The Lucky Rabbit

Last week Tuesday, I had plans to go to a beer dinner at Bernie’s Tap Room with a few friends but due to circumstances outside of Bernie’s control, the dinner had to be cancelled. We are patiently awaiting the next dinner and hope it’s a great brewery they feature!! 

But we didn’t want to cancel our plans of a night out, so we started thinking of a different place to try. I have been going on a lot of walks on my lunches and noticed a sign outside of The Lucky Rabbit on St. Paul and Madison offering $2 taps and $2 pizzas on Tuesdays. I was curious about this and suggested it to my friends and they thought we should try it out.

We met up at 6:30 and found some comfy lounge chairs inside the bar and sat down for the evening. The owners of The Lucky Rabbit have done a fantastic job rehabbing the place from what was once a place I never wanted to go into with a sketchy crowd, to a modern, young and fun place bar. It’s painted orange on the inside with a very cool wooden soffit that adds architecture and ambiance. There is a stage for the DJ or band to play on, lounge seating, high-top tables, and lots of seating at the bar.

A very friendly server came over right away and explained the drink and food specials for the night. $2 domestic taps, (they have quite a selection of craft and imports on tap as well) and $2 pizzas that are 9″ hand tossed or thin crust with 1 meat and 2 veggies on top. Also, the jumbo pretzels were $2 that night as well. We ordered drinks and took a look at all the different topping choices we could get on the pizza while we waited for the drinks to come back.

My friend Brandon saw they had Pumpking on tap and if you haven’t had this pumpkin beer, it’s a must! It’s like pumpkin pie in liquid form – so yummy! I had to have one or two of those with my pizza.

We all decided on pizzas and Tiffany ordered us some garlic toast as well. The garlic toast came out quickly and was 5 pieces of french bread lightly coated with a garlic butter/oil spread and marinara for dipping. The bread was cut thin and toasted to a nice golden crisp – just the way I like it. And the marinara was pretty excellent too! We could have gotten by with one order, but the server wasn’t sure how many pieces came per order so we went with two to be safe.

Then the pizzas came out. We all ended up with thin crust on accident but for $2, I wasn’t gonna complain. And they were delicious! I probably shouldn’t have eaten the whole thing and garlic bread too but it was so good. The marinara has great flavor and they are generous with the toppings.

 Sausage, Black Olive & Mushroom

 Pepperoni, Pineapple and Banana Peppers

 Green Olive, Tomato and ? – This one was just three veggies

 Pepperoni, Black Olive and Onion

We ate, chatted, watched the Yankees game (Funny that the Brewers weren’t on any of their TVs though they were playing that night – oh well – we watched one of Jeter’s last games at least).

I have been friends with this guy since preschool and I’m glad that we can still meet up and hang out. We hope to meet up again soon and do another dinner out.

The Lucky Rabbit also does brunch on Saturdays & Sundays. They are advertising Breakfast and a Bloody for $10 currently. I don’t like Bloodys but the breakfast options look pretty good to me! Since this place is owned by the same folks that own Fuzzy’s, which has amazing breakfast, I’m sure it’s top notch food. Maybe they will sub a mimosa or other morning cocktail  for this girl!

I’ll have to watch what specials they run other nights, but I definitely want to go back for more pizza.