Miller’s Grille

There is no hostess and no order. It was slightly busy, but we waited for 40 minutes without any employee even looking at us. We muscled our way into a table only to sit another 30 minutes to place an order. The bartender is also a waiter. which means both the bar and eating is bad. Didn’t even throw in a free round knowing we waited forever. Food was okay. Skip when you come to Lafayette.

We love Millers!!! Delicious BBQ, amazing and friendly service, Rockin’ patio in the summer. Their breakfast is delicious and unique, too. Really good Bloody Mary’s! Definitely a local favorite!

What a pleasant surprise! The sliders were perfect. My husband had the bacon Chester burger, he said «it’s bombastic»! Good causal atmosphere. Our waitress Lois was awesome. We will be back!

My first one-​star review of this restaurant 2.5 years ago ends with, «We’re not going back.» Why, why, why did I decide to give them another try?!
We were looking for a quick breakfast on a Sunday morning and saw that the patio at Miller’s was nearly empty when we drove by. Ignoring that red flag, we went on up. We stood at the podium for several minutes before anyone even looked at us. And so it began. After we were seated, it took the waitress about 5 minutes to even acknowledge our existence. She took our coffee orders and dashed off. We saw her serve another table, go and get them more condiments, and refill coffee at another table. 10 minutes passed. When she flew by yet again, we waved our arms in the air and called, «Excuse me!» (not obnoxiously) to get her attention. She PURPOSELY avoided looking at our table and pretended she couldn’t hear us. A guy at the next table laughed and said, «Unbelievable!» Another 5 minutes and we got our coffee.
Food arrived, served by a bus boy who had no idea what he was doing… probably because he’s a busboy. Right?! The food was mediocre and my plate arrived stone cold. Not lukewarm… cold. I made yet another mistake by asking them to warm it up. After my husband finished his breakfast, they returned mine and it looked like it’d been sitting under the hot lights the entire time it was gone. Dried up, crusty… The whole time we were seated, hornets were periodically buzzing around our heads. A kid at another table was totally freaked out by that and he and his parents finally left without ordering.
We’ve talked about our experience to several friends and they each have horror stories of their own. How does this place stay in business?!
We’re not going back again. No, really. Not going back EVER again.

We’ve eaten here a few times hoping, just hoping it would be good. Alas, the wings app tasted microwaved, the entrée salad was mediocre at best (not sure how they could miss on salad) and the BBQ was disappointing. I was pleased to see the Post beer on tap (which I ordered but the wait staff forgot). We paid and got out of there with to go boxes as the experience was way below par. I won’t go back.

Thoroughly unimpressed. Giving one star is generous.
The barbecue was dry and tasted as if it had been prepared some time in advance and kept under a heat lamp. I had the «BBQ Combo» and the pulled pork, smoked chicken and ribs were all dry and needed a good dose of sauce just to eat them. The baked beans and slaw were palatable but fairly uninteresting. My wife’s and daughter’s meals were similarly less than acceptable and none of us finished what we had ordered.
The service was inattentive and slow. The waitress seemed to have other things on her mind than paying attention to our needs.
Had we not been running short on time, I would have spoken to the manager and told him/​her about our experience. As it was, when the bill came and it was over $ 70, we were appalled. No way was our meal worth half that!
A highly overrated «restaurant» to which we will not be returning!

Been here a few times and each time has been a great experience. I’ve had several dishes, all have been above expectation and the prices and portions are great. I’d recommend a burger or any BBQ, and the awesome beer list is a bonus!

Let me start by saying that I LOVE their food. That is the one thing that has never let me down and the reason I keep going back. When we first started going (maybe about a year ago?). The staff was fantastic. Sadly, the last few months as shown a turn over of the non-​interested in serving you wait staff. They take your order, give you your food then you don’t see them again until it’s time for the check. Disappointing when they started off so great! Regardless of that fact, however, the food is consistently great and that will keep me heading back there!
Amending this review. I downgraded from 4 stars to 3 stars. The staff is just consistently CRAP. Won’t be going back any time soon. Sad for Miller’s.

It’s ok, but the waitstaff is very young and really don’t know what their doing. When the specialty drink is a root beer martini with loads of cream, sugar and a tiny bit of root beer flavored vodka, it’s more of a sorority joint then a real BBQ place. I think the service is losing the business, this place could have potential with a real waitstaff.

