Show-Me’s

Nothing special. All they have is fried food, nothing healthy. The only good things were the sweet BBQ sauce and they had a lot of TV’s. Also the food seems like it was just store bought frozen food as. They heated it up. Unless you’re looking for a normal bar and grill steer clear.

I really, really, really like their chicken wings. The Hero, Spicy BBQ, and Island Jerk flavors are amazing. Asking for the non-​listed «Buffy» wings is if you want the spicest they make, they are good but not as flavorful. The tall beers are decently priced for the area, I suppose, but you can still rack up a surprisingly large bill quickly here and some cheaper alternatives might be a couple buildings away. I’ve yet to see this place have much business, when I go, which is almost always for dinner… But I’m assuming they do pretty good during lunch? If not, I wonder how they stay open. I go to the Fairview Heights showme’s often and can say the prices there are significantly cheaper especially with happy hour and the place seems to get way more business. This place is a couple blocks from my apartment and if I’m in the mood for wings I’m usually suggesting this place first.

Dive. Bathrooms are disgusting. Not a bad place to have a beer if your out of town team is nearby.

Having read some of the bad reviews, I was hesitant to patronize Showmes. After all, I was only visiting STL for a Monday Night Football game.
The place was packed when we arrived and finding a clean table was difficult. That being said, once we were seated, things went quickly from there. Our scantily-​clad server was friendly and efficient, and my peel and eat shrimp and gumbo were good but not great. However, the cocktail sauce was almost jello-​like– like it had been stored for a week in the little two ounce cup.
The atmosphere was what I expected, prices reasonable, service good, and the food okay. I was waffling between three and four stars with this place, but some of the reviews were just malicious. Overall, It is a good but not great quick stop to catch some sports on TV or grab a bite before a Rams game.

Good prices, great food! Try the wings. They are fantastic. Beer was ice cold! Service has always been good and its a great place for pre and post game gatherings. Close to the Dome and shuttle to Busch Stadium!

This place has definitely seen better days. The landing used to be a great piece of St. Louis, but has become a feeding ground for crime. It is not uncommon for this place to be shut down some nights because police tape blocked off the area of the Landing and prevents customers from coming in. What once was surely a good location for Show Me’s is now suffering just like the rest of the locations there most likely are. Furthermore, the place is run down and kind of grungy. It is not a place where I as a customer felt comfortable eating. It is just what other people have described it: a poor person’s version of Hooter’s. My first reaction upon entering this joint was «gross». It was a Friday night during the Landing’s peak hours and the place was deserted. There were only a few girls working; one tending bar and two girls working the floor. Sadly enough, that was all they needed. However, the point of a place like this is to be surrounded by lots of good-​looking girls serving you cold beer and wings. It is supposed to be a fun, upbeat atmosphere where you go to watch the games on television and it was just the opposite. The food is very mediocre. The management, though, was the deal breaker. Whatever management was on duty that night openly yelled at the employees for standing around (they had no tables, the place was dead aside from us and one other table) and made an unnecessary scene, among many other unprofessional things. Sure, there weren’t many tables there for them to be unprofessional in front of, but still. It is stuff like that that keeps people from returning to an establishment, and from the looks of the place it was taking a hard hit from it all. I only wonder what a normal day is like for those poor girls working there with such a nightmare for management.

Ahhh Show-Me’s…St. Louis’ response to Hooters. At this location all the action is outside where it seems patrons like to eat the day away in shade and comfort. On the opposite side there are the original cobblestone streets (I can’t say brick as they weren’t exactly square) which is darling, but difficult to walk around on in heels and drunk which I luckily was not! Had fine service, and they carried Root Beer schnapps, I didn’t feed here, but I would have given the opportuntiy to dive on in to this dive bar downtown!

Good place! Great food! Gotta try the Chicken Philly over Rice!

