545 North Bar & Grill

Patio is great.
The regulars are great.
The bartenders are great.

The food is very good.

I would have to agree with a lot of reviews. The place is lacking service. The food is mediocre at best. Very nice drink list, with many option. Nice patio in the back that I have enjoyed many times. Besides a good spot to stop for a cocktail, (if you have all day) I would head to one of the many other great spots around.

I heard 545 has live music and a few friends had been there in the past, so I thought I would check it out.  I read the reviews prior to coming so I know that they were mixed, but I usually like to make my own determination about places.  Unfortunately I experienced much of what others had commented on.  On a positive note, the place is nicely decorated and the live music was great, but everything else went downhill.  The service was unfriendly and inattentive at best.  I felt like I must have been invisible, it was getting comical to try to make eye contact with any server.  A man who I assume was the owner because he was standing at the bar all night talking with servers and appeared to be supervising or maybe it was more socializing.  I finally got a servers attention after what must have been easily 20 minutes.  I will say that the bar area was crowded when I got there, but still.  The table next to mine had four people eating dinner and even that server ignored me.  The prices are not cheap.  I don't mind paying good money for good food and service but unfortunately I got neither.  My first drink was pretty stiff once I got it.  I ordered the mussels and a half portion of Asian chicken salad - which is usually a pretty flavorful, straightforward item.  Both were disappointing to say the least.  I had to add salt to the mussels,  being from New England, I have never had to add salt to seafood, the salad was bland.  I was never checked on, and was never told that the servers were leaving for the evening.  When I went to the bar to order another drink the bartender was unfriendly and the drink was noticeably weaker than the first .I only stayed because the band was so good, but at one point a very intoxicated patron came in with some others and he was dancing and being obnoxious and loud.  He even grabbed the microphone from the band on a few occasions and the owner did nothing.  A lot of people left when he started doing somersaults on the floor in front of the band... not kidding.  I was surprised no one was hurt.  Needless to say I won't be back.