St. Louis Bar & Grill

I usually don’t write reviews, but I recently had a terrible experience. I went there with my pregnant wife and we asked for a booth, the hostess said they didn’t have any available and brought us to a little table that didn’t provide enough room. I looked around and noticed 2 booths available, I asked the hostess and she said it’s against company policy to seat us at either booth. Pretty terrible way to treat a guest, let alone a pregnant one. I would not recommend this place.

Not a big fan of this St Louis I had way better St Louis. I tried alot of them and I will say this is one of the worst once I had. The only star they got are the place the place is nice with lots of TV screens otherwise nop. I hated the wings they were old or something I had many wings from St Louis and these were the worst. also the manager or something the main guy there sucks. He was rude and arguing too much with me about that he called my name although I did not hear him so he made me wait 10 more min which is stupid. So I will recommend people to try another one.

Worst restaurant manager of all St. Louis locations… By far; impolite, no welcoming attitude and for sure do NOT care about customer satisfaction, think he is not even aware of the term!!! Unable to accomodate customers with the simplest request of putting 2 tables together, just 2 tables not the walls… U hear me?!! Awful
Waitresses are very nice though don’t get me wrong

We went in a group of 15 and was declined a table, although there was availability, on a Tuesday half off wings night. We were told the large table would affect their turn over rate with smaller tables by the owner.
What an outrageous way of running a biz. The last time we were there our bill came to almost $ 700 with only 8 of us. We drink like fishes even though we won’t eat a lot.
We ended up going to another place and spent over $ 1000.
We complained to head office and since it’s a franchise they can’t do anything but warn the owner.
The owner of this location is absolutely rude! One time a waitress gave me somebody’s bill, as they claimed as an error, and if I did not check I could’ve paid double. Made a complaint but had no reply from them at all.
Will never come to this location again!!!

The place was fun to be at but the food pretty much sucked. The bartender was a nice lady, she introduced herself and shaked my hand to introduce herself to me. That is where the goodness ended. I ordered a small salad for $ 5 Canadian and the burger was advertised as $ 5 so I said okay. The salad came and seriously it was like airline small… tiny little salad that came out of a pre-​mixed bag with nothing else. Like 4 bies. I asked to sub cole slaw in for the fries. When it came she had a little tiny cup of slaw and the fries. She realized it and I said no problem, I will just throw myself on the those fries. The burger was very uneventful, cooked more than through, no fresh patty here. The fries which I shouldn’t be eating were the best part, the slaw was not good. Then when I got the bill I was charged $ 1.99 for the tiny cup of slaw, seriously??? It was like 8 cents worth, but whatever, I just paid the bill. Wish I had driven somewhere, but it was a fun place to be filled with people. Overall, if I had just read the reviews I wouldn’t have gone there and I would suggest you move on.

Decided on a whim to finally check out this location with my new man. Was a bit disappointed they hadn’t opened the patio yet because it was a lovely day to eat outside. Inside, there’s a good sized bar space and in the dining area there are booths and tables to sit at. If youre with the guys/​gals i would recommend sitting in the bar area where theres a better atmosphere and, I suspect, better service.
Our waitress was nearly useless in terms of notifying us of the daily special, soup, the drinks, the portion of the nachos and it took forever to get our bills. We definitely wont be back on the basis of the overall poor service.
On the positive side, the Korean BBQ beef coleslaw sandwich and fries were really delicious… i didn’t even need to use their special garlic dill dip but i recommend ordering the dip with your fries to have a fresh change from ketchup sometimes. today’s soup was beef barley which was average as was the double amaretto sour however i was pleased they offered fresh options and could accommodate my off-​menu drink request.
final tip — do not order the nachos here. they were pretty bad… happy i can always get great nachos at my joint fox n fiddle finch. hope the manager can fix the crappy service here because I’d like to come back to watch a game and taste the fajita tacos, fish tacos or one of their tempting burgers.
ok last last tip i dont know if i should write this but the servers are pretty so i guess that could be a plus for those who appreciate that sort of thing.

If you haven’t been here to try the wings you should! Now I’m not a wing master or anything but they were pretty good. Standard wings and standard prices. The waitress was good and straight to the point. I ordered the smokey BBQ heat wings. My oh my! Wasn’t expecting that much of a kick. It’s not spicy but def has some kick to it! My fiancée ordered the hot wings and he gobbled those up like nobody’s business.
Verdict? It’s a good wing spot. There dill sauce is amazing with the fries!

Me and my friends used to visit the pub frequently because of the close distance and every time told to myself not to come back again.
The food not bad, but the owner of the pub is complete jerk.
He has no clue what a good customer service means.
A few times a couple of unexpected friends wanted to join our full table, so we asked for a couple of chairs to add to the table, or just to move to bigger table, but the owner refused. He did have a bigger tables that weren’t reserved, also free chairs, but for some reason, he didn’t want to do it for us, mentioned, that we are troublemakers ???
We always order wings, calamari, beer, appetizers and deserts. Every bill we pay is at least $ 35-​$ 40 per person, so
he should be happy to have more customers, but he is not…
Last time the bill had an additional charge of $ 5 per person for the UFC event. I asked to remove it, cause nobody told us in advance about that charge. Owner agreed to remove it only if we are not coming back to his pub anymore…
Until the owner will be changed, wouldn’t go there even if i get paid for the visit.
St. Louis Bar & Grill at Dufferin & Finch — NEVER AGAIN.

