Walnut Speakeasy

Do NOT go for the food. Great ambience, nice beer and drink selection. The food was quite good when the place first opened, but it’s been awful for at least a year. I go back every now and then hoping it will improve, but no.
Nachos — no cheese or jalapenos. Fish fry — very mushy fish and it was cold. Both times mentioned to the waitress who told the manager. Manager came over and was very rude.
Was there last week and the burger was not bad — not great, but not bad.

Im here at least once a week with my best friend. Great wings, waitresses are real nice. My only downfall was the bartenders are not nice (at least to me). Ive been ignored or treated cold every single time we sit at the bar. Big thumbs up to Taylor, shes a great waitress.

Great ambiance, awesome massive bar island, good selection of brew, good food, good service, TV’s everywhere, great for sports fans. Will be a repeat customer

Been there twice. Great place to watch the game. Great selection on food, but so-​so in taste. What can you expect from Bar food?

Went to Walnuts to find polski girls and had many beers. nice bartnders an many nockout babes to see. nice. good burger an cold beers selection is very good for drinking. coldslaw and pickles gave me much gas and my frend anton he want to go home then but not ride with me.ha. but I would go back here soon but no pierogi here. thanks you for great place.

Had dinner there tonight had the rib and chicken special. delicious ribs were tasty and cooked perfectly chicken was good French fries always a delight. also had the carbonara fettuccine cooked perfectly. Bar staff was efficient friendly enough but not necessarily charming and welcoming. perfectly professional and attentive but they didn’t make it fun. I guess I am saying go for the bread don’t expect the circus.

OK, I’ve lived in the area for almost 10 years and just made it the the Speakeasy. I along with many others thought it was a dive/​hole-​in-​the-​wall. I was so wrong. The inside was just as nice as any other bar/​restaurant I’ve been to. It is larger than we thought from the outside but still small and comfortable. We went on a Sunday at 12 and watched football and enjoyed our breakfast. With the beer menu they have there compared to other places, you’re saving $ 1 – 1.50 per pint which was a pleasant surprise. We will definitely be back.

Went Friday night and was surprised at what great looking space this is. We were greeted by a lively atmosphere, loud music and crowd. We ordered three thin crust pizzas and they were served piping hot and were very good. The bar was also great, with a good selection of craft beers. Ball games and UFC on the Tv’s throughout the room. The duo playing live music was quite good taking requests for classic rock and contemporary rock and my only complaint is that it was so loud we could not converse at our table.
We will go back, this place is an unexpected treat in Elgin.

Only reason it gets 2 stars is because bartender was nice.
Otherwise, it’s just your too bright, too quiet, dead on a Saturday boring suburban bar. YAWN. The mixed drinks menu was so strange I had a hard time picking anything I wanted to drink. The strangest combination of liquors I have ever seen. Said drinks weren’t very good either.

Had a good time with a few friends. We had appetizers and flights of beer. Good service and atmosphere.

First time here. Had the burger of the month, which was great! Highly recommend the fried pickle spear appetizer. The best! Would definitely go back again. Great food, great service, and great atmosphere.

Pleasantly surprised when I walked in on a week night around 9. Pretty packed but was able to grab a beer at the bar during our 15 minute wait to be seated.
The bartender was weird and just came up to our party of 3 and stared at us without a greeting or smile. We felt pressured to order something right then and there so I panicked and ordered a Bud Light draft. It was disappointing because as a new customer I didn’t know about their extensive beer list until after ordering. The rest of the night was great with a nice waitress and cheap wings and a good salad but that bar tender was what I remember most about the night.
Hoping to return another time to try more items on that huge menu!

Good food great service and a nice selection of craft beers. I have been here four times and it has been consistently good.

We enjoy going to this spot. It is one of the only sports bars around that actually has good food. The prices are also very reasonable. Had the chicken nachos and a chicken salad sandwich. Both were quite good.
If there is a downside I would say it’s the parking. The lot is very small and many people don’t know how to park. Be prepared for door dings.

