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Menu

Food you recognize, cooked properly, and a bar that makes the Wisconsin standards the way they are supposed to be made.

The kitchen menu is short on purpose. A short menu means the prep is done, and the thing you order on a Tuesday tastes the way it did on Saturday.

These are our opening prices, and they may change.

Openhand has not opened yet. Mid-to-late October 2026 is when we plan to open.

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Kitchen

  • Starters 6 items
  • Sides 7 items
  • Panzerotti 4 items
  • Burgers 4 items
  • Sandwiches 4 items
  • Salads 3 items
  • Kids 6 items
  • Desserts 3 items

Bar

  • Drinks 8 items
  • Draft beer 8 items
  • Bottles & cans 10 items
  • Seltzers & ready-to-drink 7 items
  • Wine 6 items
  • Cocktails 89 items
  • Shots 12 items
  • Spirits 15 items
  • Mocktails 5 items

Kitchen

Panzerotti, burgers, Italian beef, and the shareable things a tavern owes its bar.

Starters

  • Baby Ponzas $11 Six fried mozzarella-filled bread pockets, served with marinara and garlic sauce.
  • Garlic Knots $8 Baked bread formed into a knot with garlic butter and olive oil. Served with marinara and garlic sauce.
  • Mozzarella Sticks $10 Fried breaded mozzarella served with marinara and garlic sauce.
  • Garlic Bread $7 Baked garlic, butter, olive oil and Italian seasoning on Italian bread.
  • Cheese Bread $9 Baked garlic bread with mozzarella, provolone, and Romano.
  • Bacon Cheese Bread $11 Baked cheese bread with fresh bacon crumble.

Sides

  • House Fries $6 Thin julienne potatoes fried crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. Served with your choice of sauce.
  • Tater Tots $6 Fried crispy pillows of potato, lightly salted and served with your choice of sauce.
  • Fries or Tots - Loaded $10 Your choice of fries or tots loaded with cheddar cheese, bacon, onion, jalapeño, and sour cream.
  • Onion Rings $7 Fried rings of onion, battered and crisped. Served with your choice of sauce.
  • Jalapeño Poppers $10 Cream cheese filled jalapeños, breaded and fried, with your choice of sauce.
  • Hush Puppies $6 Fried cornbread bites, served with your choice of sauce.
  • Sample Platter $18 Your choice of six half portions of starters or sides. Comes with up to three sauces or dips.

Panzerotti

  • Classic Cheese $12 A traditional southern Italian deep-fried dough pocket filled with tomato sauce and melted mozzarella cheese.
  • The Giardiniera $16 Italian beef, mozzarella, red sauce, and giardiniera.
  • Sunday Dinner $14 Meatball, mozzarella, ricotta, and red sauce.
  • Build Your Own $11 Cheese panzerotti with your choice of additions. Veggies +$1: mushrooms, green peppers, onions, black olives, giardiniera. Meats and cheeses +$2: ricotta, Parmesan, Romano, pepperoni, sausage, Italian beef, meatball, bacon, grilled chicken.

Burgers

  • Cheese Burger $8 Two eighth-pound patties with your choice of American, cheddar, or mozzarella. Served with lettuce, tomato, and onion.
  • BBQ Bacon Ring $11 Beef patty, cheddar cheese, bacon, BBQ sauce, and a crispy onion ring on a toasted bun.
  • Mushroom Swiss $10 Beef patty, sautéed mushrooms, Swiss cheese, and mayo on a toasted bun.
  • Jalapeño Bacon $11 Beef patty, pepper jack cheese, bacon, sliced jalapeños, and ranch or chipotle mayo on a toasted bun.

Sandwiches

  • Italian Beef $14 Thinly sliced beef on Italian bread, served with au jus. Add giardiniera, mozzarella, or sautéed green peppers.
  • Loaded BLT $11 Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo.
  • Turkey Club $12 Turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo.
  • Grilled Chicken $11 Chicken breast, lettuce, tomato, and mayo.