My vegan friend ordered a veggie burger no cheese /​no dairy. When she picked up the order and took a bite, she realized the patty wasn’t a veggie one (turns out it was an Angus). She returned to the restaurant to complain. The owner offered no apology rather shifted the blame to the fact that the order was «complicated» and «mistakes happen». Wow, no attempt to accept any responsibility at all or make it right. Stay away if you have any food allergies, as they don’t seem to care if they mess up.

Have gone to the St. Louis at York Mills and the one near Yonge Finch for years. Never had any issues. Am sitting here at the one on Dufferin where I ordered a mandarin chicken salad and my husband got a buffalo Caesar wrap. Not only did the food take an exceptionally long time to arrive, (there were only about 6 other people who ordered after us) but the portions were off. There were barely any fries on the wrap plate and barely any dressing on the salad. I mentioned it to the waitress who said different locations do different portions. Not acceptable. She ended up having the fries topped off for my husband. Won’t come here again, sticking to the other locations.

This review is based on our experience during the world Cup finals Sunday afternoon. Brought our 10yr old soccer fan along to cheer on her fave, OZIL and the outcome didn’t disappoint along with her approval on every calorie bending eats she stuffed her anxious face with.
Not much we could do about the choice of location since last minute change of plans screwed up our German accuracy on time of departure, hence St. Louis as every bar was expected to house capacity.
Nevertheless, we were lucky enough to score a table despite the owner having immense false insight that our bill would fall short compared to the group of beer thirsty fans behind us in line. Hah! My little one could eat with a digestive system of a teenage boy, and that SHE DID so I’m sure his decision was later taken on as intuitive business mojo orrrrr maybe because my daughter angrily glared at him with her Deutschland Jersey.
Order up: beef tacos, 3lbs of half jerk and mild wings, nachos, burger, 4 YES 4 large orders of Cesar salad (insert ironic applause here), deep fried cheesecake, calamari, beer for the hubby and I and plenty of iced tea for the mini. My small fam of 3 went at it and feasted throughout the heart pounding game of off-​sides and corner kicks only to belch in time for the German win!
3 stars for the quality of chicken, hard and chewy and cold fries. The bright side, our waitress was very attentive and accommodating and never missed a beat with every princess-​like request from our very happy fan. Thanks St. Louis!!!

I, too, went with my buds for the WingExtravaganza… what a disappointment.
We arrived about 6:00pm and the place was about a third full. We got seated and presented with the menus. Checked out the wing promo and compared it to the usual offering. Seemed like the special was the way to go… the only issue, all guests at the same table had to order the special so no sharing would be possible.
All cool so far… we got our drinks and waited for the first delivery. We got what appeared to be about ½ pound of wings and a huge basket of fries. We were told we needed to finish off before placing the order for the next round. It didn’t didn’t us long to finish off the ½ pound and fries. Our server was very attentive so we waited a little before she came back to check up on us. «Ready for another round» she asked and we said «you bet!» This time we picked boneless to try them out.
About 25 minutes later the order arrived… four small pieces of white meat and a lot of fries piping hot (the fries that is, not the chicken). The boneless ‘wings’ were overcooked and totally dry and inedible.
When we got the server’s attention, we told her about the like hockey pucks and this time we ordered something saucy so there should be a less likely chance of being dry and tasteless. About 25 minutes later again, the order arrived… 4 chicken bits and a pile of fries. Even though the bits were sauced, they were luke warm and dry inside.
Another round? again about 25 minutes passed and the server took our next order. we switched back to regular wings to avoid cracking our teeth on the dry chicken nuggets.
When we had our fill (mostly from drinks), we ended up getting about 1 ½ pounds of wings each over the course of 4 ½ hours! It would have been a better value to have simply ordered the 2 pounds of wing with fries to be served more food in a lot less time!
They should have named it the fries extravaganza!

