Bar Louie Gainesville

I don’t usually post reviews but when I showed up here tonight and Google showed me the reviews, I felt compelled to write one. I’ve never had a bad experience here. Food orders always came out right. Nice atmosphere. Clean and lots of TVs. Brittany and Hannah are excellent (apologies if I misspelled their names). They always make great recommendations. The service has always been on point. I keep going back because of the quality of food and service. The Buffalo chicken Flatbread is ridiculous. Looking forward to coming back soon

This is probably one of the dirtiest restaurants I’ve been to in a while. Upon sitting it smelled like a dirty dish cloth. Food was good. Bathrooms were nasty. Your feet literally stuck to the floor and hair in both sinks. The silverware looked like it hadn’t been washed. And we were there for lunch about 12ish. So I would assume they hadn’t been open long. The service was okay!

Drinks are pricey, service is slow and this place is horrendously loud when busy; you have to shout to each other if you’re with friends. Not impressed!

Epically bad service. No sign of anyone in a management/​supervisor role. Service staff engrossed in personal conversations… completely ignoring customers. This place is a poster child for the state of customer service today.

I second everything Scott J. has to say about this place, but I will give it that one star; service is terrible, atmosphere is not pleasant, the food stinks, the drinks are overpriced, and the pours are stingy. I don’t ever come here by choice; usually it’s for a group gathering, when declining an invitation would be seen as ungracious.
I just don’t understand why people like to come here. Bar Louie is the AntiCheers.
Tonight, 2 beers and two glasses of wine were $ 42.00, after tip.

We visit Bar Louie a lot! We go to see a lot of movies at the Regal Cinema across the street — and Bar Louie is strategically located for food and alcohol before we go to see a movie!
They also have one of my favorite IPAs on tap — Flower Power IPA (Ithaca Brewing Co., Ithaca, NY). You can get a regular pint — or my favorite — a large 20 oz in a frosty cold pint glass!
BL also does brunch on Sundays. I’ve come in a couple of times and ordered a custom omelet. Served with crispy tater tots. Damn good omelets!
My only real complaint is often they have the music sound level cranked up so high that it is hard to talk to the person sitting next to you.

Terribly unimpressive. I debated giving this place one star. I find the seating situation to be extremely bizarre. The seating is first come, first serve seat yourself. For the price of the menu, I expect to be able to be told if there’s a wait or be shown to a table at least. When this place is crowded it just makes for an unpleasant experience, like trying to beat people to park at Costco at 3 PM on a Saturday.
The drinks were expensive, the food was pretty average for the price, but worst of all, the service was extremely inattentive and slow. It would take a long time for drinks to show up, we never received water (even when we asked!) and I had to physically get up and grab our waiter to get the check because he hadn’t turned in our direction for over 20 minutes despite being in the area. I definitely plan to never go back to this location and am very hesitant to ever check out the location in Herndon, VA close to where I live.

I use to frequently come here because it was convenient. But it is the Worst bar I’ve ever been to. The food is terrible! Every single time I sit at the bar it takes over 20 minutes to even get someone to wait on me. I’ve also gone several times where I’ll order a drink and the bartender says she’s going to make it. And never comes back. I have to flag her down and remind her of my drink. Then she forgot it a 2^nd time! Like seriously? It was not even busy in the bar area. This was on a Monday.

Go there as soon as possible for $ 5 burger nights. Definitely worth it.
Other than that this place sucks.

I am disappointed to report the service is horrible. The male waiter and kitchen manager were rude cause I moved from inside to outside. The bar service is better but I didn’t go for a night out to have the waiter insult me. I love their martini but so disappointed in there customer service.

Service needs improvement. We were pretty much ignored the entire time. We usually enjoy the food, environment, etc but the service made the experience quite uncomfortable.

Pros: Lots of seating options, great happy hour prices, fun place to be, great for a group of fun people
Cons: Wait forever for your drinks, service is asi/​asi but not consistent, very LOUD, and they like to charge you 2X per bill, check your cc statements!!!

I’ve visited here three times for drinks. The first visit we sat at the bar and got good service. The last two times the group I’m with has gravitated to the back couches. Service is slow in this area. The couches are fabric and are stained. It looks really gross!
The drinks are pricey. It’s cheaper for me to order a bottle of wine for myself than to keep ordering mojitos. Love their berry mojitos! The wait for drinks is long. The food is good. We enjoyed a couple of flatbread pizzas. The atmosphere is trendy. The location is great because there isn’t a lot to do in Gainesville. Don’t bring the kids — too much of a bar atmosphere for them.

