A sports pub on the Square, a Clark Street cocktail bar and a brewery tap room that has poured since 1857, mapped by distance.
The bars in Stevens Point run from a Main Street sports pub with dancing to live DJs to a brewery that has been pouring beer since 1857. Many of the nights out below start within about 0.2 miles of the downtown Public Square, which is home to a sports pub, a cocktail bar and a hotel steakhouse bar.
The brewery tap room is about 1.1 miles from the Square, Hilltop Pub & Grill is about 2.6 miles east, and ROOK1ES Sports Pub is about 2.1 miles south. This page works through each room, what visitors say about it, which nights are quiet and which are packed, and ends with a plan for a night on foot. For everything else in town, start with the sights and activities in town.
Around the Public Square: Graffiti's and Father Fats
A walkable bar crawl starts downtown, where Graffiti's Sports Pub and Father Fats Public House are about 0.1 mile apart. One is built for screens, shots and dancing to live DJs, and the other for a cocktail list and shared plates.
Graffiti's Sports Pub at 912 Main Street sits on the Square. Its own description adds a party vibe, with dancing to live DJs. The visitors bureau's 2026 bar roundup, which carries sponsored sections, mentions free shots at certain weekend hours and an after-dark menu.
Its Google profile lists Wednesday through Saturday hours from 11 am to 2:30 am and shows it closed Sunday through Tuesday, so plan a midweek visit around that. Reviewers mention Thursday steak night and karaoke, and one party of 14 after a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduation found plenty of room.
The Google profile also lists free street parking and a free lot, plus accessible parking, seating and restroom. Reviews are not all glowing: one outdoor table waited 35 minutes without anyone taking a food order, so catch a bartender's eye if you sit outside.
Father Fats Public House at 945 Clark Street is a gastropub with craft cocktails in an industrial space with a patio. It is about 0.1 mile from Graffiti's and about 1 mile from the brewery. The room opens at 4 pm Tuesday through Saturday, takes no reservations and seats only complete parties. Its website says that if you are seated before 8 pm, other customers may be waiting for a table.
The menu posted on October 31, 2026 lists specialty cocktails, and it carries a non-alcoholic list at $9 along with non-alcoholic beers. The site also notes that the restaurant is closed on Thanksgiving, November 26, 2026, and that a sister room, Chef's Kitchen at 924 Clark Street, runs private events and select nights.
Reviewers single out a bartender who talked their table through cocktails with long, funny names, along with the gumbo, the roasted vegetables and a quinoa bowl. One visitor noted that the hard floors make the indoor room loud and skipped the patio at dusk because of bugs, so pick the side that suits the weather.
Pick Graffiti's if the night is about a game, dancing to live DJs or a late finish, and pick Father Fats if you want a cocktail list and a table before the 8 pm crowd.
A hotel bar with taps and wine: Wissota Chophouse
Wissota Chophouse is a steakhouse, but its bar is a fine stop for a drink about 0.2 miles from the Square. It sits on the first floor of the Cobblestone Hotel & Suites, through the green doors off the lobby.
The bar pours Wisconsin craft beer on 20 taps, with flights for anyone who cannot choose, and more than 20 wines by the glass. The website promotes a daily happy hour from 4 to 6 pm with half-price taps and wine, but the page is undated, so confirm before you plan around it. The bar also mixes cocktails, and the dinner menu is posted Monday through Saturday from 4 to 9 pm, with the room closed on Sundays.
Reviewers mention a lychee martini and a chocolate martini, along with crab cakes, stuffed mushrooms and alligator bites to share. Reservations go through OpenTable, and the site gives 715-295-RARE as the phone number.
Its Google profile lists a free lot, free street parking and accessible seating. Because it is attached to a lodging property, it suits a visitor who wants a drink without driving; anyone staying over can look at places to stay in Stevens Point.
Point Brewery: the tap room, the tour and the patio
Point Brewery at 2617 Water Street has been brewing in Stevens Point since 1857, when George Ruder and Frank Wahle founded it. The tap room is about 1.1 miles from the Square and about 1.0 mile from Father Fats.
Wikipedia says the brewery supplied beer to troops in 1864, took the name Stevens Point Brewing Company in 1902, and outlasted its local competitors through the Prohibition years. The same entry describes it as the fifth-oldest continuously operating brewery in the United States. The flagship Point Special Lager shares the year-round list with Amber Lager, Drop Dead Blonde, Midnight Black Lager and a Cream Ale, with seasonals such as Oktoberfest and Point Bock.
The brewery's site also lists non-alcoholic versions of Amber, Snow Pilot, Great Outdoors and Oktoberfest, plus gourmet sodas that include root beer and a Concord grape. Its site lists tap room hours of 11 am to 9 pm Monday through Thursday, 11 am to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 11 am to 5 pm on Sunday; the Google profile shows slightly different hours, so call 715-344-9310 before you go.
