12 Handles Ale House

1827 Knapp St, Crest Hill
(815) 582-4446

Recent Reviews

John Cohoon

New owners good place

John Jones

Great little bar with good food and great drinks and a lot of friendly staff!!!!

Christopher Bell

It does not exist anymore... However the place that is now there was good.

Eric Etheridge

Awesome service and the lobster ravioli was exceptional!

Daniel Gunderson

Not sure of the new place. No masks, and a lot of things missing from the new menu.

J B

A few years ago we were visiting this place pretty regularly, they changed the menu and we were less than impressed. Decided to give this place another chance, and wow. Food was fresh and delicious, great beer selection. We'll be back.

Samantha Sexton

Placed an order for pick up at 5:45pm today. Showed up at 6:20pm (plenty of time) and was told my food has just started. Wings btw. Those take about 15-20 min....the reason behind having to wait was a table of 18 walked in.. time to get new cooks guys, if u cant handle 3 tables and an 18 top. Probably not coming back here after ordering regularly.

Padma A.

we stopped here for a few drinks before our dinner. I ordered a Pinot Noir and didn't like it at all ....was a Portland wine , very woody and not a good start. We ordered small bites for the table ad everything was mediocre. I most certainly will go elsewhere given a choice.

Linsey S.

12 handles should get 0 stars from my last experience here today. It was 5:00 on a Sunday I came in for dinner with my parents and my 4 year old daughter. Half way through our meal the music got extremely louder and the songs playing have every swear/bad disgusting words you can think of (racial words included). All is fine as my mom got up walked to the bar to ask for management to have them change the song or at least turn down the inappropriate music for a "restaurant" at a usual family dinner time. All the blonde bartender said was "the manager isn't here but Im the owners daughter" my mom still polite asked if the music can be fixed, again at least lowered. The bartender/"owners daughter" whatever she is, responded with, there's nothing she can do and she doesn't really care. This makes me highly annoyed and pissed off. It's funny actually. I have been here multiple times never heard music like this while having meals here and have always enjoyed this establishment. However none of us, our friends or family will be returning. And as I also work in the industry, I have knowledge and know and understand how the music systems work, and there were MULTIPLE THINGS SHE COULD OF DONE. More importantly she repeated "I don't really care" twice to us. Her attitude is disgusting, hopefully the owner has someone else with much better customer service to be in control. Very upsetting

Chris Ranweiler

Tasty menu and wow is there a lot of great drink options here!

sonny sabatini

Blah. Used to be really good a couple years ago, not so much any more.....

becky Dolce

Went there during the bears game half the restaurant was empty and was told it would be 40mins till we could be seated??? Didn’t make any sense.. I’ll never go back..

Gerrit Szeszycki

Food was good and came out fast. Nice beer selection

Stephen R.

I'm shocked this place isn't more busy, they always have a great beer selection, the staff is almost always super friendly and the food is great! Superb bar food, the tex mex egg rolls are a favorite and their burgers and sweet potato fries are wonderful! Just had their wings for the first time my last visit and those were wayyyy better than I expected.

Andrew Lopez

Good food, half price pizza Tuesday, variety of drinks nice atmosphere.

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