Maklemore’s Ale House & Bistro

Went here with my boyfriend, and it was so good! Great customer service and the food was delicious! We both ordered burgers that were seriously the
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Always impressed with what’s on the menu! Very inventive and appetizing to the taste buds! Great place to eat and try something new! Their tacos include a great variety of selections (spicy, oriental, vegan too!). Drinks are a hit or miss, not as wide as a selection but perfect for the size of the location. Live music is sometimes present and always an enjoyable surprise.

If you’re big on beer selection, you’ll be blown away by the extensive one here. They also participate in environmentalism in so many ways: local food and brews, reclaimed building materials, etc. Serious props for the menu. Love Taco Night. Hitting up Trivia tonight. Have yet to catch a live performance there, but there are several weekly. Great ambience and very friendly staff.

Decent beer selection. Good food, great mix of flavors. Taco Tuesday is a great bargain. Almost surprising quality so close to a college campus. Bar service was a little slow, maybe a bit understaffed.

This is THE best restaurant in town! It’s the place to be, relaxed environment, with some amazing waitresses and bar tenders. The facility is always clean and friendly service! I have yet, to order anything that wasn’t exquisitely tasteful at a very reasonable price. This is the restaurant that changes the lives and views about the town of Nacogdoches. The brunch is the best in the area as well and they frequently have drink and food specials on weekdays that make it college friendly, while still upholding a classy style without beer ridden floors like bars close by. I give this restaurant ⁵⁄₅ stars All Day, bar ⁵⁄₅ and speed of service ⁵⁄₅.

Love this place! Huge beer selection! Great weekly specials! The avocado tacos are the bomb! I also love the buffalo chicken fries! Everything we have tried here has been delicious.

I was in town for a one night work trip and found this place on Unilocal.From a short list of options this sounded like my best choice. I came in and sat down at the bar. The bartender was friendly and directed me to a good choice in beer to start things off. In short, the service was great but the food was not.
I ordered a steak with mac and cheese and I think mashed potatoes. The bartender warned me that the chef overcooks the meat so I ordered mine medium rare (I usually order my steaks medium). When my plate came out my steak was well done and very chewy. The steak was plopped on top of the mac and cheese on a smaller plate. Long story short, I don’t recommend the steak here.

Mak-​balls! Are fantastic … Life changing and sauce they come with. F****** amazing. When you come here, you must order them! Even if your not a huge fan of Mac&chesse, it’s a travesty on your part if you don’t get them. Also the beer selection is the best in town!

Never would I have expected moving to east Texas and find such good quality fusion food. The tacos are some of the best I’ve ever had, they are not traditional tacos. They have flavors I ever would have expected, and will never forget. The appetizers are so great I will eat them as a meal. The prices are good too and their weekly specials will keep you coming back for more. They do get crowed so don’t expect to get your food as fast as McDonald’s, it is definitely worth the wait though.
Now the drink menu, the handmade classic cocktails they serve will blow you away. They have the biggest beer menu anywhere in the area too, so if you like craft beers this is the place for you. They rotate the beers on tap so each time you come back there is a new set. Don’t worry though they will have it in bottle if it’s not on tap.
The staff is probably the best in the area too, I’ve been to all the bars in Nac and I got to say, they raised the bar. Before them you had to deal with rude bartenders who didn’t know what they were doing.
Overall the quality of food and drinks and the atmosphere, makes you feel like you’re at a trendy hot spot in Austin or Houston. With live music and weekly specials there is bound to be something for you here

Great beer selection!!! The food is outstanding as well. My favorite restaurant/​bar in Lufkin/​Nacogdoches area by far!!!

The wings are great and the smothered French fries are amazing! They have, what seems to be, the largest variety of beers in Nacogdoches and often have local, live music (which I love)! Great place to watch sports games and relax.

Every time I pass by Mak’s I think about one of the sayings from the late great Yogi Berra; «Nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded.» Another baseball saying comes to mind; «Three strikes and yer out!»
Been here at least 5 times now and the experiences have been mostly bad. I wish someone with success running a restaurant would buy this place out because it has potential especially considering there is not a lot competition here in Nac.
Food service times are very, very slow as mentioned repeatedly in other reviews. We have waited for over an hour for food and then the food is cold. The tables are packed too close together and it gets too loud to have pleasant conversation.
Ordered the buffalo bird poboy one time when the place was not crowded and the service time was still very slow. The poboy was cold, the cheese had solidified and the small amount of chicken included was cut into tiny pieces that only a gerbil would enjoy.
One time when the place was crowded I was at the bar and waited for over fifteen minutes to order a beer and then the panicked bartender forgot to bring the beer and a fifteen minute wait turned into over 30 minutes.
I have fouled off a lot of strikes hoping this place would come around but strike three came last Sunday afternoon when I went to see the Cowboys/​Patriots game. The place was not crowded and I ordered the Philly cheesesteak. What I received was the worst attempt ever to make a poboy!!! There was such a small amount of meat on the hoagie that it did not even fill up the crease in the middle of the bread. It came cold, the cheese had solidified and it was cut into small pieces OBVIOUSLY to spread the meat out to save money. The meat was not enough for one taco!!! How any cook could decide to serve this is stunning. The bartender was surprised also and I asked her if the kitchen had run out meat. She said «no» and said she would discount the check. The check arrived and I was charged the full amount. «Strike three, yer out!»
I AM A VERY FAIR REVIEWER AND DON’T REVIEW UNTIL I HAVE BEEN TO A PLACE NUMEROUS TIMES AND I AM NOT EXAGGERATING WHEN I SAY THIS WAS THE WORST ATTEMPT EVER TO SERVE ME A MEAL IN MY LIFE!!!
HEY MAK OWNERSHIP/​MANAGEMENT; HERE ARE A FEW RESTAURANT TERMS YOU SHOULD NOW; FOOD SERVICE TIME, QUALITY CONTROL, EXPEDITING SYSTEM AND INVENTORY CONTROL.

