Wool Street Grill & Sports Bar

Wool Street, or as we like to call it in our office: Conference Room W, is a decent bar with typical bar food directly next to the Barrington metra station. It's a popular place to grab a few drinks after work for all the people in my office who commute from the city. It pretty much has that sports bar atmosphere, and we've been here before to catch some March Madness games and even to host our fantasy football draft. I usually go here with co-workers during our lunch hour or after work if we want to grab a few drinks before catching the train. In the summer they also have a decent outdoor patio if you wanted to eat outside for lunch.

The food here is pretty average bar food. I've had a decent amount of their menu items and they weren't bad, but most weren't really amazing either. The prices are honestly a little high for the quality you get too.

Wings - I've only tried a few flavors but overall they're good. They usually compete at the Chicago wingfest every year and even placed in the BBQ category in the past.

Pizza - Pretty good thin crust pizza that you can customize with a bunch of different toppings.

Macho nachos - Enormous pile of nachos that can be shared if you have a group. We brought in some pretty young, hungry dudes and were barely able to kill it.

Stuffed burger - This is one of my go to items whenever I come here. It's basically a huge burger that has its center stuffed with gorgonzola cheese and little pieces of bacon. It's topped off with a huge onion ring too. This burger will definitely go straight to your arteries but it's so good. Once you take your first bite you pretty much have to keep holding it since the cheesy center is just oozing everywhere. On the side they also have some really good seasoned waffle fries that come with a special spiced sour cream.

Overall, Wool Street is a good option for me purely based on how close it is to my work. There's probably a bunch of other places where you can get better food at the price, but it's good enough if you just wanna grab some food while drinking and catching some games on TV.

Normal Rockwell lives in Barrington. Or at least I thought he did when I picked it as the town to raise my family and keep them safe. Seems it worked. A quiet burg an hour by car or train from downtown Chicago, Barrington has been around since the 1850s. Today it's a cute little village surrounded by expensive homes, immaculately kept lawns, and million dollar horses grazing in back "yards."

There are ordinary families like ours, and celebrity familes. "Rumored" to live in Barrington, or owning homes here are Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, Chicago Bears Mike Singletary, and Walter Payton. I can attest to the latter two, as their kids were in school with my daughter. Singletary and I worked the pizza tent at the annual grade school carnival.

The Wool Street Sports Bar is a rather new addition to the town. When we moved here 25 years ago, I'm not sure there was a bar. Well, maybe one. Now the village is host to the requisite hoity toity cuisine outlets, fancy grocery stores, and posh shops one would expect to find in an area like this, 78% of the people are homeowners, and the median house value is north of mid six figures......and well up in to the 8 figure range, as well. The 'town' is really four areas, Barrington itself, North Barrington, Barrington Hills, and South Barrington. Together they make up one of the wealthiest zip codes in America.

Wool Street has a very lengthy menu of American bar food, burgers, salads, pizza, dinner plates.

I went with the stuffed burger, Wool Street's version of the burger that made Minneapolis famous, the Jucy Lucy. (sic). This one was stuffed with gorgonzola and bacon, with a very nice flame finish, great char flavor. The interior cheese was very ample. The burger was parked on a soft bakery roll with an egg wash, and tomato and lettuce. A wide variety of sides come with each sandwich, I went with tots, which were more than satisfactory.

This is a damned fine burger. Worth a trip to Barrington.Worth a stop

I love the idea of this place but for as many TV's as they have I am always stretching to find a view because of the way the seating is arranged.

The drinks are overpriced and it can get completely PACKED in here during a game BUT their happy hours prices can make up for it if you can make it there in time.

The wings though, are AMAZING. If you like wings, you will love their grilled wings! The flavor is incredible! I highly recommend!

Great size for groups, drink specials every day of the week.

Went in here about a month ago pretty late, about 12:45 a.m. because it said they were open till 2:00 a.m. looking to get something to eat and asked one of the waitresses what time the kitchen closes. The reply, "a long time ago".
Oh ok, so we ordered a couple beers at the bar and saw they started putting the chairs up on some of the tables in the bar. Then they start putting bar stools up on the bar, and proceeded to put up every chair surrounding us by 1:00 a.m. presumably waiting for us to leave, lol! We were not the only ones in the place but apparently they wanted to close early and not communicate this to anyone. Just bad attitudes all around here. Won't be going back.

Food is excellent however service is painfully slow. We went there with a larger group, we had made arrangements ahead of time, and ended up being there about 2.5 hours for a Saturday lunch.

We may go back on an individual basis however would not drive out of the way for it.

Came here on Sunday for the Bears. Had Packers on big screen, only would change one of the smaller screens to Bears after asking several times. Where am I? I thought this was America! Last time I checked Barrington was a Chicago suburb. Never again.

A-OK... the food is quite good, service is also great and I really like the choices they offer for beer!

I guess when you break it down, I must say that good beer + wings is always a good time.

It is a place very close to my brother's house, we were visiting for the weekend and hit it up to have a good chat away from the 'li'l ones'.

It was kind of early so it wasn't full and I must say that was perfect as we wanted some time to hang out.

OK, I've now been to both Wool Streets and I like the Cary one a bit better. Realistically, this place is 3.5 stars, a little better than average.

Menus are the same at both places and the food is pretty good. I guess the difference is that the staff in Cary is a little more personable. The service here was decent, but given that the place wasn't all that busy, there was time to go the extra mile with some conversation or the like. Didn't happen.

I'll likely return - it's a good place to watch a game, the food is good and there's a wide variety of beers. Just wish the staff there was willing to "shoot the breeze" a little more.

I want to like this place but the service is HORRIBLE. We have eaten here 3 times in the past two months with equal displeasure each time.
Food is average with decent selections, but snooty waitresses kills the experience. Each visit, the waitstaff has been uninterested in work and more concerned with socializing with coworkers.

Over the past 2 years we have eaten here approximately 10 times and very obvious that they are on the decline. I keep hoping things will change, but now we will never know.
Unfortunately for us, we will have to find another sports bar because we will never return!

This place was a little hard to find... it is getting dark out earlier and I guess they either forgot to turn on the outside lights or change the timer because it was dark. Wool Street does not have a parking lot, but they said you are allowed to park in the train station lot at night for free.

The restaurant section is really small but comfortable. We arrived around 5:45 PM and there were a couple tables of elderly people that seemed like regulars. By 6:15 PM the place was packed with young couple and kids. I overheard that there was a half an hour wait as well. If you are 21+ you can dine in the bar area which I thought was pretty cool. There are tables here as well as television and no children!

I ordered the Angry Calamari for an appetizer and it was really good but the hot sauce seemed to fall to the bottom and was a little difficult to pick up with the calamari. This dish was spicy, I went through a lot of water. For my meal, I had the Twisted Mac and Cheese which was pretty good. However, I wish the bowl was bigger so I could mix it because the cheese fell to the bottom. I also tried a piece of the fish fry and it was amazing... I will order the all you can eat fish special the next time I go on a Friday!