IV Seasons

Great place, especially if you like seafood stew. It was amazing. Super friendly service. We got there around 730 on a busy Saturday night and had to wait a few minutes for a table. While we waited the waiter got our drink order from us so that helped! Not sure what else on the menu to recommend but the stew rocked! We will be back!

Love the food here and the service is great. We usually get the prego Prato or the house steak with special sauce. Leaves you wanting more days later when you think about it. Seafood stew is awesome and great on a cold winter day or night.

Love the friendly atmosphere here-​no matter how busy it gets, we always have excellent service. The family takes great pride in making sure everyone is comfortable and has what they need-​even when it’s packed. Never had a bad meal here! Specials board never disappoints either. If u want to sing, karaōke on Saturdays.

My go to place for Portuguese food. Everything is made to order, the soups are fantastic especially with the fresh bread for dipping. This is a family favorite for me I’ve been coming here since I was a kid and the owner is like family to me.

This place is a hidden gem! Grew up in Lowell and always wanted to try it but never did. Now I’m sorry I hadn’t sooner! Came in with my boyfriend on a rainy wed. night and sat at the bar as we usual do. The place is cozy with a real hometown feel — makes you want to become a regular. The bartender was very attentive and friendly, asked our names and introduced himself (rare today), made us feel welcome. No wonder they’ve been in business for over 20 years. The food was awesome, I recommend the Steak of the House with boiled potatoes. The Chicken-​Broccoli-​Shrimp-​Ziti will be my next try (looked mouth watering).
Clean, family owned restaurant/​bar with good hearty food, good prices, specials, TVs, darts, keno and great service. Will definitely be coming back. Great local spot. And they do take-​out! Score!

Feel a little ashamed, I’ve lived in Lowell all my life and never been to this hidden jewel. Apps are amazing, the food was amazing, very fresh. The broth was so good we asked for more bread just to soak it up. Baked fish was perfect, IV seasons shrimp and chicken. was also perfect. All I can say is Old World, everything including atmosphere was old time feeling, not all premade and processed.

Have eaten here twice and ordered twice for takeout as well. I feel I’ve gotten a handle of this place. IV Seasons is your neighborhood restaurant. Maybe it had a heyday at one time and now it’s got more of a «old Lowell hangout» feel to it because of the bar and what I feel is a «regular» crowd (again, I’m just going by my feeling). But it still has a menu and the food is really good. If you’re «not from around here», you may get a few casual looks from folks at the bar, but then again maybe they look at everybody who comes in through the door which is right near the bar. ;) Shrimp Mozambique is yummy although could be a bit more inspired (I add salt) and of course the Linguica sub is fantastic. The Caldeirada is a seafood stew which is delicious as is. Even though the space seems small, there always seems to be enough room for big guys to all sit comfortably around a table.

Dined there recently. Yes, it’s certailly a noisey bar, but the food is much better than you would expect

I am a foodie. I am fussy. This is a gem. Please have the fish cakes. They are homemade crispy and light with creamy from potatoes which I suspect they make so light and fluffy by using a ricer with the potatoes. The lobster, shrimp, scallop scampi is wonderful. What a great value for such high quality. You won’t get a fancy wine list but you will get great service and excellent food. GO!

This is a hidden jewel in Lowell. Small neighborhood place with a great local following. The food is always fantastic. There are always wonderful specials available. If George has lamb on the special board, get it! It will be some of the best lamb you have ever had. Very reasonably priced.

This is a place my wife & I have dined at many times. She is Portuguese and we have taken her family here for its Portuguese fare. It is a neighborhood kind of place with what appears to be regulars at the bar, which fills the middle of the space. We like that. Tonight there were a bunch of tables pushed together for an extended family with numerous young, well behaved but lively children. We like that too. My wife had her favorite, the seafood stew & I had mine, the shrimp over rice. Generous portions so we had enough to take home. What’s not to like?

Very rude owner always drinking in the bar. He started a fight with a patron who complained his food was over cooked one night. He is a short little man with a bad attitude. thinks himself to be above everyone because he owns the place. My whole group got up and left afterwards. Mens room exposes anyone at the urinal to the whole bar. Food is iffy at best.
I Would recommend to just drive past this dump anytime you are hungry.

I’ve been here twice this month, and many times over the years. The Portuguese seafood stews are fabulous and reasonably priced. The staff is friendly.
Keep in mind that this is a neighborhood, family-​run pub. You will feel comfortable wearing jeans, out of place wearing a tiara.

