Franky & Louie’s Beach Front Bar & Grill

Perfect place on the water for kids and adults. The beach entertains the kids, while the drinks and live bands entertain the adults. Don’t miss it while at the lake!

Best place on the lake for the kids! They have hula hoop contests, karaōke and ice cream stand. The food is decent. Gift shop is awesome.
Only complaint: they don’t have enough chairs on the beach… So bring your own!

Very fun atmosphere and good food. Great for stopping by and hanging out with the family on a nice day.

Drove a long way by boat and arrived on a Friday afternoon but no parking remained. Obviously, a good place if that many people are there but be careful when you go if don’t want to circle the docks until something opens up. We didn’t join the many boats circling for a spot. Haven’t ever had an issue finding a spot at Shady Gators, Beavers, Bikini Bay, Boathouse or the Yacht Club. Maybe that reflects well on Franky and Louies, but get there early on Friday or Saturday.

Setting is great, tucked away in a cove, with a nice powdery sand beach, lots for the kids to see and do. A mix of outdoor seating, open air seating that is covered by a roof, and an inside bar. Drinks were good, The various frozen drinks tasted great on a hot July day. Our server was friendly. The food was only so so. The nachos are not good. They use flour tortillas rather than corn chips, and they are a greasy mess. The cheese is flavorless. Requested extra salsa just to add some flavor, but had to work around the gross chips. The chicken wrap we also ordered was blah, chicken itself was fine but overall lacked flavor. The kids lunches were just ok. Suggest stopping in for a drink and to hang out, but skip the food.

Terrible service. Extremely slow service. Says kitchen staff walked out but others got served.

We saw a couple billboards on our way up the lakes and decided to stop in a see what was happening. It’s down a small unmarked road and past a crowded campsite and it was HOPPING! There was a young country band playing and the place was packed! We sat ourselves upon instruction from a harried waitress and was soon checked in with by a friendly waiter. We tried their signature drink in a souvenir cup, it was too sweet for me though. He took our order fast and got our food right out to us. The shrimp basket was okay but the charred wings were seriously out of this world! They had some heat but it wasn’t from sauce but just the seasoning. They were grilled to perfection, wow. We took a bunch back for our group and they scarfed them down in about 10 minutes. The set up is nice with a couple of bars and an inside area away from the band. Neat strings of lights crisscross over the outdoor tables and it’s right near the water. Many guests with bathing suits on and even some children.

I went here the weekend of the 4^th. Excellent service, excellent band and the pizza was also delicious! I will return.

Great atmosphere all the time, live music and great staff. Food is average lake food for the most part, but the burgers are good, and friends said the pizza was good, always had fast service even when busy. Great place to hang out no matter what your normal crowd.

There are some really good staff at this place Brook and Dave will really take care of you. The pizza is great but the Charcoal wings are really the best. They have good bands as well and there is no cover charge.

I don’t understand why these people are expecting fine dining? It’s the lake for Christ sakes! Absolutely love this place and have been going for years. The nachos are a must. We went today and the service was amazing! Cheers!

Poorly trained wait staff an sub par quality food for the inflated prices. There’s plenty of other places around the Lake that can do it right… Choose them instead.

Love this place! We have been here twice and our kids had an amazing time both times. The food is a bit pricey but when we visit a place with cool amenities we expect to pay a little more. The beach area is great for building sand castles and the swimming area entertained all of our kids aged 4 – 11. The fried green beans & pizza are very tasty and the «lake water» is refreshing on a warm day.

This is a great place to go during the day. Don’t know how it is at night. Parking on the water and beers and beach are foot steps away. The food was pretty good. I ordered the chips and salsa and a pizza. Being from Chicago and knowing what good pizza is, the pizza here is the best I’ve had in the Ozarks.
The service is lacking and really needs to be addressed. If the service was better this place would had got 5 stars from me

Service was good, live music but the food was incredibly mediocre. Even my teenage kids weren’t impressed.

Stopped here for lunch before we could check in to our condo and it was ok. We settled on the pizza and even though the supreme and meat lovers were the same price we were charged an extra 4 bucks to get it split half and half making it nearly 30 bucks for pizza and a side of fries. The pizza was good and we ate nearly the whole thing. The atmosphere was cute with a nice swim beach and good music. The bathrooms were in hideous shape and looked as if they hadn’t been cleaned or stocked in a week. Service was slow and not friendly at all.

This was by far the best place we visited for dinner at the Lake of the Ozarks this visit. This is your typical Bar & Grill menu, taken up a notch. Their burgers were consistently tasty, the salads fresh and delicious. The wait staff was efficient and friendly, in spite of the place being jam packed with people. They also have live music and a full bar! You can drive to the place, or boat to the place and there is a sand beach for water play!
This is exactly the kind of place I think you should visit if you are going to «the lake»…Fun, Loud, and DELICIOUS.

If you’re at the lake this is one of the best places to hang out. The pizzas, nachos, wings and drinks are all awesome. Make sure to tip your marina helpers!

Fun fun place! Good for kids, decent food, unique little setup. What more do you need?

The look and feel of this place is cool. Nice little beach, well decorated… Overall our group was not thrilled. I guess I don’t mind the high prices for food and beer, since it’s got a great lakeside location, but a couple of things were just done wrong.
First, our $ 10 jalapeño fritters (can’t remember the name) weren’t cooked all the way. They are obviously a frozen product that was probably heated in a microwave. The temperature ranged from lukewarm to cold inside, just this side of frozen.
Secondly, our waitress, Sella, apparently doesn’t understand how to ring up a pizza. We asked for a sausage pizza with half onion and half pepperoni. The meat toppings are supposed to be $ 1.25 and veggies .50. Fair enough, but the waitress charged us double for sausage, then added full price for pepperoni and onions.
The pizza was okay. Strongest onions I’ve ever had on a pizza.
We might be back, because the setting is cool and on a bustling summer day, I’m sure this place would be fun. The managers (owners) stopped by and I could see they did seem to care that people were having a nice time. For this visit, though, I can’t give more than 2 stars.