I went to St. Louis for the all-​you-​can-​eat wings promotion celebrating their 50^th anniversary.
Unfortuntately, they weren’t taking reservations during the promotion due to all the buzz it was creating. According to the resto, it is impossible to gauge how long people would be sitting and I could understand that.
We got to St. Louis early at 6:30 and they were able to accommodate us pretty easily
For the promotion, you start with a pound to a pound and a half for your first order and subsequent orders come with 4 wings. As your side, you can pick from fries or veggie sticks /​vegetables but once you choose one though, you cannot change it for subsequent wing orders. However, you are also allowed to order wings without the sides as well.
For the first few rounds, I ate the tried and tested flavours: hot and honey, honey garlic, and Buffalo ranch… But I also ventured out to try some more unique flavours such as boneless garlic parm, Mississippi Honey, and Caribbean Jerk. The boneless, garlic parm wings were a welcomed surprise especially if you like them saucy– they were rich, crispy and creamy.
The Caribben Jerk wings were too dry and intense in flavouring in my opinion. The Mississippi Honey flavouring was a saucy combination of honey and barbecue sauce. The barbecue sauce tasted like one of those primitive Kraft sauces you get at the supermarket… so it wasn’t great.
The Sweet Asian wings were a good flavour profile change as the other wings were more savoury.
I was starting to hit the wall at round 7 partially because the wait time between orders was increasing. I wasn’t sure if this was intentional or because they were busy…
But, I was tired of getting only 4 wings per order so I kindly asked for my last 3 rounds all at once and our server obliged. I was a bit surprised she would let me do it but, to be honest, she was very accommodating to all our requests the entire night despite all the AYCE chaos around us. She was pleasant to deal with and she was prompt with reorders and water requests. On top of that, she didn’t rush us even though we were affecting her turnaround time… I mean we were there for a total of 4 hours! She deserved a round of applause!
Although, I’ve had some negative experiences in terms of service here in the past. Often, servers can give attitude and are hard to flag down. Even during my AYCE evening, we tried to order more wings with the server’s assistant and we got, «Well, I’m not your server, you have to order with her.» I also observed servers arguing with each other in the restaurant.
By the Numbers
Length of Stay: 4 hours (6:30pm-10:30pm)
Total wings consumed: 46
Breakdown of Rounds (# of wings):
Round 1 — 11 (with fries and St. Louis’ signature dip)
Round 2 — 4 (with fries)
Round 3 — 4
Round 4 — 3 (one wing given away)
Round 5 — 4 (with fries)
Round 6 — 4
Round 7 — 4
Round 8 — 4 (with fries but uneaten)
Round 9 — 4 (with fries but uneaten)
Round 10 — 4 (with fries but uneaten)
Liquids:
Diet Pepsi (yes I see the irony) — 2 glasses
Water — 2 glasses
Post wing thirst evening of: 100%
Post wing thirst morning after: 100%
Change in weight /​mass (pounds): +4
Eating like a young even though you are past your prime: Priceless :)

We had a reservation for 20 people for a birthday party for 8:30 booked in advance. We got there at 8:30 to find they gave our table away because they «had a line.» What a joke. If you take a reservation, honor it. What an excuse for management. We ended up being accommodated at Fox and the Fiddle up the street and we’re happy to give them our business.

I come for wings, nothing else. Which by the way I have hands for so for everyone complaining about a fork go east wings at home with one.
Top 3 wings place for sure with Duffs and Wild Buffalo Wing

Absolutely horrible service. We waited over 15 mins to even get offered a drink or food. It continued like that throughout the meal. I will not o back.

«Uh waitress can I get a…»
a) fork
b) knife
c) spoon
d) my appetizers to arrive before the main order
e) pitcher of beer
f) dessert
or
g) all of the above?
If you guessed g) then you would be right. (The fact that I had to get down to g) should show you the type of place this is…) A group of us from the office went to lunch (8 of us) and the waitress just couldn’t seem to get anything right.
We were pleasant, waited patiently for everything, even ate our order of wings anticipating that our appetizers were going to be coming soon! After about 5 minutes after finishing our wings we reminded our waitress about our appetizers… which were then brought out 10 minutes after that. I guess when they couldn’t get a drink order correct we should have just stopped there.
Now onto their «food». (Note the quotes as I wouldn’t make anyone eat here again… ever.)
The nachos. Ugh. I don’t know about you but I consider the use of that nacho cheese «sauce» to be disgusting and never to be used. The nachos were obviously put together with little thought and was doused with the cheese sauce with some shredded cheese on top to cover it. (Think of the shredded cheese as a «toupee» for the garbage that it is hiding underneath it.)
The wings are average, (the hot and honey is actually a really good combination of spicy and sweet) but its their dill dipping sauce that make them a bit more palatable. Or in this case, less-​average.
I know there isn’t a lot of food choice out in this area, but should you decide to go out, that’s fine, just don’t go here.

This place is really nothing special, but there’s not much around the area — and every so often, the wings start calling my name.
I do enjoy my meals from here, but I know what I’m in for, and that is greasy, calorie-​laden, typical take-​out food.
I’ve been here a couple times to dine, and it is so quiet that its almost awkward to eat there. Its a very small location, and it feels weird being the only table being waited on. Keep in mind, I’m talking lunch hour here, so maybe it picks up in the evenings.
I love the dill dipping sauce for the fries. I’m sure its very generic, but I love it all the same.
As for wings, they are your regular run-​of-​the-​mill wings, and my favourite flavour is honey hot.
There’s even a drive-​through in this location, which I find odd (and never see it being used). Oh and FYI — they don’t accept debit but there is an ATM at the entrance.