JT’s Porch Saloon & Eatery

Fantastic place to drink and eat while watching some sports especially during the Blackhawks. Would recommend anyone in the area to stop by to check it out the owners are hands on almost every day. Keep up the great service.

Very sweet server, prompt service on a super busy night! The live band was great, played the classics and my margarita was nice and tasty! Thanks guys!

Place is crowded. Not to clean. Beer prices is okay but the bartenders are not to attentive. They like to talk too much with regular customers. I was seating in the bar for 10 mins before they got my order. The bartender is just talking to other customers. Not the best place to hang around

Wow. Wings. Pool. Just the greatest owners. Couldn’t say anything bad. Top ten forsure.

We visit this place regularly and I would definitely recommend. The food is pretty solid and there is usually a good craft brew list. The severs are good for the most part. Prices are reasonable.

Stopped in for lunch and was pleasantly surprised. Nice local hot spot. Servers were very friendly and they had a great rapport with the customers, it was apparent their were a lot regulars which was also a good sign. We had burgers — they were great!!! They have a wheel spin which allows for a free meal if you guess the number it will land on. Nice little find.

had to grab something quick with my co worker. Service is fine. giant drink cups too. the food was just ok. the club my co worker got was huge. and looked good. I may be back, when I am ready to eat unhealthy. Not the place for salad.

Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Excellent pub food!

Food is excellent! Nice walk out patio and smokers area in front. Kind of quaint place, has live music.

This was my second or third time here! Here again for the BlackHawks play off game. The place is packed. They have a very large parking lot so if the front is full, behind is also an option.
The bar is more of a dive bar but still very nice. Not gross or cheap in any way. Lots of TVs around the bar. The bar is large. A full circle where people can sit on all sides. They also have 20 – 30 bar tables so you have that option as well.
The service is good, our service Sarah was really friendly and helped me choose between 3 items on the menu I was stuck between.
I highly recommend the taco salad, jalapeño poppers and the turkey panini! My girlfriend also ordered cheese curds and they were Delish!
The menu prices are not expensive and the drink specials are awesome.

This place is amazing. Service kinda lacks. Went there for lunch a couple times on Friday and they were busy. Only had 1 server on. waited for a while for our food. But the FOOD IS ALWAYS GREAT! Def. a great lunch spot.

Cute spot with awesome food. This place is always busy no matter the time or day, so it’s always a good time. I love their burgers and they have the best Mai Tais!!!

Well I had learned that the soup is home made. «YES» plus.
Friday fish fry was really good, fish was cooked great with out a lot of coating.
So you need to look deeper into things to find the gold so to speak.
Thank’s for making the soup home made that Rocks in my book.
Look at the daily special that is where it’s at.

Best kept secret!!!
Nothing fancy but great bar food and cheap!
Garlic wings are amazing! Homemade fries awesome they even have different toppings for them!
Fish tacos, burgers and salads all great! They are open for lunch! Service is always great! Even if you do not drink it’s a great place to eat in a non corporate bar!
If you do drink they always have specials!

Love these burgers. Great portions! Friday night live karaōke is a blast!

Was here for MNF. Great drink specials and 50cent wings. I got the BBQ, hot and spicy garlic. They came out at a fairly reasonable time. Good size wings with a good amount if meat. Sauce was ok, nothing special.
They had the sound on for the first game but not the second which is when the jukebox went on. Pretty much all metal and or heavy rock. I don’t mind either but it got to me after a while.
Would go back again on a weekend to see how it is.
Our sever was Amelia who was great, which is why I gave it a 4 star rating.