Salads

  • Chicken Caesar $12 Caesar salad topped with grilled or crispy chicken.
  • Cobb $13 Greens, chicken, bacon, egg, tomato, blue cheese, and avocado.
  • Italian $8 Greens, tomato, cucumber, pepperoncini, olives, red onion, Parmesan, and Italian dressing.

Kids

  • Mac & Cheese $8 Kids' mac and cheese with a choice of side, drink, and dessert.
  • Hot Dog $8 Kids' hot dog with a choice of side, drink, and dessert.
  • Corn Dog $8 Kids' corn dog with a choice of side, drink, and dessert.
  • Cheeseburger $8 Kids' cheeseburger with a choice of side, drink, and dessert.
  • Grilled Cheese $8 Kids' grilled cheese with a choice of side, drink, and dessert.
  • Chicken Nuggets $8 Kids' chicken nuggets with a choice of side, drink, and dessert.

Desserts

  • Cheesecake $8 Cheesecake slice with your choice of strawberry, chocolate, or caramel topping, finished with whipped cream.
  • Brownie Sundae $9 Warm brownie, ice cream, and chocolate sauce, topped with whipped cream.
  • Apple Crisp à la Mode $9 Warm cinnamon apples, brown-butter oat crumble, vanilla bean ice cream, and caramel.

Bar

Draft beer with Wisconsin on the handles, bottles and cans, a straightforward wine list, and cocktails made the way they are supposed to be made.

Drinks

  • Fountain Drink $4 Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, root beer, lemonade, or iced tea. Free refills.
  • Juice $4 Apple, orange, or cranberry, poured over ice.
  • 2% Milk $3 Poured cold. Half-pint carton for kids.
  • Chocolate Milk $3 Poured cold. Half-pint carton for kids.
  • Red Bull $6 8.4 oz can, served chilled with a glass of ice.
  • Monster Energy $6 16 oz can, served chilled with a glass of ice.
  • Sparkling Water $4 Served chilled with a lemon wedge.
  • Coffee $3 Fresh brewed coffee with a cream and sugar caddy. Free refills.

Draft beer

  • Miller Lite $5 Cold, crisp, and gone before you notice it. The lager this state drinks by the bucket.
  • Miller Lite Pitcher $16 Cold, crisp, and gone before you notice it. The lager this state drinks by the bucket. The same beer in a 60 oz pitcher.
  • Spotted Cow $6 New Glarus's farmhouse ale — cloudy, soft and faintly sweet. You cannot buy it outside Wisconsin, which is most of the point.
  • Spotted Cow Pitcher $19 New Glarus's farmhouse ale — cloudy, soft and faintly sweet. You cannot buy it outside Wisconsin, which is most of the point. The same beer in a 60 oz pitcher.
  • Michelob Ultra $5 Light, dry and straightforward. A familiar light lager.
  • Michelob Ultra Pitcher $16 Light, dry and straightforward. A familiar light lager in a 60 oz pitcher.
  • Rotating Tap $6 Whatever we have on this week. Ask what it is — it changes with the season.
  • Rotating Tap Pitcher $19 Whatever we have on this week. Ask what it is — it changes with the season. The same beer in a 60 oz pitcher.

Bottles & cans

  • Busch Light $4 Light, crisp and cold. The deer camp standard.
  • Bud Light $4 The light lager everyone already knows. Nothing to explain.
  • Coors Light $4 Cold-served and light enough to disappear on a warm night.
  • Budweiser $4 The full-strength original. Bigger and breadier than the lights.
  • Miller High Life $4 The Champagne of Beers, in the bottle it has always come in.
  • Corona Extra $6 Light and easy, served with a lime pushed through the neck.
  • Modelo Especial $6 A fuller Mexican lager — more body than a Corona, same easy finish.
  • Guinness Draught $6 Dark, soft and dry, with a head like cream. Lighter than it looks.
  • Moon Man $6 New Glarus's pale ale — citrus and pine, no bitterness to fight through.
  • Heineken 0.0 $5 A proper lager with the alcohol taken out. For the driver, and for anyone who just wants a beer in their hand.

