Met a friend at Shooters for lunch over the weekend. I was a bit apprehensive at first as parking was a bit difficult but there was a local festival going on in the area as well. Seating was available inside and out. Servers had masks on and a sign on the door requested patrons wear them as well when not eating. Food was good. Lots of choices. Service was fine. These days I'm just happy people show up for work. The fries were amazing! I would go back just for the fries. read more

It's a very popular sports bar located in Oldtown O'Fallon. On busy nights this place is so loud that it is impossible to have any kind of conversation whatsoever. Honestly never been to a louder bar when music was not playing. The service here is also pretty shabby as waitresses can disappear for a long time between food/drinks. I have only eaten here twice and both times presented me with low-quality ingredients. Everyone I know expresses similar opinions (loud, bad service, low quality). I actively avoid this business and you should too. Only reason it is not one star is that I can be a fun time when you can hear (anything). There are plenty of other sports bars in town. read more

This was our first visit. We are newly relocated with the military. Once we figured out the right door to enter we do and are not sure if we seat ourselves or wait to be seated. There are a couple of employees at the back, I made eye contact with one of them at least twice, she.never makes a move, motions to head her way or anything. I want to leave immediately but husband wants to stay. We walk towards the back and they still continue to speak amongst themselves until my husband asks if we seat ourselves to which they answer yes. Now the dark haired female that took our order was amazing as was our chicken livers and my Carolina wings. Husband got fried ribs, a bit dry/overcooked. The onion rings were huge! And the sweet potato fries were good. The sweet tea was yummy too. We are from Georgia originally and well, it was as good as some back home. read more

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Never disappointed with this place. Great food and grilled burgers to die for. Love the smoked sausage !

Great food, my father especially loved the smoked corn and pulled pork. The bacon cheeseburger was also amazing.

This was a chill little sports bar in old O'fallon. Definitely worth checking out. I liked the area. It's located in a strip with several other bars, and there are a couple other strips with various restaurants and shops close by. Cool part of town that I've never actually been to. The bar itself was nice. Straight forward, clean sports bar. They weren't running any of the "home-team specials" some places have during sporting events, so if you're not in a big group I'd stick to single beers over pitchers, but that's personal preference and not a turnoff. Wait staff was attentive and fast. Had some cod cutlets that were decent and not too pricey. Overall a pretty cool place to hang out and socialize. read more

Enjoy it every time! Good food, prices are reasonable. Great beer, whiskey and wine selection. Lots of Games on. Love this place right in the heart of O'Fallon. Marked down because they don't offer military discount. Fire fighters and police...you're good though? read more

This place has all you need. Good food, good beer, sports and hot blondes. They have good service. Their wings were amazing. Beer selection is great and had 13 tv's to watch any sporting event you wanted. I recommend coming here if you are looking for a great environment to chill and have a brew read more

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Great place for food & lots of TV's for all games.

Food to great! Burgers, wings, fries - it's all good! It's a typical sports bar so if you want to be able to hear the other person in a conversation that isn't going to happen if they are busy. Service is known for being slow read more

Came in Friday night for some brews and shoot pool/darts. First time coming in even though I've lived in the area for 2+ years. Disappointed that their beer options were very limited (Bud, Blue moon, Guinness, Sierra Nevada, etc); didn't have local brews. Nothing really special about this bar. Service is slow. read more

We relocated from California to O'Fallon, Illinois. Culture shock to say the least. Shooters was the first place we stopped at when we made it to town. We were greeted as soon as we entered and service was fantastic. Our waitress had no idea the warm welcome she gave us, it made our day and made us excited about our new adventure in this town. Can't complain about the food or beer either . We will definitely be back. read more

I've only been a few times. Foods delish, especially the chili and fried pickles! The atmosphere, TV covered walls and people just having a good time. read more

Fantastic food and a good vibe! Prices are great and so is the service. Sports bar feel and they smoke all there meat on site. Worth the visit! read more

Shooters - Sports Bars Near Me - O'Fallon, Illinois

This is an average sports bar with below average BBQ. It is phenomenally loud in here. The hard wood floors and the tin ceiling greatly add to my the cacophony. It is reinforced by the symphony of he Tvs. Other than the deer widows and divorcees there is not much going on in here. Bottom line there are better places to drink and fat better places to eat read more

I was at Shooters for the 1st time and to O'Fallon for the first time this past Sunday to watch football with some buddies. Great whiskey and draft beer selections. I'm sill confused as to why they don't have free refills on ice tea? I've haven't heard of that since the 1990s? read more

The Cons: I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but the service is my only real knock on this joint. The ribs could have been a little more fall-off-the-bone, however, were saved by a great selection of sauces (nearly finished off a bottle of the Carolina by myself!). The Pros: Great selection of delicious deep fried, grilled, slow roasted and smoked goodies. Starters like Jambalaya stuffed chicken wings to deep fried ribs. Entrées that will have you leaving your table clutching a doggie bag due to portion size. Sides, which complement each and every delicious bite of slow cooked protein. There's also plenty of beers on draft to wash it all down with and HD TVs to distract you while you wait for your server to stop ignoring you. Overall: Food great, service bad. My advice: Let someone else hire the servers. I'm not saying that you have to hire college grads, but if they don't feel comfortable walking up to a table with two people without a pad of paper, they may not be server material. Keep up the good work on the quality of the food and coming up with innovative, delicious bqq treats and I might be able to ignore the lack of service. Ignore your feedback like your servers do their customers and this trend may change. read more