Went here on a Thursday for a Sporcle hosted Friends Trivia night. The place was packed! We got to the bar about 15 – 20 minutes before the trivia was supposed to start and every table was claimed. The bar is a little smaller and probably only had 10 – 15 high tops. Luckily my sister spotted a group that were finishing up their meal and wasn’t going to stick around for the trivia. We swooped in and got a seat!
The menu is simple and your standard offerings of bar food. Our waitress was really nice but obviously slammed, so taking our order took a long time, but again, it wasn’t her fault, and we weren’t in any rush.
We decided to just share a feast of appetizers. We got boneless BBQ and hot jalapeño wings, cajun and chipotle ranch fries, mozz sticks, and pretzels with cheese. We were so healthy…
Wings — big meaty pieces with a good crunch. The BBQ wings were a little on the sweet side, but delicious. The hot jalapeño were not hot at all, which was disappointing, but had great flavor.
Fries — The cajun fries were hotter than the wings. Great seasoning, not overly salty and you get a boat load of them. The chipotle ranch fries were milder and was full of flavor. They have about 6 different fry options all coated in a dry rub. Not sure if they are hand cut fries or frozen to fryer but they were pretty good.
Mozz Sticks — Delicious. You get 10! Usually places will only give you 4 – 6 but there was an abudence of this gooey cheesy god like food. Cooked well and the marinara dipping sauce was full of flavor.
Pretzels — meh. Tasted like they were the frozen to microwave. Very stale and in comparison to the portions of the other food, not that much. Cheese sauce was too thick and lacked any flavor.
This place had $ 10 domestic buckets and we went through 4.
All in all it was surprisingly cheap. 5 people, all that food, and 4 buckets… only $ 80 bucks.
We really want to come back and check it out on a non-​trivia night!

«I wanted to love this place, but…» you’ve heard that a thousand times already, right? You wanted to love someplace, but you walked out disappointed. Well, now it’s my turn.
I wanted to love JT’s Porch, because a friend of mine raved about their wings. Five of us met up here on a Monday night, for their 50 cent wings, and while it was busy it wasn’t overcrowded or too loud. I don’t like traditional wings, so I ordered the boneless (not included in the 50 cent special). They are definitely big, but I didn’t particularly like either sauce I tried. I tried the Buffalo and Spicy Garlic, and there wasn’t much differentiation between the two. Neither sauce was anything greater than ordinary. The cheese curds were just okay.
The beer list is decent, there is a variety of draft beer and bottles to make everyone happy. There’s also a full bar for cocktails, and on Monday night there was some kind of $ 4 cocktail special.
We sat down immediately, but it took our waitress awhile to acknowledge us and take drink orders. The service that night, overall, was bad. She forgot our drinks, and our food took forever to arrive at the table. When we got our food, everything (appetizers and all) came at once, and one of the orders was wrong. At the end of the night, she gave us our checks and said, «you might want to check those. They could be wrong. But they should be right.» Ugh. Not my job, chick! So I can’t say I was surprised that our check was wrong, and we were billed twice for our wings.
This might be one of those places that you just love if you’re from the neighborhood. It’s probably not a place I’d visit again though.

Rating: 2.6
Short description: Standard bar with some food choices.
Pluses: Burger was okay. It was quick at least.
Negatives: Limited beer selection. Service was a bit off for me, even though I was sitting at the bar. Granted, I was just one person and the bartender was more interested in talking to the 4 drunk people.
Recommendations: Skip it. Though I didn’t try the wings, which is apparently a strong suit.
Edit: I’ve been advised to give it 2, but i’ll stick with 3 for hope that their wings make up the difference for someone out there.

Their ATM machine stole $ 103 from me yesterday. Filing a complaint with my bank. Machine dispensed no cash, but it debited my account. Screen went from «Authorizing» to «Please insert card» with no cash dispensed.
Update:
Owner Jeremy responded to my Facebook post on their page today. We spoke by phone later in the day. A tech showed up, verified the issue, and Jeremy called me back early this evening, letting me know the ATM company would be reversing the charges.
Update 11/​20/​2013:
No credit received, had to take this up with my bank as a dispute. JT’s has lost my business and that of my coworkers and our out-​of-​town guests.