FloBama Restaurant and Music Hall

My wife and I went here today to have lunch. We were seated and given our menus. We sat there for 15 to 20 minutes and no server bothered to come take our order. 3 waitresses just walked by our table and I guess they didn’t hear me when I asked who was our server. A guy delivered some food to a table next to ours, walked by us and started to clear another table by us. I asked him if we were in his station to which I got no reply. We got up, took the menus to the hostess and said I guess nobody wants to wait on us. There was no reply and I don’t think she gave a flying flip. This was about 1:15 pm today.
We have eaten here before and the food was very good. We probably won’t be coming back. We went across the street to Rosie’s Cantina were seated right away, within a minute or server took our drink order, took our food order and we had a fabulous lunch. Oh and he got a 30 percent tip

A local bar/​music venue popular with the university crowd. Come get your drink on! They smoke their own meats. Simple meals. Don’t bring high expectations and you’ll be fine. Limited beer selection. Quaint homemade chairs and whiskey barrel tables. Watch your knees. Good, low-​brow location to enjoy a meeting with friends. As an aside on the food, granted a busy night — but NO EXCUSES when dealing with food/​public health issues, the food was delivered to me after a 30 minute wait, out of temperature. A Bama Dog — polish sausage, etc. It was cold. Sent it back. Came back cool. Polish sausage was warm, but the smoked pork on it was still cool and the beans were cool. The manager came and asked if she could get me something different from the kitchen and I told her, «No, I can’t trust anything coming out of that kitchen.» She is giving me a gift certificate for a return visit. I have to give them an opportunity to fix the problem. It’s only fair. I will follow up.

Great atmosphere! Nice stage! Had a GREAT GUY serving us at lunch last friday during Handy Festival! We had yummy pork bbq sandwiches and fries. We listened to a very good blues guitarist while dining. We liked it so much we came back the next day for a very good baked bbq chicken platter. Our waitress was a little dingy but floor manager took over and served us up very nicely! Sadly no music at Saturday lunch.

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Atmosphere: 5 Just beautiful. I love what they did with this place. The tables all appear to be re purposed wood and the table stands are actually old barrels. The bathrooms are nice, although one of the urinals in the mens restroom has been out of order for what seems like forever now and some of the sink nozzles have been ripped off. They have two pools tables nestled in the back, out of the way of traffic, which is the best place for them. They have the première sound stage in the shoals, but took them awhile to realize how to utilize it. I think turning down the Doc Daily and Alabama Shakes show then it selling out in Sheffield kind of opened their eyes to the local music scene.
Beer: 3.0 Their tap selection is very similar to OTR and at this present time, may be the exact same. Although I think they may have Angry Orchard while OTR has Magic Hat. But their bottled selection is not as extensive. For the most part, it is run of the mill crap. They do offer Sam Adams Boston Lager and that is usually my go to here.
Food: 4.0 The food is pretty good. Some things I have had here are pretty standard and nothing to write home about — baked potato, potato salad, polish dog, cheese sticks, but they have some items that are a pleasant surprise. Their wraps are delicious and they have a wonderful white sauce to put on them. Their mustard slaw is probably the best I have ever had which makes their slightly above average polish dog and their pretty good hotdog take on a whole new meaning.
Service: 1.6 Unfortunately this is where they lose me. I would even have their rating lower if it were not for their manager. I assume he is still there. I think his name is Josh. He has went out of his way to appease some of my complaints in the past. But I still seem to get the same inattentive service every time I go in there, whether there be 100 customers or 4. The waitresses generally seem to have very little knowledge of the food or drinks and I generally find myself asking questions, then waiting a good 10 minutes or so while they go find the answer. Generally these are questions you would expect your wait staff to know.
Overall: Really neat décor and building. Come for the atmosphere, leave for the service.

Took over 1 hr to get food. Never got appitizer. Even asked for it to go after our food came out… never got it. I ordered wings, which had obviously been sitting for 20 min or more. Terrible terrible terrible. Only plus was the live music

I’m from Texas and even I really enjoyed their pulled pork. It was melt in your mouth amazing.
FloBama has a large stage for music, plenty of TV’s and seating and a great bar. This is your typical sports bar that if college wasn’t out for the summer would probably be packed with lots of University of Alabama students since the off-​shoot campus is within walking distance. Nonetheless the crowd was still 20 – 30 somethings the night we came.
My friend and I came on a weekend to watch some bands who were performing for the WC Handy Music festival and we had a good time. The place was packed with people.
They have a massive menu with plenty of bar food options. On the nights they get busy it can be difficult to get draft beer so to be safe just order bottled beer.