How Far Apart Are the Bars in Chippewa Falls?

The bars in Chippewa Falls sit within about half a mile of one another on or just off Bridge Street, and one of them is a brewery taproom with a creek-side patio. The exception is Wissota High Shores, a supper club with a bar about four miles east on Lake Wissota. This guide takes them in the order a night out actually runs: a downtown dive with a long whiskey shelf, a hotel bar with half-price taps, the Lodge for a flight, and the lake for an Old Fashioned. It also flags the days each one is shut, because two of the four are closed on a Sunday.

Bridge Street: two bars two blocks apart

Bridge Street is the walkable core: the Tomahawk Room at 306 N Bridge St and the bar at Wissota Chophouse at 100 N Bridge St are about 0.1 mile apart. The street has been a historic district since July 1994, when the Bridge Street Commercial District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, so the 19th-century fronts between stops are part of that district. Travel Wisconsin's downtown page also names the Snout Saloon nearby.

Volume One's listing counts 14 rotating craft beers on tap and more than 50 whiskeys, plus a long list of gins, and Travel Wisconsin repeats the 50-plus whiskey figure. There is pool and darts, pull tabs, and the same Volume One page says Tuesday is trivia night, so confirm the night before you plan around it. A March 2026 reviewer praised the Monday food specials, which Volume One calls Monday Munchies.

One piece of local knowledge from a May 2026 review: ask for the orange and cherry in your Old Fashioned. The bartender told that reviewer the house version muddles just sugar and bitters, so the Wisconsin fruit-in-the-glass version is yours for the asking. Earlier reviewers praised the bartenders as knowledgeable and the beer selection as nothing like a standard domestic tap list.

Hours are 2 PM to 2 AM Tuesday through Saturday, 2 to 10 PM Monday, and closed Sunday. It takes walk-ins, has free street parking, accepts cards, and the Google profile puts a drink-and-snack spend at $10 to $20.

Its site describes 20 Wisconsin craft beers on tap, flights, and more than 20 wines by the glass. The deal is the happy hour: from 4 to 6 PM, the site says, every tap and every glass of wine is half price. The site calls that daily, but Google lists the restaurant as closed on Sundays, so treat Sunday as a no and call 715-720-0550 if the plan depends on it. You enter through the green Wissota doors off the hotel lobby or from the North Bridge Street side. The main business is steak, with dinner from 4 to 9 PM Monday through Saturday and a Google price range of $40 to $90 per person, so the bar is the lighter way in. Dinner is easy to find among the local restaurants.

The Snout Saloon at 13 W Central St is the other downtown name worth knowing: Travel Wisconsin calls it a 21-and-over neighborhood bar with games and live entertainment. The state historical society also keeps a record of a brick Italianate building at 616 N Bridge St that was Al and Josie's Bar, also called the Town Pump, with cast iron columns around its recessed entrance. Look up at it on the walk between stops, and check before you count on it as a place to drink.

Leinie Lodge: the taproom that stayed open

The Leinenkugel brewery across Duncan Creek stopped brewing in January 2025, but the Leinie Lodge taproom, at 124 E Elm St, stayed open. WPR reported that the last hourly workers clocked out on January 16, 2025, and that the Molson Coors plan kept the Lodge and its pilot brewery running while production moved to Milwaukee. That story, the tours and the history have their own page: see Leinie Lodge in Chippewa Falls.

The Lodge opened in 2003, and Volume One reported in May 2025 that it draws more than 125,000 visitors a year. The pilot brewery added in 2022 makes small batches that Volume One says are available only to Lodge visitors. A July 2026 reviewer noted that the pilot beers are all that is brewed locally now, and called the beer history on the walls worth reading with a pint in hand. The patio sits on Duncan Creek and welcomes dogs, as an August 2026 reviewer put it.

Hours on Google are 10 AM to 6 PM Sunday through Wednesday and 10 AM to 8 PM Thursday through Saturday, so this is a daytime stop, not a late one. The Lodge accepts credit cards only, and the lot and street parking are free. Food is thin when no truck is scheduled, one June 2026 reviewer warned, though outside food is allowed, so eat before you go or bring something. The Lodge site lists closures on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Easter.

Lake Wissota: the supper club bar

Wissota High Shores Supper Club is the bar you drive to, at 17985 County Highway X, about 4.2 miles east of the Chophouse. In 2021, Volume One reported that Brian and Kim Wogernese, who also own the Chophouse, had bought the former Loopy's High Shores and renamed it, and described a building that had served the lake since 1936.

The bar is the draw for this guide: 20 taps, Old Fashioneds (one traveler praised a flight of them), and a patio and enclosed pavilion beside the dining room's floor-to-ceiling windows. Ten boat parking spots at the base of the restaurant let you arrive by water, and Volume One's 2021 report said the renovated bar would open through garage-style doors onto an outdoor bar and patio. A December 2025 traveler loved the flight of Old Fashioneds. It fits the pattern of Wisconsin's supper clubs, where the cocktail comes before the salad bar and the Friday fish fry.

Volume One readers voted it Best Supper Club in Chippewa Falls in 2023, though the quality of recent visits varies. A June 2026 diner with a reservation was told there was no record of it and offered a two-hour wait or a seat in the bar, which the diner took and enjoyed. An October 2025 reviewer said the soup on the salad bar was cold and the steak average. Reserve through OpenTable on the supper club's site, and arrive early on a weekend.

Hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 4 to 9 PM, closed Monday and Tuesday, with entrées in a $20 to $30 range on Google.

Planning a night: days, distances and a route

Sunday is the hard night: the Tomahawk Room and the Chophouse are closed, so the Lodge until 6 PM or High Shores until 9 PM are your two options. Monday flips it: High Shores is closed, the Tomahawk Room closes at 10 PM, and the Lodge closes at 6 PM. For late hours, the Tomahawk Room alone stays open until 2 AM, Tuesday through Saturday.

A Thursday to Saturday route works on foot: the Lodge flight in the afternoon, the Chophouse bar at 4 PM for half-price taps, then the Tomahawk Room after dinner. The Lodge to the Chophouse is about half a mile, and the Tomahawk Room sits between them. Save Lake Wissota for a night with a designated driver, since it is about four miles out of town. If you want to stay near the action, the Cobblestone is one of the town's hotels with a bar on the ground floor.

Hours change with the seasons and the owners, so check a phone number or a Facebook page before you cross town. For the daytime and the non-drinking hours, there is plenty of sightseeing in Chippewa Falls.

Whichever you pick, Chippewa Falls does its drinking close to the water, one block or four miles from Bridge Street.