How Big Is the 12 Hawks Menu? A Breakdown by Meal

The menu runs close to 70 items total once you count breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the drink list separately. That's wide enough to cover a family with four different appetites, but tight enough that food still comes out fast when the place is packed for a game. Here's how it breaks down, meal by meal.

Breakfast: about 15 plates

Breakfast sticks to the basics and does them well. Eggs, hash, pancakes, omelets, and a few skillet dishes make up around 15 items. That's a short list on purpose. It lets the kitchen move quickly for people stopping in before work and for families who show up on a Saturday morning and don't want to wait forty minutes for pancakes. Nobody's reinventing breakfast here. They're just making sure it's hot and ready fast.

Lunch: roughly 25 options

Lunch is where the menu opens up. Burgers, sandwiches, salads, and a handful of shareable appetizers bring the count to about 25 items. This stretch of the day overlaps with happy hour, which runs Monday through Friday from 2 to 4pm, so anyone lingering past the lunch rush gets a price break on drinks and select food. If you want the specifics on what's discounted and when, there's a breakdown of why locals plan their happy hour around this window.

Dinner: close to 30 dishes

Dinner is the biggest section, close to 30 dishes. Steaks, pasta, seafood, and heartier plates join the burgers and sandwiches carried over from lunch, so anyone who wants something lighter at 7pm still has options. This is also when the dining room fills with families and when the screens get the most attention during football season. The kitchen leans into bigger portions here, since most people aren't planning to eat again before bed.

Drinks: craft cocktails, beer, and wine

The bar side adds roughly a dozen craft cocktails on top of a standard beer and wine list. The cocktails aren't trying to be a big-city program. They're built around a handful of solid, repeatable recipes that bartenders can make consistently during a busy Saturday night, not fussy drinks that take ten minutes each. During happy hour, several of these get discounted alongside a short list of appetizers, which is part of why that two-hour window draws a steady crowd on weekdays.

Honest tradeoffs

A menu this size has real limits. It's not a place built around a single showpiece dish or a chef's tasting menu. The goal is coverage: something for the early riser, something for the lunch crowd on a schedule, something for the family at dinner, and a drink list that works during a game without slowing the kitchen down. That means a few items are simple rather than elaborate. If you're looking for an eight-course experience, this isn't it. If you're looking for a place where four people can order four different things and all be happy, the size of the menu is built for exactly that.

What this means if you're planning a visit

Breakfast and lunch work well for a quick stop, since both sections are shorter and move fast. Dinner is where you want more time, since the kitchen is working through the longest list of the day and the dining room tends to fill up during big games. Keep in mind the doors are closed on Tuesdays, which trips up some first-time visitors. There's a short explanation of why that day stays closed and how it affects weekly planning if you're trying to work a visit into your schedule.

If you want to see the exact lineup before you drive over, the full menu is posted online with every current item listed. That's the real shape of what 12 Hawks serves right now: compact by meal, broad across the day, and built for a town where people want one place that covers breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the game, without needing to go somewhere else for any of it.