Buddies Pub & Grill

I often meet a group of fellow retirees here for lunch. I really like their Southwest Chicken salad but burgers, soups and chili are also great. Sometimes the noise level is difficult for me, with hearing loss, because there are mostly hard surfaces.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very nice place there's big screens at every angle to watch the game. Food is excellent and staff is very friendly and on it! Very clean inside and dining area outside for you to bring your dog even 😁

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good sports bar with surprisingly good food. I had heard the burgers and nachos were both on point here so I had to give one a go. I want feeling a burger, but I'm PICKY about Mexican food, so I hesitated on the nachos. The very helpful staff and some locals talked me into the OMG nachos. OMG, were they great. I absolutely loved the flavor of the chorizo on the nachos. They were cooked just like I do at home. On a plate and under the broiler, or at least that's what it looked like. I went from picky to pleased! Plus sports and cold Yuenling on draft. What else could you ask for?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My wife ordered the pizza. Talk about lacking favor! Extra cheese and mushrooms is what she ordered and it was like as if they used generic tomato sauce and cheese. We think it was a ready made pizza. The other food wasn't bad at all, we would even say it rocked.We had a meatloaf sandwich and the philly cheese steak sub. What killed it, was the pizza.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

I had a baked potato but was unable to make a loaded baked potato out of it just ended up with a baked potato with sour cream was disappointed because they said the chili was on special so they couldn't add the chili to it didn't even offer to charge extra to put the chili on it

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Dear Buddies staff
You are the reason our family keeps showing up, year after year. We are always greeted nicely and seated promptly. Even when the waitstaff is completely swamped, we at least have a cold drink to enjoy. I appreciate your daily special rotation, and have never had a meal I didn't enjoy. We try to support local businesses as much as possible, and Buddies E.L. is at the top of the list.
The last several years have been brutal for small, family run restaurants, something that doesn't go unnoticed in our household. The recent remodel and menu updates are certainly refreshing, and are well received. We will continue to patronize your neighborhood hangout and do our part to help Buddies Pub & Grill thrive in the East Lansing community for years to come. Thank You again!
Doug & Kelli Cole

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Love Buddies! Food is always good, beer is cold and staff is amazing!

Loved the food, didnt feel like you could go wrong based on the high quality of the food we all got. They use tablets for menus, which I thought was really cool. Service is very attentive. Will come here again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Server was wonderful. We were the only ones on the patio because we had our dog. Not sure why the place was empty because it was great all around. Maybe because of the huge bar crawl in downtown. Either way, we scored.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Some of the best nachos in town

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was great, waitress was nice, and they had no problem seating 8 adults and two young kids easily.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great food, great service, never had a bad experience here

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great staff and food. Very friendly.

Update: another great visit and my daughter loved the kids pizza!

Second update: Always a fantastic experience! We had a great waitress again and another great meal

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Aok. Not the same place I remember. Tablets lol. Cmon. This used to be a relaxed bar….pizza is ok and undercooked. The steak/philly was ok. Definitely nothing like the photo on the tablet 😤.

Will I be back. Maybe. My family loves this place.

Great service though….

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 5

We had the club and quinoa chicken rice bowl. Both were very good. We were there at 3:00 one waitress until 4:00 but she did awesome. Probably around 20 people in there 10 singles. Atmosphere could have been a little Cozier but overall definitely go back. Two Captain and Diet Cokes word spot on.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4