Alibi Bar & Grill

Great place to watch the Hawks game. Excellent seating and great quality TVs for hockey.

Only giving one star because I can’t give less. The food and service were awful and the management was dishonest and shady. There are many other places in St. Charles to visit, and there is no reason to include this one. This is not a place I would ever return to.

I checked the ratings AFTER I was already in. This place didn’t knock me off my socks. I would like to give them like a 3.5 stars, but not an option.
So we arrived at roughly 9ish.
(I know I know it was early for bar hopping)
It was DEAD. I asked the bouncer where everyone was, and he told me that in about an hour it would be full… OK.
So we ordered drinks from the side bar, bartender was really kind, made really good drinks. We kept him decently busy with orders. About an hour after being there there were more people but the bartender was like there will be 400 people here. When he said that I thought to myself ‘I can’t even imagine 400 people fitting in this place’. There were probably under 100 after an hour later. By the time we left it wasn’t packed, but the place seemed more comfortably filled up.
We also ordered food. On the list: Cheddar Barbeque Burger, Chicken Tenders, and just an order of fries. Boyfriend said the burger was really good (he ate all of it). It looked really tasty and came with a side, which seemed pretty worth the $ 10 price. Still alittle high for my taste though.
OH. And did I mention the order of chicken fingers was $ 5.99 for 3 tenders?! What kind of ridiculous over priced shit is that?! To add cheese on the burger was also over $ 1. The drinks were little over priced (but remember they DID taste good) as well.
It just was a little high priced for the worth. Also it was «club night», so they had a DJ instead of the regular band. The DJ played newer music, BUT changed the song every 30 seconds… Not too enjoyable.
I will be back though, maybe for a band performance. I want to see this place in its other elements. For DRINKS ONLY though.

This is the best bar/​nightclub in town a must place to go Live entertainment every Friday and Saturday and DJs playing every night as well you need to come early this place picks up every weekend

This must be the place where managers get their first management job, because this place is trash. For starters, you need to have a credit card system that works, EVERYDAY. Second, your staff needs to understand that this is the service industry and that they make money off MY service so idk if you guys are encouraging snotty attitudes, but you are doing them a disservice by allowing them to carry themselves this way. Third, get over yourselves. You are a trashy Saint Charles bar. That’s it, stop getting into peoples faces acting like you are running a Chicago Club. Your bar is the equivalent of just the smoking section of a Chicago Establishment, that’s it… if that. You will find a lawsuit by the way your bar is run if you keep this up. I know you guys are breaking even because you show no investment whatsoever and you can’t afford a Dj that has a track last that goes past the year t

Tried it several times. The place was always empty which felt uncomfortably strange. Food was ok. Just don’t feel I’m missing anything now that I don’t ever go there. Service bar tenders were very good I must say.

This place is a joke. I mean really… unless you feel the desire to pay top dollar for poorly made drinks and be treated like garbage by the low lifes that work at this
establishment, there’s no reason to go. Basically, it’s a bunch of glassy eyed community college rejects dancing to «YMCA». The people the work here are self important (and I’m talking ab the DJ and bouncers, bartenders are generally nice) jerks and I will not be returning after the DJ told my friend to «get the fuck down» when she was requesting a song. I can spend my
money elsewhere where people are respectful of their clientele. Sidenote: bathrooms are disgusting and I was given the absolute nastiest rancid dirty martini here.

Went here because of a Groupon and the food was inedible. I have never left a place due to the food being bad, but this was the first. Go to another bar in St. Charles that knows what it wants to be and has decent food. I wouldn’t waste my money.

I got to say I never write bad reviews, but this place just got me angry!
The service and bar is fine and the place looks great! The food I can’t say since I didn’t get to try it since I came later in the night. The security here is why I’m writing this review. The guy walks around trying to pick a fight. I had the joy of him asking him to see my ID twice in one night (I didn’t show him after the 1^st time) He kept trying to make everyone in the room know «He’s in control». I saw him put his hands on guests twice. If this idiot touched me he would of found himself on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
This review stands from my last visit which was two months ago. I sure hope he’s been fired since then. So don’t judge this place just on my review over one Security guard give the place a try. For all I know the security might have to be this way due to a crazy crowd, but it’s something I wasn’t used to seeing.