Seltzers & ready-to-drink

  • High Noon $7 Vodka and real juice over soda, in a can. Ask what flavors are cold.
  • White Claw $6 Hard seltzer, light and barely sweet. Ask what flavors are cold.
  • Twisted Tea $6 Hard iced tea, sweet and lemony. The original, in the tall can.
  • Surfside Iced Tea $7 Vodka iced tea, brewed strong and not too sweet.
  • Surfside Lemonade $7 Vodka lemonade with real tartness behind it.
  • Carbliss $7 Wisconsin-made canned cocktail — clean, dry, no sugar and no carbs.
  • Mike's Hard Lemonade $5 Sweet, sharp, cold lemonade with a kick. Exactly what it says.

Wine

  • House Red $7 6 oz glass.
  • House White $7 6 oz glass.
  • Chardonnay $8 6 oz glass.
  • Cabernet $8 Cabernet Sauvignon. 6 oz glass.
  • Pinot Grigio $8 6 oz glass.
  • Moscato $7 6 oz glass.

Cocktails

By pour

  • All
  • Brandy
  • Vodka
  • Gin
  • Rum
  • Tequila
  • Whiskey

All is the whole list. Some drinks are not filed under one pour.

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  • Brandy Old Fashioned Sweet $9 The Wisconsin standard. Muddled orange and cherry, brandy, bitters, topped sweet.
  • Brandy Old Fashioned Sour $9 The same build finished with sour instead of soda. Sharper, less candied.
  • Brandy Old Fashioned Press $9 Half soda, half lemon-lime. Drier than the sweet, longer than the sour.
  • Brandy Manhattan $10 Brandy where the whiskey would normally go. Rounder and softer.
  • Brandy & Coke $8 Brandy and cola, long and easy.
  • Brandy Alexander $10 Cream, brandy and chocolate. Dessert in a glass.
  • Sidecar $12 Cognac, orange liqueur and lemon. Crisp and old-world.
  • Bloody Mary $10 The full Wisconsin build — loaded, spicy and served with a garnish you can eat.
  • Screwdriver $7 Vodka and orange juice.
  • Vodka Cranberry $7 Vodka and cranberry with a squeeze of lime.
  • Vodka Soda $7 Vodka, soda, lime. Clean and light.
  • Vodka Tonic $7 Vodka and tonic.
  • Moscow Mule $10 Vodka and fresh lime under cold ginger beer, in a frosted copper mug.
  • Cosmopolitan $10 Vodka, orange liqueur, cranberry and lime, served up.
  • Lemon Drop $10 Vodka and lemon, sugared rim. Tart and bright.
  • White Russian $9 Vodka, coffee liqueur and cream over ice.
  • Mudslide $11 Vodka, coffee liqueur, Irish cream and cream. Dessert, essentially.
  • Espresso Martini $11 Cold, dark and sharp, with a soft coffee crema on top.
  • Vodka Martini $11 Cold and clean. Vodka, a whisper of vermouth, olive or twist.
  • Appletini $10 Vodka and sour apple, served up. Bright green and unapologetic.
  • Sex on the Beach $9 Vodka, peach, orange and cranberry. Sweet and easy.
  • Gin & Tonic $8 Gin, tonic, lime. Nothing to improve.
  • Tom Collins $9 Gin, lemon and sugar lengthened with soda. Tall and refreshing.
  • Martini $11 Cold, clean, dry. Gin and vermouth stirred to a whisper.
  • Negroni $11 Equal parts gin, bitter Campari and sweet vermouth.
  • Gimlet $10 Gin and lime, cold and sharp.
  • Rum & Coke $7 Rum and cola with lime.
  • Captain & Coke $8 Captain Morgan and cola.
  • Daiquiri $10 Three ingredients, nothing to hide behind. Rum, lime, sugar.
  • Mojito $10 Rum, lime and mint over crushed ice, lengthened with soda.
  • Pina Colada $11 Rum, coconut and pineapple, blended thick.
  • Malibu Pineapple $8 Coconut rum and pineapple. Sweet, easy, gone in a minute.
  • Malibu Bay Breeze $9 Coconut rum, pineapple and cranberry.
  • Dark & Stormy $10 Cold ginger beer under a dark float of rum, with lime.
  • Bahama Mama $11 Dark and coconut rum with pineapple and orange, sunset-layered.
  • Margarita $10 Tequila, orange liqueur and fresh lime, over ice with salt on half the rim.
  • Cadillac Margarita $13 The Margarita with Cointreau in place of triple sec. Cleaner and drier.
