Friendly’s Bar And Grill

I have to begin this review by saying that I have never reviewed a restaurant online before but I felt it my duty to try to save someone else from the same mistake.
I ordered a steak sandwich with mushrooms, cheese and onion rings. My husband ordered a roast beef plate with mashed potatoes.
1. my steak sandwich had a small piece of steak (the menu said 6 oz so I understand that). However, the steak had so much grissle (I think that’s how you spell it) that I could only actually chew and swallow a few bites. 2. The mushrooms on the sandwich were cold, canned mushrooms. I’m not sure if it’s a gourmet rule on cooking but I have never ordered a steak sandwich and the restaurant put canned mushrooms on it.
3. Because they put canned mushrooms on the sandwich, the piece (sandwich slice size) of cheese didn’t melt so envision a grissly (sp) steak sandwich, cold watery canned mushrooms, a hard piece of unmelted cheese and bread that was twice the size of anything contained in it.
3. My onion rings (that i had to pay $ 2 extra for) were cold.
My steak sandwich and onion rings came to $ 10.50…RIDICULOUS
My husband fared slightly better as only his mashed potatoes were cold. His was just a smaller size plate though, no where near worth the price. He paid for it with the fact that he couldn’t get them to refill his tea.
The total cost for the 1 tea and 2 meals, $ 26.00. For that amount of money we could have went to several places in the area and got FAR better food. Joey b’s, pasta house, affton café… just to name a few within a few miles.
Also to note that because, even though it was rainy and 48 degrees, they had the door open because «it was being fixed». The man who was fixing it was chatting on the phone on the porch the whole time we tried to eat.
If the owner reads this, my suggestion to them would be, cut the menu down to a few things and make them quality food. I suspect the lack of quality is due to trying to have too much variety.
Save your money and go to one of the other places around.

Good drink prices and solid bar food. The pasta is good, too. The owner is always there to make sure you are being taken care of.

Went to watch the nfl championship game with about 15 of my friends we were having a good time till the owner Denny came over to the table muted the TV yelling at us telling us to be quite. I would understand if we were not at a sports bar cheering for the game. Would not recommend if you are a sports fan will never be back and will definitely spread the word.

Avoid. I rarely leave a one star review, but this place was gross.
1. Downstairs and upstairs reeked of cigarette smoke. We asked our server if smoking was allowed inside, and she said it was from the outside smokers. That was just hard to believe; the smell was super strong and pungent.
2. I ordered a glass of wine; it clearly had gone bad, and the glass was dirty.
3. While we were there, we saw two different gentlemen fall down from being extremely drunk. They were just helped back up, and not asked to leave.
4. Food was ok, pretty standard bar food. But afterwards, I was up all night with extreme nausea.
5. The décor is really sad. It’s like they bought 10 gallons of green paint, slapped it on everything, and just gave up. Reminded me of a college basement, complete with Christmas lights.
Only good part was our server; she was really sweet.

It was an ok experience. I was there last night and you would have thought they were closed. We drive by thinking oh we will go there but then were like they are closed. Well I was hungry so I decided to call and make sure they were closed only to find out that they are open and asked what time they were open they were so rude and never answered what time so we went home dropped off people came in and they were open so we went. When we did go we didn’t know that we were suppose to sit ourselves so we finally did and then the waiter took forever to come. We were about ready to get up and leave when she finally came and got our order. So we ordered our drink but when we asked for a few more minutes to look at the menu and we did it took a very long time for the waiter to come back. We ordered and it took quite a long time to get our food considering we only ordered a hamburger and chicken sandwhich. We finally got our food which was decent to say the least and then took more time to get our check. If we go back we need to make sure that they actually are open they need lighting on the outside.

