Bar Louie

We love the food here and the service. However they don’t have a hostess and it sucks having to find a seat bc they are usually busy and the place is always freezing. Besides that it’s a nice place to hang out, get a bite to eat and have a drink.

This place just keeps getting worse… Not only is it FREEZING during our ENTIRE meal because a group of inconsiderate people eating upstairs kept the door to the patio OPEN (mind you it a high of 7 degrees today) but the burgers are terrible now. Obviously a frozen patty. They shouldn’t bother even asking what temp you want it cooked to because it comes well done E. V. E. R. Y. Time. The cooks who prepared it clearly don’t know the menu that well because it was missing things on it also. I’m done with this place. Disappointing every time.

Good selection of beers and food. Service is just so darn slow! It’s a bar with good bar food, with slow service. Great salads. Good beer selection. If you tolerate slow service, this a a great place for a friend’s night out.

$ 5 martinis on Wednesday nights. That’s all you really need to know.
Cucumber martinis and S’mores martinis are on point. Get them both. Have no shame. Your wallet won’t mind.
Bar Louie was our 3^rd stop during a Promenade bar crawl. The crowd is definitely younger at night; I’d guess the average age was 21 – 24. There was a DJ who was spinning (is it still ‘spinning’ if it’s on a laptop?) did a good job mixing up older stuff with newer and less mainstream stuff.
Service was great — this bar was definitely the most crowded the night before Christmas Eve — but our waiter (Jason) didn’t forget about us. He delivered my martinis with speed. The bartenders I’m not so sure about — although that cucumber martini tastes like heaven, the 2^nd one was definitely a short pour. But for $ 5 I can’t complain.
As the night went on, the bar got crowded. There was a fight, which had a sea of people flow outside, and then the Bolingbrook PD showed up. Ehh… it really killed the good buzz I had going. The night would have been more enjoyable if these asshat bros were immediately escorted out, but it took awhile, and that seemed to only cause additional fights. Maybe I’m just getting old, but it made me nervous, and we couldn’t get the check fast enough at that point. I’m too old for this shit.
So, to sum it up: good music (if you don’t mind EDM or hip hop), young crowd, solid $ 5 martinis. If you’re over the age of 30, leave by 9, maybe 10. Giving it 4 stars for the $ 5 martinis and quick service.

Three stars for the drinks and food! I highly recommend the Diva Martini and Sangria! Came here last week for a Christmas party. We had a very large bill and some was paid in cash and some on my card. I noticed a few days later on my bank statement they added $ 20.00 extra to my card! I guess the waiter thought he deserved a bigger tip? Beware! I would only pay with cash of you decide to come here. Very disappointed they would do this because other than that, it’s a very nice place to go. Very shady though!!!

Let’s start off by saying that if I could give them zero stars, I would. Their security staff are some of the most disrespectful, unprofessional people that I have ever encountered. They’re bad people and acted completely improper when removing a group of people from the bar. Pushing, yelling, and antagonizing a fight from the group is now how a bar employee should represent their establishment. Also, their bar staff is beyond slow. I waited for at least 30 minutes for a beer and had the bar tender walk by and ignore me 3 times. Their food is mediocre at best. One of their managers was a decent guy but that’s the only nice thing I have to say about Bar Louie. I’m never going again and I would recommend others stay away if possible. There’s a lot of other places around there that are much more professional and have better service. By far one of the worst experiences I’ve had at a bar, and I’ve been to some pretty scummy bars.

BL wasn’t our first choice tonight. It wasn’t our second or third choice either, it was our choice when the other restaurants in the promenade had 1hr+ wait times. Sometimes misfortune turns into something good though, as was our experience here. We really enjoyed our dinner at BL. My wife and I had the California Chicken Club with tots on the side, a la Napoleon Dynamite style. Tasty sandwich… save the tots. Prices are very steep for what you get but that’s the moral of the story in Bolingbrook Promenade. It was pretty busy when we stopped in but I felt like we had great service, so I’d recommend a stop in. Cheers.

Went here for lunch on Monday, the service was friendly but very slow (there were only a few tables occupied so I’m not sure why the kitchen took forever), my salad was watery as if the lettuce hadn’t been drained at all after washing. I had my two month old with me and while they had high chairs to put her car seat on, there was no changing table or counter in the bathroom to change her on. Very frustrating and kind of odd since pretty much every chain restaurant you go to has one.

We were here several times and this place is definitely good to have cocktail on Friday evening. I like their drinks very much and food was also tasty.
What I didn’t like is that sometimes it is very noisy here. Service was pretty slow when I was here last time. Tables are not always cleaned good. Servers should do a bit better job.

