Little Rock!! What is wrong with you?? This place was delicious! We almost didn't go here because of the Yelp reviews, but, it turns out, Little Rock isn't very open on a Sunday and it was the first place we got to that was open and we were starving, so it was our only option.
We shared the onion rings, I had the buffalo chicken pasta, hubby had the bacon ranch pasta and we both LOVED it. Â Service was friendly and quick, food was hot and tasty and we'd happily go back here if we were in town!
We rolled in after the Little Rock marathon. Seeing the poo poo reviews, we knew not to expect greatness. Once you accept this place doesn't want you to fall in love with it, you'll be fine. Generic bar menu, okay selection of beer, indifferent wait staff. The nachos were fine, the chicken sandwich was a litle tough (certainly edible after 26.2) , but the beers were cheap and cold.
Review Source:Ummmm...Big Whiskey's?! You better sober up and run your frkkn bar! Slow service, incompetent service, staff totally clueless and without knowledge of how any of your dishes taste, you have a problem separating a bar tab from a food tab? I drop in and sit at a table FOREVER while staff walks past...so I go to the bar to get my own pint of beer and then you try to tell me my server will get it for me? NO! I want it now!
Your habernero/mango wings sounded interesting enough but ya overcooked the damn wings and they took FOREVER! This was an appetizer! Ordered fish and chips because that is hard to screw up I figure...WRONG AGAIN! Frozen fish? C'mon! Ummmm..do you have malt vinegar? You don't know?
You can't serve a beer, you don't know about the food you serve, it takes too long, you forget silverware, you can't separate a bar tab from a food tab! And this is when the place ain't packed? Holy shit people! Is this what a bar in Hell will be like? I would give you a pass if the place was crowded but this was at 1:30pm in the damn afternoon!
I am a "glass is half full" kind of guy so I am trying to end on a positive note so let me give this a try here.. ummm.. how about this? Congrats! You a bar and you actually HAVE glasses for drinks! Way to go! How about this? Start using the damn things! And NO, I don't want dessert because I have already been here for what feels like an eternity! Ya see? Another lost opportunity for a sale. Usually I have a drink for dessert so again...lost sale opportunity!
What happened to the days when bars and restaurants actually let their servers taste the signature dishes as part of the training? Try to spin this review into something positive and have a little staff meeting. Start with appetizer tasting and go from there.
One more positive note! Your bartender does have it together as far as I can tell and she knows how to pour a beer at least! But sadly, this is all I've got for ya!
Good luck with it! See ya later...then again..probably NOT! I am sure y'all are as sick of hearing about this as I am of writing it. Another waste of time in a yapping, screaming world where everybody is talking and nobody is listening.
This is a local sports bar/restaurant. Â Its a place to go for a beer and burger and does nicely with that. Â We were a large group and they gave us the back private room. Â The food was ok, but nothing special. Â Some members of the group were happy...others just ok. Â I ordered the fried chicken breast sandwich. Â It came our VERY late, but was excellent.
Review Source:Atmosphere is just as you would expect from a bar/restaurant... After reading the previous reviews, I feel we were a bit lucky...
Service was great: attentive, timely, helpful and--even on a busy, busy Friday evening--we never felt rushed. Were it not for the ridiculously bad food, I would be rating 4-stars.
The food: veggies past their date, burned--literally crunchy around the edges--burgers, improperly cooked/prepared steaks... Seriously, there was not a thing going right for the food at Big Whiskeys.
I would not recommend.
I should have read the reviews before I ate here. Very disappointing salad, not well composed. If you screw up a simple salad (strawberries - VERY SKIMPY, blue cheese crumbles - also skimpy, almond slivers on romaine w grilled chicken add on) I don't think they'd be able to do much better with something that actually required a bit of effort to prepare.
Review Source:Ok, I've seen the reviews and went there anyway. Â It is probably a solid 3.5. Â The appetizers are big enough, tasty enough, and cheap enough. Â My beer off tap was a little flat, but that happens.
Unlike some of the other restaurants on this street, W's did allow kids in. Â So my wife and 6, 8, 11, and 13 year old stopped there Monday night. Â Our water was friendly, took care of us, didn't act annoyed that we had kids (very typical in Little Rock, it is not really a family kind of town I've found out), and got the food coming quick.
The chicken wings are as good as you need them to be. Â Cooked right, sauced right, and very tasty. Â The loaded fries were great. Â Onion rings so/so, I like the ones that are more breaded; but these seemed fresh. Â Sliders were good, and they were kind enough to make them with a variety of cheeses at our request.
So for this reason, I say 4 stars (really it is a 3.5), but since a few of the other venues are anti-kid, I'll give them the bump.
