4th Base Restaurant — Restaurant in West Milwaukee

Well, you stop by a dive bar you figure you will get dive bar prices. Think again. The service was nothing special, not the worse but not the best as well. We started off ordering bloody Mary's for my wife and I. The server didn't ask how we wanted our blood's, (as a bartender or a server you should always ask. Some people don't like spicy) strike one. Our drinks came out about 5 minutes later, not bad but there were only 5 other customers. Next, when asked if we wanted food, we were told they do but they don't have menus? Strike two. What bar or restaurant doesn't have a menu, I figured out when we left why. We were told all of this food they have, we were impressed. The server then brought us back by the kitchen were the food was, so you can see all the food. It looked alright, nothing eye dropping. I was still confused, even on the food they had displayed to pick from, not one price was listed. We ordered our food. I server then disappeared for 15 minutes and would come back to serve our food.

I ordered to scallops with bacon wrapped and a plain burger. My wife ordered a seafood portabella mushroom, all of the food options were rather small. First, the bacon wrapped scallop were over cooked with the bacon being overcooked. The scallops were rather bland, so they give you a bowl of butter to dip it in. My burger wasn't cooked to order, I wanted medium rare, I go med well to well done. The bun was rather hard and burger overall was subpar and no seasoning, strike three.

My wife's dish was just horrible. The seafood they used was disgusting, she could barely eat it all and I had a bit with disgust. It tasted like the seafood was old and not cooked properly. I am not sure what else to say, not good.

Finally, our bill came and this is were the anger sit in, but I didn't say anything inside out of respect for my wife. 2 Bloody Mary's with vegetable fixings - $24.00 2 Overcooked Bacon wrapped Scallops - $16.00 1 Hamburger not cooked to order with hard bun - $10.00 1 Rotten seafood portabella mushroom - $24.00

Total with tax $79.00.

We just came in for a late lunch. I have been drinking and eating food at bars for a long time now. Never in my life have I paid such outrageous prices for subpar food. I could eat at 4 star restaurants in Milwaukee, we have. Pasta Tree, Hotel Metro, Lousie's, and etc.. and spent the same or less. However, the difference is we knew that we would be paying more because they are nicer establishments, with valuable reputations.

So it makes sense that they don't have a menu or won't even tell you their prices of their food. They know no one would buy that crap food and it would all go bad. People don't go to dive sports bars to spend almost a $100 with tip for lunch date. It just doesn't happen. I can go to J & B's on bluemound and get better food and drinks made for $30 for two people, maybe $40 if I am really drinking. Everything from the bloody's, burger, scallop, portabella was a bad experience.

DO NOT STOP HERE....

180.00 (pre tip) Was our total bill for this(Excluding Erin She def Rocks). HOW!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Comparing quality and price to other places in Milwaukee, I think Its best if we never visit 4th Base again. There are much better experiences and much better quality food and service!

We had no plans, and decided to visit a spot we had a great experience at prior to tonight, during the 2018 NBA playoffs.

Just sharing my experience at 4th base, on 02/18/2023, along with revealing some information that I otherwise wouldn't have known.

The Customer Service, engagement, response time from the Bartender Erin was absolutely amazing! Erin (please forgive me if this isn't the correct spelling) was is a superstar!!!! Every ""spot" in Milwaukee needs and Erin on their staff! The Table Runner/Server didn't introduce herself but throughout the remaining visit she was extremely attentive to her other tables, as me and my date quickly observed. Erin was gracious enough to leave the bar area when me and my date needed anything drinks, when our appetizers were ready, when our food was ready, when we needed refilling of our drinks! She even shared stories finding common ground of being a light weight with my girlfriend! She shared a story with us and we werent at the bar!!!!!

Our server must have been extremely busy with the 4-5 other tables that were there. We didnt get her name, she brought us our drinks after Erin had already come to ask us if we needed refills. She is adorable but could use a class or two in server etiquette especially for the 180.00 tab my girlfriend and I managed to leave. Erin made this bearable! Our server and the food did not! Please if you take nothing away from this please know that our wings were charred... like fell asleep while cooking charred. My girlfriend asked for marinera sauce for her mozzarella sticks to be placed on the side. the Mozzerella sticks came with the sauce drizzled on them. I asked her was she going to dip them and she said yeah so i convinced her to just take them... I asked for a medium well steak! the steak came out RARE!!!!!! Her was perfectly! Good God because if they had messed us her meal I'd have caused a scene. I can deal with wrong orders but I will not let my girlfriend deal with it. I am ranting and I am sorry!

Appetizers -1 Order of (2) Mozzarella Sticks -6 Dry Rub Chicken Wings Entrees 1- Medium Bone In Ribeye Steak(that came out Rare)-75.00 French Fries 1 Medium Ribeye Steak- 45.00 French Fries

Beverages 1 Crown Vanilla and Point Brewery Root Beer 1 Shot of Jack 2 Double Jack and Coke 2 Point Brewery root beer

I cannot remember the pricing for the miscellaneous items but the total bill came...

Stay away from this restaurant/bar. There are no prices for the food. They charged $6 for 4 pieces of broccoli added to a dish. We spent over an hour and a half waiting for our overpriced, not great food, for our group of 10.

Half of our group had finished eating as the other half slowly received their food. We never complained and tried to have understanding for the single cook trying to get everything out.

There was a middle age couple sitting at the bar on the other side of the room drinking. I first noticed them when I saw the guy walking from the back, into the kitchen and grab a handful of pasta from the basket and put it in his mouth. He then sat back down at the bar. A little later he got back up and walked past us to retrieve a tub of dirty dishes from the kitchen and head back through to the back where I first noticed him come from.

After paying our $340 bill and tipping nearly 20%, this drunken, racist manager I’m assuming, asked if we paid our bill (which we did) as we walked out of the door. Half of our party was black. My sister confronted him by asking if he asks this about all of his customers. He was extremely rude. As we walked out again, he asked our server how much we tipped. (Almost 20%) Which once again just goes to show the mentality of this guy. When I heard this I went back in. Admittedly, I was a bit aggressive at this point as I was livid that my family was being treated this way. He went on to threaten me saying “he wished he were 25”.

His behavior, as was mine, was completely unacceptable. We will never return to this place and I highly recommend others do not support this type of business either.

Owner was unapologetic to my brothers review and claimed this guy was a patron. Apparently they allow patrons to grab food out of the kitchen and eat it with their hands as well as clear tables and ask about other patrons bills and tips.

We would have happily shared our experience and mentioned the overcooked steak and pork sandwich with our server had she ever come around to ask us. But clearly they were overwhelmed with a half full bar...