The Lodge Sasquatch Kitchen

Would have been a five but service was below par :(It was a busy night with the game on so definitely don’t blame our server but they should have had more servers in the bar area. Otherwise food was awesome! We all split the nachos, cheese curds and pretzels. All really good! For dinner I ordered the pretzel burger which was awesome (because after the pretzels for appetizers I needed more, obviously). My friend got the sweet potato fries… and wait for it… it came with FROSTING DIPPING SAUCE. Mind. Blown. Out of this world. That was my take away– burgers are good, sweet potato fries, to die for! Overall cool atmosphere and drinks (I ordered Pinot noir) were on point!

I have been here many times since they have opened and my experience has always been great! Shannon has waited on me many times and her service is always spot on she remembers me and always greets me with a warm and friendly welcome. The lodge beer is a great beer and value I recommend the lodge to everyone. I also brought my dog last week and they treated him so well the server brought him a bowl of water this really is a great neighborhood bar

I was very disappointed in the food. I ordered a «prime rib» sand which that was completely dry shredded –steak ‘em– type meat. It was $ 16. Wow. And there was so much black pepper on the sand which I couldn’t eat it. I told the waitress, who basically talked to the kitchen and said, they just use a little black pepper??? My friend ordered chicken and waffles, his was fine but were frozen waffles. I didn’t eat my meal, and the waitress did not offer a credit. That was a disappointment.
I would say this place is good for beer, bad for food.

The first time I went to the lodge it was in Scottsdale and got the Sasquatch burger. It was very yummy. It was a very nice place. I went to the one in Tempe the other day and the building looked new and very inviting. My boyfriend and I were told we could sit anywhere we wanted so we sat.
NOW THE SERVICE
It was not that great. It took us a lot longer than I thought it should have taken to get asked about what we wanted to drink. When she came to take our order it seemed to us that we were putting her out. It was like how dare they ask questions. Maybe she was having a bad day or something. It was game day but still no excuse.
I don’t want people not to go because the food is very yummy.

I like this place the times I’ve been here. Great patio and a welcome break from the usual Mill ave bars.

Great food, cool bar. Cozy inside and nice outdoor bar too. The inside looks like a lodge. Plenty of big screen TVs for football Sunday’s.

Very mundane food. Heard others say they liked it. Avoid the way overpriced beef dip.

Always enjoy time at the Lodge. Great bar to watch the games. Friendly staff and solid bar food.

5 star place great food and big patio to have this amazing viewing party thanks for taking care of us last night for Nick Chasteen lionfight 26 fight

This restaurant really looks like a lodge on the inside. There is plenty of seating plus a full bar both inside and out along with a few games, pool table.
Food is great! Be sure to get the sweet potato fries with campfire sauce
Service was okay, we weren’t even sitting at the bar and the bar tender was a lot more attentive then the waitress.

OMG this was the worst service I have had in a long time. Our waitress was friendly enough but we had to flag her down every time we wanted to order anything and when we wanted the bill (but still had to wait 20+ minutes for that). Then she forgot what we ordered and had to ask us before bringing us our bill (not a huge deal…). It was more annoying waiting 30+ minutes between getting our drinks! :(. My BF’s burger came out well done when he ordered it medium rare, so that was a bummer as well. On the plus side the ambiance is cool so if they address the service issue I would think of going back.

Service REALLY needs attention and not sure if I would go back. Ordered a drink at the bar and asked if service was available on the patio. Was told yes. We sat on the patio and was NEVER approached again.

Really cool set up, with a great patio. Food was good and service was as well. It just opened so I am sure it will get even better. I had the Sonoran dog and fries.

Great Time. Delicious drinks, better service. Highly recommended! I went here thinking I was gonna have a drink for my birthday and I had several and met great people. Awesome time, I will be back

NO STARS
This place needs lots of help before I will go back. Bad attitude lousy service with marginal food is a strange way to market your product. I know they want to be a dive bar, but REALLY!
This is not a restaurant, not sure what it is, a bar or a playground. A bacon burger has no bacon, waffle fries were regular fries, and shoe string onions were a slice of a raw white onion. My medium cooked burger was raw, and my cup of soup came out five minutes after I received my meal. So drink a lot before you order, and maybe it wont matter as much.
I write reviews when I the food and service is bad and management doesn’t care enough about its customers to train their employees.