I am really surprised by the reviews here saying the food is good, but the atmosphere is terrible. I found the exact opposite. I liked the local feel. It was crowded on a Friday night. Everyone at the bar having a great time.
After we sat down, it took awhile to get a beer. We both ordered from the specials, my husband ordered the sirloin, med rare, FF and rice, I ordered the shrimp and scallop scampi. We should have known we were in trouble as soon as the «bread» was put in front of us, day old, cold Fantini bulkie rolls!
They brought our dinner, and it looked as bad as it tasted. My husbands steak was gray, with some charcoal marks on it, cooked medium well, no flavor, no seasonings, tough, better steak comes in a Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwich!
French fries were potato slices that were attempted to be fried, but they were a pile of greasy, limp, potatoes.
My «scampi» was actually an alfredo. Scampi to me is a garlic, butter white wine sauce. They put a congealed, heavy cheese sauce on a mound of pasta with three little shrimp and three scallops. At least the seafood was edible.
It looked like if you were a regular, then you got good service from the waitstaff, otherwise, they paid no attention to you.
This place looks like a decent local place for drinks, maybe their burgers are better, but the actual dinner entrée’s were disgusting!

If I could give this place no stars I absolutely would. Let me start off by saying that usually I love little home town bars like this one. The food is pretty good and the prices are not too bad. However the people (who were clearly regulars since everyone knew each other by name) who happen to be in the bar while my boyfriend and I were there, made me not want to ever return there. Can you please tell me why in 2012 do I have to sit around and listen to your racist comments. The people there were some of the most hateful, arrogant, uninformed people I have ever met. Now you have a right to feel a certain way about anyone you want. However, when voicing your opinion you want may to consider who is around you and how stupid you sound when you open your mouth. I don’t want to hear it so keep it to yourself or else people won’t want to be around you. One of the people being me! I will definitely NOT be returning here ever!

This is a hidden gem in my book! Food is great, the seafood stew is tremendously epic! This place has the feel of old time Lowell, clean and very customer friendly. Owner is always there, great place to bring a friend for decent priced food and drinks.

Horrible and offensive place. Come here if you want terrible service, inappropriate comments, sexual harassment, and music you’re not allowed to dance to. All the regulars stopped coming here and the place has been shutting down earlier and earlier every night. If you were once a regular here you know how terrible this place is. But if you’re into an absolutely miserable night go for it. I will never step foot in this dump again.

There isn’t that much on the menu, just a few popular Portuguese dishes. The food was good the prices were low. There’s nothing to rave about, but it’s good for lunch. They have a couple tables and chairs on the sidewalk outside.
Tip: it’s on a one way street off Central Street right in downtown Lowell. You can park, for free, on either side of the street. The sign says Two Hour Parking.

This place is small, but cozy. It’s got exposed brickwork which is always nice, and the bar is made out of half barrels. There’s a few tables when you walk in, and the more on the other side of the bar. There’s also some tables outside. They make good use of the space.
The best thing about this place is the food. It’s pretty good, and surprisingly cheap. I got a cheeseburger and fries for 6.95, but you can also get a fisherman’s platter for around 10 bucks, with decent portion sizes The menu has typical bar fare, but they also offer Portuguese food like linguica, bifanas, and seafood dishes. It’s nice to have some different options.
This is a casual place to go for some beers and cheap, but good food.

With an atmosphere and openness that feels like «Cheers», this is a great place to grab a solid meal and a beer after work that’s affordable and friendly. We went no a Monday around 6 pm and found most people gathered around the bar, telling stories and laughing. At first it seemed like they all knew each other and gathered there regularly, but once they started leaving, we realized that this could have been their first time meeting– so it’s obviously quite a friendly and accepting place to hang out. We decided to sit at one of the few small tables in the main area around the bar.
The first thing to hit my tastebuds was the Portuguese appetizer and WOW. what a great first impression! It’s served very similarly to tapas with a few chunks of slightly spicy marinated pork and Linguiça (portuguese sausage) along with black and green olives as well as an interesting white cheddar that leans toward the bite of a bleu. When the large bakery rolls arrived, I realized that I could have made a meal out of just the appetizer and rolls! Yummy!
My husband went into flavor nirvana over the seafood stew which was served in a tomato flavored broth seemingly cooked inside the same stew pot it was served in. I ordered one of the daily specials, which was pork & sausage stir fry. I was hoping for a little more of that amazing marinade from the appetizer, but it was a different seasoning that was still quite tasty. I went on the server’s recommendation to get it over rice, and ended up with a bowl of dinner that I could only finish half of! (I’m sure part of that was due to my devouring the appetizer and roll up front!)
While there isn’t a huge selection of beer — just some basic domestic hoppy brews, the food is really outstanding for the price! We didn’t even get the steak– but you can get a 14 oz steak for $ 11! That’s pretty awesome. If you haven’t been here — you should definitely check it out!