Rascals Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Appleton

First experience here a few months ago was not the best but i thought maybe it was an off night. I have been there 4 times this year and things never change. The new patio is amazing but the service hasn't gotten any better. Although they advertise the kitchen open until 9, twice on weeknights I asked for a menu. One night on the patio I was told they don't serve food when there is one bartender and the patio is open. The second time the bartender got upset and said the grille wasn't on but if I insisted, he would turn it on. The other part that did not make me feel welcome was the group of employees who seem to take over the bar. The bartender spends more time shaking dice with them, than serving customers. I talked to a lady who said she is a regular customer. She said everyone along that part of the bar (7 of them) were all employees or their partners and they get their drinks half price. If you aren't part of the employee crowd, you will be treated like an annoyance. Its too bad this is the only "gay" bar...

We hadn’t been since the new owners took occupancy. As someone working in health care, we were alarmed in the past that this establishment was not respecting healthcare safety protocols. With vaccines in the rear view window, my friend and I took my husband here for his 40th birthday. The bartender acted like it was any other day and basically chatted with his two friends… the only other people in the bar. When my husband mentioned he felt uncared for and went to the restroom the bartender disparaged my husband in front of me. When I defended my husband he said he’d been bar tending for 10 years and we were the problem. If you don’t know to celebrate someone on their birthday or think you can talk about someone’s spouse behind their back then you may pour drinks but you don’t understand...

Nice comfortable bar. Service is slow. Not sure how I feel about people behind the bar. They are friendly to people they know and tend to be more sociable to them then welcoming and serving everyone. Also would recommend like a lot of other gay bars have a outside heater for your smoking customers. This bar has been around for a very long time but it seems to have lost a lot of personal relationship to the gay customers and become just a business however we do not have any other options here in Appleton this is kinda sad. When you go to Green Bay the gay bars there always tend to have a owner behind the bar and tend to be genuinely happy and glad your there and not afraid to buy you a drink...