Tip-A-Few Tavern

The wait wasn’t that long even though the restaurant was very busy. I went to the bar to get a pitcher of beer and a margarita. The male bartender was not very friendly with me. He acted as though I was an inconvenience to him. I wanted to leave but stayed due to my family wanting to eat at the Tip of Few. So we stayed. The night turned better after having a good waitress named Jen. She was friendly, happy and did not treat me or my family like an inconvenience. The food was great. We will probably be back. Maybe.

This Klingon traveled all the way from California to see if this bar lived up to being called a dive bar. Place is easy to find. Feels like a lot of the locals like to come here. Drinks are strong and service good. Would recommend to friends but bring your own buddy as most locals are not too friendly. But hey! That’s what a Klingon loves.

Best Tex-​Mex in GH. Stiff drinks too. One of my ‘must haves’ when I’m back home in GH visitin.

Staff couldn’t be any nicer. Waitresses great. Megan is awesome, Jenn is great and bartender Mike is 1^st rate.. Mexican food is Mexican food. Great place to Tip a Few! Very friendly local joint that keeps me coming back. This New Jersey guy says to the poor review — Forget get about it! Go enjoy!

I guess I am not getting all the rudeness comments. Have been there 3 times this summer, have had a different waitress each time and all have been very friendly and accommodating. I have tried wet burritos on the other side of the state for years looking for a comparable one. Have never found one. The last time I was here was over 20 years ago and the «wet ones» are still fantastic. Took the whole family including grandkids this summer and they all enjoyed the burritos, enchiladas, and tacos, no complaints. The drinks were strong and the beer cold and very reasonable. The next time I am in the area camping, a trip to the Tip will be on the agenda.
Mention this place at work and everyone seems to know about it. And as for a crappy place, it has been packed everytime we have gone there. Go figure.

I love the food and drinks. However only three stars for me. No need for rude wait staff, dirty tables and menu’s.

Well asking for ID at 5:00 is a little different.
Got sat a dirty table. No one checked on us for close to 10 minutes. Menus were dirty too.
Won’t be back. You shouldn’t go.

OK what is it. The best dive bar you can go to in Grand Haven. Good Mexican food, but even better margaritas. You better have a designated driver if you go here. Just really a great place to hang out with the locals. OK I might be biased in my review the last time I went there was a woman flashing people lol. Yes, it not a place for everyone, but it’s my kind of place. So why just 3 stars? It’s a dive bar. Isn’t that just a nice way to say crappie place?

Tip is the perfect hole in the walk that we always look for!!! The staff is great and the drinks are cheap. Don’t plan on driving after two drinks because they are strong and will sneak up on you :) My go to drink is a Jose Margarita and my husband’s is New Holland whiskey on the rocks. We usually go there for the drink and end up getting a little food. The mexican is better than most mexican in Michigan. It loaded with cheese so how could you go wrong.

Chips and cheese are some of the best we have had (short of home). Tons of cheese! Its a bar but the food is worth every drink you buy.

I love going to the Tip-​a-​Few when I come to town. No, it’s not authentic Mexican food, but it’s still great! The cheese nachos are wonderful and have lots of cheese and the wet burritos are really good! I recommend it!

I am a local. The Tip is a staple of Grand Haven. It’s a dive bar. The drinks are STRONG! the service is fast, and old school, hand written receipts. It’s 100% bar food, but it’s good! I won’t take my kids there after 5 on the weekends. It gets pretty busy. And after some point they card at the door. If you like my description, This place is a MUST!

If you are looking for real authentic Mexican food don’t come here haha but the food is actually very good. The enchilada sauce (which is on almost everything) is amazing and makes any dish of theirs. Tip a few is a local joint with «booz-​a-​ritas» or margaritas with just booze that will knock your socks off they are so good. The burrito is a must and you have to get it wet. Over all it’s a great local joint for good booze and good food.

Foods real solid. Nothing life changing but up to par for the establishment. Liquor pours are real stiff and all the staff is very pleasant. Lots of TVs with some sort of professional sports on. Classic rock rocking over the pa. Just real solid. Again. Not fancy. Just a clean solid bar where people come for good drinks, decent food and laughs.

Tip has the BEST wet burritos and many other choices of mexican food in the area! Wouldn’t go anywhere else! Great prices and great service. This is a place not to miss!

Just normal bar food. If u pay full price you paid way to much. The water is the best flavor u will get here. yes burritos where big but no flavor but hot out of the microwave.

This is hands-​down the single worst Mexican restaurant on the entire continent of North America.
The food is basically Wal-​Mart tortillas loaded with unseasoned meat and an almost comical amount of rubbery cheddar cheese that is probably left over from Taco Night at the local prison. I would seriously rather eat frozen waste from the bottom of a Mexican outhouse than allow these burritos anywhere near my mouth again.
Some on Unilocal have described the atmosphere as «dive». But dive bars are usually dark and authentically decorated. As soon as you walk through the door of this place you’re blinded light from the flat screens and neon Bud Light signs. It’s not a dive bar, it’s a sports bar decorated by someone with awful taste in everything.
«The Tip»; as the locals call it, is essentially an alcoholics’ bar. Apparently it offers really good deals on beer. They have to. Catering to future liver transplant candidates is the only hope they have because only people who have burnt off their taste buds with decades of whisky shots, Pall-​Malls and Pabst Blue Ribbon can possibly stomach this epically disgusting food.

This place is so inauthentic that calling it Mexican is kind of a joke. The meat is bland and everything is loaded with cheddar cheese. Overall it is crummy even by tex-​mex standards. They have also raised the prices quite a bit the last year or so.
The beers however are nice and ice cold. The Sam Adams in a frosted glass is great. This is a hang out for the local yokels but is fun once in a while. They no longer have a pool table here. The place is often crowded as well. It used to be a biker bar, but not so much anymore.

tippin’ a few back… lake Michigan style
Not fancy, not real Mexican… but the beer is cold and the burritos are HUGE… and the nachos were ok.
Friendly bartenders that pour a good drink and plenty of regulars to keep it interesting.

Back in the day it was a true dive bar and I miss the way it was (Please take a moment of silence for the way they were…)
They have since attempted to clean up, at least in appearance. But you can still get the strong ass cheap dive bar drink here. Among the other crowded bars in this summer town it is a good one to escape to, for sure. And you can get a sloppy wet burrito that is surprisingly good!