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For great food and live music come by our family dining bar and grill.

Join us for lunch or dinner for Kobe-style beef, sushi and much more.


4.0 of 5 stars.
Great brewery, the two hearted is a really good IPA. What's cool is the beer brewed in Kalamazoo is strictly for the Eccentric Cafe, where they do experimental beers as well.
yelp.com - user review - 10/08/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Larry Bell brews some fantastic beers. I, for my part, try my best to drink as many of them as I possibly can.
yelp.com - user review - 09/22/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Let me preface by saying this review is not just of the "cafe," but of the beer as well. That being said:Bell's is the. best. EVER.Every beer is incredible, from the pale, to the infamous Oberon, to...
yelp.com - user review - 09/19/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Brewery Boner Tour 2009 presents: Belle's!I still love this place but something about it was just a little less special than the time before. Maybe because it was empty, there was a band playing that...
yelp.com - user review - 09/14/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Good, but not as good as I had hoped.Pros:- Unique Bells beers that you can only find at the Eccentric Cafe. I admit that I fell in love with their Flemish-style sour ale.- Relaxed atmosphere with...
yelp.com - user review - 09/13/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
En route to Ann Arbor, my roomie and I needed to make a pit stop here. I mean, how could we not? I only wish my cousin still lived here so I'd have more excuses to come back, though who really needs...
yelp.com - user review - 09/01/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Good cheap food. Even better beer, obviously. Loved my ginger beer.
yelp.com - user review - 08/08/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Along with my love of all that is summer, is my love for summer brews. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that summer just isn't summer without a cold pint of Bell's Oberon in hand. Chilled,...
yelp.com - user review - 06/23/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
It is what it is. The hippie bar in Kalamazoo. When ever I travel around the country people know about it. Never had a bad beer here. Oberon has it's ups and downs year to year, but that doesn't...
yelp.com - user review - 06/21/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Travelling in Kalamazoo and wanted to try a top notch brew pub. This was a neat venue, but certainly had some drawbacks. Like a few other reviewers mentioned, the service setup is not user friendly. I...
yelp.com - user review - 06/03/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Batch 9 0 0 0Bell's special an annual commemorative brew ABV 14%.!!!!coming soon!
yelp.com - user review - 05/28/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
This place has a great atmosphere due to a large open space and friendly staff. The menu includes a varied selection of items, several of which were heaven for a vegetarian. We had a tempeh sandwich...
yelp.com - user review - 05/25/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Local high quality brews, cheap cheap prices and an outdoor seating area that is basically a giant backyard. The food ordering system might be a little goofy but it works and I suppose not keeping a...
yelp.com - user review - 04/20/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
BEER gets all the stars.... food gets some of the stars and service gets non existent accept for the fact that they took money from me and were sorta pleasant about it. My beef is the system of...
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Another trip to Kzoo=another trip to Bell's. This place is one of the reasons to visit Kalamazoo. Get the pulled pork sandwich, it's incredible. For veggies out there, the portabella sandwich is...
yelp.com - user review - 04/11/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! the best beer in the world. i know i am a bit biased... but woah. larry really know's what is up with good, strong, tasty beers. my favorite beers:oberon: summer in a...
yelp.com - user review - 04/11/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Hopslam. What else needs to be said? Hopslam.Love it. Love the beer, love the cafe, love the store, love the beer garden...love it. Don't, however, love Kalamazoo; other than visiting Bell's why would...
yelp.com - user review - 02/23/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Absolutely amazing beer.My boyfriend and I try to go to Bell's every time we drive to/from Detroit. It is the best beer in the midwest; we love it.We've had:Oberon = Wheat, absolutely delicious. I...
