Gizzmos

Best Bloody Mary Downriver. Great drinks, great service. Didn’t mind a party bus of 20 on Saturday Afternoon and gave us spectacular service. Would recommend to all. The Carman Miranda is a great Martini too.

Pros: This place has excellent drinks. The atmosphere was good. Bartenders were really nice and professional. There is a long list of drinks to chose from. Small but not crampted and adequate seating.
Cons:The music was really loud and there wasnt really a dance floor.
Other: Crowd looked older on the inside… early to late 40’s. It was younger on the front patio…20’s/30’s. However, crowd mixed well.

A solid place to grab a drink and have a conversation, unless they have a live band playing…

Watch what you order. I ordered a glenfiddich and was served Dewars white label. I know that for a fact as I watched the bartender. When asking the server about this she stated «I’m certain this was glenfiddich» except she couldn’t even pronounce it.

I love this place. It’s by far more upscale than pretty much all the bars downriver. It’s nice to dress up and wind down with one of their fantastic cocktails. The jukebox has records you won’t find in any bar. Just a great place.

Very good martinis. They have classic, fruity and dessert martinis. The beer selection is good too. The carry many Michigan beers. They serve food too. The kitchen sent out homemade ranch and bbq potato chips out to everybody at the bar. A welcomed surprise.

Good place for cocktails and small plates in a area devoid of upscale bars. I wish they had better beer taps.

I will preface my review with a disclaimer that their martini’s are fantastic. This review is about their weekday bar staff and «food». They have smallnplate options in their menu but they never seem to be available. The kitchen is always closed. I had to walk out a few weeks ago because we were looking for food. Finally we saw on their facebook that the chef from another well known bar was cooking up his famous burgers so a group of us decided to go. They were not prepared to host the chef at all. When we got there we were informed they had run out of food and it would be a while since they sent someone for meat. No problem, we’ll hang out and drink. Almost an hour later the waitress came back to take our order. Your choices were hamburgers or French fries. That’s it! They had wings but apparently ran out and weren’t offering them anymore. As someone who doesn’t eat red meat it was a disappointing visit. It took a half hour longer for my party to actually get the burgers, which were decent according to those that ate them. A little pricey at $ 7.50 a burger, with no sides. If they update their Facebook inviting people to come in for the chef they need to update that’s all you have.

EXCELLENT martinis. A little pricey but most martini bars are! They have many, many to choose from and atmosphere is nice too. Jazz bands are great but BANDS… we want to be able to talk so just turn the volume down to 9 ok???

Admittedly, it’s unfair for me to judge bars in the downriver area since I live in Chicago. They just don’t compare, but Gizzmo’s is alright.
They have a decent beer selection and I’ve seen some inventive cocktails from the bartender with the handlebar mustache (forgot his name, sorry!)
I would say he really makes that bar. Friendly, attentive even when they’re crazy busy, and just cool overall.

I went up here with a friend when I was in town over Xmas break. There was only on guy working and he was great, super nice & did a nice job taking care of the place by himself. However, I’m not sure if they had some kind of flood or the traps are bad on their drains, but the place kind of smells like a sewer. It is really tough to get past that. If they could fix the smell I would be inclined to go back to this place, otherwise I would rather go elsewhere.

I like this place. I actually like it quite a bit. I am hesitant to give it a really good review for fear of attracting other Unilocalers. I don’t care if it doesn’t
measure up to the martini bars in New York, Chicago, London, California, Tokyo… blah, blah, blah… insert pretentious location drop. If your quest for the perfect martini has brought you to Downriver, then you have deeper issues than your precious palate.

Great place! Owner and manager are amazing. Food is phenomenal. Live jazz is cool. Favorite place to visit.

I came here with a friend last night. She’s looking for a sugar daddy, and we decided that Martini Bars and Jazz clubs would be a good place to meet a rich, older man.
I didn’t really like the set up of this place. It was too narrow, and it was mostly couples. We were there for about an hour and didn’t even hear any live jazz. It was kind of disappointing… no live music, no sugar daddies, no deal!