Dan’s Downtown Tavern

Great burgers and beer. Casual and local hang out. Nice staff.

I’ve ate here plenty of times since we moved here in 2012. Tonight I stopped in for a drink and appetizer after i played poker. I am dissappointed that the appetizer that i ordered was not it was described. I ordered the 8 wings. I ordered it «intense hot» from what it said in the menu. it came with NOTHING on the wings, but just regular old hot sauce poured on it. NOTHING intense about it. ALSO, I WAS SHORT 1 WING, yet i had to pay full price. VERY DISSAPOINTING.
My usual drink (bacardi and coke) was $ 4.50 and now its $ 5.50. I think they must make up prices on your drinks if u aren’t a regular.
dont know if i will go back.

Great place to «drink» your dinner. Not really fun for a non drinker. I ate here once and can’t even remember the food, other than it tasted like a typical American small town pub, was hot, noisy, and had the ambiance of any average noisy, middle aged, slightly grubby looking bar. It’s very popular amongst «salinians». I often notice tipsy customers pulling out of the parking spots on Michigan Avenue right in front. I guess most people like drinking and football and maybe I’m just not one of those.

Good food, friendly atmosphere. Nice selection of beer on tap, too. What more can you ask for?

A great home town bar with a growing tap list and above average bar food. Really great burgers made with local Knights market beef. Really friendly staff and reasonable prices keep me coming back time after time. A+ for Saline.

Every other place we hoped to eat at was closed (it was Monday) so we went as last resort but we are eager to go back. Friendly service and tasty food.

Best dining option in Saline. Great beer selection. Burgers are varied and delicious. I like the pizza here more than most. Friendly atmosphere and patient waitstaff. A+!!!

A wide selection of beers and great service! A great place if you’re looking for a burger and a beer at the right price. Keep in mind that the place is usually packed so it’s louder than most restaurants. We often find ourselves stopping at
Dan’s for the atmosphere. A nice location to watch a game or play some Keno.
Parking can be a pain at times.

Always an excellent burger! They use beef from Knight’s Market in Ann Arbor and it’s hard to get better quality than that. Atmosphere is casual and friendly, plus, Saline is a quaint town to visit.

It’s hot! Sat in the middle room that had the Karaōke setup. No air conditioning but there was a huge fan in the back, blowing forward. Didn’t reach the whole room though and all the tables around it were full when we walked in. We ended up in one up front.
Don’t order water. It’s disgusting. I like water with my food and beer by itself but I won’t make that mistake again. The burgers are really good. Great beer selection too. Waiter could have been nicer and took a long time for requests.
Karaōke book is small and the KJ is nice. System is ok and the crowd is welcoming enough. We had a table of seven, looking for some fun but this place seems to be a little more laid back.

Great service! Great food! Whatever they are paying Dusty to cook is not enough! The food was very good, he was friendly and fun to watch. Dusty definitely takes pride in his food and workspace. Very clean. Great establishment!

When I was growing up, I believed Dan’s was the sketchy bar in town. Then, after living a few years in Chicago, I realized that I like sketchy bars. One year I was back in Michigan around some holiday and went to Dan’s for the first time. It’s not well lit, but it’s not sketchy either. Now they even have a very decent selection of craft beers. I always love stopping by Dan’s when I’m back in town for a drink and to see which high school classmate I might run into.

We were in Saline for the Antique Show and stopped at Dan’s afterwards for lunch. The folks were friendly and the large pizza with bacon, tomatoes and crumbled bleu cheese was DIVINE! Highly recommended!

This bar is always super busy but still finds a way to make it happen. My only complaint is the service being a little slow sometimes but hey, like I said, there is a massive amount of tables to service.
The food is mostly very good. I’ve tried a variety of things and haven’t found anything I don’t like yet. The Mexican food is very good. I absolutely love the burgers! I think there’s only been one thing so far that I’ve said «meh» to. There are a large selection of different burgers and lots of different appetizers. The sweet potato fries and waffle fries are both favorites of mine.
I also like how many televisions there are. There is the main bar side, which is mostly kind of small and is for mostly single or couple patrons who choose to watch the game together. But I also like that the additional areas have a lot of TVs as well so if I come with the whole family, I can be polite and listen while I also watch hockey out the corner of my eye.
The prices are also pretty fair as well. It’s right about in line with a typical burger joint and they have a lot of drinks to offer. The mixed drinks I’ve found are just okay but the draft beers taste really fresh. I’ll be back often!

