Lewy Nine’s Café

I like the lobster roll. It’s only about $ 11 and comes with a side. For that price, don’t expect a whole lobster to be in your sandwich. It’s a mixture of lobster and greens with probably a mayo-​based sauce, served cold. But a good value.

The food here really is excellent and a great value for what you get. The servers are very nice and the beer menu is humongous! The only downside is when I asked my server for a certain beer she had no idea what it was or if they even had it, so she checked and of course it was out of stock. I was told it has probably been off the menu for a while…*ok so why is it on there?*. So much like the slots a few yards away, feel lucky if they have your favorite adult beverage in stock. Otherwise, I would totally eat here again, the décor is beautiful and inviting much like the rest of the casino/​hotel.

Realllllly good food. The Chicken Noodle soup is amazing. The noodles are homemade and super long — I had to cut them with a knife. I also had the meatloaf and it was 3 balls of meatloaf with potatoes and broccoli on top with really good mashed potatoes and gravy on the side. It was such good comfort food. They lose a star because of it being so smokey. It’s down the hall from the Casino and it’s not ventilated well enough for it not to creep into the restaurant.

Lewy Nines Café, if you enjoy meatloaf don’t order from Lewy Nine’s absolutely the worst I have ever tasted, should be called onion loaf, shaped like little muffins the only flavor was grease and onions.

Lewy Nines has a new menu. $ 13 will get you the new Lobster Roll sandwich and it is so good that it makes this Roman Catholic boy wish that Lent was a 52 week proposition. The chef picked a unique bread for this sandwich and it is wonderful, think pretzel roll. There is a nice dice of celery in the lobster stuffing which gives every bite a little crunch. Instead of fries or cole slaw in the summer get the fruit plate to accompany this indulgent delight. Wow!

The omelet was excellent, however, the Mother’s Day special of $ 20 per person was vastly inflated. Service was ok for buffet style. Meat/​carving table the beef, salmon was cold and dry but I expect that for shrimp. While the manager was informed, I saw the manager as he blew by our table. Our waitress informed us the manager was provided the information. I can only say the omelet, as good as it was, does not warrant the price.

When Lewy Nine’s first opened, it was really great. The breakfast was the best around. Homemade hashbrowns in a muffin shape, seasoned just right. However, what has happened to them is a mystry. When ordering breakfast think twice about hashbrowns. They now come as chopped up baked potatoes with seasoning such as onions and grilled. YUCK! Apparently they can’t find something else to do with left over baked potatoes. My Belgium Waffle was very good, a little bit too much cinnamon. My husband tried the Beignets with bacon and maple syrup. He said they were very savory and the way a good Beignet should be. Did not try other egg entres, but will give them another try. Please, Lewy Nine’s, change your hashbrown recipe and use real hashbrowns and not baked potatoes.

Casino dining can be sketchy at times. However this was a very pleasant environment. The food was decent and the service attentive. Although the atmosphere had some «fine dining» touches like china and presentation I wouldn’t call this a fine dining establishment. It is a nice option for a reasonably priced meal before hitting the tables though.

I have given this this place more than enough try’s to win my business. I have had only one good meal there. That was steak and eggs… Kind of hard to screw that up.
The trip before this las one I ordered some kind of beef sandwich. It came with about two inches of gravy which was cooling fast. I dug around for the beef and found when I located it why the huge amount of gravy. I serve better food to my dog than this. The meat was about ¹⁄₈ of an inch thick and all fat and grizzle. I could not eat it.
My last trip and it will be my last was Tuesday night. We had purchased the Living Social coupon. I ordered the pot roast. It came Luke Warm! The menus said it came with Texas toast which I never saw hid nor hair of. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give it a 3.
My wife and I are retired and eat out about 4 to 5 times a week. This is the worst example of a casino restaurant I have ever seem or any restaurant for that matter. The service is so so but the god is horrendous. I guess that’s why Tuesday night at 7:00 there were only about three patrons in the place and there is a wait for the. Brewhaus.
I will never eat there again.