A good Sunday is watching football, eating wings, & drinking a few beers. I hardly ever go to the landing since it’s basically for 18 year olds but my friend suggested we try out Show Me’s this Sunday. Long story short, we walked in and walked out in a matter of minutes… this place is ghetto as sh! t.
The placement of TV’s is hella awkward and in no way would I want to sit there for a couple hours watching a game, not too mention a lot of the TV’s look 10 years old, I mean who doesn’t have flat screens anymore. I also noticed the kitchen is basically in the main dining area, so I’m pretty sure just by being in there you’ll walk out stinking like you were working the grill. Also I saw 1 girl working in the entire place, if I’m going to a place like this, Hooters, DBs, etc there’s a level of expectation of cute female servers.
I can’t really comment on the food but if a place is so bad that you don’t even want to stay to eat I don’t think the food quality matters.

this place isn’t in the greatest location, only new it was there because we looked it up, and i have been up and down the landing and to the lume a bunch of times! the layout was pretty nice inside and the tv’s were plentiful, but the service was a little lame. they were not happy at all but then again it was over packed due to the UFC fight. that is why we checked this spot out and i would have to say i might be watching the next one here due to the location being so close to the casino. Just plan on getting there a little earlier next time because i could do without the standing or asking to sit with other groups, even tho that didn’t bother me!

Show me’s is the kind of place that solidifies why the Landing sucks that much; It’s sole purpose to contain the trash that comes into town from Southern Illinois. When you enter into a place and the beer special is Natty Ice Light, then you know it’s time to get the hell outta there. If you don’t have mullet, a pencil-​thin mustache and a Dallas Cowboys jersey on, then you probably don’t belong here. The TVs are the funniest part too. Felt like they were using antenna with tin foil scrunched on there to help the reception, the picture was go grainy that we gulped our beers down in no time and headed to the stadium bar at Lumere up the road for a real sports atmosphere. It was my friend’s fault for luring me into this place. The wait staff was so flakey, and their attempts to strike a conversation, just made me want to say «just stop… please, don’t talk to us» I made a mistake for coming here, but that is just my experience. But all in all, the place is pretty cool inside. But hey it’s the landing people. We all know what to expect.

By all accounts, Show-Me’s never describes itself as a ‘classy’, ‘business-​first’ or even ‘nice’ place to grab lunch with good reason. It’s not. It’s not supposed to be, never seems to aspire to be, and does quite well by not being.
Compared to the Hooter’s on Kiener Plaza, this location is out of the way for most of the Downtown lunch crowd, but those willing to make the short drive or Metro ride to the Landing are treated to a solid menu of similar food at a lower price point.
The lunch special fare is pretty standard: wings, tenders, burgers, fries… most of which seems to get fried/​grilled up in a mostly open kitchen near the door of the restaurant. The comparison to Hooters, both with the wings-​first menu and Hooters’ own semi-​open kitchen layout, is uncanny.
A good number of tables are available inside and there’s a small patio and bar area (that doesn’t seem to be active) with a vista of the bridge and river for nicer days. It’s a little (read: lots) less polished than it’s orange-​clad competitor, with an earthier, beachier feel and dimmer interior. Keeping in mind that you’ve stopped by for an ultra-​casual, not-​so-​healthy, fun lunch though, the surroundings only add to the experience.
Fellow Unilocaler Shemario might’ve put it best: «Show-Me’s is essential a carbon copy of Hooters». …that’s cheaper, quicker to get in and out of, and less crowded during lunch.

good food… large quanititys and sexy girls… great beer specials… best value on the landing

«Show-Me’s» is essentially a carbon copy of Hooters– right down to the ridiculously greasy deep fried wings. As a connoisseur of all things wings, I can appreciate a good. wing joint. While this place is by no far the best wing in town, the service is great and the location is excellent. Show-Me’s is an excellent place to stop for lunch if you’re hanging out on the Landing. Whenever I visit St. Louis for business, this is my usual quick lunch spot. Nevertheless, it is the quintessential sports bar and if you’re not into the loud and obnoxious, this probably ia not the place for you!