Atmosphere: Depending on time you go, it’s dark and sometimes hard to read the menu depending where you’re seated. It can be noisy. It has a busy vibe without feeling crowded though. There’s three rooms, and they all have their own distinct tone to them.
Wait staff: Definitely busy. Sometimes it was hard to find our waiter. Whether because they’re spread to thin or other I don’t know. They were always super nice, but again very busy. Though I will state that one of my orders was wrong at one point, but whose fault it was (waiter or kitchen) I don’t know.
Food: All depends on what you get. I don’t do meat, so I can’t speak for the burgers. But the pizza is super tasty. The spinach and artichoke dip a touch watery but good flavor. I DO NOT recommend the nachos on the last page. All the tortilla chips are these red tasty corn chips, but they’re thin. So under the avalanche of toppings, they either break when you try to pull them out or they’re soaked through and mush.
Also, there is beef in the chili on the nachos. Found that out the hard way.

Dan’s is the local watering hole of choice in Saline. Since I have been traveling the country, it is nice to come back to my most recent «hometown» for comfort food my first night back. During my week stay, I’m sure I’ll be back here at least one more time. They have tasty burgers and 44 draft beers on tap. For the craft beer lover, come here!

This place was busy on a week night, but no problems finding seating, with two different sides to this tavern. We came to check out the Trivia, which for those who never have done Sporkle Trivia (or at least here), it was fast-​paced, i.e., don’t come expecting to have much side conversation with your friends while playing trivia (upside being you are done by 10pm, for us old fogeys).
The place has an extensive beer menu, however, service was less than stellar. Not only the infrequency of seeing our server, but also when one of us ordered a cider, they got what definitely wasn’t anything sweet like a cider. However, we had to wait likely 15+ mins to find the server again, asked about it (thinking it likely was a mixed up order), she responded «I dont know anything about beers» and wouldn’t allow us to send back the beer. Sadly, that was a waste of $ 4, as the entire thing just sat at our table the rest of the night. Surprising for a place that boasts about how many beers they have on tap, you think they’d pride themselves on making sure you like what you got or at least received the right order, but guess not.
Food was only so-​so as well, the wings were crispy, however, very small, and they serve the sauce by just giving you packets of salad dressing. The chicken sandwich was also very small in size.

With all things consider, this is probably the best dining option in downtown saline. This place has a dive bar feel but is bigger than your average dive bars. They have about 20 beers on tap and on this particular day it was $ 3 for all pints (they have different drink specials everyday).
For my starters I had the wings (have about 6 flavors, very subpar average wings) and spinach dip (runny, but extremely good and they do give you a lot). For my meal I went the western BBQ burger (they have about 15 – 18 different burgers), which was really good. However the highlight of the meal was in fact their delicious beer battered fries (simply amazing and a must have). Overall a really good place and i will be back because of the big menu they have which means more stuff to try.

Live a little and get the peanut butter burger… it is so good you’ll wonder why no one else makes them! The salty bacon really balances out the sweet peanut butter =)
This place has every kind of pub food you could want: jalapeño poppers, fried pickles, fries, and much, much more. Once you’ve picked out your food, they have a huge selection of cold beers to choose from.
In a healthy mood? Their harvest salad is pretty tasty.
The only downside to this place is that their menu is so huge it takes a while to figure out what to order. I personally prefer the smaller menu at Sidetracks in Ypsilanti. They don’t have a ton of appetizers, but the ones they do have are out of this world!
All in all, I had a good time and would like to return!

Looks like Dans is still the Cats A$$ in Saline.
Revisited last night after an extended period away due to geographical differences. My Western Burger was just like I remembered it. In fact they gave me extra napkins because I was drooling over it.
Me wifey had the Peanut Butter Burger for the first time and she reports she will have it again. We thought Peanut Butter Burger… it’s actually quite good.
Now I see Dan expanded AGAIN to a third addition. It looks awesome. See picture. Dan, you could kick some serious butt in Dundee if you wanted to open another Tavern somewhere.
Food and drink were «Orgasmic» …again.