The Crowbar

09/03/2026

Crowbar will be open labor day!

09/01/2026

Sunday September 6th we will not be doing our breakfast buffet
We will be open at 3pm like normal

08/01/2026

This Sunday, August 2nd!

Side note ... how is it already August???

07/23/2026

It's finally here ... RAGBRAI 2026!!!

Bar and kitchen will open at noon, with food being served til gone or 10p. Bar will stay open as long as we have folks still drinking or 2a.

Limited food menu with a full bar as well as TWO beer stations serving cans and ONE vodka station serving nothing but vodka lemonade or cranberry. One beer station as well as a merch table will be located out in our beer garden.

Beer and vodka stations, along with the merch table, will be CASH ONLY. Cards accepted at the bar for drinks and food.

07/12/2026

As a reminder ... unfortunately, at this time we are not making pizzas.

Not because we do not want to, but because we are at the mercy of equipment being delivered and then installed. We have no control over that.

At 10a, with no equipment even turned on yet, our pizza room is sitting at 85° and humid. And this is with a temporary window a/c unit running, a dehumidifier, a fan, and all windows covered with foam board insulation. Our walk-in meat cooler as well as the refrigerated pizza prep cooler are back in the pizza room. The current temps back there make these coolers run extra hard just to keep the required temps inside. If we turn the pizza oven on, we risk those coolers not being able to keep temp at all and losing very costly inventory.

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience and will start serving pizzas as soon as we can.

07/10/2026

07/10/2026

🚨 ATTENTION 🚨 FYI 🚨

We apologize in advance, but unfortunately, we will not be stocking any bottled beer until AFTER July 23. Therefore, once it runs out, it is out until after RAGBRAI.

On the day of RAGBRAI, we will ONLY be selling CANS and draft beer. And to make room for the overabundance of inventory we need to bring in for that day alone, we will be running down our bottle inventory. We know how folks can be very attached to not only a specific beer but a specific type (can, bottle, draft). But unfortunately, we need to allocate as much cooler space as possible for cans, kegs, and mixers. No one likes a warm beer or mixed drink.

Once RAGBRAI is done and gone, we will get back to our regularly scheduled inventory selections! Thank you for understanding, and we hope to see you all for RAGBRAI.

Stay tuned for more posts concerning our food and beverage menus for RAGBRAI.

07/08/2026

Apologize in advance for the somewhat lengthy post, but it is necessary in order to fully explain the reason you might have noticed "discrepancies" in our pricing lately. Also included is a graphic with a pricing example to show the specifics. We hope this clears up any questions our customers may have been having recently.

💰 When the penny made its big move to no longer be in production, we used that as a prime time to adjust all our pricing to end (including tax) on the quarter. This allowed us to no longer have to have pennies, nickels, or dimes on hand. Along with this change, we swapped our food pricing to INCLUDE taxes in the price that you see, the same way our beverages have always been. Therefore, you will no longer see a line on the receipt for TAX. In making these two changes, there was some rounding that needed to take place to ensure the final price ended on the quarter.

💰 We have also made a slight increase (25¢) to most of our food items so that we no longer have the highly debated $2 credit card fee. This increase of ONE SINGLE QUARTER per meal item on the menu serves to help offset the credit card processing fees that we are charged as a small business. This is a fee that we CANNOT bypass in any way, unless we remove the convenience of being able to pay with a card. The fee schedule is determined by the processing company that we (or anyone) use(s).
🍺 In-Person (swipe, insert, tap): 2.5% (of the transaction total) + 0.15
🍺 In-Person AMERICAN EXPRESS (swipe, insert, tap): 3.29% (of the transaction total) + 0.15
🍺 Card NOT Present: 5% (of the transaction total) + 0.15 (manual card number entry, over-the-phone payment, QR Pay)

💰 As for upcoming changes, we are currently in the process of removing one distributor and bringing on another. Most menu items will remain the same; some will change to being prepared with better quality products, a few brand new items will be added, and unfortunately some items will be removed completely. Therefore, until we get our new menu dialed in and pricing adjusted to reflect current costs, we will continue to use our current printed menu. We will revamp and print an entirely new menu as soon as we can. Until then, please bear with us, and we will do our best to advertise new menu options as they come about.

In addition, we are fully aware that there is absolutely no way we can please everyone when it comes to menu items and pricing. Menus and pricing can be a complicated, intertwined process/project that is seemingly ever-changing. We are working as fast as we can to bring the best quality products to our customers. We sincerely appreciate your patience with everything and look forward to hearing your feedback on the new items.

07/08/2026

New products!
Red, White, & Berry will stick around til at least RAGBRAI. We'll decide at that time if we continue to carry it.