Krokodile

I MADE a HUGE mistake by deciding to have my Husbands Suprise 30^th Birthday Party there last night… we’ve been to fun parties there, but that was 5 years ago (my mistake). THEY CHARGE BOTTLE SERVICE… EXCEPT there’s NO SERVICE… bottle service to them is… putting a bottle in a bucket of ice on a table with 5 shot glasses! Then they claim there bottle service girls were with you all night making drinks for everyone… really because they were also bartending, serving other parties, and waiting on tables. I took my tab, and I payed it. I didn’t ask, or want them to do anything about my bill, thats not the point, THE PROBLEM is ur BUSINESS…

Looked thru some reviews here… Pretty disappointed. I have been going to this place for a long time and i have never had a bad experience here. No, the waitresses here are not mean. And no they are not almost naked (people just need to stop being jealous). It’s really clean, the food is great, the cocktails are delicious, the atmosphere is excellent. A great European place. I know many many people that go and and love this place. I recommend this place to everyone who wants to have a great time with friends.

The most awful sushi ever :(I was really upset… Too salty and spicy, too many ingredients… I had «Mistake» rolls and it was a real mistake! My friend also got disgusting sushi. I would never come back to this place to have dinner.
They serve cocktails in simple cheap-​looking glasses, it looks worse even than McDonalds’ cups, I didn’t like that at all.
Waitresses are almost undressed and they wear so high heels that they always look like they are going to fall down any second. It looks ugly and cheap. They flirt with every man in the restaurant, by the way. Ladies, keep your husbands far away from them.

If you’re passing through the neighborhood at night and Krokodile catches your eye –and there’s a good chance it will, since it’s the only business on the block that looks like it was swept up in a time-​space vortex and transported from River North, circa. 2004, and plopped down on a non-​glamourous, working class stretch of the present-​day West Side –there are couple things you should know. First, the menacing-​looking Eastern European guys with shaved heads and leather jackets hanging out by the entrance are not bouncers/​doormen. They are just patrons having a smoke. Second, the interior is what every downtown bar in pre-​crash America once endeavored to be, in an era before «craft» beer and «small batch» whiskey: bottles of Heineken and Corona are proudly displayed behind the bar, backlit for maximum effect, like they were just-​unveiled concept cars at a major auto show. A DJ spins Europop, and there’s plenty of lounge-​style seating (two levels), taken up by couples and groups of Polish girls. At the bar, stony-​faced young male toughs sit silently, eyes and thumbs glued to their smartphones. None of the staff claim English as a first language. The accents are adorable. Girls wear tight clothes and range from merely hot to could-​be-​Paulina Porizkova’s-daughter hot.
More than anything though, this place is a testament to immigrant hustle. Those guys sitting at the bar may be Über drivers and undocumented construction workers, but they dress and act like they’re real estate moguls. Those girls may have been born with nothing, but they’re out to make sure they die with everything. Frankly, this place would suck in every conceivable way, were it run by and populated with people who were born here. It’s not though, and that not only excuses conduct/​atmosphere that would be considered douchey elsewhere, it makes it totally interesting and fun to be around.

I agree with past reviewers that the service here is pretty bad. The waitresses take forever to get to you even though the place is not busy at all. However, they have decent drink prices (I got a massive glass of wine for about $ 5) and the fact that you can get sushi or a hearty polish meal within the same establishment is pretty awesome. It has a very trendy, euro, & modern look and I heard the dance area in the back is huge (have not had a chance to check it out). If you go here just remember that the food & drinks here are pretty good but the service not so much.

I go there once in a while with my european friends, and that right there probably says a lot, but it’s a good place for coffee [those awesome frappé’s all you euros know what I’m talkin’ about!] and maybe if you’re hungry you can get a salad, I recommend the caesar salad with chicken.
Unfortunately one salad will only feed one person, and you probably think, «Well that makes sense.» Let me tell you, or if you’ve been there before remind you, that they used to have bigger portions which could feed two or three people, but now not only does it cost more but the portions are significantly smaller. Now you know where I’m coming from with the point I made in the beginning.
I wouldn’t complain about the service because if you’re familiar with the european café/​restaurant scene you know that no one speaks english or has probably ever served before. Also, every time I go there I never see the same waitress twice. So I’m being gentle on the server points.
What did make a lasting impression, however, was not necessarily this instance but rather a previous time I had been there before. It was quite a few months back and this is why it made such an impression on me and I underline it. Let me just say that this place is clearly a Polish owen café [if it wasn’t obvious enough by the neighborhood, just look at the name of the place], but that shouldn’t mean they have to serve every dish «polish style» [except the salads]. Now I’m not trying to offend any body here but I hate Polish food. It’s heavy and unbearable, ingredients don’t make sense to me and I have yet to find them in a dish well put together.
So this one time I was checking out the menu and decided I was in the mood for pot stickers. I was so ecstatic I saw them on the menu and I assumed that since their chicken and select salads were tasty, the same would go for the pot stickers. Boy was I wrong! When they came out not only did they look ridiculous but they tasted gooey and like chicken stuffed pirogue in sticky soy sauce… eww. I immediately spat it out, told the waitress I didn’t even eat a bite and she took them away yet still charged me for it… I never make a fuss about that but I definitely noted the flawed customer service, but then again refer to paragraph three. Ha ha.
Overall though I’m just trying to say it’s a good place for a coffee beverage [even their mixes are horrible, too sweet or too heavy on the alcohol, never the right blend!] and maybe a few salads, but other than that I wouldn’t take many people there. I’m still trying to decide if it’s worth taking my boyfriend here.
And I love that it’s reminiscent of a club but with booths, I do wish they would turn down the music in the front because there IS a club in the back for those who want to blast their eardrums off.

I really like this place. If u r looking for a place to meet ur friends and have a nice dinner — that’s the right place. The food is like the one i used to eat for over 20 years (I’m ukrainian), so it was really cool to find this place. Interior design is fabulous, waitresses are polite and good-​looking. Good european food with good european staff. Love it!

I have to pretty much agree with Mark S.
Don’t come here looking for a Euro club version of Cheers.
But if you can bring your own friends, this place isn’t that bad. The interior and the layout are great. The food and drinks are okay. Waitresses here were almost unbearable.
I went at 1am on a Friday night. The place was far from packed (but not empty). There was a variety of people in here ranging from what looked like a mother and daughter out together, a group of women, a group of men, and two very drunk guys.
I love the location and was pleasantly surprised by the non-​dumpy appearance of this place.