This place is awesome! Super cool staff & the hostess, Julie, is great! I had their habanero burger with waffle fries and it was GOOD! The Mac and cheese with brats was also good! Overall loved this place and the super cool atmosphere, there are sasquatches to take pictures with & lots of games inside and outside. Would love to come here at night and experience the outdoor patio area!
I definitely recommend checking out this hot & new eatery/​bar in Tempe’s Farmer Arts District :)

This place is so stinkin’ rad. Religiously went to the one that they closed in Scottsdale and I’m so stoked they opened the one in Tempe! The menu is pretty much the same and the vibe is awesome. The patio will be perfect for the cool months here and the misters are a game changer for the summer. Best patio by far in the area. Their food is so good but I do have to say, put the fried pickles back on the menu. Pretty please? I’d recommend if you go, you also get a Lodge beer. Cheap and delicious brew. I’ll be back again, and again.

Different setup now, but the menu did not undergo many changes. The inside bar in my opinion is too small, but the outside bar is a beast. They might need to find a new Sasquatch carver though — five from the same person seems too much? They could be a bit more meaner looking. We still have the cornhole and a new game with balls and a curved track also is outside along with some video games inside. I just feel like that front bar area will pack up fast, but maybe when it cools down the problem will be solved b y spreading folks out.
Oh yeah, I had the chicken club and it was excellent and filling. It now resembles a real club unlike the old version. The deals are still there, but prices for the deals are higher and the only new and exciting thing I noticed was the doritos mac and cheese.
The sweet potato fries came with a nice marshmallow dipping sauce and the house beer was only 3 bucks on the day I went (a Sunday). Now that college is in session, this will become just another college bar. I did see some old guys lurking around, but not sure they or me would survive this place during peak times. Of course will be back though at some point, but Tempe and Scottsdale are different animals.

Wow. This place truly lives up to not being much of anything. From the ‘rough carved’ sasquatch family in front to the decidedly not family atmosphere inside it manages to be spacious but yet cramped. Games area outside is right next to an area that would probably be a great stage for live music but is overtaken by a lounge? Or maybe just an uncomfortable seating area? The food is mediocre but expensive. I had iceberg lettuce on a $ 12 burger that tasted like neither habanero nor parmesan! The green chili pork was bland (my mom would probably think it was spicy, but this is occupied Mexico).
The ‘craft’ beer menu is about as pedestrian as you can get with nothing truly interesting. Which doesn’t matter because a frozen beer glass freezes the water in your beer anyway, why even have quality beer if you are going to destroy it before it even gets to me? The ‘lodge tea’ is large (16oz) but tastes too much like the flavoring in flavored vodka, very chemical flavor. Not sure if the wood smell is piped in or what but the place smells like treated lumber. Music was just awful… bro-​country mixed with contemporary pop bs. The huge tvs make everything seem even more cramped and it is impossible to hear the people sitting next to you.

This place is built upon the bones of an old dive bar, the Sail Inn, that started up in the mid-​1990s and lasted for about 20 years. The current owners of this establishment have built a great place upon the existing structure and according to one of the owners (who also owns or is part-​owner of the Over Easy chain of breakfast places) live music will definitely be coming back to this location.
The establishment now looks like something you might expect to see up in the wilds of Flagstaff with its wood overlay and bars build to look like they are compiled from sawed off wood logs, and numerous stuffed animals in the main indoor room.
As for the food and drink, the description I received was fairly spot on, upscale bar food and it has a nice selection of craft brews on tap and in the bottle and in the can, along with the mass produced lagers from the beer equivalent of the land of Mordor, InBev — in other words, something for everyone. I get the feeling that the early hours of this place may be an older crowd and as the night wears on there will be shift change to a younger college crowd, especially when ASu is in session. In addition, once the weather cools down it will have some great outside seating.
Oh, for food, I tried the coney island hot dog and onion rings the night it was opened (though I was about two sheets to the wind that first time having attended a cocktail social gathering over at the Culinary Dropout Showcase room across the way. In addition, I went back last night and tried the fried chicken in mushroom gravy (excellent gravy, heavy on the black pepper) and my work associate and I shared an order of the nachos (decent). The beer I had came in a chilled beer glass — sometimes disliked by hard core craft beer enthusiasts but I like a chilled beer glass when it is over a 100 outside.
The only letdown was desert and they warned us they were working on it — we both had an order of the chocolate chip cookie and ice cream — great ice cream but the cookie was bold and cut up and placed standing in a cross section in the ice cream — might I suggest you steal the version of this from Oregano’s and do hot, half baked cookie dough with ice cream on top as a better version of this dish? Boulder’s on Broadway also does a similar dish but a cold cookie just doesn’t work for me — at least warm it up!
Other than that, great location and I think this place is off to a great start — can’t wait till they bring the music back though I have a feeling it will only be outside as the indoor stage that was once in the Sail Inn (may the concept rest in peace) is no longer there.