Bar Louie

Food is hit or miss here, but usually good. Nice atmosphere, and the outside patio in the summer is a good spot for a drink and people watching.
Service has always been good when I’ve been here, but then, I usually avoid it on weekend nights.
Love their martini menu, especially their «Effen Good» cucumber martini! I could drink those all night!
They also have decent happy hour specials. Bar Louie is a nice spot to take a break from spending money at Nordstrom :)

This particular location is one of the nicer set ups, with an upstairs balcony and a bar as their main center piece of the main floor. We just stopped in for a beer while shopping at Patridge Creek and there were plenty of seats. We sat at the bar and were greeted rather quickly. After receiving our beers, it took quite a lot to tear the bartender away from her friends across the bar to order a cup of soup. Probably a good 15– 20 minutes to get her attention and another 15 just to get the soup! Should it take that long for tortilla soup? Who knows. Just thought it excessive. It was a Sunday afternoon so didn’t think it would be too busy and it wasn’t. It’s a cooler Bar Louie than some of the others and I’ll probably go back for a beer when in town here but won’t make it a destination by any means. Would rather go to the one in Rochester or Novi.

My friend and I were shopping and decided to give Bar Louie a try. We could not get anyone to wait on us so we finally left. I was anxious to leave because it was not very clean. The table menus were very dirty and I could not find anything appealing. I was really disappointed because I wanted to eat there.
I think someone should at least acknowledge customers even if they can’t actually wait on them. We gave it at least 15 minutes before we walked out.

Was in the area from Los Angeles, this place rivals any place in LA in it’s class, great everything, food, service and atmosphere. Bravo

Stopped in with a couple friends to grab a bite to eat, sat at the bar and were greeted in a timely manor but then it all went down from there. I looked around and its a small place for high volume business they had a ton of bartenders and servers but some reason nobody seemed to be attending to anyone but aimlessly walking around with no eye contact with their customers. When we were ready to order and had to flag a different bartender to take our order and it took almost 30 minutes for a cup of SOUP!!!, that was all we got are you kidding me! We were going to order entrees but we were ignored the whole time we sat in front of them!

Tuesday burger specials are great but make sure you check your receipt. Beer on tap was also good.

I had written a bad review about a yr and a half ago. I hadn’t been here since then until today. I took my 10 yr old niece shopping so I decided to give this restaurant another shot. NEVER AGAIN. When we walked in the sign said seat yourself. So we did. This place was not that busy but we sat there for 10 – 15 min and a couple of the wait staff walked by us several times and said nothing. Even as we got up and put our coats on to leave no one still said anything. This restaurant has to be the worst restaurant I have ever been too. The staff doesn’t care and acts like they don’t want or need that job. And how is it that all of the bad reviews that r written on here r not being checked by the owner. I hope this place closes down.

We were seated before other groups of people and we had to wait at least 15 minutes just order drinks. No one seemed to be bothered that we had no waitress. We won’t be going here again.

We love this place!!!
We love the Bruschetta and the flat breads and the patio.
Overall great place!

My cousin and I attended this restaurant November 5, and I’m sorry but I considered this service to be mediocre to low on the scale of excellence. We had two servers in the time span of our visit, both who were less than professional. The first one didn’t even know the difference between a temporary and Card ID, and the second one barely even gave us the time of day. My cousin and I have both served tables, we know how it can be. For them to both be so rude and ignorant is a little unacceptable. Especially for a bar of this demeanor. Drinks were good and Service was reasonable but the friendly helpful staff was yet to be found.

Went here with the whole family, I won’t do that again. We were seated next to a table of americas next future skanks. They were loud, drunk and so obnoxious. You know your typical east side Italian girls, big noses, big butts and big mouths… you know what I’m talkin about.
As for the food it was good, really good selection of a little bit of everything. We started with the bruschetta and I had the Chicago stockyard (I think that was the name of it) hamburger. This place reminded me of why I stopped going to bars. It’s too bad because I really enjoyed the food.

All I can say is Wow! The food, atmosphere and service marks the spot. Their Dirty Martini is fab. Apps were hard to choose because everything looked great. Just to let you know. If you text «Clinton» to 52 051 you can get a free appetizer. Do it 24 hrs before you go in. It’s worth it. :-)

Any menu that starts with pretzels is a winner in my book. Been here a few times and never had to wait for a table, which is surprising because the food is good, the drinks are delicious, and the waitstaff has always been attentive.

