I haven't been here in a few years. Â I used to actually kinda hate this place. Â But i happened here on a gorgeous spring day and played some bags and fell in love. Â With a bar...then after a few drinks a waitress....and after a few more drinks a chair...and then tacos I really love tacos. Â I digress. Â Fat Sam's has redeemed itself in my eyes as a viable watering hole. Â There is enough room for three sets of bags and the people to play them. Â You aren't ridiculously on top of each other, but your still making friends whether you want to or not. Â But its a bar and the buckets of beer are average price and there are girls here. Â They even have some craft/local breweries on tap. Â I was happy that I came back here and will definitely be back again.
Review Source:I met up at Fat Sams with a group of people on a Saturday night to see a friend's band. We've been to this place for this reason multiple times. There is a $5 cover whenever there is a band, which I don't mind paying. If I was just there for a few drinks, then I would mind.
Fat Sams is great for groups of people. There are plenty of tables, and lots of room. I've never actually had any food from here, but I have seen the typical fried appetizer plate a few times. We just come here for the booze and band.
The service was surprisingly good at our table. The waitress was really on top of the beers, and that turned out to not be so good for me! They have tall drafts with a pretty good selection including Shock Top and 312.
The one thing that never changes about this place is that the music is too loud for being indoors. I generally listen to music/movies pretty loud, but my ears were ringing the next morning. Â But I'll be back for the beer and music, maybe with some earplugs next time.
If you are looking for a chill neighborhood bar Fat Sam's is excellent. The owners of the place are really friendly and nice, and I have never had a problem with getting prompt, service. I guess that seems really generalized, but I have never been to a bar where it really seemed like they went out of their way to make everyone feel like a valued customer.
Review Source:I've been going to Fat Sam's for years now. It's not a bad little place and their beer garden is really big for throwin bags and sometimes having live bands out there in the summer.
Service is consistant and the servers are allways very attentive.
I wouldn't say Fat Sam's is my favorite bar in the area, but it is a good choice for more of a relaxed night.
They also have a lot of professional athlete appearences here throughout the year which are allways fun events
Oh, Fat Sam's. It seems like in the past few years Fat Sam's has become a more viable option for my age group to go to on the weekends. I am not exactly sure why that is.
Fat Sam's is conveniently on the corner of Lagrange and 159th. It does have that going for it. It is a dark, cozy place with various areas that remain memorable. For example, they have a fenced-in outdoor area, that is actually pretty nice. Smokers unite, cornhole tossers toss their bead-sacks into the cornhole out there, and everyone is having a good time. Inside, there is one of those oldschool hockey gaming machines, where the players move on rails and you spin them around to score goals. Nostalgic and fun.
There are dart boards (although they are very close to tables and on a packed weekend night you are bound to piss off a table by being too close to them.)
There is also a little corner dance floor area, which is hilarious. Out of the twenty-ish times I've been here, I have never seen anyone dance on the dancefloor. That is, until last night, where a couple drunken girls from the Halloween costume contest were doing their thing, letting everyone not-so-subtley know that they were down to clown.
I've never eaten here.
The pricing is fair, beers are cheap. I'm only here on weekends but I believe they have good daily specials. I will say that the server we had last night - the schoolgirl who slightly resembled Katy Perry - was extremely pushy. Every three minutes she would ask us if we were ready for more shots. I asked her if she was a DUI lawyer on the side. She didn't find it funny. So we bought more shots.
My favorite all-time memory of this place was over the summer of 2011. I was outside in the back with some friends, it was a nice warm night. This girl we all knew from high school... we'll call her Laura D, was absolutely hammered. She proceeded to fall over our table (breaking everyone's beer bottle but mine, which I saved) and was rolling all over the concrete on top of the sudsy spilled beer and shattered glass. She then got kicked out, and walked east across the LaGrange Rd (from the front entrance) and promptly plopped herself on the grass in between the sidewalk and LaGrange Road. As we got into our cars and left, she was still there, laying in the grass, legs dangling out onto LaGrange Road. Classic.
Fat Sam's charges a cover about every weekend, for some terrible DJ whose music is cookiecutter and superloud. Nobody's dancing, why blast 80's metal deafeningly loud, or B96 nonsense for that matter. Play the music, yes, just not so loud. And don't charge me 3 damn dollars for it.
Fat Sam's is best when you're with good company. I typically don't expect crazy things to happen here, but it's a nice spot to throw some beers back, get forced into more shots than you probably want, and if you're lucky, find a couple dirty girls who are down to clown.
This place is what a bar should be. Â It is totally Cheers. Â The girls are cute and the guys are friendly. Â It has a great vibe. Â This is definitely the best beer garden in Orland and probably the only true sports bar. Â If you are out for a good time with friends this is the place to be. Â I was sitting at the bar doing shots and the owner was buying random people drinks and making everyone feel inlcuded.
Review Source:I went here awhile back to with my husband and his friend to watch a football game that was only being carried on the NFL network. We tried to go to a few Buffalo Wild Wings in the area, but they were all crowded, so we came here. It's kind of small, but has lots of TVs, full bar and standard bar food. A very no-frills place. Good for what it is, but don't expect anything else. I didn't think a place like this could exist in Orland Park, mainly because it's not a chain and not some hip non-chain restaurant. It's a dive bar, nothing more.
Review Source:I love this place because although I had been there many times, this was the place where the lovely lady I now call mine, gave me my first kiss, and it was a life changing moment!
Bringing her into my life was nothing shy of a gift from God, and so our reverence for this place is very special. Â
Love the energy of the crowd, staff is very hard working and they are busting their booty to make you happy.
Have a few cold ones, toss back a shot or two, catch a college or pro game on one of the many tv's or sample some of their bar grub and shoot a game of darts. Â
They also have a DJ and dance floor on weekends. Â Sometimes is it the perfect place to people watch. Â Always worth a chuckle.
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