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I've been back since my original review. The food was much better. I probably just ordered the wrong thing off the menu during my first visit. Best of all, Bell's is distributed in the Chicago area...
yelp.com - user review - 02/12/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I traveled all the way from DC to visit Bell's! Well, not really, but it makes a good story. I knew Bell's great beers from at home in the DC area. I couldn't be in Western Michigan without making...
yelp.com - user review - 01/31/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The place is large, but the decor is spartan. The actual bar is smallish, but the room around the bar is large. There is an upstairs area as well. The place is an outlet for Bell's beers. Beer...
yelp.com - user review - 01/25/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
mmmm...two hearted ale. Some of the best beer in the country comes from this brewery. Spent many o' night here back in the college days. Larry...can you ship some two hearted out here to the west...
yelp.com - user review - 12/27/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Eccentric is the perfect name for this place. We came in on a Sunday evening to what appeared to be a bluegrass-hoe down. Thinking we had stepped into someone else's party, we were tentative to move...
yelp.com - user review - 12/21/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Well, the beer gets five stars. Duh. This review is for the pub space and Eccentric Cafe. I finally made it in here after all these years (you know, growing up in Battle Creek, living in Chicago,...
yelp.com - user review - 11/30/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Bells is probably tied with O'Duffys for my favorite drinking establishment in Kalamazoo. The Bells brewery produces my favorite brews in the country in Two-Hearted Ale, Oberon, and the limited...
yelp.com - user review - 09/09/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Yah, yah the beer is tasty but their pub dip was scrum scrum scrum. Ok, back to the beer. The AC 000000 is probably in my top 10 of fave beers. (so far) Stopping off at Bell's on the way back from...
yelp.com - user review - 08/27/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
this place was just okay, didn't blow my socks off. my group came on a sunday night around 7pm, and it was pretty dead. we all ordered black bean and veggie burgers. the black bean burgers came with...
yelp.com - user review - 08/19/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I was the Designated Driver on this trip to Bell's so I'm taking a star away for inconvenience for a drinking person from Chicago. Other than that, I'm a big fan. My husband is a bigger fan. He got...
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Love the beer, hate the attitude. It's gotten a little better over the last few years, but it's pretty damned clubby, even if you've lived in town for 20 years. Who knew hippies could be such...
yelp.com - user review - 03/28/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Wooo! Bell's! This is THE best brewery East of the Mississippi, and sentimentally, my favorite of all time (the fact that it was my college bar helps). If you can find Bell's outside of Michigan,...
yelp.com - user review - 03/08/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
We go to Bell's on Eccentric Day every year. It is the first Friday of December where people has to dress up eccentrically to go in there and taste its famous Eccentric ale. You can see many crazy...
yelp.com - user review - 09/18/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
It's a fun place. I've never heard anyone say they didn't love the beer. The food is pretty good and cheap. Vegetarian options and options for kids are available. Kids are allowed till 8 pm I...
yelp.com - user review - 06/27/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Bells has awesome beer and now since they don't have a distributor they can get along with in Illinois I have to head outta state to satisfy my Bells Amber Ale Addiction.The Eccentric Cafe has pretty...
yelp.com - user review - 04/26/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I heart bells, two-heartedly.The cafe is cool, a bit hard to find. Really neat stained glass and woodwork in there. The food is pretty decent too. Great place to hang out.
yelp.com - user review - 12/21/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Possibly the nicest place to get a beer in Kalamazoo. Wonderful atmosphere and the best beer around. Secret little nooks and great customers and bartenders.You can not do any better than the Beer...
yelp.com - user review - 12/20/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Excellent! Great beer, great atmosphere. Highly recommend it.
yelp.com - user review - 12/09/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Okay, I've never actually eaten the food here, but dang, I swear this is the best beer in the world!!!! Two Hearted Ale, Oberon, and Third Coast are my favs, but any will do. It makes me sad that...
yelp.com - user review - 08/25/2006
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Kalamazoo Brewing Company, makers of the many fine varieties of Bell's beer, also has a brewpub located in the brewery itself, known formally as Bell's Eccentric Cafe, but known throughout the beer wo...
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