Gruben’s Uptown Tap

Best burgers in town. Service is okay… it sucks walking in there on bingo night and getting seated by a speaker and getting stared at by senior citizens because we’re a minority… But the food is awesome so whatever!

Pros:
–Good burger at a good price.
–Great soups… not what you would expect from a bar.
–Good placement of the garbage can in the bathroom. You can wash your hands, dry them off and open the door with the paper towel and deposit it right in the garbage when you are leaving so you don’t have to touch the door handle with your bare hands!
Meh:
–Servers are hit or miss. When you get a good one you know it and when you get a clueless one you just want to do their job for them.
–The décor has come along way over the years and is heading in the right direction, but it still has a bit to go.

Good place to watch the Blackhawks or your favorite sports team. A bit noisy but comfortable relaxed atmosphere serving above average bar food at reasonable prices.

I work in downtown and i needed to get a lunch so i decided to try this place out. I got the hamburger on a regular bun and i got sweet potato fries. I typically NEVER eat sweet potatoes but the fries were so delicious! Another time i got the hamburger on a pretzel bun and onion rings. The pretzel bun was too small for the meat but the onion rings made up for it. Customer service is perfect and i will definitely come back.

This a no frills bar with great food, lottery tickets, and popcorn.
The menu stands on its own. Burgers, sandwiches, chili, soups, nachos and tater tots are delicious — always get the tots!
Limited beer selection compared to local options but this is more of a shot and beer place.
This bar is the only one in the area to bring live music to downtown Plainfield… if this matters in anyway call ahead to check.

Hate to give this place one star, but I’ve never encountered such rude staff in my life.

Best steak sandwich around. Tender, juicy and just the right amount. Fries good. Alternative coleslaw great. Good service even when busy. Local place worth the drive to downtown Plainfield. Other menu items equally as good. Fair prices. Outdoor seating available in season

This is pretty much a dive bar in the heart of historic Plainfield. While all the other restaurants are somewhat upscale here, Uptown is not. However, that doesn’t mean it is bad. The food is typical bar food, nothing great. But they have a great selection of beers, especially on tap. They have sidewalk seating which makes for a fun Saturday night of people watching while kicking back with a beer.
The bathrooms are grungy, and smell. If I was a chick, I’d squat.

Not a very friendly place. Our waitress was very short with us & just not friendly at all. Basically she had zero customer service. It was my husband & I 1^st time here & I told her that & it seemed like she still didn’t even care. My husband and I had 1 drink each, ordered food & before we even got our food, decided that we wouldn’t get a 2^nd drink & that we would just eat our food & go have a drink at Moe Joe’s or Tap house!!! I will never come back here ever again! The deals are what made us come in & check out the place bt I would rather go somewhere else, pay more & get treated better!!!

Was looking for a hangover cheeseburger and found a great one here! Juicy and charbroiled deliciousness! My wife ordered the special, chicken tenders, which were hand breaded and very good as well. A classic old school uptown dive bar with great food!

Came for the Blackhawks final. As soon as the game was over they put music on and did not switch the sound back to the game until the cup was out on the ice.
It was not fun to listen to Blackhawks fans shouting to the staff to put the sound back on for ten minutes.
Especially when they were told that the staff was too busy to do it, wouldn’t do it, or couldn’t.
Really? Why set up that big screen for the game if you can’t be bothered to keep it on when an entire bar full of Blackhawks fans is watching?
In addition, two of our orders came out wrong.
Not a big deal, but I’d recommend visiting a different place for big games.

This is an awesome little getaway right here in downtown Plainfield. They have plenty of open area, seating, and the staff is great! They have great IPAs on tap and bottle and the food is delicious! I have been hitting this place regularly on Thursday’s for a burger and tots backed up by a cold Anti-​Hero or Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ for months now. Right downtown on Lockport Street. It is worth the trip!

Went here on a Tuesday night, had the taco special for 5.99 and a whole lot of 3.50 Margaritas. The tacos were actually pretty good, I had steak and my boyfriend had the ground beef. Drinks were great and strong! The décor isnt great here, nothing fancy but service was good. We had a pregnant waitress who was really nice and on top of it. She had to have been at least 7 months but checked on us often. I would visit again.

