I love this restaurant. It is in a great location right downtown in Eau Clair Market and therefore has a great parking lot beside it (but you have to pay for the parking). Eau Clair always has lots of events going on so be sure to go to the Barley Mill when there is not an event downtown or in Eau Clair or maybe make a reservation in advance to be sure you will get a table and not have a long wait.
Given that it is right downtown and usually restaurants downtown are expensive.. this restaurant is not. It has great and very reasonable prices.
To eat we got: green beans, lobster rolls and bacon patties.
I love that this restaurant also has three patios- one out front, one out back and a roof top patio.
Even though I loved this restaurant so much I only have it a three star because they asked if we wanted to be seated on the patio or inside when we arrived and we said patio, the back patio. It was great they had a DJ that played great music but wasn't too loud. She took our drink orders but never brought food menus so my Mom went inside and got us our own food menus. We chose what we wanted and the next time the waitress came .. she took the menus away and not our order because she said we weren't aloud menus out here because we weren't allowed to eat food on this patio.. that would have been nice to know and no one told us that!
The other thing was for drinks we got white sangria which was delicious. For one glass it was $7 and we heard the waitress say for a pitcher it was $20 and it would give us 4-5 glasses so we got that. When the bill came the pitcher was $28 so we told her she told us it was $20 and all 3 of us heard her say that and she said no that she said $28 which isn't a good deal for it and if we would have known that we wouldn't have got it.
Therefore the restaurant loses a star for each of these incidents.