Walnut Street Speakeasy… pretty close to home cooking.
Tonight a Ruben that might actually make my «Private Diner» happy. What is hard when you write about food is when you have someone around you who can cook!
There is boiled corned beef, ok… St. Patty’s… and there are those who likes their corned beef roasted!!! Since I’ve had the later, it’s preferred and Walnut Street does just that. Corned Beef is a sneaky piece of meat to cook and sometimes it just isn’t going to give in no matter how much love, but when it let’s it’s juice go you can’t beat it! Tonight was close to «his demand.»
This is a nice stop, good food, nice place, easy to sit at the bar for dinner. For those like me. look around! You are seeing a classic barrel vault wood truss ceiling! Old engineering and still standing! The building use to be a Kroger’s Foods. Menu is diverse, I could easily come again.
(PS: BTW Thursday is chicken wings and the place gets packed, come early.)

Ok, they now no longer know how to make medium rare burgers. The waitress was good enough to comp the the drink but I am concerned about the inconsistency of the cooking. We’ll try one more time in the future.

Have eaten here twice with my wife. The first time everything was as good as you would want. Shared an order of wings for an appetizer which were very tasty. I had the AYCE Fish with fries and coleslaw which was very good. My wife enjoyed their Bloody Mary. Had the waitress’s attention the entire time we were there. The second time we went everything was a complete opposite from our first visit. Waited almost 5 minutes for a waitress to come to our table. I ordered a rack of baby back ribs and was disappointed the meat did not fall off of the bone like I am used to. The BBQ sauce wasn’t very tasty either. The waitress hardly came to our table to ask how our meal was or to refill drinks. I think it was because the owner was not present. However, I will give them another try as they have other items on their menu I would like to try and give them a chance to improve my rating.

Couple of things about this place — PURE SPORTS BAR with Great Food. There are a lot of TVs and lot of different sports, was really happy to see that EPL was also telecasted, which is rare :). Anyhow, the parking initally I thought was before the restaurant but that seemed too small, turns out it was after, so make sure you are parking in the right area: D.
The place is brick-​walled, so it was really cozy there, but I am over 6 ft tall, the booths were a little «TIGHT», would have liked a little more leg room people !! x)
The staff were really friendly, we were seated quickly. So, to start off we had two appetizers — the Spinach/​Artichoke and the Fried Pickles. The pita bread with Spinach/​Artichoke was pretty good, but dipping as such fell short of the some of the other places, but overall pretty good — it was smaller than I anticipated with a neat presentation (about 10 pieces of pita). The fried pickles on the other hand, dipping that came with it was too good and dish as such was served HOT like as in burnt my tongue HOT. Salty and yumm. really must try dish (about 8 pieces of them). We had the Chicken salad sandwich with Pasta salad, sandwich was pretty good and pasta salad was really good. Then we got the chocolate mousse cake (nothing special here) and the salted caramel gelato — which in my opinion was a bigger scoop of ice cream than expected and it was FULL OF FLAVOR. Really YUMMY. If you are a fan — please TRY IT. If not — you can still try it: D.
Will I be back here ?? Absolutely. :D :D

I love the atmosphere here. But the food and service is merely mediocre. We’ve been here several times and there isn’t any food that stands out as their best.
I cant figure out their identity. When I hear speakeasy, I think bar and gangster. That’s not the case here. But the wood work and overall atmosphere is nice.
Check out Elgin Public House and sit upstairs. It’s right down the street

When my girlfriends and I sat at the bar, the service was at least average. The food was average as well.
When we decided to move to a table because we had others joining us, we did not get asked ONCE, NOT F*****G ONCE, if we needed drinks. The servers just kept going by. Even when new people joined our party, they just walked by and didn’t even stop to ask us if we needed anything. We felt like they refused to serve us for some reason. We had to keep going up to the bar. The service, unless you’re at the bar, is HORRIBLE.
The venue, however, is spectacular and its because of that I will give this place another shot.