The bathrooms are nice. Â You don't need to touch a door after washing your hands. The retro decor is stylish.
You seat your self, wherever. Service was unbelievably slow. Â There were only a handful of people, and still a beer and a wine took several minutes.
They must have held my calamari until my husbsnds sliders were ready, because they were cooland toughening. Something deep fried ahoud be hot.
It was hard to get a second drink. Â We then asked for our check. Â A few minutes later she asked if we wanted anything else. Â We said no just the check. When I finally set my empty glass in the middle of the table, she asked if we would like our check now
The location is a little out of the way and parking is odd on that side of the mall.
Prices run a dollar or two above other similar restaurants in the area. There is nothing on the menu that you couldn't get better, hotter and cheaper somewhere else. The first beer we tried to order was out. There is no happy hour, which is unheard of in southwest Florida..
While visiting Fort Myers from Fort Lauderdale, my friends and I chose Bar Louie as our dinner destination over the surrounding Olive Garden, Carabas, Outback, etc. because we wanted to try something new. Â Good decision? Eh, the verdict's still out.
When my group of seven arrived on a Saturday night a tad before 6pm, the place was empty minus a few occupied tables and were told to told sit anywhere we wanted. My eye was immediately drawn to the bar where a plethora of beer taps was on display. Nice! Unfortunately when I got down to looking at the menu, there was nothing that great; there was a big selection, but nothing out of the ordinary. The martinis on the other hand did look pretty good and they had some yummy looking libations BUT no prices. I absolutely hate hate hate when a menu doesn't have prices, I think that is tricky and their way of overcharging for drinks. We ended up getting a pitcher of red Sangria which was $18 (had to ask for the price while ordering).
The rest of the food menu is pretty standard with burgers, salads, sandwiches, etc which is fairly priced. I ordered a California Chicken Sandwich which was a chicken breast, avocado, tomato, bacon and cheese, served with fries which, if I remember correctly, was around 10$
The food took a fairly long time to get to our table, and seeing as the place was nearly dead, it was hard not to hold this against them. Plus, no one got anything more than a salad or a sandwich, so the 30+minues we waited was just too long.
When the food came out, I have to say that the menu seemed to read better than how the food was presented in person. My sandwich was decent but nothing knock-out and I really didn't care for the fries that much. And this is coming from someone who LOVES french fries. See my yelp profile where it asks what my last meal on earth would be? Yeah, fries. I hardly ever come across one I don't like, but these had some odd spice to it, creole seasoning I suspected. Â My friend Cheetah Jen said her mac n' cheese was cold and had to send it back to be heated up. When it returned, it was definitely stirred or moved around which she was not a fan of, and I don't blame her! With all the horror stories out there, you've got to be careful! I don't think our waitress did anything to her food though, albeit she was a tad slow, she was still nice and pleasant enough.
Would I come back here for the food? No, probably not. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't anything that was bringing me back. The service wasn't stellar and the atmosphere wasn't anything super swanky or fun to make me want to revist. So all in all, it's a pretty average place all around.
P.S. I hear they have $1 burger Tuesday... but everything is al a carte. ie: 50 cents for lettuce, a dollar for cheese, etc etc. Still a great deal though. I can only imagine how crazy they get on those nights.
I liked how there were lots of different seating options, high tables, the bar, regular tables, an outdoor bar as well as seating outside both such that you wouldn't get wet if it were to rain.
Their fried shrimp po' boy is pretty good, not as good as something from New Orleans but a decent substitute.
Their long island tea though was 8.50. I wasn't expecting that when I ordered it. Nor did I expect them to add what I'm guessing was lemonade to my drink. In the future I may just order alcohol at happy hour.
I was recently here on late in the evening on a Tuesday night with the goal of catching some late night west coast Playoff Hockey. Â There's a couple things I did not realize about Tuesday nights around here. Â First, Tuesday nights is Dollar Burger night, and next, every 21 year old for miles flocks to this place on a Tuesday, with a DJ spinning.
I enjoyed the latest in pop tunes, and they satisfied my needs with their plethora of TV screens. Â Nice beer selection too. Â Tough to screw up beer though! Â My cheap burger totally sucked. Â Well overcooked, but what did I expect for a dollar? Â I would have happily paid more for something good, but I should note, they've done better work when they charge full price, but I'll pass on future $1 nights.
The level of service always varies when I'm here. Â Sometimes you get a good server, and sometimes you don't. Â Sometimes food comes in a timely manner, and sometime you wait long periods of time for the food even when it appears dead inside. Â After reading my draft here, I'm starting to wonder why I keep going back.
Hit or miss kind of place. Chain but less obvious than most, except for the fact that they keep popping up everywhere.
Like most chains, the menu looks and reads much better than what actually arrives to the table.
Fortunately, they have a strong beer selection to aid in the short-term memory loss.
Standard American grill restaurant. Â Ordered the turkey burger with their home made mac-n-cheese. Â Turkey burger tasted standard although the patty was thick. Â Large portions abound. Â Sauce on burger was nothing to write home about. Mac-n-cheese was decent and better than average. Â Good place to hit up after a night of drinking for sober-up grub.
