Drinks are usually consistent but the food is not. Tonight my burger was cold and dry. Tots were…read morebarely warm. *sad face* Still hungry

Your favorite neighborhood bar!…read more My friends and I come here so often the whole staff knows us--it's truly our go-to spot. This place is everything you want in a neighborhood bar: consistently great service, delicious food, and a guaranteed good time. My absolute favorite is their fried wontons of the week--always creative and packed with flavor. Their Buffalo wontons are a staple and seriously addictive. If you're with a group, the pizza is solid for sharing and always hits the spot. The food comes out hot, fast, and reliably good every single time. The staff is incredibly kind and attentive, even when it's packed. Whether you're in the mood for darts, a few games, or just relaxing on the spacious outdoor patio, this spot delivers every time. A true local gem!

Decided to come here on a Friday night around 10pm. Before deciding on this place we googled the…read morehours and it stated it would be open until midnight. We we arrived and were waiting to take the elevator upstairs, a hotel employee told us they would be shutting down at 10:30pm. Not sure why or what but we we finally got to the inside to place a drink they stated they would be making final calls for drinks at 10:30pm. It wasn't that many people inside the bar and when we asked the staff they kind of just said welll that's how it is tonight. We took our drinks to the patio and enjoyed the rooftop for about an hour until we finished them and decided to leave once we finished. Not sure what is going on with the hours but this place is still a neat spot to go to. I'll be back I guess earlier???

15 November 2024 Recently made it back to UpBar. Last year…read morewhen I tried to go with my cousin, the kiosks were down and we ended up at the Foundry instead. My bartender was Bryce. With the holidays around the corner, I was shocked at how moody, dark and dismal the place looked. It's a hotel bar at that so even more shocking. I felt it needed festive decorations like most bars and restaurants have during this time of the year. I had the Butterfly Tears to start. It was a tequila based drink with lemon juice and simple syrup. It was supposed to be topped with a dehydrated orange per the description but was served with a lime. Bryce entertained my idea of a mistletoe margarita and followed the recipe I showed him with the limited garnishings he had and it was bleh. So then I saw all the Strawberry Mojitos being sold and how red and pretty they looked and asked if he could just decorate that into a festive drink and he did and it was amazing! We called it the Strawberry Mojito Mistletoe. I needed something to snack on and decided to go with the basket o'fries. When they sat it down in front of me, I immediately felt like they were overly air fried and mostly inedible for $12. I'm not one to send stuff back so I picked through separating the edible ones from the burnt ones. I was left with 40% of my fries. I grabbed a few pics on the rooftop and watched Bryce make a flight. I felt the service was excellent but the food isn't worth the cost or at least mine wasn't that night. #UpBar

Popular breakfast spot on the weekends but we were lucky to get a table for 6 immediately. It is a…read moresmall place unless the back patio is open. Also you seat yourself when you come in. Our server was friendly and once we ordered we didn't wait long for our food. I got the avocado toast (with perfectly cooked eggs atop each piece) which was good but I didn't care for the potatoes or turkey sausage. I should've ordered regular sausage. Darn. My friends loved the slinger. And cheesy grits were very tasty too. One of nice things about the breakfast here is all the options for toast and sides. But you have to make sure you specify which side you want or they choose for you. Good experience overall but not sure I would rush back there. Breakfast is a pretty easy meal to find. IMO. :-)

I want to give more than 3 stars, I really do. I come here regularly…read more Pros: -Good prices -Great breakfast -Great food in general (for dine in) -Nice outdoor patio (now with a heated section for winter) -Friendly, long term staff. -Open early in the day -Live music (also see cons) Cons: -Service is variable; sometimes it's excellent, sometimes no one knows who has your table and you sit for a while, sometimes the kitchen is crazy backed up. -The live music inside is so loud you can't hear yourself. Don't come here to have conversation on ac Saturday evening. -Smallish indoor seating area. -Takeout has become less than desirable. It's hard to get someone to answer the phone. Last take out we got, we sat at the bar waiting for an hour and were forgotten about even after asking if it's done. It was handed to us in a bag sideways. It was cold, and everything had slid to one side of the container, making a mess. The take out used to be more organized. I know it seems like more cons than pros here, but I don't want that to dissuade you from checking it out. It's a place we put in our Airbnb recommendations. Overall decent place, but they have their off days.

What can I NOT say about the Foundry! You can experience just about everything here with all ages…read moreand any occasion from a toddler play space, shopping, putt putt, live performances, and many more. I love that the Foundry is continuing to expand over the years and offering more to do. I've checked out the food hall, live music, City Winery, and Alamo Drafthouse cinema and have loved every experience.