When my boyfriend, his mother and I decided to come here we had no idea that their «bar» did not open until 4 p.m. that being said, when we noticed and went to leave someone walked out and said that even though the bar was closed, they had a restaurant with a full bar that could serve us. Wow! I was charmed that the owner even noticed us walking away. It’s 3 p.m.on a Thursday, so I understand why the bar isn’t open but when you work weird schedules like we do, you look for nice places to go during the day. The bartender was sweet and accomodating. There were a ton of games to play upstairs (where they let us go, even though the bar was closed) and the drinks were reasonable. We didn’t eat here today but there were a lot of specials to try. We will be back, and especially because they were so FRIENDLY!

We went in for ladies night after swimming. The service was awesome. Thanks Tracy. The food was good. I got the grilled cheese and tomato. The tomato was not soggy, which is a plus. It is a great place to sit back and relax. It was not too noisy so we could chat. We were at the Bayless location. We have been back since and would recommend this place to everyone.

My first visit to Friendly’s wasn’t so friendly.
Came on a Friday night, which happened to be a Blues game night. No biggie, found parking and figured we’d have to wait a bit for a table. Found the dining room and someone told us a table was about to clear up, they’d clean it and it be ours. Be quick on your toes, even if you’re told that, because people will jump for whatever they can find.
Got seated and it took at least 30 min for someone to finally realize we hadn’t gotten any menus, drinks, etc. Finally got that rolling and ordered our food. Because we were there during a Blues game, we got to have the «home team» specials which include burgers, brats and nachos for a mere $ 1.80. We got some nachos, finally got our drinks and ordered the rest of our food (chicken for 2 of us and burgers for the rest. My husband was not impressed with his burger and all our fries were not cooked right. However we couldn’t say anything because we never had a waitress as much as one would expect in a busy establishment like this. I believe we ended up seeing only 2 people working that night.
Had to talk with the waitress about our bill, especially with the home town specials she was charging us full price for. Turns out it was her first night and she told us she hadn’t had training. I’m disappointed in hearing that, especially for them letting her loose on a busy night for her first night.
I’m hoping now that its been open awhile that if/​when we do return, we’ll have a much better experience. I love its location and it would be great for it to be a return place for us.

Made a couple visits since they opened. You get exactly what you would expect, fried food, cold beer and good prices. Give them a chance, you’ll be back.

This is a a much more family oriented Friendly’s then the one in the city… a sports bar that you can take the kids with you. Have been twice since it first opened and the second time had 2 other couples meet me there with their children… service was not way fast but adequate and the waitress kept our beer glasses full. I love Friendly’s…keep up the good work!

Slow service, cave like atmosphere and pre-​frozen foods are the things you’ll find at Friendly’s in Lemay. The fried chicken hD that old poultry taste to it. None of the food is homemade. Everything is frozen product that’s just fried or reheated when ordered. Very disappointed in the whole experience. Not worth it at all!

Nice family friendly neighborhood sports bar. Good bar food at good prices. I went with my husband and three of my four kids and had a good meatloaf plate with mashed taters and green beans. Yum! We also had the nachos and hot wings. Also good solid bar food. I enjoyed the food, atmosphere, and my kids enjoyed the games they have upstairs. It’s a good neighborhood bar that families can come to and relax and enjoy a few drinks and good food! Plus, it won’t blow the budget for a night out ! I’ve found a place that the familyy can go to and enjoy, thanks Friendlys!!! I’ll definitely be back!

A no frills standard sports bar, with good food at good prices and good service. The burgers are good, the fried chicken is good and I also had the Wednesday special of chicken fried steak, which was also good. If you go during St. Louis Sports team game (and the games are on TV), you can get their «Home Team» specials, which includes burgers, brats and nachos (ballpark style) for $ 1.80. Now, this isn’t the same burger they have on the menu, but a smaller thinner patty, but for the price, it’s pretty good; especially if you bring your kids to watch the game with you. They have a game room upstairs and smoking is out side, so there is no smell of smoke inside the bar. They have a half dozen beers on tap, with some good local microbrews.