St Louis Bar and Grill

Honestly, this is not a bad restaurant. The food was predictable, but I knew it when I walked in. We ordered 2 drinks, a large house salad & 2 lbs of wings. We ordered the authentic Buffalo and the Caribbean jerks flavors for the wings. The Buffalo wings were indeed authentic plus saucey. The jerky wings were oh so hot. We enjoyed them while we were suffering. :-)
The restaurant was packed throughout from dinner time to 9pm. This is a popular spot in the neighborhood.

First the good news, wings are ok. Now the bad. Don’t ever order anything but the wings, it’ll be bad. Example: onion rings turned out to be cut-​up onion pieces deep fried; nachos come with CheezWhiz instead of real cheese. Yuk!

Went first month they opened.
Bad service
No ambience
Awful food
Hope they get better

All of my friends have raved about St Louis Wing and Ribs and how awesome it was. After trying this location in the Beach area I am not sure what impressed my friends.
I went to this location with high expectation for the food and no pre-​conceived expectation of service other than normal expectations of a standard pub.
When we walked in, it was quite crowded but we found a table very fast. The bartender came to our table gave us some menu’s, not to be seen for another 10 minutes. Then he came back to take our drink orders, but based on the wait to give our drink orders we asked if he could take our food order at the same time. He scowled and agreed to take our food order right then.
After placing our order we looked around and noticed that the only person serving the many tables in the place was the bartender. And this was wing night… Bad service is not what inspired me to write this review, so I will not go into that aspect.
When our wings finally arrived almost a half hour after ordering, I was ready to devour these most talked about and anticipated wings I had heard about. My first bite told me that these wings were an EPIC FAIL. They were over cooked and dry as a bone. I like my wings with a dry flavor rub like Dry Cajun (because I do not like messy wings), but I had to go up to the bar and ask the bartender/​server to get me some mild sauce on the side to make them appear to have some moistness.
A few hours after my meal, I was telling a friend that I just had the worst wings that I had ever had. As I was telling him about how dried out they were, he interrupted me and said «You went to St Louis in the Beach»… I was dumbfounded that he had guessed that. It seems that he and a number of his friends had also had bad wings at this location. He encouraged me to try another location (near the skydome), but I do not see myself risking it again.
Before you even think of trying this place, STOP!!! There are plenty of great places in the Beach to get good wings, this is not one of them.

St. Louis wings… how you’ve failed.
One of these just opened on the beach so one night after dinner failed to defrost I went here with my family. None of us had ever been to any St. Louis Wings so we figured why not? What a bad choice.
We got there and realized how SMALL this location was, we were stuck in between the two doors i.e. the one from the outside and the inside door, they informed us a table would be open soon, so we waited about 5 minutes. Not bad, I’ve waited just as long for the Green Eggplant down the street.
Once we were seated we ordered appetizers and our entrees. We ordered the «onion chips» and the asian nachos. Let me tell you what a stinking RIP OFF. You get a handful of chips where are basically just onion rings cut into pieces, but the real disappointment or should I even say outrage was the asian nachos, you literally get 3 chips with peppers and a little bit of chicken on top. 3!!! Regular nacho chips, for $ 6.49!!! I’m still pissed a week later.
Our entrees came. I had the pulled pork which was DRYYYY, and was supposed to be topped with caramalized onions and mushrooms which I didn’t even know were there. The bun was burnt.
My boyfriend had the half rack of rib special which he said was a good portion except for the fact that his potatoes were cold. My mom didn’t even comment on her «jerk» wings. The fries sucked, had some red I assume supposed to be some sort of seasoning but who would have known. My sister got ice cream with her meal which was about 2 teaspoons of ice cream, how cheap can you get?
On another note the layout as mentioned before was absurd, the waitress serving drinks was getting squished between the high top chairs when people didn’t see her coming and moved their seats.
I did email the franchiser to tell her about the poor service, but she was not of much help either. She indicated that there was a picture of the asian nachos on the menu — but realistically the pictures often shown on menus are not always what you get — I did NOT expect THREE nachos. The onion chips she said were not supposed to be a main but an appetizer, this I understand but a handful for the $ 5.99 price tag is lunacy. She stated my pulled pork couldn’t be dry because it is mixed with BBQ sauce — well you could have fooled me! She kind of vindictively stated that she only bought a franchise because everybody loves their food — I clearly must be the only exception??? Finally once I noted that servers being squished by chairs was a health and safety issues, she stated that the layout is tight but seems to work for them. Ask the server that got getting skewered how she felt about it, I highly doubt she’d say it «works».
Overall, I was disappointed for a 90 dollar bill, my mom was crying a little on the inside I’d say. She is a very tolerable woman and she was the one who prompted me to contact them about feedback. The fact that the franchiser was condecending and naïve to her franchises’ flaws just further irritated me and I will avoid this place at all costs and spread the word.