There's something delightful about having your meal in the middle of the street. I can see why the…read moreunhoused sometimes insist on it. This must be what it's like dining at one of those little cafes in Europe, where cars aren't allowed to drive down the street and people don't seem to work for a living, except the girls that walk by are a lot heftier. Ain't nothing wrong with that! Perhaps they've been dining at the Beast Craft BBQ Co. concession. You wouldn't have to eat there very many times before you were forced to buy a new pair of pants, if my meal there yesterday was any indication. Beast doesn't have its own separate page in Yelp, so I'm reviewing it here. From what I understand, it might be new. Didn't it used to be upstairs? I visited the location in the Grove years ago, on a date that coincided with my 39th birthday, the beginning of Covid and the release of that Jay Electronica album. That was one hell of a week! It's long since been shuttered. They must have struggled to make rent, despite what they were charging for pork steaks. If they can't make things work in this Foundry location, I don't know what to tell you. It's not much more than a hole in the wall. A barbecue glory hole, if you will. There's not even anyone there taking your order. You just enter it into a little machine, like at a Panera. What if you need to inquire about the spiciness of the potato salad? Oh, right, we're in the city, not my native West County. Of course I had to get the pork steak. I've been to a barbecue place or two since my last visit, including Salt and Smoke a few weeks ago, but not anywhere that serves pork steaks. And this might be the GOAT pork steak anyway. It's ginormous and perfectly prepared. Eating it feels wildly irresponsible, both financially and healthwise. It's fatty throughout and seemingly not trimmed around the edges. It's coated in a sauce that's cooked until it's slightly caramelized. They give you two cups of sauce with it, but you don't really need it. They also give you the choice of white bread, tortilla or a bun (which is $1.50 extra). I went with the tortillas, natch, and made two hefty pork steak tacos with onions and pickles. You can get a pork steak platter with two sides for literally an arm and a leg or you can save a dollar or two and just get a pork steak a la carte and one side. There's also premium sides, including the Brussels sprouts, which I've had before. They're every bit as unhealthy as the pork steak, if not more so, despite being a vegetable, and perhaps needless to say, delicious. The potato salad, which I had yesterday, seems like a healthier option, but it's probably still not good for you, just based on how it tastes. It's a dill potato salad, with visible dill sprigs that they probably sprinkle on before they give it to you. It's a thoughtful touch from the kitchen staff, and something they didn't have to do, given that there's no one at the counter for you to berate.

Quick and high quality sushi here at the Ritz Lobby Bar. Nothing says "I might be high maintenance…read morebut I'm also in a rush" quite like knocking back high-quality oysters and sushi in a freshly remodeled luxury hotel lobby. It's giving sophisticated speed date and I'm here for it. Let's start with the remodel. It's clean, it's shiny, it smells like expensive hand lotion. You'll probably want to Instagram your drink. Or your shoes. Or both. But pro tip, and I cannot stress this enough: grab the seats by the fireplace. Do it. I don't care if it's July. Those seats say "I know what I'm doing." Now to the food. The oysters are slurp-worthy. Briny little ocean hugs. The sushi is legit, considering you're in a lobby. But let's not beat around the spicy tuna ha! the Clayton roll is the moment. Whoever rolled it clearly had divine inspiration or at least watched a lot of Chef's Table. Come for the oysters, stay for the fireplace, and pretend you're on a sushi-fueled power move.

I've gone a few times over the years and loved it. Just went again since the lobby remodel. Still…read morefabulous as always!! A new large bar and updated furniture. Same amazing espresso martinis!! Service is impeccable. I feel like a millionaire when I go there. Of course I enjoy dressing up and dancing away to a great band!!

I was here for an event. The space was cute! The beer wasn't bad but it wasn't labeled so I had…read moresome on accident thinking it was sweet tea. The Mac and cheese was kind of subpar but not horrible. The cornbread was pretty good. The green beans and sweet potato's were pretty good too.

I went to Urban Chestnut Wednesday night bingo several times this summer and would highly…read morerecommend. It's free and you get a free 4 pack of beer if you win. Sometimes it's busy, but other times not many people show up (like if it's rainy). Three people win every bingo round so chances are good you win at least once if it's not too crowded. I think I went 3-4 times and multiple people at my table won every time (see the picture for the 3 different packs of beer my friend and I won on one trip). I usually ordered the seasonal frozen drink since I'm not the biggest beer fan and it was always delicious. I've had a couple of their sours which were pretty good as well. They also have a food menu and I've ordered fries for the table which were super thin, crispy and delicious. I've also ordered the caesar salad which was just ok and nothing special. The service is great. The specific staff who run the bingo are super fun and foster a good vibe for bingo. When the weather permitted, bingo was outside and their outside seating is so nice. There are string lights, wooden picnic tables and an outdoor bar.

We had a ladies' bunch at Molly's today and it was delicious! I ordered a tasty drink called Patio…read moreSunset similar to tequila sunrise and the breakfast tacos which were so good. The tacos came as three slightly larger than street taco size and had seasoned ground beef, scrambled eggs, shredded cheese and on the side cilantro crema, pico de gallo and a mild salsa sauce. My friend had the breakfast bowl and she said it was delicious too. Ambiance is fun and our server Kyra was very attentive to our group of 8 ladies. Good handicapped accessibility in most of the restaurant too and they have two large outdoor patio space.

My twin and I came for lunch on Saturday afternoon. It is a very nice unique bar/ restaurant with…read morethe twinkling lights. However, the food just was not good at all. She had the lobster roll on a bun and I had a grilled chicken sandwich. Her lobster roll was served chilled and looked similar to seafood salad. It was ok. My chicken breast was so dry I had difficulty cutting it. Very dried out. We shared the Brussels sprouts, which were served with a sweet chili sauce that was much too spicy to our tastes. The Brussels sprouts were black and charred tasting burnt. We couldn't get the water down because it tasted like old sewer pipes. Service was quite slow and they were not very busy. A nice bar atmosphere. Be prepared to pay a 20% gratuity!!

Yoselyn did a great job! Our food came out really fast. Dessert was giant and so yummy!read more

Great stop....especially if you're just visiting. The food and service were both good, and the…read morelocation is center in the Del Mar Loop. The grandkids loved it. One did the wings, one did the chili hamburger....and both loved it. They also had the pretzels and fried pickles...and both were great. The root beer was fantastic.