Quite disappointing. This rating is based on 6 factors
1) Beer menu lists many «Seasonal» and «Rotating» taps. No list is provided showing which ones are available. No worries, I’ll ask the server, he’ll know. Well, maybe. He batted about .500 on what ones he knew and didn’t. If you’re not going to provide an actual list of the beers you have available, make sure your servers know what is and isn’t available.
2) Knowledge of the food. One of the specials, featured prominently in the menu, was «Grilled Macaroni and Cheese Sandwich», which was served either with Verde Chicken or Pulled Pork. I asked the server was «Verde Chicken» meant, and his answer was «It’s just how it’s prepared. It’s chicken.» Great insight, thanks.
3) Quality of beer. I ordered a Sam Adams Octoberfest (one of the seasonals he knew they had) and alas, the line clearly had an infection. The beer wasn’t *horribly* infected, but if I were a brewer of that beer it would break my heart if that’s how people thought it was supposed to taste.
4) Quality of food. Lukewarm tater tots. Lukewarm sandwich. Apparently, «Verde Chicken» means «a tiny dollop of salsa verde on one section of the sandwich.» Very meh.
5) Accuracy of order. My dining companion’s «Buffalo Ranch Chicken Flatbread» had BBQ sauce on it. Huh.
6) Overall experience. Our server was terribly unengaged, unknowledgeable, and inattentive.
Overall, meh. This was my first visit to a Bar Louie to eat, and I won’t make that mistake again.

I’m liking the $ 1 burger Tuesday’s. Well –they charge for the cheese and other extras but still quite a deal. They started doing this back when the economy tanked years back to draw in customers on the slowest day. It proved so popular they kept it (place is pretty packed on Tuesdays), plus the drinks are pricey, so they’re still making money I’m sure!

Service was pretty good here. Our server was very attentive to us throughout our stay there.
Good selection on appetizers and a decent bar food menu. And of course, the beer tap selection was good too. They even have some California microbrews to keep me nostalgic of home.
I think this will be my go-​to bar as parking and its location is pretty to get to.

Definitely nice place to hang out. The décor is classy and clean. Bar area looks pretty smooth at night and the lighting is perfect to set a nice weekend mood.
The food is pretty good. Bar Louie takes classic bar food and jazzes it up more. I’ve had their burger once and a wrap with fries. The fries were well done with with the right seasoning.

This was not my first choice or even second. But it was raining and I wanted in. The server was not in the mood for serving or even breathing for that matter. He brought us our drinks and we put in our order. Now it was 95 out and my Peach Lightning was one big ice cube for 10 bucks. So it sat dry for 15 minutes until he finished watching the tube on the other side of the restaurant. We watched him as ours was his only table. When he brought our food his eyebrows raised seeing our empty glasses. WTF did you expect? And how old are you that BL hired a server that didn’t read the job description. My almost 15 dollar mac and cheese was ridiculous. The over cooked croutons” I mean fried chicken chunks were like I bit into sawdust. Dried out and flavorless. It came with a wedge of garlic bread. It was just painted yellow because that had no taste as well. I could have been drunk by the time my food came and this would have been an entirely different review. Everything would have tasted like vodka and there wouldn’t have been a problem. But this has always been an issue with the Lou. I would have Meetup’s at the Orland location and we would have to the bar and get our own drinks. Really, this is not a bad place. They just need to stop hiring bodies and start hiring personalities that know how to increase the bill as well as they’re tips!

Mind you I have been working 16hrs, so all I want is to get something to go… should be easy right???
I walk in and sit at the bar, the waitress walks passed me, no problem it’s pack have to make your rounds then look for the new faces sitting down… well she walks pass for the next 10mins, I try to get her attention but she is to busy talking to her friends.
OK I’m game… found number to the bar walked outside and placed order, walked back inside and sat at a table, order was ready in 15mins, so if you add that up that’s 25mins and not one employee came and asked if I wanted to place a order.
It’s June 5^th 1059pm and main bartender is some fake blonde with HELLA make-​up AND this place is half dead… SMH!
Thank you Bar Louie for this amazing time –_–

Food was great, fresh and they had a lot of different options. However when we got there it was 11, we didn’t get our food until around 12. It wasn’t that busy so I wasn’t impressed. Just glad the food was good otherwise it would have been a waste of time. All In all I recommend it.

Stopped by for the $ 1 burgers today. Never got to taste them.
The place was maybe ¹⁄₃ full. After 45 minutes no food.
It looked like the waitress forgot us and the order.
We called a manager over who blamed some electrical outage but no one came over to explain. And people who were seated after us received their food.
The waitress was the best at avoiding eye contact.
The manager offered us something the next time we came in but nothing specific was detailed nor did we receive anything in writing, like a coupon.
Doubt we will be eating here again.
They need training in what service means.

Stopped in for lunch with my mom, brother and fiancé on Friday before we went to Men’s Wearhouse. I haven’t been to a Bar Louie since college and I was glad to see some new items on the menu. We started with the loaded tots and pretzel sticks as appetizers. The tots were amazing! The pretzels were a little dry, but the queso it came with was very good. I had the fish tacos, and I wasn’t impressed. They lacked flavor and didn’t come with much on the side. My fiancé had the chicken parmesan sandwich which he liked and my mom and brother loved their burgers. We each had a soda as well. My main concern was that the bill was over $ 80 and then it came to $ 96 with tip. FOR LUNCH! That was ridiculous. However, our service was good and the restaurant was clean so I can give points for that.

My wife and I stopped in for a few drinks and appetizer Saturday afternoon. The margaritas and veggie flatbread were very good. Jessica our server was 5 stars!

I shall leave my review in the form of the list of songs I heard while having dinner. Kitchen open til 1am. So that’s a plus
Suit and tie –jt
Turn down for what– lil
Locked out of heaven– Bruno mars
Happy– Pharrell
Blurred lines — Robin Thicke
I will let you infer what you need to about the service, food quality and atmosphere from that list. If you enjoy that track list you will do OK here. If that list makes you cringe, keep moving.