The visitors bureau's July 2026 beer roundup describes a newly opened tap room, an attached beer garden with occasional live music, and tours of the working brewery. Reviewers describe a tour that walks through the whole production area, with four tasting samples and a glass, and a patio with a fire pit and fireplaces for cool evenings. The Google profile lists a free lot, and a reviewer mentions ample parking in front of the building.
The brewery belongs to the Central Wisconsin Craft Collective, which the visitors bureau pairs with a Craft Pass of deals at local breweries, wineries and distilleries. Other taprooms in the area sit outside the city, including O'so in Plover, whose tap house lists 40 beers on tap. Point Brewery also appears in the Stevens Point attractions as a daytime stop.
Hilltop Pub & Grill: a pub with a fish fry
Hilltop Pub & Grill at 4901 Main Street is the bar to choose when the night starts with dinner, about 2.6 miles east of the Square. Its own description calls it a longtime area landmark, with burgers, fish fries, a long tap list and sports on TV.
A 2015 WSAW feature said Hilltop has operated since the 1940s, started as a pub and grew into a full restaurant in the 1980s. The same story called the daily fish fry its top seller, with cod, walleye and perch, and noted that the outdoor deck draws cyclists and groups in summer. The visitors bureau's fish fry roundup lists it as serving a fish fry every day of the week.
Its Google profile lists hours of 10:30 am to 9 pm Sunday through Thursday and until 10 pm on Friday and Saturday, with reservations accepted and a children's menu. Reviewers mention cheese curds, the tenderloin, a strawberry walnut salad and a deep tap list, and one found the room packed with a crowd watching the Masters.
Opinion is mixed on the kitchen: one visitor called the beer selection solid but the food hit or miss, with lukewarm fries. Fish fry is one of several dinner options among the Stevens Point restaurants.
ROOK1ES Sports Pub: tap handles, live music and a late kitchen
ROOK1ES Sports Pub at 3425 Church Street sits south of downtown, about 2.1 miles from the Square and about 1.0 mile from the brewery. It trades the walkable cluster for a long draft list and a full week of events.
Its own description cites sixty beers on draft. Its listing also mentions live music and comedy nights. The visitors bureau's 2026 bar roundup adds comedians and hypnotists to the event mix for a pub it spells Rookies.
Its Google profile lists hours of 11 am to 2 am Sunday through Thursday and 2:30 am on Friday and Saturday, with outdoor seating and free parking. The kitchen serves burgers, wraps, salads, homemade chips and a four-piece cod fish fry.
Reviewers praise a staff member who built a gluten-free wrap after a call ahead, and one called the fish fry the best in Portage County, which is their opinion rather than a ranking. A July visitor said the smash burgers had changed and sent them back, so treat the burger reviews as split. Another reviewer called the outside seating great and cigar friendly.
More bars the visitors bureau and Travel Wisconsin name
Several other neighborhood bars sit outside this guide, and the visitors bureau's March 2026 roundup lists nine, some in sponsored sections. It names Sugar Bar for martinis, Airport Bar for opening at 6 am, Elbow Room as one of the city's oldest bars, Final Score for its many screens, Brickhause Tavern for a balcony, and Partner's Pub for Thursday karaoke.
Which bar for which night
Match the room to the plan: each pick comes straight from the hours, rules and reviews above.
- Sports and a late finish: Graffiti's Sports Pub, listed open until 2:30 am Wednesday through Saturday.
- Cocktails and shared plates: Father Fats, open from 4 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
- A drink inside your hotel: Wissota Chophouse, with 20 Wisconsin taps.
- A brewery tour and a patio: Point Brewery.
- Fish fry and a beer: Hilltop Pub & Grill.
- A long draft list on the south side: ROOK1ES Sports Pub.
Planning a night out: days, rides and non-alcoholic options
Sunday through Tuesday is the thin stretch downtown, since Graffiti's lists itself closed all three days and Wissota is closed on Sundays. ROOK1ES lists hours every day of the week, which makes it the fallback.
The downtown trio of Graffiti's, Father Fats and Wissota sits within about 0.2 miles of one another, so a night there needs no car between stops. The brewery is about 1.0 mile from Graffiti's, and Hilltop is about 2.2 miles from ROOK1ES, so those stops need a ride.
For anyone skipping alcohol, Father Fats lists non-alcoholic cocktails and beers, and Point Brewery lists four non-alcoholic beers along with its sodas. Google profiles for Hilltop, Father Fats and Graffiti's mark the rooms as good for groups.
Start at the Main Street sports pub, finish at the tap room that has poured Point beer since 1857, and the downtown stretch of bars in Stevens Point fits inside about a mile.
