Angry Brothers Pub & Grill

• 6501 Washington Avenue
• Racine, WI 53406
• (262) 898-1900
• Website
• Menu

We spent two nights in Great Wolf Lodge in Gurnee, IL but we actually needed to stay three nights in the area for a figure skating competition at the Pleasant Prairie Rec Plex in Pleasant Prairie, WI.

I didn’t want to pay Friday night prices at Great Wolf just to sleep there. Both kids competed on Saturday and we didn’t really want them going all out for the third day in a row at a water park.

The rates at Great Wolf weren’t awful. It was only a little more than most of the hotels in the area so it was worth it to let the kids have some fun for a few nights. We really don’t have the means or time to take a real vacation anymore with all the skating they do so we use this trip and the Traverse City trip as our summer “vacations.”

We still needed a hotel for the third night and I had some Marriott points. I had initially booked a Fairfield Inn in Pleasant Prairie not too far from the rink but as I started looking, I could get a hotel a little further away and only use half the points. The hotel was just for sleeping anyway so I booked in Racine.

My parents were also staying the night as they wanted to stick around and watch both kids on Saturday. They booked the same hotel as us.

L had just an alright day skating. She actually had a solid skate but she wasn’t happy with it and it affected her mood the rest of the day. When we got back to the hotel, it was decided she was going to spend the rest of the night in the room to cool down and refocus.

My parents were hungry though and so was I. My dad noticed a bowling alley right next to our hotel that had a restaurant. We looked up a menu online and it looked pretty good so B and I decided to walk over with them to get something to eat.

The restaurant inside The Lanes on 20 is Angry Brothers Pub & Grill. The restaurant is on the west side of the building located on Washington Avenue/Wisconsin Highway 20 near Meadow Lane in Racine. Well, the address is listed as Racine but it appears to be the Town of Mt. Pleasant. I’m not familiar enough with Wisconsin municipalities to know if this is like a Charter Township in Michigan or what the deal is. The building is right next to the Fairfield Inn on Washington Avenue which is where we stayed. There is a separate entrance for the restaurant so you never have to go in to the bowling alley if you don’t want to. It was easy to just walk between the two parking lots and find some tasty food.

The restaurant is a pretty typical sports bar. The dining room was pretty full because there were a couple of softball teams also staying at the hotel we were at. We didn’t see a host station but a waitress saw us walk and motioned us to a table near the entrance. She came over a few minutes later with a couple of menus and took drink orders.

The menu at Angry Brothers made it surprisingly hard to choose. There was so much there that we all thought sounded good that it came down to a game time decision when the waitress got to us.

I was actually leaning towards a Brisket Mac & Cheese but made the decision to order the Cubano. This sandwich is served on a hoagie roll smoked pulled pork, aged Swiss cheese, sliced ham, pickles, and ground honey mustard. Unlike a traditional Cuban, this sandwich was pressed but it still had all of the elements on a toasted bun. There was quite a bit of pork stuffed in to this roll and it was all topped with melted cheese that melded everything together. Despite not being a traditional Cuban on pressed Cuban roll, this sandwich was really good and I’m pretty positive I made the right choice with my order.

The sandwich comes with fries which are pretty simple frozen restaurant fries. They weren’t all that great but they helped fill in the small gaps left over after finishing off the sandwich.

B really wasn’t in the mood to eat. I had already felt fortunate I got him to eat lunch earlier in the day at Andy’s Drive-In so I knew two sit down restaurant meals was going to be a challenge.

He picked the chicken strips off the kid’s menu. The chicken strips were super simple frozen strips. We got him to eat one and a half then my mom and I finished what he didn’t eat. They were actually pretty decent chicken strips as far as frozen ones go. I was happy he ate one so I look at this as a little bit of a victory. He said they were good, he just wasn’t hungry.

I really didn’t even pay attention to what my parents ordered. My dad was looking at the Potato Bowls but I feel like he got a burger. I think my mom got the Chicken Bacon Ranch Wrap but I could be wrong. I know we were all pretty tired and hungry. We just wanted to eat dinner and get back to the hotel to lay down. It was a really long day at the rink.

J and L didn’t come with us but J asked me to bring back two salads for them. I got the House Salad which is just lettuce, onions, and tomatoes. Neither like onions or tomatoes so they ended up just eating the lettuce with salad dressing. There really weren’t any other salad options they were going to eat though. They just needed something to eat before bed and both seemed fine with it.

Our bill for dinner, for the six of us, was right around $65. My mom had the cash to pay it so we flagged the waitress down and just gave her a stack of bills and told her to keep the change so we could get out of there and get to bed.

Angry Brothers Pub & Grill claims to be “Racine’s Best Kept Secret.” I’m not familiar with the area at all so that could be true. You don’t typically find really good pub’s like this inside a bowling alley. The menu is way above what you’d expect to find in a bowling alley bar.