Great customer service despite the fact when we were seated the blonde hair waitress tried stealing our table from the girl who was already serving us! The food is always awesome, it’s better to come here during the week because it can get really crowded on the weekends lastly, the view and lighting upstairs is terrible so ask to be seated downstairs!

Its good enough to keep me coming back when I’m not in the mood to explore. I have been here probably 100 times, Solid dishes for what it is. Once in a while You get a prepared dish that tells you the chef just wants to go home, but we’re human right?
Martinis are over priced unless you come on the day they do specials on them. Wait staff is great. There is just one or two that still have a job for some unknown reason that need to be fired. If you haven’t been here yet, I’d try it.

Great atmosphere! Music choices are always great and if you are a sports fans there is always a game on TV.
Food is mediocre. Flavor is good, but the food is never hot and often takes awhile to come out.
Biggest opportunity is with the staff. Hostess and waitstaff are friendly and upbeat, but the bartenders are the absolute worst. Zero personality.

They redid the inside but this place has gotten worse both service wise and how they do business. TEO STRAIGHT TIMES I’ve had shit floating in my draft beer… really? I didn’t even notice the second time until I was halfway through a tall beer and saw little black things floating around. It pisses me off because it’s disgusting and can make me sick, and I’m paying above average for this crap. There may not be an opportunity for a third strike at this place. I’m over it.

I’m forever a fan of this establishment. When it first opened I came with a large group for a celebration, and sampled tons of the food and drinks. I’ve been coming back ever since.
The atmosphere IMO is awesome, whether it’s to watch a game or enjoy lunch or an evening out. This isn’t a place on a Friday or Sat night you would come to dance if that’s what your looking for, but you could have an equally great time with just one person or a group enjoying the great music which Im pretty sure gets louder at the end of the night.
The food here is really good. A bummer is the menu rotates, and over the years many item I love dissapear:(There are still many other things though, like pizzas, excellent sandwiches, mac and cheese. Mmm cheese. It’s not your typixal var food. Definitely elevated like how a bistro is to a deli, Bar Louie is to typical bar food.
They have a sweet happy hour and Thursdays are the best time to come. Great for lunch when shopping or just chilling out after shopping with your credit card debt regret from buying all those things you didn’t need. Sip on so healing juice and endulge in an app. You’ll feel better.

My first time at Bar Louie’s and it wasn’t a pleasant one!
Once I entered the restaurant I was hit in the face with the powerful smell of bleach. The place was pretty dead for 8pm. My waitress was never anywhere to be found and didn’t know the menu when I asked simple questions.
My mom and I split the salmon sliders ($ 12) with fries on the appetizer menu. Weren’t anything too spectacular. I didn’t like the bacon or the pesto sauce on the sliders but the salmon tasted delicious. The fries were seasoned with some sort of lemon zest. No thank you!
My sister got the grilled veggie wrap ($ 8.50) with tasted delightful and very plentiful. Served on a wrap topped with fresh peppers, carrots, hummus, spinach and zucchini. Definitely something different that not many restaurants offer.
Overall I think the quality of the food was pretty low and way overpriced. Despite the smell of bleach the restaurant was pretty dirty (tables, floor, chairs, drink glasses). Service was very slow for very few people dining in (40 minutes just to get food)
I may give this place another try in the future. $ 1 burgers on Tuesdays 5-​close.

I like this Bar Louie…
They have great happy hour prices.
On a Tuesday there were…$ 5 Martini’s, $ 4 glasses of wine, $ 3 draft beers (Stella, Shandy, Oberon, Dragon Meade. and several more), half off select appetizers (about 7 different choices) and last but not leat $ 1 burgers til 9pm (that’s 2 hours past happy hour times).
I don’t see how you can go wrong here. They also now have an outdoor patio.
I’ll take it! We tried your standard Tri dips and chips, calamari, and the Firecracker flat bread. They were’nt spectacular, but they were just fine for the price.
For a Tuesday summer evening, the place was buzzing.
Nice location for a quick bite and cocktail. Sometimes that’s all you need =~)