Big City Bar & Grill

great bar. awesome food! if youre ever downtown check this place out

Awsome vibe good food and great beer selection they had dripa on tap, Alicia the bartender was one of the best ive ever had really friendly and talkative truly great experience!

Best calamari I have ever tasted! Delicious with the aioli sauce. The bartenders are very attentive! I will definitely be coming back next time I’m in town.

The philly cheese steak was great. The fries were overlooked and extremely crispy. I was starving so I ate everything super quick. The bartender would forget drink orders quite a bit. Asked for a water several times. The food took about 45 minutes to get. It’s an average sports bar.

Had a club sandwich and the pizza a few days later. The food was average and what I expected. The beer selection was pretty good for what they advertise. The hotel traffic constantly cutting through can be distracting. Staff was fairly attentive but they tend to congregate at the drink station and chat quite often. Enough flat screens to catch games or whatever

We tried this restaurant out because it was a less expensive option from the restaurant in the hotel we were staying in across the street. We knew it was a sports bar, so our expectations weren’t super high. The setting was «sports bar» which was great, lots of TVs and local beer on tap (I had the Griffin Claw, which was perfect!). We had their seafood ravioli — not your typical bar food, but it sounded good. It was pretty tasty.
I have to say that the place lost major points because of our waitress. I try to keep in mind that everyone has a bad day, but this was pretty much the worst service I have ever had as far as attitude goes and attentiveness goes.
Sadly, I wouldn’t go back and I wouldn’t recommend based on the experience alone.

Waitress are cute and mouthy in a good way. Small little corner bar edible food but no ac very warm

I´ve chosen the bar because it was located close to my hotel and wasn´t dissapointed :): Nice beers on tab served from very friendly and caring staff.
I´ve aten better Burgers to be honest, but I was there for some drinks and relaxing from a long day.
Cheers

Good place to go.
Good food, servers are very nice and polite
Food taste amazing.
They also have a pool table in the back and I’ll more then likely come back and i recommend coming here
Food is cheap compared to every else around the area

We sat at the bar and had a couple drinks there twice while we were in town. They were busy, but you wouldn’t know it by the service we received. The bartenders were fantastic. They kept up with all the orders, were very friendly and didn’t get frazzled. We didn’t try the food, but it looked and smelled great. The place is clean with a very nice atmosphere. I’d go again.

As far a bar with great people this place wins! The bartender was super nice and he made me feel at home. The people in the bar were such a riot and funny. The other bartender was a girl she was very nice as well and made me a great coffee drink with fresh coffee.
We had a flatbread which was tasty. It was the olive and banana pepper one. Tasty combination could have been crispier but still tasty. I cant wait to go back and hang out with the people there and get another delicious coffee drink. Also beers on tap are great.

The only reason I still go to this place is because of the bartender Katie. Food is alright and the atmosphere is lacking but the service and drinks have always been great.

Only good if you have the patience to wait… Other than that, the food wasn’t the best, but it filled my hungry stomach.

Decent beer selection and the food was alright but all I got was a salad. Plenty of TVs if you’re going for a game.

I’m in Detroit for business the last two weeks and this place is attached to my hotel, so I’ve eaten here about 6 or 7 times for lunch and/​or dinner. This place has the feel of a locals bar, but there are a lot of travelers here at any given time. I’ve had the burger, BBQ Chicken Sandwich, Chicken Caesar salad, and the Grilled Chicken Entrée. I’ve been satisfied each and every time and I will probably eat there another two or three times before I get out of Detroit due to the quality and convenience.
The burger was solid with good flavor and size for the price. I paid extra for a salad instead of fries and it was fresh and tasted great. The BBQ Chicken Sandwich was good, not great. The chicken breast tasted good, but it was small and thin. The Chicken Caesar salad was large and delicious and was just right for my appetite. I would be glad to eat any of these again with the possible exception of the BBQ chicken.
Lastly, I order the grilled chicken dinner with green beans and mash potatoes twice and it was Great. The chicken was kind of small again, but they give you two of them, so there is plenty. You can see the grill marks on chicken and they season it nicely. It was very tasty. The green beans are great and I think I look forward to them as much as the chicken. It comes with mash potatoes, but I paid extra for a salad to cut carbs and it was great again.
Finally, the thing that really surprised me about the food here is that they do a good job with the presentation. Each time I dine in, I’m pleasantly surprised at how the food looks when they deliver it. It gives me the impression that I’m in a more upscale place and shows that they care about what they are doing.
I am definitely a fan of this place!

Horrible service!!! Sat down after concert for 45 minutes before anyone even acknowledged us. WOW! Clearly under staffed and not prepared for ANY business.

This place is below mediocre. The nacho cheese is like you get at a high school ball game, the chicken was almost non existent and the only decent ingredients were tomatoes and the salsa. The olive and cheese flatbread read better than it tasted, dry, cracker like flatbread and the combo with banana peppers was odd.
The spinach artichoke dip was uninspired. The only thing I really enjoyed was the music. And my great friends. I got full but it wasn’t a satisfied full, more like a default full.

Could be the worst pizza I’ve ever eaten? Meat lovers leaves you wishing you could purge to rid yourself of the heartburn.

This was my go-​to spot during Movement. There’s not much special to it, but the menu is large, and the food is ready pretty quickly. The BBQ chicken pizza sustained us for days, though I do feel the crust could have had more salt and flavor.

Words can barely express how miserable this establishment is. It is completely void of any character. It’s so generic and lifeless it’s almost scary. Everything from its décor to its elementary menu design looks like it was propped to be some generic bar in a low budget Lifetime movie. The food is good if you’re hammered and cannot discern between ranch and blue cheese.
There are so many places in Detroit, based on their décor ALONE, that deserve your business and have amazing food. Let the square suburbanites fresh out of a hockey game and oblivious travelers staying in Detroit for the weekend have this place. As a resident and connoisseur of Detroit culture and its businesses I view this bar as a nasty stain on what our city has to offer.