We wanted something different than the normal for a weekday breakfast! We decided to hit the Casino buffet. Closed. So glad it was, we walked across the casino floor to Lewy Nine’s!
We have eaten at several of the other food establishments at River City but had never tried Lewy Nine’s.
Everything was perfect! LOVE LOVE the coffee. Was served fresh and hot in a beautiful English china cup.
Our server was very nice and attentive. She served water with our coffee without us asking. I always like that!
The breakfast menu was large and had a lot of variety. I had the Southern Skillet. Very well made and yummy! Again served on nice china w/​heavy silverware.
We will be back without a doubt for breakfast. $ 20 plus a $ 5 tip is about what we pay at Denny’s or Bob Evans. This was leaps and bounds above the normal and well done!

Louis IX of France died on a bed of ashes. Ash: the powdery residue of what is left.
Truly symbolic.
Back in the day, when Lewy Nine’s Café premiered at the River City Casino, my husband and I raved about their Eggs Benedict. The eggs were poached to perfection, the Canadian bacon hand-​carved, the hollandaise creamy. The «crispy» hash browns were a heavenly combination of crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. The dish was served hot by friendly, efficient servers, who returned to the table often, offering complimentary refills of coffee and chocolate milk.
We enjoyed several breakfasts at Lewy Nine’s until that one fateful day. My husband and I were en route to our Benedict nirvana and I mentioned in jest, «You know, one day we are going to go in there and it will all be different.» yiiiiiiiikkkkkkes. Premonition? The power of negative thinking? It is NOT often that I regret something I’ve said.
It was all wrong! The Canadian bacon was gone, replaced by six-​slices-​per-​serving pre-​packaged ham… three stacked, yet unseparated, slices on each sad muffin. The hollandaise was moderately cold. And those glowing, crispy hash browns had morphed into an entirely different product – a gelatinous mass of potato chunks faintly tasting of bacon? Spam? Something meat-​esque anyway. But the menu still said «crispy» hash browns… and surely, since they had gone through all the trouble of re-​printing the menus with the higher prices, they should have paid more attention to the poor potatoes’ descriptors. Had they an accurate editor, the menu would have read «soggy, fried, rested potatoes.»
We visited the establishment a few more times, thinking, hoping, praying that the proceeds generated from the increased menu prices would fund a revival… a return to the proper portion of pig and such.
But today (September 12, 2011) my dreams were squelched. On this very day, I endured the most unpleasant dining experience of my entire eating career.
We had been seated for more than 15 minutes before our order was taken by a frazzled waitress, who apologized profusely for the fact that she was the only server.
Twenty-​five minutes later, we were still waiting for our food. My husband asked to speak with the manager. A pesky young man appeared at our table and explained in a quite condescending manner that the other waitress was pulled to a different area. «To do what?», I questioned, intrigued and curious at this point about why a waitress would be taken to a different area, leaving the restaurant customers with such poor service. Was she performing neurosurgery? Perhaps consulting with the House of Representatives about the plan for the economy? I guess I just didn’t understand what could be more important to a restaurant than providing its customers with adequate service and/​or food.
«To do what?» «Something» replied Mgr. Smartypants in a sing-​song manner, with a glimmer of fun in his eyes. No remorse, no attempts at maintaining a professional demeanor, just a few cutesy comments, pleading with us that «come on, it’s not that bad, is it?» Fortunately, he made his way to the kitchen and I resisted my urge to either put him in a Time Out or beat his backside with a slotted wooden spoon.
My mind was racing at this point. Where did the other server go? What could possibly be so important that the restaurant at the River City Casino was left with such poor staffing? Alas, the cryptic situation was clarified by a source more reputable than a conference in the Mystery Machine itself. But, of course! The other waitress was pulled away to serve the CEO and the press in the steak restaurant at the other end of the casino! Zoiks! But why wasn’t staffing adjusted prior to that day? Is it normal for the CEO and the press to make a surprise visit to the River City Casino at 9:00 a.m. on a Monday morning? Did Mgr. Smartypants drop the ball on scheduling appropriate staff during that shift? Was customer service such a low priority that management decided to just wing it instead of scheduling one additional warm body?
Finally, our food magically appeared before our eyes. My husband ate his overly-​cooked steak as I contemplated the mysterious mixture poured over my Eggs Benee. It was either melted butter… or maybe raw egg white mixed with a bit of raw egg yolk… or perhaps the separated upper layer of last week’s hollandaise sauce. Unfortunately, I cannot speak to the consistency of the eggs or the origin of the meat, as I was unwilling to delve further underneath the inscrutable sauce.
Clearly, River City Casino has lost our business. As for the CEO and the press, let them eat steak.

