The Lanes — Restaurant in Park Falls

The Food was good. Really good.

The employees seem just comically unaware. First night, Sunday. They have these Dateline shows and everything else. There are ~10 TVs! Sunday Night FB, the WS and you have a murder myster on and no subtitles...not thay you were gonna follow along with, but just Mary-Lou and her prom photo, the old guy with the dramatic voiceover, "did this sleepy little New England town have a tragic accident on their hands...or(4 octaves lower)a muuuurder. The guy who looks like a 65 year old women who taught the gym and drives a subuaru.

My apologies for the detail, but it was all I had to watch until FINALLY honored my request to change the channel...one ONE TV(I was with 7 guys the first night, so maybe out as many TVs on the game as people in the party! There were 3-4 others in the bar, nobody watching, but we got the one TV bebind us).

But the food was really good.

2nd night was SO much worse! Game 7 of the World Series on! Monday Night Football, the Milwaukee Bucks! So many other MLB games!

And... it was the OWN network on EVERY channel by the bar and a couple of other channels on home makeovers!

I order the soup of the Day. I watch as the "sassy" town Bartender makes a couple jokes about how we look wet and tired. We were. That's fine. What wasn't was when she recommends the GREAT soup of the day, then I wait about 10 minutes, the guy she so CLEARLY has some crush on or whatever comes in and she announces she's going to have a smoke.

I looked to the guy next to me and asked him if he ordered the soup of the day. He says, "Yup." So I ask how long was the wait and he says, "it's just in that kettle over yonder...just gotta pour it.

Side note, annoyed as I was, Loved the used of over Yonder. I don't hear that outside of movies that take place in the 19th century.

But now I'm more annoyed because we DID just spend 10 hours in cold, swampy land doing a job.

NOW I hear "order up." So this little lady is out smoking a dart. I look out, she just lit a second one up.

Bought the Italian Beef with au jous. Delicious. Decidedly less so watching Oprah interview someone on TV with no sound and WAITING for it as the bread becomes so soaked with the juices that your finger goes through it like wet paper towel because it sat there for 10+ minutes so the bartender could flirt.

Another 5 minutes later, she comes in, doesn't ckean her hands...

Now AFTER the meal, after Oprah...because it was such a chore to get the channel changed the night before, she comes up giggling and hands us the soup...which we watched her spend 30 seconds scooping it out of the big kettle.

The guy I was with said, "I don't want it." Easier for me as Im less confrontational.

But hey, when I get the bill, it's still on there.

I leave 6 bucks on a 40 dollar bill. Not good, but also..3 bucks each for the Soup we didn't have and the game we didn't watch. So I should have had it taken off and then it'd be 12 bucks on 28 dollars.

And I HEAR her complain!!!

The service was so bad that night it was like it was a sitcom.

Wanted a few beers, watch the game, go to the Hotel. Nope. 45 minutes, cold food and the OWN network on EVERY TV around the bar! Sports Bar?

I will say, the Italian Beef was delicious...once I tossed the bottom half the bread and cut up the nice crispy top half(how I imagine the whole thing should be if it's not marinating the whole time).

Overall, it'd be great it the short lady with the "hilarious" quips on her shirt was decent at her job...and there were MAYBE 8 of us in there, 2 dining in, 2 ordering pick up...

Like...the BARE minimum, and it'd be 4-5 across the board, but it felt like we were imposing.

I am...really hard to annoy at a sports bar, but they REALLY put that...

I wish I could rank it lower than 1 star. My cousins and I went on 10/14/23, we sat at a table got menus in a decent amount of time. There was 3 other tables taken when we went in. We ordered 2 appetizers and 4 sodas and 4 burgers. After almost 45-50 minutes we still didn’t get our appetizers. We waited for an hour and fifteen minutes and still didn’t get our burgers. We asked and was told the cook messed them up and was remaking them. The mgr was supposed to come talk to us but, she avoided us like the plague. Finally she called my cousin up because we said just cancel our food, instead of taking any accountability for their mistakes they still charged us $22.02 for the appetizers and sodas. This was absurd. Tables who came in after us and at the same time as us (bigger orders) got their food, ate and left before us. We ended up having to go to McDonald’s and spend more money. This was my first and last time going here. This wouldn’t have happened in the Chicago area. They need to learn customer service and...

Sat for almost 30 minutes before order was taken (drinks had to get ordered with the meal) maybe 7 people at the bar and one other table of four who did nothing but complain about their drinks and food. Appetizer belonging to someone else got dropped at our table (we didn’t get ours until after our main dish came) we got a couple burgers and a pizza. Pizza came out quick along with two other pizzas not belonging to us and ordered after us. Once our food came we didn’t get exactly what we ordered. Only reason we stayed and finished our meal or even waited long enough was for our waitress (Deb) she did her best to make us happy she even argued with the cooks (two younger fellas) when they screwed up our food ... we could hear the cooks make up excuses and our waitress telling them to read the tickets correctly... sadly I will...