I stopped by here last night last night with my fiance and two other dining companions for dinner. We arrived at shortly after 7 PM and walked right into a fairly empty restaurant. Since no one was at the hostess station and it didn't seem like anyone was going to be, we ended up seating ourselves in a rounded booth. The restaurant is pretty large with a huge center bar and with a number of rounded booths facing it on one side and some tables on the other.
We were greeted almost immediately by the server. He got us our drinks in a short amount of time and we were ordering our food within minutes of being there which was good since our dining companions were in a bit of a hurry. For dinner I decided to order the BBQ ranch salad with chicken while everyone else at the table ended up ordering appetizers. After a little bit longer of a wait for our food than we were expecting, it arrived and we asked for the checks while promptly starting eating. The waiter came back with the check about a minute later and we had our payment ready shortly after that. My BBQ ranch salad was decent although I wouldn't have been able to tell you it was BBQ ranch afterwards. What I really loved about it was all of the toppers that provided it some texture and flavor, especially the bacon, onion rings and tortilla strips. By the time I had finished eating my salad the waiter still had not come back to check on everything. As a matter of a fact I couldn't see anyone that worked in the restaurant out in the front of the house. We ended up looking around for about 5 minutes before finally seeing a waitress which we flagged down for a to-go box which was promptly delivered by her. After waiting a few more minutes our dining companions ended up leaving cash as a payment and left since our waiter was nowhere to be found. My fiance and I ended up waiting about another 10 minutes before we once again flagged down the same waitress to get our waiter so that we could pay our bill and leave. I seriously have never seen a restaurant not have anyone out in the front of the house for as long a period of time. If we had been so inclined to walk out without paying (not that we would ever do that), I honestly believe we could have been gone for quite a while before anyone would have ever noticed.
The bottom line for me is that I will not be heading back to Bar Louie again in the future. While the food itself is probably worthy of 3 stars (A-OK by Yelps standards) and wouldn't prevent me from coming back the service certainly will.