  • Tequila Sunrise $9 Tequila and orange juice with grenadine sinking through it.
  • Paloma $10 Tequila with grapefruit and lime, lengthened with soda. Dry and bitter-sweet.
  • Ranch Water $9 Tequila, lime and soda. Nothing else.
  • Whiskey Old Fashioned $10 Bourbon, a little sugar and bitters, finished with orange oil.
  • Manhattan $11 Whiskey and sweet vermouth, stirred cold and served up.
  • Whiskey Sour $9 Bourbon and sour, shaken cold.
  • Whiskey & Coke $7 Whiskey and cola. Pick your bottle.
  • Canadian & Coke $8 Canadian whisky and cola. Crown, CC or Seagram's.
  • 7 & 7 $8 Seagram's 7 and 7Up. The name is the recipe.
  • Whiskey Ginger $7 Whiskey lengthened with ginger ale.
  • Boulevardier $11 A Negroni built on bourbon. Bitter, warm and rounder than the gin version.
  • Lynchburg Lemonade $10 Whiskey, triple sec and lemonade. Tall, bright and easy-drinking.
  • Irish Coffee $10 Jameson, hot coffee and cream. The right end to a cold night.
  • Jameson & Ginger $9 Jameson and ginger ale with a squeeze of lime.
  • Scotch & Soda $9 Scotch, soda, ice.
  • Amaretto Sour $8 Almond liqueur and sour. Sweet, nutty, extremely popular.
  • Amaretto Stone Sour $8 An Amaretto Sour with orange juice in it.
  • Midori Sour $9 Melon liqueur and sour, topped tall. Unmistakably green.
  • Grasshopper $10 Mint and cream, cold and thick. A supper-club dessert.
  • RumChata Coffee $9 RumChata and hot coffee. Like a cinnamon horchata latte with a kick.
  • Dirty Root Beer $9 RumChata and root beer. Tastes like a float, drinks like a cocktail.
  • Blue Hawaiian $11 Rum, blue curacao, coconut and pineapple. As blue as it sounds.
  • Long Island Iced Tea $12 Five spirits, sour and a splash of cola. Tastes like iced tea, is not.
  • Grasshopper (Ice Cream) $10 Mint and vanilla ice cream, blended thick. The supper club version.
  • Pink Squirrel $10 Almond and vanilla ice cream, pale pink. A Wisconsin institution.
  • Golden Cadillac $10 Orange, cream and vanilla ice cream. Golden and very rich.
  • Brandy Ice $10 Brandy blended with vanilla ice cream. The Wisconsin nightcap.
  • Brandy Slush $9 Frozen brandy, orange and lemonade. Summer on a porch.
  • Salty Dog $8 A Greyhound with a salted rim. The salt does more than you'd think.
  • Vodka Gimlet $9 Vodka and lime, cold and sharp.
  • Vodka Collins $9 A Tom Collins made with vodka.
  • Vodka Press $7 Vodka with half Sprite, half soda. Lighter than a 7.
  • Vodka Lemonade $8 Vodka and lemonade.
  • Dirty Shirley $8 A Shirley Temple with vodka in it. Sweet, pink, unapologetic.
  • Blue Lagoon $9 Vodka and blue curacao, topped tall. Bright blue.
  • Purple Rain $9 Blue curacao and cranberry make it purple. Tastes like a berry soda.
  • Fuzzy Navel $7 Peach schnapps and orange juice.
  • Rum Runner $11 Dark rum, raspberry and coconut over crushed ice.
  • Painkiller $11 Dark rum, pineapple, orange and coconut under a blanket of nutmeg.
  • Zombie $12 Three rums and tropical juice. Bold, tropical and built to sip.
  • Captain & Ginger $8 Spiced rum and ginger ale.
  • Bloody Maria $10 A Bloody Mary made with tequila. Earthier and a little brighter.
  • Frozen Margarita $11 The Margarita, blended.
  • Blue Margarita $11 A Margarita with blue curacao in place of triple sec.
  • Mint Julep $11 Bourbon and mint over crushed ice, in a cup cold enough to frost.
  • Whiskey Press $8 Whiskey with half Sprite, half soda.
  • Kentucky Mule $10 A Mule made with bourbon.
  • Bourbon Lemonade $9 Bourbon and lemonade.
  • Southern Comfort Old Fashioned $9 An Old Fashioned built on Southern Comfort. Sweeter, peachier.
  • Brandy Sour $9 Brandy and sour. Simple and very Wisconsin.
  • Brandy Press $8 Brandy with half Sprite, half soda.
  • Brandy 7 $8 Brandy and 7Up.

