Our Story

Beastro & Barley is our progression from a bar with food to a restaurant with a bar.

We successfully owned and ran Touchdown Tavern for 15 years. Over time, we realized that people’s tastes were changing, and food was becoming more important to our customers than anything else we offered.

The food became more important to us, too. It wasn’t enough to serve lots of different menu items. We wanted to serve interesting and unexpected menu items.

We want guests to be surprised by our menu choices.

We want new guests to become return guests.

 

In 2019 Kari earned her Culinary Arts degree from Madison College. Mike and Kari realized a Culinary degree would enable us to chart our new direction. Creating original and inspired menu offerings would allow us to offer Reedsburg a dining experience unlike any other eatery in town.