Name: Manning's Island Bar & Grill
Address: 12336 S Ashland Ave, Calumet Park, IL, 60827
Telephone: 708.925.9971
Price range: $$

Manning's Island Bar & Grill

Food + DrinkCalumet Park (suburb) · Soul Food / American Bar & Grill Community-sourced, unverified

📍 12336 S Ashland Ave, Calumet Park, IL 60827

Manning's Island Bar & Grill calls itself “a great place to be stranded,” and the tropical-island framing is doing real work here — this is a Calumet Park bar and grill built around a patio, live video gaming, good cocktails, and a soul-food-leaning kitchen rather than a straight sports-bar formula.

A confirmed Mon-Fri 3-6pm happy hour plus shrimp and grits, parmesan wings, and live video gaming at a 4.6-star Calumet Park bar and grill.

The menu runs through shrimp and grits, parmesan chicken wings, corned beef, pot roast, and a mac and cheese that shows up in enough reviews to count as a signature side. Reviewers consistently cite the drinks and the music as the real draw — “we come for the drinks & music... good vibe” is about as direct an endorsement as a review gets — and at 4.6 stars across 104 reviews, that vibe is clearly landing. There's a genuine happy hour here too: Monday through Friday, 3 to 6 p.m., with the kitchen running a slightly tighter window than the bar (the bar opens at 6:30 p.m. Monday and noon the rest of the week, staying open past midnight most nights).

It's kid-friendly during the day despite the 21+ gaming room, and there's a patio for anyone who wants the outdoor-island feel the name promises. No reservations taken, so plan to walk in. Between the food, the gaming room, and a happy hour that's actually confirmed rather than assumed, this is a legitimate reason to stop in Calumet Park rather than just pass through it.

Hours

Mon6:30 PM-12:00 AM; Tue-Sun 12:00 PM-1:00 AM (kitchen: Mon 6-11PM

Tue-Sun12PM-11PM)

📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 708.925.9971

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

☀️Outdoor seating available

🙂Kid-friendly

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