Holy Yum. Homemade coleslaw, so homemade I actually had to wait for them to finish making it. Beautiful steak sandwich with cheese for a decent price. The staff is super nice, the drinks are just strong enough, and they have really great iced tea.
They have all sorts of specials including cheap burgers on Thursdays. And I saw stage for some live music. I know that it’s a great place to watch the Hawks and baseball. I was there at lunch and I saw lots of regulars everyone knew each other by name. Very family friendly bar tap type place.
Friends that were with me had the burgers and they were delicious and one had tacos and they said the steak tacos were very good.

Stopped in with my future M-​I-​L and grandmother-​in-​law after a quick wedding dress fitting down the street. Most places were closed on a Monday afternoon so we were really happy this place was open– and warm inside!
We sat down in a booth by the window, it was pretty quiet inside, just a few patrons by the bar. The service was quick and the bartender/​server recommended the burgers– we each had one on pretzel buns with various toppings. They were cooked a perfect medium well. The toppings were fresh and the whole burger was just great–
on par, if not better, than some of the best burgers I have had up in Chicago which is where I live.
I had tator-​tots as my side and they were perfect– crispy and golden brown. Other sides were onions rings and regular fries– both got rave reviews from my family :)
My only complaint was maybe the music could have been a tiny bit lower on the restaurant side– it was just so loud and the bar so quiet it was a little grating at times. But overall a great experience.

Would give less than 1 star if possible. Came on at 1230 on a Sunday afternoon. Coffee was cold, only 1 waitress working. Took 90 minutes to get our SANDWICHES. When we tried to complain, we were told no manager was working. Possibly the worst service I’ve ever had. Food may have been good, if it were warm.

Game night! But we needed sustenance first! So we walked across the street and tried this place out! I really think we should have seen this place before. I don’t know how we’ve missed it!
The boy ordered the Road House Chips as they were having a special that night. I felt like the homemade chips were a little on the well done side, but he likes them that way. You can’t really go wrong with homemade chips topped with cheddar cheese, bacon, scallions, and bacon!
I had the Grilled Caprese Chicken sammich made into a wrap. It wasn’t too bad. The chicken could have used a little seasoning like salt and pepper while it was grilled since it was frozen and thawed. The balsamic gave the wrap a nice flavor.
The bartender we got was a little more focused on her «regular» customers which was too bad. One of the other girls was totally cool though. She stopped over and talked to us several times. I sorta wish we could have given our tip to her since she actually spoke to us.
Overall, this was a good local place to hit up. They have good special prices and they’re across the street from a place we hang out quite often. I would recommend it.

This is not a stand alone joint. The attraction is that Gruben’s happens to pay high end rent in downtown Plainfield. C’mon, the location opens the door of convenience and nothing more!
This is not a Dive Bar nor a Fancy Bar, It’s a Cattle Bar…“MOOOOO“
Nothing more…

my buddy pi ked up a phone order cor us. They must have be3n busyyy as hell cuz I had to call about 5 times to get an order in. The pizza was pretty damn goodm Thin crust pepperoni garlic roasted red pepper sausage. I also had nachos that sucked and were not the same as the description. They might be better inside the place. I would def get their pizza again

Where else can you go to get $ 1 PBR’s? We actually stopped by here while waiting for a table next door since their bar area was crowded. Other drink specials on that fine Tuesday night included:
$ 2 Domestic Bottles
$ 3 Margaritas
$ 5.50 Hurricanes
They also had food specials — $ 5.99 Tacos and $ 8.99 Philly Steak Sandwich
The place was kinda empty, but kinda full. The bar area was full of patrons watching the hockey game on the TV’s. The dining area was more empty with a few people having a dinner. There’s a projector in the dining area that was showing the Blackhawks game on the wall. The waitress was friendly and fast with our drink orders. Not a bad place to hand out and certainly a good place to wait for a table.