Nice selection of bums in this neighborhood, so come with lots of "change to spare".
Stopped by for a quick bite and a drink this afternoon. Found the place almost empty and pretty mellow. The bartender was friendly, took our food order quickly, and it arrived promptly. It was all pub grub, but it was all pretty tasty. We'll definitely be back next time we're in Little Rock.
Review Source:This place wasn't as bad for me as some reviewers on Yelp wrote that it was for them. Â Just strolling along Markham on a Thursday night looking for a decent place to grab a bite and watch some sports. This place fit the bill. The atmosphere was calm, not over noisy but not a cemetery, either. Â Just right. Bar area is nice and the restaurant has plenty of seating. Â Good views of the TV's and sports at most seating locations. My waitress was very nice and polite. Â Ordered the salmon with veggies and sweet tea. Â Salmon was good, but not great. Â Overall, I enjoyed my experience here. Â If you are going to just watch sports and drink a brew or two, a good place to kick back. But next time I will look for a better meal at one of the other local restaurants.
Review Source:The food here is comparable to Applebee's or Chili's. I ordered a sandwich containing grilled chicken and bacon. The chicken wasn't seasoned, and the bacon wasn't very tasty, either. We tried the signature dip with buffalo chicken. It was served with generic tortilla chips that tasted like they were from a bag. The fries were frozen. Overal: meh.
We did get good service, though.
Despite the negative reviews on Yelp, Big Whiskey's has always been okay in my book. The food always tastes fine, service is decent, and atmosphere is good. Would I say that it is the best I have ever had? No. However, I would say that it has never been a disappoint, either.
I recently had a birthday gathering with a party of twelve. I called a few days a head of time to see if they took reservations, and they were happy to accommodate. My plan was to go to a somewhat informal restaurant, yet with plenty of seating, decent food, and a full bar. Big Whiskey's met all of my needs.
All of my guests seemed to enjoy their food, as well. We tried multiple salads and entrees. We also tried the chili-cheese queso appetizer, which was delicious! I was even brought a birthday brownie dessert, free on the house.
My one negative was that the music was so loud, that despite yelling to each other, we had a hard time carrying on a conversation.
I grabbed lunch here while in town on business. It's your basic pub food kind of place. I had a burger and substituted a side salad for fries. Everything tasted great and the waitstaff was that perfect level of attentive without hovering. I've noticed that it's fills up quickly in the evening, as do all of the bars and restaurants in the River Market complex so a wait at dinnertime may be expected.
Review Source:It was a Tuesday night and I stopped in cause I can't pass up a restaurant with "whisky" in its name. Â It was relatively slow inside and I sat at the bar. Â I ordered a side salad and the pork chop entree.
Salad was made using mixed greens which is a nice variance from the usual romaine or iceberg, although they loaded it with cheddar cheese. Â Maybe I'm out of place here or they think they're on to something, but cheddar cheese on a salad isn't necessary (especially when you use mixed greens, try other fresh ingredients like cucumber or red onions).
The pork chop entree looked great, plating was in normal American cuisine fashion (nothing special). Â The vegetable of the day, broccoli, was overcooked and mush. Â The fantastically marked bone in pork chop was drenched in a great bbq sauce, but was a little dry for my liking. Â The mashed potatoes were great, homemade chive style, but again was loaded with cheddar cheese which is a good combo. Â The meal came with garlic bread that was partially stale, and rather soggy.
The meal was good, not great though. Â Good bbq sauce, mashed potatoes, and the use of spinach/arugula. Â Bad meat cooking and the overabundance of cheddar cheese. I left satisfied but if it were my joint id refine it a little bit.
4 starving women and we wanted to find a place to grub. It was about 1030p and decided to check this place out. I went to check on the hours and the sign indicated that they were open until 12a on Thurs. We parked and paid $5.
As we were walking in there was a group of guys in the patio drinking/smoking. They said "sorry, we're closed". Apparently, since they didn't have any customers they decided to close early. If you were closed make it seem as you're closed by locking the doors, turning off the TVs/lights and placing a sign. Don't have your employees waste valuable resources on business time...
Had the salad and it was ok. Went for dinner and the salad I got was big but most of the leaves were all wrinkled up and almost at the point of rotting.
Ambiance is cool - it's a sports bar so lots of TVs on real loud so basically no conversations.
Don't bother if you're hungry - go some place else.
Used to eat here a lot as they had some good menu items....that is if they actually cook them. Im not sure if it is the wait staff writing down the orders wrong, or the cooks not doing their job but of the last three times I went, twice was the chicken not fully cooked, and once everyone was done eating before I got my lunch. I dont eat here anymore and probably will never again. Have to pay for parking as well with a 2 block walk which is not so bad.
