order these, were very good and not too spicy)
— Build your own burger w/​Cheddar and fried egg (husband said it was good)
— Half order of Wisconsin cheese curds (skip them, every time restaurants try to do these huge cheese cube things they taste greasy and gross)
— House salad (huge)
If you’re looking to get wings, burger, tap beer, football game, fight on cable… than I view this as a FAR better option than getting ripped off at Buffalo Wild Wings down the street.