Shots

  • Snowshoe $7 Brandy and peppermint, cold. A supper-club nightcap and a deer-camp tradition.
  • Washington Apple $9 Crown Royal, sour apple and cranberry. Tart and very easy to drink.
  • Fireball $7 Cinnamon whisky, straight and cold.
  • Jager Bomb $9 A shot of Jagermeister dropped into energy drink.
  • Vegas Bomb $9 Crown, peach and cranberry, dropped into energy drink.
  • Green Tea Shot $8 Jameson, peach and sour. No tea involved.
  • Lemon Drop Shot $7 Vodka and lemon with a sugared rim.
  • Southern Comfort & Lime $7 Southern Comfort and fresh lime. A classic shot.
  • Cinnamon Toast Crunch $8 Fireball and RumChata. Tastes exactly like the cereal milk.
  • Pickleback $8 A shot of Jameson with a pickle brine chaser. Sounds wrong, works.
  • B-52 $9 Coffee liqueur, Irish cream and orange in three clean layers.
  • Nutty Irishman $8 Irish cream and amaretto.

Spirits

  • Well vodka $5 Well vodka with your choice of mixer.
  • Well gin $5 Well gin with your choice of mixer.
  • Well rum $5 Well rum with your choice of mixer.
  • Well whiskey $5 Well whiskey with your choice of mixer.
  • Well tequila $5 Well tequila with your choice of mixer.
  • Call vodka $7 Call vodka with your choice of mixer.
  • Call gin $7 Call gin with your choice of mixer.
  • Call rum $7 Call rum with your choice of mixer.
  • Call whiskey $7 Call whiskey with your choice of mixer.
  • Call tequila $7 Call tequila with your choice of mixer.
  • Premium vodka $9 Premium vodka with your choice of mixer.
  • Premium gin $9 Premium gin with your choice of mixer.
  • Premium rum $9 Premium rum with your choice of mixer.
  • Premium whiskey $9 Premium whiskey with your choice of mixer.
  • Premium tequila $9 Premium tequila with your choice of mixer.

Mocktails

  • Shirley Temple $4 Lemon-lime soda with grenadine and plenty of cherries.
  • Roy Rogers $4 Cola with grenadine and a cherry.
  • Virgin Mary $6 The Bloody Mary without the vodka, garnished just as heavily.
  • Virgin Colada $6 Pineapple and coconut, blended thick. No rum.
  • Ginger Lime Soda $5 Ginger beer with fresh lime. A Mule with the vodka left out.

Kitchen • Tavern • Social

125 Wauona Trail
Portage, WI 53901
(608) 566-1118 [email protected]

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