The first time we went to Millers grille, everything was great. Food, service, etc.
this visit was very different. We went on a Sunday for a late breakfast. Around 10:45. After we were seated, we noticed our table was sticky. Our waitress came over and asked what we wanted to drink. We said water and coffee, and asked her to wipe our table down. After a few minutes, She brought the water. We asked again to have our table cleaned. After About 15 minutes our coffee came. Once again, asked our waitress to clean our table. Finally she brought over a bar towel to wipe it down. Our coffee cups were getting low but she never offered more coffee. After about 40 minutes from when we sat down, our food was delivered, and we asked for more coffee. Mind you, there were 3 tables total inside the restaurant. We ordered an extra egg which we did not get but were charged for. (She did remove it when we told her about it) the food was ok but portions were small. The service here was much less than desirable.

We tried this place twice hoping the first time was just a fluke. Nope, it was just as bad the second time. The bbq was tough and cold. They got our order terribly wrong but we didn’t raise a fuss. As we were sitting there with my son, a group of 6+ kids walked in totally trashed. I get it, I was a kid once too. The language and noise got so bad my wife had to leave with our son while I waited for the check. No body from the restaurant had the courage to take care of the situation… sad. To top it off, I was charged $ 12 for a double Whiskey and coke. I thought for a minute I was in Boulder.
I really like the bar atmosphere and would like to support this place being from the Midwest myself. Unfortunately we will never be back.

Love it! We sampled most of the menu tonight and I was highly impressed. Candy bacon? Oh hell yes! Their 3 BBQ sauces are all totally different and each delicious in its own way. The Reuben was delicious. The BBQ bowl with hot links was extremely tasty and the links were hot, but edible. I only wish I had room for dessert. We will be going back for sure!
Shameless plug: Andrèa is fantastic and absolutely made my «Top Ten Best Servers of all Time» list.
Chris: seriously good job man. Keep it up!
Seriously though: the candy bacon will change your life.

We must have driven by this place a zillions times and never went in… boy, am I sure happy we did!
The food was fantastic and the service (Andrea) was top-​notch!
We had the Pulled Pork Sandwich, BBQ Bowl and the Bacon Candy and they were AWESOME! The 3 BBQ Sauces on the table had a great taste and complimented the food perfectly.
We look forward to making this one of our regular places and so should you!

Went for dinner with my wife hoping for some good BBQ but was really disappointed. The meat was over cooked, dry, tough, and flavorless. What made it worse was the disgusting house sauces that was drenched over it all. My wife got the peach cobbler for dessert but it was more of a peach cake with a random canned peach tossed in. The service was good, the place looked clean, but the food was bad enough to keep me away forever and to let everyone I meet know just how bad it was.

It was mediocre, at best, for me. The amount of meat on the brisket sandwich was laughable, a very thin layer hidden between two massive, dry slices of bottom-​of-​the-​barrel white bun. Their specialty, homemade chips literally tasted like nothing, not even salt or grease.
I asked the waitress what was in the mashed potatoes and she said she wasn’t sure, but maybe just butter. Yes, maybe there is butter in there, somewhere, but nothing else. The most bland flavor you can imagine. Meat was tender enough, but didn’t really have a smoked flavor, more of a «cooked in a crock-​pot» kind of vibe, and they used it sparingly in all of our meals.
I think they are confused about what a cobbler is, since theirs was just warmed up cake with microwaved frozen peaches mixed in. I know this because some of the peaches were blistering hot while others were still a bit frozen. And also, because cake and cobbler are not the same.
Staff was decent, but our waitress dropped a knife on my toddler’s head, which I’m trying really hard to get over because I know everyone drops things and kiddo wasn’t hurt. But still, it was my toddler, and it was a knife. If it hit her differently, or if it fell on the right person’s kid this place could be in big trouble. We were the only customers there, so rushing wasn’t really necessary.
The caramel sauce is amazing, and I would like to just buy a bucket and eat it every day. But since I will never be going back, I guess I’ll just have to live without.