Terrible management, mediocre food, good beer selection. Woke up in the morning, found a charge to my card that was sent to my bank at 1:11 in the morning. They close at midnight, but I know I left after the ranger game at 10:30. Called them to discuss and the manager tells me I was drinking all night and must have forgot. So, his suggestion is that I blacked out after they let me stay and drink an hour past closing? And then I was allowed to drive home with no incident? His answer was yes. Accusing your customers of being black out drunks, when I hardly drink at all, is not a way to inspire them to return for mediocre to terrible food.

Over for a recent SFA game. Went to Maks for lunch. Found out from the server that ¹⁄₃ of the menu was not offered before 4 pm. Ordered a couple burgers, tacos and beer which were all decent. Decided to come back after the game have a few more beers and dinner. Got in about 10:15 to be informed the kitchen was closed. So much for the bistro part. This is a football weekend in SFA. Asked for recommendations of other restaurants that might be open — the staff (who live and go to school in Nac) could only recommend fast foods. Still in awe that a Restaurant would be open but would not be serving food on a game weekend when they are on the edge campus.
Ultimately found a couple of other restaurants that were serving food. It was almost comical in that the fast foods had lines and where packed inside, IHOP, Chilis and others had full parking lots and Maks doesn’t serve food that late on a game night.

I’ve been here for drinks before and they have a great selection, the bartender with the long beard has awesome suggestions. With that being said the drinks are not worth it for the other lacking aspects here.
I came with one other person on a Monday night and it was slightly busy with half of the restaurant already taken up, our waitress was nice and we were her first table, she did pretty good considering the rest of the conditions. We ordered salmon and steak, that took an hour and fifteen minutes to bring out, they were both dry and tasteless. We can make better food at home for half the price. The Mac and cheese balls were decent, they lacked taste other than lots of cheese. This could have been a rough night for them, in the close to three hours being there I saw four tables walk in and without being seated in a timely manner walked right out, why aren’t there hostesses?
Great décor and drinks, ok service, but terrible food.

Jalapeño cheese burger is great. Good service nice atmosphere. They have a decent selection on tap.

Katelyn was our server today (7 – 19) and her customer service was very good. She was very accommodating for my kids and just really pleasant. The menu is a little weird to me but the food was very good. Took a little longer than I’d expected to get our food at the time of day but I wasn’t in a rush.
The gringa taco, chicken fingers/​fries appetizer, hot wings and a bacon cheeseburger is what we ordered. The kids and I were happy with ours but my boyfriend said the burger just wasn’t his taste. So my son finished it. Overall, It was a nice dining experience. I will return even just for the beer menu.

I always come here whenever I’m working in the area. They have a very large and unique selection of beers, starting with the pineapple and apricot beers, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They change out the beer taps for a new selection weekly, and the food is pretty awesome too. The burgers are big and juicy, and they have a great selection of fries, I recommend the buffalo chicken fries!

Good atmosphere. When it’s not packed it’s pleasant. When it fills up the closeness of the tables makes it loud but still bearable. Seems like the kitchen isn’t large enough to accommodate a full load since the food takes time to come out.
The wait has been worth it. Appetizers and main courses are great. Drink selection is awesome. Good beer to be had.
Enjoyable.

The best thing about Macklemore’s is the beer selection. There are several different styles to choose from so you can’t miss your favorite style. Song beers are listed on the menu but not least listed as seasonal and if you don’t know what the season is you won’t get your selection. So as far as the beer is concerned I would give this five stars.
The not so good about Macklemore’s: The seating is very tight. With their large selection of beer he can’t help getting a beer belly. The beer belly pushes you back from the table. With the tightness of the table settings you will be back to back against some other person sitting behind you.
The food selection is okay. Tried the fried pickles and like them very much. Tried the duck fries and they tasted just like regular fries. Only two dollars more! The jalapeño bacon burger was done okay although maybe a little overcooked. The next night I tried the pork taco and it was actually pretty good.
Depending upon who you get to serve you you may get someone who is very excellent or someone else who doesn’t remember most of your order.
Improve seating improve waitstaff you get a five star.