This is our go-to local place for good food, drinks, and live music. Â It is always nice to sit out on the deck and have a few drinks and listen to the music. Â I usually have the chowder and half seafood sandwich. Â My hubby likes the chicken jalapeno BBQ pizza. Â Good portions and good prices. Â It can be crowded during the summer months when the snow birds come back from the north, but it is always worth a few minutes wait.
Review Source:This place makes a killing! I was SHOCKED at how crowded this place was and is every time I pass by. We stopped for lunch and luckily a table was opening up. Â The soup and salads were good, the sandwiches were decent. It was an enjoyable place to eat, but nothing special. Â It reminded me of any local spot with the basics.
Review Source:Nice little hideaway sports bar type of place, a little off of the beaten path (everything, it seems in Bluffton, is buried in to 40 acre woods. While the Ale House is not in the woods, it is so far off of the road, I drove past it dozens of times and had no idea it was there).
Stopped here for a light heal. I had a chicken tenders basket off of the appetizer menu. 4 pieces of hot, right out of the fryer battered chicken, covering a bed of could have been hotter fries.
Food was good. Our server was attentive.
Recommended.
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Our experience was very pleasant. Although crowded, we were seated in a short amount of time. The menu selection is typical of "ale house" type restaurants with something for everyone. Our server was friendly and attentive. Food tasted decent although not outstanding. Atmosphere and location is nice. The patio area with live music overlooks a lake.
Review Source:This place has it all: bar, great food, entertainment and outside seating. Great service and atmosphere. Menu is great for lunch or dinner. They offer a variety of foods from hamburgers to shrimp to fajitas. Service is good, but they can get filled up with the ancients from the next door community. An ice cream parlor and liquor store are adjacent if you care to indulge further. Parking can be an issue in the early evening when the retirement crowd gauges.
Review Source:Well we went back and I have to say it was much improved. The owner was much friendlier and the food was even better than the previous visit. All of us got the fish and chips. The portion was massive and the quality was very good. I was very happy with the changes I saw. If you are in town give this place a visit.
Review Source:An A-OK place
This is adjacent to the Hampton Inn in Bluffton, and adjacent to the Del Webb Golf Community, or as a friend calls it, "Jurassic Park". So needless to say the crowd here is a little older...
This is a nice restaurant / bar, Â food is ok, nothing too spectacular. They have a nice patio with live music... service was very good, and the people are very nice!
We went here a  handful of times during our stay, purely out of convenience -- the Okatie Ale House was directly across from our hotel, situated in a little plaza that also houses a tiny ice cream shop and a liquor store. Our experiences here ranged from 2 star to 3 star, depending on when we went and where we sat. Â
Inside seating:  reasonably prompt, friendly  and attentive service.  Then we sat outside one evening to take advantage of the 'deck scene'. The deck overlooks a little lagoon and the tiki bar and rails are festooned with lights.  A breeze was blowing and the frogs were singing - it seemed like a festive location for a late summer night dinner with the crew. Â
Or to just sit and wait with our thumbs up our respective @sses. Â
We waited for our drinks; we waited to have our order taken; we waited over an hour for our food to show up. Â The fried pickles never even made it to the table (the server's response upon learning this from us was "Oh. Â Really?"). Â We did have pity for the outdoor bartender as he was apparently all alone in serving the rowdy, reddened and sweaty local alkies hanging out at the bar in addition to playing waiter and busboy to us, the only diners on the deck. Â
(Tip to the staff: if you prefer that your dining customers remain inside where they can be more easily accomodated and attentively served, you might want to mention that to them. I definitely got the feeling that our party was not wanted on the deck after we'd already been seated there.)
Went back one afternoon to sit on the deck and have a quick drink and discovered that the local alkies don't confine their bar stool riding to the evening hours. Â There was one lady who'd obviously been there a while and was regaling no one in particular with a loud story about having been forcibly confined in a concrete box or something along those lines. Â At first we thought she was talking to the bartender, but after he walked away and she just continued belting out her story we realized she was probably mentally ill. Â
I wish I could say that the food redeemed the spotty service, but while nothing I ate here was horrible, none of it was particularly memorable, either. Â But....if you're staying at the nearby Hampton or Candlewood and you have kids with you, go for the convenience and avoid the deck.
After being stuck on the interstate for an unplanned two extra hours, we were starving and desperate for food as we neared our final destination in Hilton Head Island. Using previous Yelpers' helpful reviews, we decided on Okatie Ale House. For a Friday night, they were busy but not slammed. We were seated as soon as they cleared an empty table. Honestly, our experience was pretty good. Both my husband and I enjoyed our meals (meatloaf patty melt & grouper wrap) and they have Guinness on tap, which often earns a business an extra star! Our server was certainly not the most personable or fastest guy in the place, but our main gripe was having to wait 45 minutes for our dinners after placing our orders. (Again, for a not-overly-busy Friday night, my husband and I agreed this was too long to wait for two meals.) The place is also noisy. This was in part because of the noticeable number of families and crying children... the number of children rivaled the number of Sun City residents who appear to dine here! ;) There was live music on the patio, which was good. Despite the noise & the long wait for food, I decided on four stars (I was on the fence about awarding only 3 stars) since we both said we'd go back if we lived in this area.
Review Source:This was a nice little "pub". We ordered the Country Fried Chicken. It was really good, it was beer battered which is different from what I am use to. the mashed potatos were amazing, along with the gravy. The service was slow and it seemed that if you weren't a local you didn't get drink refills or waited on very much, other than bringing your drinks, taking your order, and bringing your food and check.
Review Source:Let's just say there aren't many "unique" food options in the Bluffton/Okatie, SC area unless you head towards Hilton Head or Savannah. A lot of the people at the Okatie Ale House are from the Sun City community that's right next door... and across the street.
There were a lot of options on the menu. The first time I went, I had the fajitas and caesar salad. Both are not items you can easily mess up, so it was good (but we have to remember, this is just a regular eatery, not refined). The second time I went, I ordered the Lowcountry Reuben Sandwich. The Reuben was really great. A piece of battered fish with cole slaw on sourdough really hit the spot.
The macadamia crusted chicken salad was also very good.
FYI: It's a Penn State Bar.
After a long day in Savannah, we returned to our restaurant (the Hampton Inn in Bluffton) and decided that we didn't want to go very far for dinner. Â So we walked across the parking lot to the Okatie Ale House. Â It had looked nice the night before with a band on the deck, so we figured that it couldn't be too bad. Â We were wrong.
It was really busy, but that's generally a good sign. Â As it turned out, our server was more interested in hitting on the waitress in the next section over. Â That's not always a bad thing, but since he wouldn't refill our drinks, check on how we were doing or even bring us our dinner rolls, I take issue with it. Â Even my salad didn't come out until a minute or so before my dinner.
The food itself was average - had the service been better, then it wouldn't have been bad. Â But the service stunk, and the cooking time was slow (at least, it took a long time to get out - perhaps it just sat in the kitchen for a while because our server was so bad, and it wasn't the kitchen's fault at all). Â All-in-all, a really bad experience. Â At least we have some leftovers so we can snack later without dealing with anyone.
One other note - the water in this area of town tastes like dirt. Â It's clear, so it doesn't seem to actually be dirty, it just seems to have a dirt taste. Â I don't know what it is exactly. Â But you might want to drink something other than water. Â Or get a few lemons to go with the water.
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