I see a number of other reviews with people wondering why this place always seems empty. I think I know why… they’re turning business away!
We walked down to Miller’s on Father’s Day morning after hearing about their new brunch offerings. It was 9:00am or so and when we got there, the patio was mostly empty, maybe 3 – 4 tables taken.
My wife chatted with the young woman hostess while I parked the stroller and tended to our 2yr old. As I approached, I overheard the hostess explain to my wife that their 6+ top tables were taken.
Could we put two four tops together? We really wanted to sit out on their patio on such a beautiful morning. «No.» was her reply.
My wife offered that our party of 5 (including toddler) was fine to sit at a 4 top. We could just tuck our toddler in in the high chair at one of the corners. He’d already eaten and wouldn’t be using the table anyway, we just needed to keep him seated with us and not running around.
She said that would be fine, but the high chair can’t block the walkways for the servers. «We’re going to be really busy soon.»
Uh, ok. Sure that makes sense, I don’t want to block the way or be an inconvenience, but this is a non-​issue. Their uncomfortable wrought iron chairs stick out further than the high chair does, and we’d be tucking the high chair in between the parents at the corner of the table. It would not be in the way!
My wife tried to lighten the situation and give them an out by jokingly asking if the fire marshall has been giving them a hard time. She didn’t seem to get it, and then admitted to us that she had just turned away another family with a kid for the same reason.
What!?! Yep. It turned out to be true. We met that family at The Post 30 minutes later. They were just as appalled as we were.
At this point I got insistent. I told her that this was preposterous, in all my years of working in restaurants as a young man, and in visiting restaurants, never have I seen a restaurant not be willing to accommodate guests like this. I then insisted that she place a high chair at an available four top, and seat us. She yelled at me, «SIR!, SIR!»
Just as I was about to demand to see the owner, my wife made the call that we shouldn’t bother any longer and we should leave. And we did.
And so Mrs. or Mr. Owner… You have a problem here. Bad customer service isn’t an employee problem, it’s a management problem. You have have an employee turning away business, rigid in her understanding of your rules, not willing to accommodate reasonable requests from your guests who want to be seated, partake in your offerings and GIVE YOU MONEY.
She kept talking about all the customers that were going to be arriving that morning, while telling us loud and clear that we are not welcome, even though we were there to give you our business.
Maybe this is fine by you and she was carrying out your orders exactly as you taught her. That’s fine, it’s your business, but you lost a customer today and I will make damn sure everyone I know hears about this.
But if it’s not, then you have your work cut out for you training this employee for customer service. Either way it’s on your shoulders.
And either way, you lost a local customer.

Meh. That’s about as well as I can put it. Not bad but not great. The brisket was tender but it was definitely lacking the smoke ring and traditional smoked flavor I have come to expect of brisket. The ribs were dry and the pulled pork tasted several days old and was even drier than the ribs. I’m a believer in the meat should be the flavor but this is the kind of place that you really need the sauce to provide anything flavorful. The sides were a little different and not to my liking. Perhaps I came on the wrong day but a Saturday afternoon seems like a time when you would want to have your best product out and available.
The service was good but to be honest made me feel rushed. If you feel like paying premium prices for BBQ that doesn’t quite meet the mark then so be it. It’s a neat place with good ambiance but exceptional it is not. Next time I have hankering for BBQ I will drive up to Longmont for Georgia Boys or make it myself. For a burger and a beer stop by but skip the BBQ in my opinion.

Made a trip to Erie to visit a friend and just happen to walk by and said let’s check it out. Friendly and a small town southern comfort style. I ordered the Bulldwag burger which was excellent. It comes with pull pork and a giant onion ring.

Let me start out by saying I ate too much this time out but there was a list of things I wanted to try. We started with bacon candy from the happy hour selection, it was a buck so why not? It was a decadent treat sweet and salty and different but good.
For an appetizer we ordered the brisket quesadilla with guacamole on the side. It was very good and for one person it would suffice as a meal by itself. The gastronomic gauge was at ¾ but I kept going against my limited better judgement. I ordered the barbeque platter with ribs, pulled pork and a chicken leg quarter. The ribs were just okay and a little tough and dry and my preference is moist and falling from the bone.
The chicken leg quarter is in my fridge for a later time after recovery. The beans were my favorite and I could eat a big bowl of them. The slaw was not to my liking and with BBQ places that is important. The house BBQ sauce is very good with just a hint of heat.
Our waiter was very engaging and he knew about the menu. I don’t know why this place wouldn’t be busier they have a nice patio where you can enjoy the fresh air and the smokers aroma as it slow cooks the evenings offerings. I would go back for a cold beer and a pulled pork sandwich and maybe sneak in some bacon candy. I liked the place and we received excellent service from our waiter who I think was also tending bar inside.

Miller’s is a great local restaurant. I never understand why it’s not more crowded… But oh well that leaves more for us. They have really good food and drinks.
We usually start with their Gorgonzola Chips. These are house made chips with Monterey cheese sauce, diced peppers, bacon, chives and Gorgonzola cheese. These are gluten free and amazing!!! Then I dive into Rich’s Bulldawg Burger. This is a burger topped with smoked pork, onion ring and BBQ sauce. They are known for their BBQ, and boy is it good!
They have live music on Fridays and Saturdays. It’s a fun, family place! Check out their website to find our who is going to be playing this weekend. You should give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!