Review Source:Is this one of those new concept restaurant/bar where you write down your own order, go behind the bar and pour your own beer, and ring up your own ticket? How avant-garde!
Or perhaps the better explanation is that Big Whiskey's has crappy service. We were there for a good 15 minutes before menus were brought to the table, but the menus were pointless since nobody ever came back to take our orders.
Well, we left without ordering anything from here. At the rate they were moving, we'd probably only have a round of drinks every two hours, which is extremely unproductive for a Saturday night!
Horrible, horrible service.
We waited more than 15 minutes before the waiter acknowledged our existence. It wasn't that busy for a Saturday night, but I felt it was under-staffed. There was no drink menu because they were redoing their drink list, so we were given the food menu. We waited another 15 minutes, and the waiter never came back to our table to get our order. Needless to say, we left and went across the river to Cregeen's.
If only I checked the reviews here first before going, I would've saved myself some time and frustration. I'm glad I didn't order food based on the reviews on here.
On one of the rainy nights of the trip, my friends and I stopped into Big Whiskey's, because it was one of the few restaurants crowded, and close to the hotel. Â
The menu was like any steakhouse or American style chain restaurant (i.e. chili's/applebees) back home, so I was sure everyone in my group would find something. Â Unfortunately, the waitress informed us that they did not have anymore of half the appetizers, which basically just left different varities of wings, and that, they were short two waitresses "because of the rain." Â I looked at her and laughed, thinking she was kidding, but as it would turn out, she was not.
The group I was with could not make up their mind to order, and so we just put an order in for drinks, mainly waters, a beer and I asked for a Jameson on the rocks. Â It took about 20 minutes, just for the drinks to come. Â Thankfully, by that time, everyone was ready to order. Â We ordered simple things, burgers, salads, and not even an app. Â
As one hour and a few Jameson's went by, we got restless. Â Not even the twenty or so flat screen televisions, or the great classic rock music playing could distract us from how long we were waiting for food. Â I finally caught the waitress and asked how long it would be until the food was ready. Â She said "just a few mo' minutes." Â A few minutes in NY might mean 5-7 minutes, but apparently, at Big Whiskey's it meant 22 minutes. Â Finally, an hour and a half into dinner, we got our meals. Â
Fortunately, the burgers were great, steaming hot fries, and two different BBQ sauces, sweet and spicy.  Unfortunately, I cannot give  Big Whiskey's anything higher than a 2 star review after the horrible service. Â
Decent prices on food and drinks as well.
Compared to the 'higher end' restaurants that have inhabited this spot I guess BW is a success. They don't charge you $12 a glass for Johnnie Walker Black but they're nothing special. Big Whiskey's is in fact a smaller chain of restaurants but a chain nonetheless. I agree with some of the other reviews, there's nothing special about this place. If you like Applebees or Chili's then you'll like this place. As far as anything original or surprising? Nada. A nice selection of Bourbon's though.
I've been there to drink a few times but never eaten b/c I'm a vegetarian and my options today weren't great. They were out of mushrooms for the portabella wrap so i had a strawberry salad and fries. salad was meh, had blue cheese crumbles which i'm not a fan of. dressing wasn't that great. the leafy greens looked healthy but tasted very dry. french fries were pretty damn delicious but the flying saucer still has some of the best fries downtown. other people at my table enjoyed their food (fish and chips and burgers) but i just simply wasn't impressed.
Ok so where to begin..
I went here by reccomendation of the Hotel staff, and so far they where on the money so why doubt them right!? WRONG! I should of trusted the Yelpers on this one....
Start with the Beer....
I am a beer drinker, I love it, anytime any place i am game..not to get drunk but for the honnest love of beer (taste,aroma etc..)
So I order there seasonal Sam Adams Oktoberfest on draft, comes out and man thats flat...so I inform the waiter and simply ask for a different beer no worries ill take the Belgian Flat Tire....
Beer comes out, man thats piss warm wtf is going on here 2 beers 0 for mother flippin 2....So I say screw it give me a bottle because someone isnt doing something right....
On to the meal..... Oh did I have a craving for a big JUICY burger but with a little kick...
So I ordered the All American Burger (traditional burger let.tom.oninon etc...) with Blackened seasoning and swiss cheese......mmmmmhmmmm my mouth is watering and to ENSURE my burger is JUICY I ordered it MEDIUM as most places tend to overdue it a LITTLE. Not Big Whiskeys oh no, you talk about a CHARBURGER not a CHEESEBURGER and you have exactly what I was chewing on...As I was chewing I think dust was shooting out of my mouth...