This place is too cute! Casinos weird me out so I’m not exactly sure how I wound up at River City, but I was starvin and with friends and we didn’t feel like waiting for one of the other restaurants (who all had mondo lines), so we gave Lewy Nine’s a shot.
They didn’t disappoint. Their food is pretty basic (Caesar Salads, Cajun Pasta, Club Sandwich), but they do basic well. Most importantly, you can eat for around 10 bucks, and that’s a huge redeeming factor considering you’re in a casino that will inevitably suck money from you.
This is the type of place where you can tell the employees work really hard to help each other. The hostess was busy so another server seated us. He then introduced us to our actual server. Then another employee refilled our drinks when they saw that they were empty. That might not seem like a big deal, but servers tend to be really… independent of each other in restaurants so witnessing teamwork was really refreshing.
My order was pretty basic, (Caesar Salad w/​blackened chicken) and it as great. I nibbled on my friends food (the cajun pasta & the club) and both were good. I ordered a flavored vodka & club soda, and they used INFUSED vodka (where the fruits been hanging out in the vodka for a really long time) and it was UH MAZ ING.
I really liked Lewy Nine’s because it had a really nice ambiance, good food, a STELLAR staff, and it kind of makes you forget you’re in a casino.
And to the guy who said «You eat dessert with the same fork you used for your entrée,» I’m not sure if you’re trying to be facetious or what, but you do realize that this is a diner? If you want high class, don’t eat at the restaurant with checkered floors and 7 dollar meals.
If you’re ever in the casino and you want some yummy food with yummy prices, you should most definitely hit this place up.

What is this place trying to be? You eat off of imported English china on a table without a tablecloth. You eat dessert with the same fork you used for your entrée. The walls are painted to resemble 19^th-​Century wallpaper; and garish pop art portraits hang on the wall.
Service was fast. Almost as if they were saying: «Eat up! Go hit the slots.»
The redeeming feature is the food and the prices. Nicely done fish and chips. Good Yankee potroast. A fine, but plain ribeye.
But we were confused… is this fine dining or a diner?

Me and three other people ended up here because 1. the burger joint in the casino was way smaller than expected and 2. the microbrewery had an hour and a half wait time. It was about 8:30.
So Lewy’s was our third choice and it wasn’t very crowded at all. My first impression was the décor made it feel more like a dessert and coffee place than somewhere to go for dinner on a Saturday night. It has an old time soda fountain feel, but with out milkshakes and the soda fountain. It was also decorated with giant glass containers filled with different types of candy. Another touch that made it confusing as to what kind of place this was supposed to be. Our waitress overheard us making this remark and she told us that the milkshakes next door were to die for and that the staff was always going next door to get them. My thought was that the casino should do some reshuffling of expectations for their dining and put the milkshakes at LN’s.
Anyway, I ordered the From Down the River Po Boy, it was surprisingly good. For only 8 bucks you get a gigantic crab cake with a great rémoulade on a sub sandwich. And I say for only 8 because the crab cake was huge and it was made very well, with real crab and wasn’t your typical bread filled pasty mash you find at a lot of places. The rest of my group ordered the chicken cordon bleu, the meatloaf plate and a burger and all were satisfied. They also really liked the potato and leek soup.
I give this place a three because we got fast service and my crab cake was really good, but the casino needs to rethink what they really want Lewy Nine’s to be, a French dessert café, a French inspired menu, or an American menu with French sounding dish names. Right now, its a little bit of all three.

This was a shocker! The casino floor was loud, cramped, cramped, and kind of smokey on the Saturday evening we were there, so this is only a review of Lewy Nine’s… and boy were we pleasantly surprised! All our entrees were fabulous, particulary the asian marinated strip steak — a bargain at 13.50. Deserts were great. Service was acceptable if a little scattered, as can be expected at a new establishment where the staff isn’t quite as familiar with the menu as they should be. FYI this would be be a great casual first date spot.

Went back for more and it was just as good. Really I just wanted to get some more dessert. I’m such a junk food junkie. But the server was really nice and fast. The food tasted great I had the pork sandwich and it was tender. The price was 7.00 and the sandwich came with fries and it was a large sandwich. Now for the dessert you can get a slice of cheesecake for 4.00 and that is a large slice or a slice of chocolate cake for 4.00. You really need to try this place. They even serve breakfast and the prices are really reasonable.