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Meanwhile, Back In Peoria...

A Travel Blog In And Around The River City With Your Host, Marty Wombacher

May 29, 2026

A Guy Walks Into 365 Bars…Again! Bar Number 131: Fairways At GLC

by MBIP


The Golf Learning Center opened up last February and while I’m not a big golfing fan, they also opened up a new restaurant that I’ve heard has an impressive bar. Now that I’m a fan of!

Let’s go check out the bar in the new Fairways restaurant in the Golf Learning Center!

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Bar Number 131: Fairways At GLC, Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Here we are at the Golf Learning Center and there’s the Fairways Restaurant and Bar. Let’s go inside and see what’s happening in there on this summer evening in May!

Jason and Olivia were stationed at the front desk and they posed for a lovely photo and told me I was free to go and grab a seat at the bar. And so that’s just what I did!

There’s the massive bar in here and there’s some empty seats in the middle, so I snagged one and got settled in for the evening.

Charisse was the pretty and friendly bartender on duty who we know from previous visits to W.E. Sullivan’s. She said W.E. Sullivan’s is rebuilding and she’ll be back there when they re-open, hopefully in August. Nice! Great to see her again!

This is quite an impressive bar in here and there’s an equally impressive twelve beers on tap back there!

There’s a large dining room opposite the bar in here.

Comfortable padded booths line the far wall and there’s a nice display of golf clubs overhead.

There’s tables outside, let’s go and check it out.

Wow, this is a huge patio out here that overlooks the golf course.

Meanwhile, back at the bar…

Matt Rixner who owns this place along with Nick Babcock came over and said hello. Great to see Matt again and he took me back to…

This nice back room that you can rent out for parties. It’s called the 19th Hole and when you rent it, you also have access to the outside patio. Very nice!

They also have golf simulators back here and Matt led me into this room…

And took a swing in here! Nice score, Matt!

Thanks to Matt, Charisse and everyone at Fairways for a fun evening!

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The Drinks

I had two Bud Light tallboys and they were tall and delicious!

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Fairways At GLC

7815 N. Radnor Road

Peoria

309-571-1600

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Bar List, Rules, Banner Art & Donation Link.

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Mt. Vernon and Fairway…

Surprise link, click on it…I dare you!

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