This is a great place to catch the game and some deep fried ribs. I have had many different types of ribs, but this was the first time for deep fried. I will definitely put this on my place to visit when I am in town. They have a good selection of beers and just about every seat has a good view of a couple tv. It can be a little loud, but that is part of the fun when your game is on. read more

Stoped in on a find from yelp. Wait staff was prompt and friendly. Beer selection was great. BBQ was some of the best but salads are very poor nothing more than bagged lettuce mix. read more

Seriously on a pick 3 I cant get double brisket! What's wrong with this place! Need to change that or I won't be back. Portions for price isn't that great either. read more

I travel for a work and the people at this place made it feel like home. Most people in the area showed a good bit of animosity to this Texan when I lived here last year. Not at this place. Nice little neighborhood bar in O'fallon. Service is fantastic and the food is off the fing Hook. I think I ate everything in the menu within a mouth and its all good.I have nothing bad to say about the place. The people that go there seem to be more on the classy side which is kind of a shock to me. Sweet smoked wings are a must eat. The best in the world!! Way better then Smokey Bones down the street. It's also a great place to watch games. read more

Be careful eating at this restaurant . My girl friend and I ate there tonight and had the fish plate with onion rings and slaw. We both became very sick with stomach pains, chills, fever, diarrhea within about a half hour after leaving. That was the only food she had today so it had to be the food. We both have not been this sick in a long time. read more

Wow, this place can get packed on a Friday night. We were lucky to find a place to sit. The selection of drinks is standard for the O'Fallon area and the service is more of the same. I cannot for the life of me figure out why this place is so popular. read more

Shooters - Super busy already. - Sports Bars Near Me - O'Fallon, Illinois

Tried this place many years ago and thought I'd never go back. We had an Unpleasant experience all around with service and food quality. Today I wanted nothing more than smoked wings, my go to smoked wing spot was closed so I ordered them from shooters...... big mistake! If you like charcoal crusted and dry barely chewable meat then this is your place. Have no idea how they are still open must be the alcohol. read more

Went to Shooters for dinner last night. Never had been before. If you are going for the first time here is a piece of advice....get the deep fried ribs and order as many of them as you can eat!!! They were AMAZING! They slow cook their ribs like most places do, but the deep fried ribs they coat in some sort of brown sugar rub and drop them in the deep fryer. What is on your plate is nothing short of heaven on a rib bone. The best ribs I've ever had. Unbelievable. We also had an order of Wings for an appetizer. They were very good juicy chicken wings and the sauce was hot, but not crazy hot... exactly what I'm looking for in a hot wing. The only thing keeping me from giving this place 5 stars was that the service was a little slow considering the restaurant wasn't very full. I will say though, the food was well worth the wait. The other thing was that I was a bit disappointed with was the sides I had ordered with my ribs. The sweet n sour cole slaw was not too bad, but I didn't feel like it had much flavor. And the potato salad was, for lack of a better term, "fluffy. It was like a really fluffy mayo based potato salad, but my serving was almost all "fluff" and no actual potatoes, and again was very bland tasting. But the friend I ate with ordered fries and onion rings, which i also tried, and they were both delicious. Overall though, this place was great. Fun atmosphere and AMAZING deep fried ribs. Will definitely be frequenting this place! read more

Came here for Sunday Funday football with a few buddies. Admittedly, it was a good 30 minutes away from my place. We spent the whole afternoon and part of the evening sidled up at the bar, throwing back a few drinks and food. I had the barbecue ribs, which were fall of the bone tender, and the spicy sausage. My buddies ate their weight in wings, which they enjoyed. Then again, they're regulars and I was a first timer. Will I be back? Maybe. It's a bit far and out of the way for me, but appreciated the opportunity! read more

Don't take much stock from the reviewers who can't spell. We went here twice during a weekend, and I admit I only had: deep fried sugar ribs, deep fried sugar wings, and onion rings. If you don't like those things, well, I apologize for your outlook on life. Maybe you were not raised with love, I don't know. Because when I ate here, I gave thanks to the good Lord who bless us here in America with such nice things as Shooters' Deep Fried Ribs. I may die that much sooner from all the ribs I ate, but that's okay. I couldn't imagine enjoying myself more if I stood in line at that place in the city. read more

Pretty good bar food / service. The sides could be better. But you can't beat the prices.

