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| - I love Bar Louie. But golly, this place is inadequate to the max. A caveat: living in New Orleans and reveling in that unique bar and social scene will spoil anyone and make any other bar scene seem inadequate and blasé.
But Cleveland has some unique, independent hot spots that can compete with the any major market scene. Bar Louie, a regional/semi-national chain, is not one of those mirthful hot pockets.
The actual bar is accommodating, spacious. The service is solid. But the drinks are not good, and to make matters worse, Sweet Lou (as I affectionately call it -- you should, too) charges NYC prices for these drinks. That's a no-no. (The NYC parallels stop at the drink pricing.)
The food is really uninspiring. The only redeeming factor? $1 Burger/Chicken Sandwich Tuesdays. And boy, is this a redeeming factor: one that keeps luring me back in. If I had happened to be punching this review into my iPhone on a late Tuesday evening, I'd no doubt give Sweet Lou a five star review. (It would be difficult as hell read that review, too.)
Grade: C -- Alas, two stars it is. Despite being kind of horrible, I truly do love Sweet Lou, and I keep coming back. (There's definitely some sort of Freudian thing going on there....)
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