My second time here. In the west coast, we only get Hooters. Show Me’s has better/​hotter girls, who wear lesser clothing. Yep its possible, the shorts are so tiny and tight, the ass cheeks are halfway exposed. Hot pink shorts. I likey!
Except when we went this night, only 1 waitress was working. Last time i saw 5 – 6. boo. Thurs night, NFL game was on, it was kinda sad. The place wasn’t too packed, thank goodness. Girl was friendly, nice. Like a sweet pageant girl gone slutty. haha
Food– tried the fried snapper sandwich (filet of fish, cornmeal breaded, french roll, almost like catfish po-​boy), philly cheesesteak, Chicken cheesesteak, toasted raviolis, and a small cup of chilli. Nothing was bad, but nothing awesome. They are standard bar food. Toasted raviolis were my fave, but i can make those in 15 min, in my kitchen, so nothing to rave about
Overall, ok dive. Ok (slightly better than average food), good eye candy (if you come on the right night of the week)

it was… okay.
We got there and the waitress was friendly.
She got our drinks (good hurricanes) out fast, and was friendly to our party, got a little flustered when all 20 of us arrived though.
The food was, okay.
Fried raviolis were a little dry, the chicken wings, I have had better at Rallys.
Husband got a hot dog, he said it was, okay.
For the price, we could have gone somewhere else and gotten a lot better food and atmosphere, but the drinks were ok.

Hoosier hooters.

I ate at Show Me’s, I mean Hooters, I mean Show Me’s when I was visiting a friend in St. Louis. I actually think that the waitresses embrace the whole concept a little better here than they do at Hooters, but don’t expect anything better than just average food. Pretty much, whatever isn’t made in this joint– beer and girls– are what keep it going.

If its got girls dressed up in short shorts and tight shirts that spill boobs out its Hooters right? Generally you would be right, in this case we would be talking about Show-Me’s, a wing joint which is basically… no, scratch that, IS an exact rip off of Hooters.
While there isn’t much good to say regarding Show-Me’s I will at least give them this. The wings are better than Hooter’s; Hooter’s puts so much breading on their wings which completely overpowers the chicken, and the sauces are overpowered with Frank’s. At least with Show-Me’s wings their sauces are original. The service staff in general is also much better looking than what you would find at a Hooter’s. Call me juvenile, but hey, this IS a review. I don’t think I would be doing my due diligence if I didn’t review on everything.
Maybe I’m being harsh, I’m used to real wings from Quaker Steak and Lube. Show-Me’s is average, can’t say I’ll be going back any time soon.

Show-Me’s…what an unflattering slice of Americana this place is. Although, unlike Hooters I will give the dump props for embracing that fact that it’s disgusting and rolling with it. The Hooters motto is ‘delightfully tacky yet unrefined” — Show– Me’s is happy just being ‘tacky’.
So why do you ask would I give a dirty place with less than attractive women strutting around in hot pink underwear 3 stars? Well, we ended up here on the 4^th of July after walking down to the landing and realizing that if we were going to make it outside by dark we had better duck into the first restaurant with no line. I didn’t realize what the ‘show-​me’ of ‘Show-Me’s’ was referring to until I got inside and our very sweet waitress appeared in very short shorts and a see-​through top. AHHH. Now I get it. Anyways our waitress was very attentive and friendly and I think I know why– when I looked around at the other cast of characters she was serving I realized that she was probably just thankful to have a normal couple in her section.
The food is classic bar fare. Nothing great and nothing terrible. My fries and our wings were both actually very tasty… but after about ¹⁄₃ or my chicken sandwich I realized that I probably would have been better off sticking with the wings or ordering a burger. The highlight of the night was the drink special which happened to be the biggest glass of beer I have ever seen. Plus one star for maintaining a well priced special on a holiday when they could easily bump up to full price.
Would I ever suggest making Show-Me’s a destination– no. But if you find yourself on the Landing with a good natured group of people, there are worse places you could end up. Expect decent greasy bar food, a questionable clientele and be prepared to drink to have fun– boozing is a must to make it though a meal here.