Arnie’s on the Levee

Place was too loud and full of trash. Decent beer prices. Don’t use your card to hold a tab and pay cash. They charge your card the next day. I would avoid going. The Levee is trash anyway.

There is no way the positive reviews are customers. If you want to get beat up go to Arnies and the bouncers will be happy to oblige. If you don’t want to get beat up they will anyway. Go elsewhere

Surprisingly great food! I had a late dinner on a Saturday and was the only customer. They began to convert the space into a dance club so it was interesting to see the crowd slowly build up. There was an odd mixture of people (e.g., group of dolled up housewives, group of 50+ year old bar flies, and another group of ruckus frat guys) but everyone seemed like fun and actually worth having a beer with.
The Mountain Man Burger was excellent. It was big but not difficult to eat. It was cooked precisely and the ingredients seemed fairly fresh. The Mac & Cheese was also surprisingly really good.
The service was exceptional. The server was very calm, polite, and helpful, even though she was clearly rushing to get ready for the club to begin. Two other servers stopped by just to check in and were very polite.

Was there on Saturday evening about 6 pm. Staff nice but not knowledgeable about beers. It was happy hour so it was ok. Food was good. There was not a lot of customers at this time. Ate on the patio
. Nice since u have a good view of Newport

Great food friendly staff. Ready for a party here. Indoor /​outdoor stage and good parking. Came on a Monday evening sat on the patio and enjoyed.

It’s a bar for a young, 18 – 21, crowd. The staff is terrible. The bouncers seem to just look for trouble. Every time I have went the bouncers have picked fights with customers for no reason. AVOID

Surprisingly good BBQ. Great half chicken, mashed potatoes, baked beans all really good.

Rude, slow service on a Sunday afternoon. The bartender spent more time talking with the servers at the service area than checking on the total of 9 customers in the entire bar. We left after one round and went to the little hole in the wall bar next door to watch the 2^nd half. Livelier crowd and MUCH friendlier staff. Won’t be back.

Pleasantly surprised. Got the half chicken, green beans and Mac and cheese. All was tasty and reasonable. Nice beer list. Friendly server.

Service was slow and not real friendly. Took 5 – 10 mins to get our drinks but there was no one else really in the place. Food was average but the fries were great. Will not go back if I have another choice.

It is a great place for burgers on the KY side. I had the standard burger and was pleased with it. My family enjoyed the boneless chicken wings. The patio is the best place. It overlooks the Newport on the Leeve complex and has covered portions, sunny portions, and an area where there’s music. I would go back again.

I definitely would not recommend Armie’s. The rib tips were awful, dry, salty, and not much meat. The pizza was ok but nothing to brag about.
On the bright side the waitress was very personable and tried very hard to make us happy.
After talking to the waitress, she said they had changed their menu for the third time because it wasn’t going so well. I can under stand why. Not sure the owner was cut out to be a restaurant cook/​manager. Time to find another job.

This «club» is a joke. The bouncers start fights with guests. The VIP section is appalling and dangerous. By dangerous, I mean that when a guest purchases a bottle service, the waitress drops it off and you’re expected to pour your own drinks. How on earth is the staff supposed to monitor the intoxication level of guests??! I was a real club bartender for close to 10 years in the Carolina’s and in all my years I’ve never seen anything even remotely like this. This place is a danger to society.
In short, if you are looking to fight or to make the women in your group highly uncomfortable, then go to Arnie’s!

Terrible place, do not go here. It is filled with thirsty bros and power hungry bouncers.

I had to pay 5 $ to go into a trashy bar, get my hair pulled and butt smacked. I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone. Nope.
If you have dignity and don’t like making out with nasty girls dancing on the bar (as a girl yourself) or don’t like watching multiple fights breaking out this place will ruin your night.

Arnie’s will always be an old favorite of mine. The drinks and cover are pretty reasonable, the music is always upbeat and fun, the dance floor is pretty big and there is almost always a good sized crowd there.
If you are in the Newport/​Cincy area and looking for a place to spend your night throwing back cocktails and dancing, you should definitely give Arnie’s a go.

Meh

Having read through a few of the other reviews, I realize I have only had a limited experience at Arnie’s on the levee, but nevertheless, I really can’t give it more than 1 star…
I came here as a volunteer for the world choir games, with a group of 40 adolescents from Belgium. Initially it all looked good, because they gave us the space at the back of the restaurant, kind of closed off. The kids were happy. The manager tried to make us happy too.
However… as we started to line up for dinner, one of the choir members noticed that the plates were really dirty (dirty as in: she swept her finger over it and it was gray with dust…). We asked a waitress to clean them up (right?!) and that’s where it all went wrong:
1) she didn’t apologize
2) she looked as if she thought she was way better than having to clean the plates
3) she cleaned the plates with a rag that didn’t even look remotely clean
4) wait for it… she ‘cleaned’ about 5 plates and then said with an annoyed face: «will that do?» We were astonished, given the fact that another 35 people were waiting in line! No, miss, that won’t do! And then she just shrugged and kind of tried to act as if she kept cleaning the plates…
I realize this really focuses on 1 employee, but no good manager should ever hire someone like that. She treated us without any respect and that’s enough for me to never come back.
The food was meh, not bad, not good.
Something big is going to have to happen before I come back to Arnie’s.

There is a wing night here, and I really, REALLY liked their wings. They were massive and tasty and of a very good price. That said, this was pretty much the only positive thing. It was a HUGE positive though.
I imagine any other night is not that great. The menu was underwhelming and it was fairly dirty. I actually liked the presence of smoking, something I miss from the days where it was legal in Ohio, but the floor was sticky. Ouch… The service was fine, but not overly friendly, even for a really slow night.
There was a pretty rowdy crowd here too, so that did not contribute to my visit. Again, however, the wings were excellent.

Out of my 200+ reviews on Unilocal,I only ever gave one 1-​star review and it was my first ever review on the site. It’s taken two and a half years for me to find something that is deserving of another lonely star review: Arnie’s.
I’ve been to Arnie’s twice — once because I had just moved to the area and was getting to know a group of people, most of whom I’m still good friends with today. That time I was drinking a good amount and just assumed the trashiness was a result of my having clouded judgement from a few too many drinks that night.
The second (and final) time I went to Arnie’s involved two blacked-​out bridesmaids trying to sandwich me on the dance floor, a popped-​collar underaged d-​bag trying to follow me into the women’s bathroom, and getting overcharged for some from-​a-​plastic-​jug mojito. Even as I left, two high school aged girls were in the parking lot of the neighborhing liquor store talking about whether or not their fake IDs were good enough to get them into Arnie’s. Ick!
Every time I’m walking around Newport and catch the awful, tacky neon sign in the corner of my eye, I groan. Audibly.
Never, ever, ever again.