This place is addicting! Good people, incredible bartenders, ridiculously delicious food, live music, and a phenomenal owner who makes southern hospitality look like a bad joke. Highly recommend! Can’t wait to go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ Chunks, Roast Beef Sandwich and Perch Sandwich
Melissa Duly
Such good food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Penny Gill
It's like family. Great place to
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Kellie Black
Everything was amazing!! Definitely gonna go
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dale Coy
Tonight was my first time here. The food, staff and atmosphere was great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Debra Shultz Auer
Great food, very friendly staff, and excellent service!
Cheryl Murphy
Very disappointed in our visit. Went there for a perch dinner and it was fried to a crisp and all of the flavor was gone.I have had this dinner when I come into town several times at the Bono Tavern and it is usually very good. I have been visiting Veelers/Bono Tavern since the 60s.However, the cole slaw was delicious.Maybe a new cook??? ;(
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 4
Thomas Beehner
Fantastic small town bar and grill. The cook has excellent recipes with many of them cooked from scratch. I would suggest taking a nice little detour and stopping in sometime.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
George Goodrich
Never a bad meal and love Taco Wednesdays with live music!!! Best pizza in the area and wonderfully fat, juicy burgers. Nice draught selection as well.
Peter Brown
It's a small town bar. The people were nice. I was here for a memorial service for a friend.
After enjoying the trails at Howard Marsh Metropark, my wife and I wanted to try something new for dinner. Since the signs on the highway extolled the virtues of Bono Tavern as being the best food in town, we decided a visit was in order. Once we arrived in Bono, we understood the ironic humour of the signs, as the tavern appeared to not only be the only restaurant in town, but it also looked like the only business period. From the outside, Bono Tavern looked like a dive bar. From the inside, it also looked like a dive bar, but with nicer seating. Nuff said. We helped ourselves to a high-top table, and once the lone employee finished up with another table, he brought us menus and took our drink orders. Nick the employee was friendly, but even with just three tables, he was clearly stretched pretty thin, being server, busser, and cook all wrapped up into one "cute bearded package" as my wife put it. Eventually he was able to take our order: the chicken Pepper Chunks for my wife, Bono Burger for me, and to share, a Fried Pickle Chips and the Bono Oh-No. After tax but before tip, our bill came to $50.08, which felt on the pricy side. Nick cooked everything fresh, a fact we knew because we could watch him hand batter each fried pickle. As such, we were not surprised at how long it took to get our food (especially considering he was also taking care of other patrons), however we were impressed by the quality and taste of the food when it eventually got there! My Bono Burger was stacked mouth-wateringly high with two thick, hand-made patties, sautéed mushrooms and onions, and melted pepperjack! Likewise my wife said her chicken chunks were excellent, and the deep fried pickles were also very good. The only part of our meal that did not taste great was the Bono Oh-No deep fried Twinkie, but that may have been a case of unrealistic expectations on our part, because even when you put lipstick on a pig, that does not change the fact that it is still a pig. PROS: food which ranged from very good to excellent, Nick was both a friendly server and skilled cook CONS: gravel parking lot, too few staff members, kinda pricy Overall we found Bono Tavern to be Very Good, and would definitely return.
Mary Yvonne Wacaser Mabrey Cooper
Best chicken wings I've ever
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
KatyN 1882
Went here last night for first time and I loved it! Staff of older guy working and I'm assuming sweet guy in college with piercings were so nice and friendly :) I'm assuming older guy was owner too and he was so nice! Food was delicious too and I absolutely loved the turtle soup! French onion soup was good as well! I got the perch and it was delicious and not one bone in it which was great they got them out! Breading wasn't too thick either and fish was perfectly cooked as well. Fries, tater tots and coleslaw was also great as well! Definitely will be coming back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Mary Yvonne Wacaser
Best chicken wings I've ever
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nancy Carey
My BLT was excellent and when I forgot my purse on the back of my chair they kept it safe until I could get back and get it. Very kind.
This place is addicting! Good people, incredible bartenders, ridiculously delicious food, live music, and a phenomenal owner who makes southern hospitality look like a bad joke. Highly recommend! Can’t wait to go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: BBQ Chunks, Roast Beef Sandwich and Perch Sandwich
Such good food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
It's like family. Great place to
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Everything was amazing!! Definitely gonna go
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tonight was my first time here. The food, staff and atmosphere was great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food, very friendly staff, and excellent service!
Very disappointed in our visit. Went there for a perch dinner and it was fried to a crisp and all of the flavor was gone.I have had this dinner when I come into town several times at the Bono Tavern and it is usually very good. I have been visiting Veelers/Bono Tavern since the 60s.However, the cole slaw was delicious.Maybe a new cook??? ;(
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 4
Fantastic small town bar and grill. The cook has excellent recipes with many of them cooked from scratch. I would suggest taking a nice little detour and stopping in sometime.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Never a bad meal and love Taco Wednesdays with live music!!! Best pizza in the area and wonderfully fat, juicy burgers. Nice draught selection as well.
It's a small town bar. The people were nice. I was here for a memorial service for a friend.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
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After enjoying the trails at Howard Marsh Metropark, my wife and I wanted to try something new for dinner. Since the signs on the highway extolled the virtues of Bono Tavern as being the best food in town, we decided a visit was in order. Once we arrived in Bono, we understood the ironic humour of the signs, as the tavern appeared to not only be the only restaurant in town, but it also looked like the only business period. From the outside, Bono Tavern looked like a dive bar. From the inside, it also looked like a dive bar, but with nicer seating. Nuff said. We helped ourselves to a high-top table, and once the lone employee finished up with another table, he brought us menus and took our drink orders. Nick the employee was friendly, but even with just three tables, he was clearly stretched pretty thin, being server, busser, and cook all wrapped up into one "cute bearded package" as my wife put it. Eventually he was able to take our order: the chicken Pepper Chunks for my wife, Bono Burger for me, and to share, a Fried Pickle Chips and the Bono Oh-No. After tax but before tip, our bill came to $50.08, which felt on the pricy side. Nick cooked everything fresh, a fact we knew because we could watch him hand batter each fried pickle. As such, we were not surprised at how long it took to get our food (especially considering he was also taking care of other patrons), however we were impressed by the quality and taste of the food when it eventually got there! My Bono Burger was stacked mouth-wateringly high with two thick, hand-made patties, sautéed mushrooms and onions, and melted pepperjack! Likewise my wife said her chicken chunks were excellent, and the deep fried pickles were also very good. The only part of our meal that did not taste great was the Bono Oh-No deep fried Twinkie, but that may have been a case of unrealistic expectations on our part, because even when you put lipstick on a pig, that does not change the fact that it is still a pig. PROS: food which ranged from very good to excellent, Nick was both a friendly server and skilled cook CONS: gravel parking lot, too few staff members, kinda pricy Overall we found Bono Tavern to be Very Good, and would definitely return.
Best chicken wings I've ever
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went here last night for first time and I loved it! Staff of older guy working and I'm assuming sweet guy in college with piercings were so nice and friendly :) I'm assuming older guy was owner too and he was so nice! Food was delicious too and I absolutely loved the turtle soup! French onion soup was good as well! I got the perch and it was delicious and not one bone in it which was great they got them out! Breading wasn't too thick either and fish was perfectly cooked as well. Fries, tater tots and coleslaw was also great as well! Definitely will be coming back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best chicken wings I've ever
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My BLT was excellent and when I forgot my purse on the back of my chair they kept it safe until I could get back and get it. Very kind.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5