Not very impressive. Unnecessarily loud, and long wait for drink orders although the drinks were really good. A lot of different beers to choose from which is nice. I thought about getting food but when I saw how long those around us were waiting, I decided to pass.
Prices for apps and drinks are decent, especially for the Gainesville area.
Came here just to try, but unless my friends REALLY want to go, I probably won’t be back anytime soon.

The food here is very good and they have a lot of excellent appetizers. The beer selection is great and the bar is always packed on a Friday or Saturday night.
I dunno though, perhaps it is just not my scene, but I always feel like I don’t wear tight enough jeans, enough gold necklaces, and enough gel in my hair to fit in. It just has something of a douche feel to the place.

Come on!
I went to Bar Louie with my friends at 5:00 on a Friday. We decided to grab a dinner and drinks. The drinks part was fine. The happy hour specials were good and drink service was fast.
Our food was problematic. My friends were both served fried chicken sandwiches that were black. They were literally burnt to a crisp. My friends sent the sandwiches back while I ate my meal (boneless wings which were fine). The sandwiches came back out about 20 minutes later and were just as burnt. The waitress even made a comment about how she was shocked that they were burnt again and served to us. We asked to see the manager and he did comp my friends’ meals.
My bill was overcharged and didn’t reflect happy hour prices for food. I had to show the waitress the menu and explain it. It took a while for this to be corrected by the manager.
So all in all, it was incredibly frustrating. We were there for about an hour and a half, my friends didn’t get a dinner, and I’m hoping that my refund for the incorrect food charge comes through.
I will not go back. Too frustrating!!! You’re better off at Smash Burger or Nando’s in the same plaza.

This was my second visit to this establishment. My last visit was not great, as both the food and drinks were delayed. The drinks had settled from being at the bar so long before being brought to our table and the food wasn’t very warm — the pretzel dips had congealed.
This time around was no different. The food came out a bit more quickly, but was by and large overpriced across the board. My $ 10 gin and tonic with cucumber (posted on Unilocal) was just one example of their inability to make a professional drink. I have no desire to drop another penny here. I just can’t return after two disappointing experiences.

Came today randomly with a friend with drinks, best decision ever! Their drinks are really unique and flavor wise DELICIOUS! We tried a few different drinks between two and we both agree the Pineapple Express Sangria is the best! Great flavor and kick and real pineapple! We were served by Sara and she was amazing too! She was back at our table literally every time our drinks were ending asking if we wanted another drink and gave us advice on drinks, awesome server! Do yourself a favor and ask for her when you come in, she won’t let you down!

Happy hour for our area, this is best. They have good bar bites if interested. Come here for martinis. Huge bar and good people watching. Bartenders are friendly and efficient. Tuesday is burger night.

I will preface my review by saying my group ate here at 4 pm the day of the Jimmy Buffett concert.
We were hesitant to come here based on reviews of poor service but a few friends of mine who are from the area encouraged us to try it ourselves and be the judge. The seating is free for all and we liked the options we had, which ranged from lounge style couch and coffee tables to high top bar tables and long normal six seaters. We chose the higher tables for four of us.
Our server was a male and he was great, but I don’t know if we ever got his name. He was prompt with everything through out the entire experience. His downfall was his assumptions about our drinks. One of my party members was delivered another beverage he didn’t order because the waiter simply told the bar to make them for table. I should have hit him with the ol’ «you know what happens when you assume things»
The food was phenomenal. If I lived closer I’d go all the time for take out. We had the pulled pork, buffalo flat bread, bltt sandwich, and another chicken sandwich, all of which got great reviews from those who ate each.
The bathrooms were dimly lit and dirty. Not sure how often they clean and considering the hour we were there and how it wasn’t crowded, they probably could have checked on it.
This also gets 2 stars also because of the lack of professional uniform for the workers. Several of the female workers were wearing inappropriately long shirts for a dining establishment. One paired her shorts with an entirely backless tank top, revealing several unappealing tattoos and lots of skin. She was an eye sore to our group but was loved by the many drunk men at the bar, which also took away from our experience.
Finally, for their well deserved two stars I forgot to mention their bait and switch with getting a free appetizer. You have to text Gainsville to 52 051 a day before you go to get a free app, you can’t just do it there at the table. I’m not from around here and went through the whole text process only to find out my ‘code’ would be sent in 24 hours and I could use it next time-​no thanks.