We've always enjoyed the awesome vood and service at Shooter's but recently both have taken a hit. The last few times quality of our food wasn't up to par and just as importantly, the service was very bad. Last week, our server took 10 minutes to take our order and the food took 50 minutes to get to us. I could understand it if it was crazy busy, but there were only a dozen or so patrons there. To top it off, the waitress became rude and very defensive when I had the timerity to complain. She looked shocked and quickly said, "well, it isn't MY fault!" This is the 3rd time that we had issues with the food and had to wait nearly an hour for our food so we won't be going ba k for quite a while. Its a pitty sincd it had been a favorite place of ours... read more

Shooters - This is truly one of the best bbq joints I've ever been to! The pulled pork is simply incredible. Try the potato salad! - Sports Bars Near Me - O'Fallon, Illinois

First time here, went with a few family members. Sat down and ordered right away, 1hr and 10 min later ( they were not crowded mind u) we got our food, well some food. My nephew ordered a double bacon cheeseburger and received just the bun! I mean how can u NOT see that there was nothing on the bun. Told the waitress, she went back and brought out a single burger in a tray, told her AGAIN, this was supposed to a double bacon burger. The To-Go order I got was messed up, Ordered baked beans, received green beans, which I was charged an extra $2 for some reason. The wings I ordered were supposed to have Pineapple sauce on them, they were plain and dry. The food is mediocre at best. Not worth the wait time for sure! Disappointing. read more

Great atmosphere, good service and the food was delicious and plentiful! All three of us got the pulled pork sandwich. They provide several flavors of BBQ sauce. My husband enjoyed the homemade onion rings and the sweet potato fries with maple syrup on the side was to die for...and now one of my favs!! My husband and daughter loved the homemade Mac n' cheese too. Highly recommend!!! read more

Great place to watch a cards game. It gets loud and crazy especially on the weekends. In a place that gets this packed service is going to be a problem. It's in old downtown ofallon so parking is also going to be a challenge. Very "local" place. Get the smoked wings with the dry rub. Unique and good. read more

Great blackened chick sandwhich. My 2 sides were onion rings and baked pit beans, both were really good. Compliments to the chef.

Food is excellent - Portions Big - Great Onion Rings and love the Potato Salad. Service is a bit slow when place is crowded but overall a good meal and a excellent value. I give it a 4.5 stars. Good eats. Also coming soon down the street Peel, can't wait. read more

Great beer selection, 18 on tap & countless in btls. BBQ is great & taste & price too. Plenty of TVs for sports, w/o the sports bar feel. Worth a stop in. read more

Shooters - Sports Bars Near Me - O'Fallon, Illinois

Well I have to say that the waitress was very nice fast and friendly however the food was not very good we had the ribs on the appetizer menu and I guess they were just reheated parts of them were hot part of them were cold we also had what they said was one of their specials the shrimp and some sort of sauce, the sauce was way too salty like someone poured in a whole salt shaker we also had the pork rinds the pork rinds we're good read more

I really like Shooters. They have homemade blue cheese dressing that goes great with the pulled pork salad. I also like that the salad has cheese on it. I've read some of the comments about bad service but I never experienced bad service at Shooters. When I go I either get the ribs, the pulled pork salad, or the chicken fingers. All are great. read more

Stayed at hotel before flight out. Found Shooter's on Yelp. Looked like a good place to grab dinner and drink. Waitress at Bar was right on us when we sat at the bar. Ask for Debbie. Had the jambayla stuffed wings wife had 2 meats brisket and ribs w onion wings and salad. The whole meal was top shelf w onion rings Cooked perfect. Definitely will be back!!! read more

Let me start out that this is a hard review to write. I really wanted to like Shooters, but there were too many little things that just didn't add up. My first trip in here was for lunch the other day. We found a table and waited for a server to come by as I looked at the menu. The menu looked like a typical BBQ place and I decided to play it safe with a pulled pork sandwich. With the sandwiches you get two sides. I opted for the baked bean and the red potato salad. Our food took a little longer than I would have expected given how many people were in the place, but it was not excessive. When my sandwich arrived I was a bit disappointed as it was the fattiest bunch of pulled pork I've ever had. There was also a large chunk of cartilage or something in my sandwich that I unfortunately found while eating. Aside from the amount of fat and the cartilage like substance, the pulled pork was pretty good. Next were the baked beans. Here I was a bit disappointed again. The beans themselves reminded me of Van Camp's Pork and Beans, the sauce was good and there were nice bits of pork in them, but I was expecting a heartier bean. While I enjoyed the red potato salad, the potatoes were undercooked in my opinion. When we were finished and ready to pay, our waitress was MIA. After we found her she gave us our checks but quickly left again. Fast forward another ten minutes or so and we have our bills back after she ran our credit cards. At this time I realized she charged my card against another person in our party's bill. When I was handed my bill, it was correctly done for my meal, without a beverage (I had water) and after my card was ran I had a drink (sweet tea) on my bill. I should have made her correct the error, but at this point being able to get back to work without a further delay was worth more to me and getting the $1.99 off my tab. I don't know why I want to like Shooters, but I do. Normally I would cut my losses and not return, but I will be back and I hope to write an update that is a result of a much better dining experience. read more

We had a great time at this little sports bar right outside of St. Louis. The food is delicious and very cheap (2 beers and 2 entrees + salads for $25) - great combination of bar and bbq. There appeared to be only 2 waitresses covering the entire busy dining area - but you never would have known with the friendly and prompt service! read more