Sidelines Sports Grill

EXPERIENCE

Sidelines Sports Grill has been feeding St. Cloud since 2006, with a locally family-owned, full-service approach and a welcome for all ages. Its appeal is easy to recognize: dinner, sports and something to do with your friends, all under one roof. A grand occasion is entirely optional. So is any useful knowledge of the game on television.

The dining and bar area has blue walls, wood paneling and screens throughout. A separate pool room, with green-felt tables beneath hanging lamps, makes the restaurant’s other enthusiasm quite clear. Those two spaces help explain its broad following: families can come for a meal, while pool players have a reason to make an evening of it. The friend whose sporting contribution is ordering dinner should fit in nicely.

Monday and Wednesday bring the unlimited wing dinners, alongside scheduled pool and poker programming. That puts wing night in the middle of the restaurant’s social life, rather than making it a solitary eating challenge. Come with someone whose conversation you enjoy. There is plenty here to keep an evening occupied without appointing every wing a personal milestone.

This is the neighborhood sports-grill version of all-you-can-eat: a focused dinner in a place already built for company. The distinction between the two wing nights gives regulars a useful choice, too. Some dinner loyalties run deeper than team loyalties. Bones can be a surprisingly serious subject.