IT WAS THE WORST BURGER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Â!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Â!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I really do mean EVER!!!!!!!!
Onto the always trustworthy always delicous BW's French Fries....Man did they look great, too bad they tasted like they just came out of the fridge.. I mean seriously arent fries to be served hot!?
Ok well if this experience does not deter you I dont know what will.....
Oh by the way the best part of the dinner was the service and that SUCKED TOO!!!!!!!!
If I could give this shithole a negative rating I would, YOU BW are lucky YELP is nice or you'd be done pal....negativo, minus, in the neg........
This review is as much for the restaurant as it is for the readers. As being a former restaurant owner with three locations, I can tell you this. What will kill your business is your staff. I went here again because I was so impressed with my first visit. The food was excellent and the staff was something that I would have hired. That was then.. This was last week. It was a mid afternoon on Saturday and the place was semi packed. Once again, they still have tables blocking a clear entrance into the restaurant. Still not changed. It is very confusing and if those tables had people, then it would be hard to get into the place. I made my way in and sat at the booth next to the exit to the outdoor area. There were young guys sitting on the patio screaming and yelling, much like a pick up bar rather than a place to have a meal and drink. My order was taken as soon as I sat down but that was it. it took 45 minutes to get a refill and for her to come back. When she did she asked if everything was okay. Servers need to know that a generic question can come back to bite you in the ass. Well, it did... I kindly said, "after 45 minutes we are ready to order." Her quick reply was, "I am sorry, I am buying your drinks this evening."
I looked around and did a count.. 7 people on staff and two were standing at the bar talking and laughing all while people are waiting to order. There was a girl named Holly and she was working her ass off. It looked as if she was doing most of the work. My server didn't introduce herself at all. I got Holly's name because she was the server to the table next to me. The table she was serving came in after me and was served food and drink before I even got my second drink.
When you have to comp drinks that is money lost. With 7 or staff there should never be a lack of service in a place this size.
I really like this place and I hope that the management reads this review and takes the action needed.. This place as so much potential. I would like to suggest that workers who are just off, not hang out around the bar. That only invites conversation with those that or still on the clock and those who suffer are the ones who pay the bills. If it was mine, that would not happen.
Oh Big Whiskey...our encounter may never have been....
I am having a convention at a local hotel and have grown intolerant of subpar and exhorbitantly priced room service offerings.
I did a time check....9:40....should be able to adjust my sour mood with beer and wings if I hustle. Â Ditzy hostess warns me no more food...too hungry to argue I wandered down the block only to be further angered: Bikini contests to my left, karaoke to my right, where can a girl just get a beer and a bite?! Â Feeling defeated and not in the mood for live entertainment in any form I wandered back, harrumphed my way to the bar and ordered a beer hoping the caloric intake would sooth my belly.
The whole experience changed there-bartender was very attentive and personable, it turns out they were still serving food and he got it to me within 15 minutes of ordering. Â Despite what I will call bubble gum cheese (imagine that) in the quesadilla the flavor was fine, and the beer was cold---problem solved. Â It proves my traveling theory: trust no one but thee that serves my beer.
Waiter was very rude and service was slow - Place was not busy at all at 11:00. Â The waiter pretty much only made smart remarks when he decided to slow down by our table on the way out to smoke. Â A sign out front had advertised a lunch special. Â When we asked to see the lunch menu, he said "you're holdin it" and kept going. Â It was of course the regular menu. Â The only special is the regular price for half a sandwich and a cup of soup. Â When it was all said and done, I was charged for someone else's meal that was double the price of the "lunch special". Â The problem was that my bill that went with my credit card and the waiter had the CORRECT price on it. Â He charged my card the double price and then argued that I had even purchased the cheaper lunch special. Â Maybe he was trying to scam some of the cash my friends paid with; I don't know. He agreed to fix it, but instead waited on a new table of six and his other tables first. Â To top it off, he went outside and smoked again while I just stood their waiting. Â I asked for a copy of the receipt that showed that my card had been credited, but he said "don't worry, it was" and walked to the kitchen!
I had high hopes for this place to watch sports, etc., but AVOID Big Whiskey and let it go down in flames like the places here before. Â Maybe a nice establishment will finally make it here with good employees and better management.
I was in a big hurry trying to catch my flight after running the marathon on Sunday. Â This place was the nearest restaurant to my hotel. Â Ordered a pulled pork sandwich to go thinking it would be pretty much scoop the meat into a toasted bun (e.g., fast). Â My order took 35 minutes to arrive at my table and it was horrible. Â hard for food to be horrible after a guy just ran 26 miles...
avoid avoid avoid avoid
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