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| - I rarely ever eat downtown but I'm trying to expand my horizons this summer so me and a friend headed to Bar Louie this afternoon. Pretty cool place architecturally-speaking, I dislike restaurants where you're sitting on top of other patrons, not a problem here. I do have to mention that today it was 80-something degrees and humid, when we walked in, the a/c felt great so we decided to opt for indoor seating. After 10 minutes of cooling off from the hot car and brief walk from W. 9th, we started realizing that it was unreasonably cold. Let me say for the record that I NEVER get cold in the summer. I'm a sweaty Irish bastard and after 20 minutes inside, I was wishing we sat on the patio.
Our server was polite but not at all what I would call friendly. Drinks arrived quickly and she asked if we would like appetizers after we had maybe 40 seconds to peruse the large and widely varied menu. My friend got a chicken flatbread and I ordered the BLTT, which adds turkey to a standard BLT. I asked for the spicy mayo instead of the regular. Our food took a LONG time to arrive and there were no more than 6 other tables of 2-3 people and tickets were staggering in, not rushing the kitchen at all. Our server apologized for the food taking so long without us even asking about it. When the food finally did arrive, I was ok with the wait. My sandwich was two meals (and I'm a big guy) and was VERY tasty with pretty good french fries. The chicken flatbread was also very delicious and an appropriate serving size for 1 person with a little help from her large friend. ;) Both items were hovering right around the $10 mark, not bad for a place downtown. The beverages are not cheap, $2.50 for a Diet Coke and $3.50 for a strawberry lemonade with no refills. With tax it brought our bill to about 28 bucks. Not hateful, but those drinks seemed a little over-priced (especially since I know the margins on soft-drinks).
We waited again a little too long for our check to arrive and our server wasn't close enough that we could ask for it. By the time it arrived to the table, we were scrambling to get out of the frigid restaurant and back out into the heat. I've never left a place in the middle of summer actually shivering but it happened today. I swear that place must have been around 60 degrees.
All in all, a worthwhile trip. The prices on their happy hour, like Maria mentioned, are ridiculously cheap, definitely going to stop in for that sometime on a Tuesday and try that $1 burger. Of the few places I've eaten downtown, I think Bar Louie is probably the best tasting food I've had so far. They definitely need to step up the service and the kitchen needs a fire lit under its ass. I've spent years working in the industry and our meals only needed about 10 minutes to cook, not 35.
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