Everyone,
My own imposed rules for any review:
1. Must visit at least three times. Two of which must be distinctly different formats; i.e. one weekday night and one weekend night.
2. Must order something unique each visit.
3. If they have any «signature» items on the menu, you must order a «signature» item at least once.
4. Ratings are based on a 10 point scale with 5 being average, which does not mean bad. What a score of 5 means is that the category meets expectations for that establishments format.
Thanks.
Alibi Bar and Grill — St. Charles
Location/​Layout — 6.5÷10: Located just west of Route 31 on route 64 in St. Charles. The location is fairly large and conveniently located in the downtown St. Charles pub crawl area. The building itself has a modern industrial feel, especially with the exposed roof rafters on the interior. The dining area is an open room with tables set around the outside of the large centralized bar. There is a small stage for house bands in the corner near the entrance and floor space in front for those that are inspired to move to the music.
Menu — ⁵⁄₁₀: The menu is fairly robust but they seem to try too hard to be high end fair. The issue is that the menu does not fit the rest of the ambience of the establishment nor the patrons that comes in for the live music, dancing, and drinks.
Service — 6.5÷10: Our service has always been good and very knowledgeable. We have visited during the week when they have been grossly understaffed and the server was also the bartender which created delays in service but that was unavoidable for the servers’ part.
Food — ⁴⁄₁₀: The food is average and fairly consistent. Unfortunately, we have not found a stand out on the menu and again I believe this is an issue of trying to be something they are not, with the overly ambitious entrée options and sandwich combinations. The sandwiches are not as flavor or put together as well you would assume based on pricing and description. Pricing is above average or slightly high for the area but you are being offered items that are described as «higher end» fair.
Drinks — ⁶⁄₁₀: Alibi offers a lot of draft beers, along with several others in bottle. Additionally, they have a pretty expansive and nicely showcased liquor selection. They offer very competitive drink specials which change frequently, so there is sure to be a night that fits your tastes.
Overall Experience — ⁵⁄₁₀: Alibi offers a slightly more upscale pub venue in the myriad of options found in downtown St. Charles. Unfortunately, they try being something they are not as an establishment and fail to fully deliver. If you are looking for a place to check some live music with an ample dance floor and energetic crowd, this is the spot for you.

What an identity crisis. This place is not sure if it wants to be a restaurant, a sports bar, or a nightclub. My experience was that it failed miserably in all 3 categories.
Arrived just in time to have the kitchen close and not be able to eat. Drink specials were watered down, mostly ice and served in small plastic cups. The music was terrible — the DJ was about as inexperienced as they come and the mashups he did were horrible. Painful to the ears sort of horrible.
I will never understand the concept of either trying to dance to an Ozzy Osbourne song or having a lot of big TV’s in my face showing nothing but commercials at 1 o’clock in the morning. Never.
I came here with the modest ambition of having a little bit to eat, having a little bit to drink, and having a little bit of booty-​shaking. I left 2 hours later not having accomplished even one of those things.
Complete waste of time.

Came here on a whim last week with my husband and his friend. I love the name of the place and the slogan! Definitely a mixed crowd, which I always like!
We sat ourselves down and noticed our table was sticky, not a good start. We waved down a server came to come over and she gave it a good wipe down.
We ordered boneless buffalo wings with ranch and blue cheese, 2 fish tacos with corn tortillas and my husband’s friend ordered a burger with fries. He did ask for it to be medium-​well and got it well done. I forgot what drink I ordered but it was super sweet and sour, which I like but my husband and his friend tasted it and obviously didn’t like it too much. They both had a Jack and coke. We also ordered a round of Jameson shots.
Our server was fine. Although she did bring out our fish tacos with flour tortillas instead of corn which she did go back and bring us the corn tortillas.
I loved the cover band that was playing that night! I wish I would of gotten their name.
When we left we were given a free appetizer card.
I would definitely give Alibi another try.

So, a couple weeks ago, my fiancé and I were going to meet up with friends at the Filling Station. But as we walked to the back door, he called an audible! Most times we don’t really pay attention across the street, but this time his eyes were drawn to Alibi. Maybe it was the 25 cent wing sign and specials that were on the window but whatever the case was, he went in quickly and decided he wanted to try it out!
Overall, not a bad choice! This classy looking place was large and smelled new, as if they had just painted and applied varnish. While we visited, it only had 2 other couples which made question, is this place new and no one knows about it? Well, I soon answered my question when I found a promo flier for their «grand opening weekend.» So yeah, safe to say, yes!
I got the wing special, which they have Monday, Thursday, and Sundays and a couple drinks. My hungry dude got a sandwich, a side of crab mac n’ cheese that I eventually commandeered, and a couple drinks as well. My food was nothing extraordinary but matched up with the value, so I consider that a win! And in case you are wondering, the wings are breaded, can come in three flavors in groups of six, and sized like Hooters’ wings.
In regards to our service, I thought it great! Our server/​bartender was really down to earth, personable, and attentive! Despite a questionable aged wine flub, she quickly remedied the situation and opened a new bottle for my friend. She also had some excess martini that she happily shared with our companions.
Anyway, decent first impression and I’d stop by again!