The Ugly Mug Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Violet Township

We spend every Saturday at The Ugly Mug watching Buckeye football with the OSU Alumni Club of Fairfield County. I’ve had a different menu item for 5 weeks in a row - a burger, a chicken quesadilla, a Philly cheesesteak, a meatball sub, and a calzone. And their fries are amazing! All was well-prepared, hot, very tasty. I also can’t recommend the waitstaff and owners highly enough. These folks have only two speeds: fast and faster! The owner Greg is one of the hardest working people I know. And he makes the Ohio State Football games a great experience with the Buckeye Roll at halftime and blaring “Fight the Team” every time our beloved Buckeyes score. The season is halfway over - come out and join us on Saturday afternoons/evenings at the Mug.

Oh forgot to mention they have a great patio and a steady lineup of live bands. What more could you ask for? Just come...

So I came here twice. The first time was knockout awesome. Good prices, specials, great service, food was awesome. I thought id return expecting the same. The second time was weird a f tho... They had some super hot bartenders working. I finally get approached by some father figure type guy after sitting there like 10 min. He appeared to be a manager or something but it also looked like they had like 5 managers on shift at the time. So busy managing they forgot about customer. I orderedthe same thing to eat expecting the same and they were way different. Returning customers like consistency and good service. The management should let the servers address their customers instead of over managing. Like, why have servers if you're just going to do everything and over manage the establishment yet pay zero attention to customers or q.c. consistency of food...

The Ugly Mug is a pretty decent bar. The bar itself is huge and there is plenty of surrounding bar top space to order a drink and have somewhere to set it down, even when they are pretty busy. There is pool and shuffle board to play while you hang out or to keep you occupied when the game on TV isn’t particularly interesting (just be aware that the pool tables can be a bit finicky with the cue ball). The food is also quite good, they’ve got typical bar food, burgers, fries, some sandwiches; and I’ve never been disappointed. If you’re in the area a definitely recommend checking this place out. The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is that the pool tables can be pretty frustrating sometimes when the ball system doesn’t work right (but if you ask for help and they aren’t slammed they’ll usually set...