Review Source:I have been going to Bar Louie since they opened and the service continues to deteriorate. I remember the good days when you did not have to wait for an hour for your food or 20 minutes for a drink. Where the servers and wait staff took pride in their jobs and were concerned about providing great service. I don;t know if I will be giving this place another chance anytime soon. Great food and service is the foundation to a successful restaurant.
Review Source:I was in Ft. Myers for a meeting and before heading back to the 305, we stopped by to get a drink. The bar big with friendly staff and and a great selection of beers. I don't know what else you could ask for. The had great prices for HH and it was very close to hotels, the expressway and other restaurants.
Review Source:Great hangout place with an excellent variety of beer. 40 beers on tap is all you can ask for. The menu isn't bad, more of an upscale bar menu. The crowd is usually good as are the barkeeps.
I avoid it at late night because FGCU is around the corner and it becomes amateur hour once the kiddies arrive.
2 things that can be improved upon are to use iced cold glasses because nothing beats trying all the types of beer with a frosty mug. And lastly, with the beer menu they have, they should slap anyone who orders a Bud or Miller.
Dishonest waitstaff. Came here about 9pm on a Thursday night with some family. We decided to stay awhile and have some drinks, which is fine if the waiter wouldn't have charged us for his mistakes. He brought the wrong beer, and we still got charged for it. Ordered two shots and got charged for four. Â And when it came time to pay he was no where to be found. Not to mention, the music is too loud and the menu overpriced. We will probably reluctantly come here again because there arn't many late night spots at Gulf Coast Mall.
Review Source:One way or another I ended up in Fort Myers for a week and I really don't want to talk about that trip. I will, however, talk about how great this place was when my flight got canceled and I needed somewhere to go to drown in alcohol since I couldn't get away from a certain person I was with until I was behind the security gate at Fort Myers Airport.
Luckily I had another friend that lives in Fort Myers, so I met up with her and her boyfriend here. She's loud, crazy and fun and this is so the perfect place for that type of personality. The bartender gave us free shots and he was fun to talk to for a while. Granted it was very early in the day, probably closer to noon, so he wasn't too busy with other people anyway.
I will say though, out of all the millions of Bloody Mary's I've had in my life, the best one has been from this place. Normally when I ask for a bar tender to make it spicy with no horseradish, I still get horseradish and not tobasco. This guy gave me lots of good vodka. Probably because I told him the person I was with was driving me crazy and he felt bad for me. He also loaded up on the tobasco like I asked. That was a much, much needed bloody mary.
I ordered some fried zucchini with their three dips. All in all, not so bad. I mean, it's fried. Everything tastes good fried. Plus when I'm having lots of booze I want greasy stuff. That's just how it works.
I was only here a couple of hours, but I had a good time, despite the idiot to my right that I ignored the whole time.
When I come back to Ft. Myers to visit my girlfriend, I'll come back just for that same Bloody Mary.
This past week, the diggler took a trip across the glades for work and whenever I'm in a new place, I'm always on the lookout for new good beer places / new beer...here was my experience at Bar Louie:
Server: Hi there, I have a whole bunch of bud light that I'd like to sell you, and you can even buy it by the bucket!!!!
Me: Ummmmm...I dont like bud light
Server: Well, how about michelob, coors, other blah blah blah big name brewer that is only $5 for a big bucket of the stuff
Me: Really no that's ok...Oh you have Cigar City Brewery...Can I get that please?
Server: You know, we forgot to take that tap down, we're out and wont get it back again because no one asks for it.
Me: Well that sucks :(
I ordered up a Dales Pale Ale and watched the soccer highlights from the days games.
And then....oh my....and then...the place errupted into kareoke night. I'm all for kareoke, but for some reason this one dude thought he had the chops to bust out some "dirty white boy" Â It was pretty annoying and ended up leaving after my one beer.
You can bring your dog if you sit outside, and will even provide your pooch with water and some bacon. The music isn't insanely loud, nor will it make you feel like an overgrown teenybopper. The service is quick and doesn't act as though they hate their job.
*this rating is for the daytime*
a lot of TV's you will def not miss a game. Seat yourself. Waitstaff great. They have every Beer on Tap. And I love the Tuesdays especially on a budget they have $1 burgers and 50cent fries. where else can a family of 4 eat and drink for less than $25. Food is great especially the appitizers. The Burgers are huge. There Kitchen is open until 2am and they stay open late full of fun. Happy Eating
Review Source:Bar Louie is a great, upscale restaurant/bar chain with quite an impressive beer list -- about 40 on draft, with a good mix of domestic craft, import, and domestic mass-market beer. Â The menu is a gourmet take on "bar food," with lots of burgers and pizza in evidence.
My fiancee and I went there for lunch, and discovered the best thing about the place; $5 lunch specials. Â Either soup and sandwich/salad, or a rotating array of daily specials, which included sliders, which we ordered. Â We expected our servings to be a bit on the small side, so we ordered three for the two of us, but were quite pleasantly surprised to find that they were in fact rather large. Â Twelve mini-burgers between the two of us, and it was an effort to finish them!
I'll be back.
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