Barrel 53

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   kinley

   Unspecified1 review

   5.0

   Dined on February 16, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Food was amazing and the service was great! Will definitely be back
   

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   Travis

   Louisville3 reviews

   2.0

   Dined on February 15, 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 1

   Preset menu for $150, we had one margarita and one old fashioned. Two salads came out with what i would assume a mist of dressing and some cranberries. All in we we're 1 hour in before we got salads, as we were getting up to leave our waitress assured us our food would be out soon. I don't think this place is set up to host a valentines day special event. i highly doubt i'll ever return to this place, seemed like a decent place online but i'd avoid. so you don't end up stopping at 5 guys for valentines dinner at 9:30 on your way home.
   

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   Kinley

   Louisville1 review

   1.0

   Dined on February 14, 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 1

   Restaurant obviously couldn’t handle the Valentines crowd. Waited in line to be sat, then ended up being sent to the wrong place twice. After the confusion, we finally were sat ( this was also a preset menu for $75 per person ). It took 20 minutes to get drinks and 45 minutes for salad and were never brought rolls. After an hour we finally received rolls and put in our entrees. After waiting almost two hours in total, we were served extremely raw chicken and even more raw fish. At that point we asked for our check and a manager, which none came. We were severely disappointed and left to eat DQ for our Valentine’s Day dinner since at this point it was after 8 pm. Definitely would not recommend this place to anyone !
   

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   Rob

   Columbus4 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on February 14, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Service was great. Food was very good. We had burgers, the special ‘big bologna” sandwich and the pork belly blt. Prices were reasonable. Only minor issue was the bologna was a little lukewarm and not cooked with any type of char to add flavor. Taste was still good but it could have been better. Everything else was very good.
   

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   Valerie

   Cincinnati1 review

   5.0

   Dined on January 25, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Dinner in the igloo was the perfect way to celebrate a 16th birthday!
   

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   Aimee

   St. Louis4 reviews

   4.0

   Dined on December 25, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   We went on Christmas night, and they were very shortstaffed. However, the food was great and the weight staff was wonderful.
   

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   Steven

   Louisville1 review

   5.0

   Dined on December 21, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The place was very nice the food was good. There were not very many customers but the weather was cold and nasty the night we went so hopefully that was the issue. Would hate to see this place not do well would definitely recommend.
   

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   Connor

   E. Tennessee1 review

   5.0

   Dined on December 19, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Absolutely loved the vibe here. The food was spectacular especially the fries. And the live music was so good!!
   

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   BethS

   Charleston4 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on March 2, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   We stopped here for dinner on our way to do Kentucky bourbon distillery tours. All of us enjoyed the food and drinks!
   

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    VinceP VIP

    Louisville3 reviews

    1.0

    Dined on February 15, 2024

    1. Overall 1
    2. Food 1
    3. Service 1
    4. Ambience 3

    If I could give less than a 1 star I would. We went here for our Valentine's Day dinner, and it was absolutely terrible. We sat at our table for 20 minutes before our waitress came to speak to us - she didn't even ask for our drink order at that time, and she NEVER asked me for my drink order the entire dinner. We both ordered the Valentine's Day Special ($50 per person for 3 courses = salad appetizer, filet with vegetables for main course, and a dessert). After 30 minutes waiting from our order time the waitress finally brings food to us - but it isn't the salad appetizer, it's the main course. We asked where our salads were and she said, "oh I thought someone else brought it to you". She goes back and brings us our salads with our meal. We cut into our filets, and they are VERY UNDERCOOKED (husband ordered medium and it was rare, I ordered medium well and it was medium rare). We mentioned this to the waitress, and she took plates back to the kitchen. 5 minutes later she brings them back to us with the steaks cooked a little bit more - still not close to what we ordered. We finally just gave up and didn't eat the steak. The waitress came back and asked how it was and we told her the steak still wasn't cooked appropriately but we weren't going to send it back again. She then brings us our check - FULL CHARGE and she didn't even offer us dessert. I asked if our meal came with a dessert and she said yes. Then why didn't you offer it?! I asked for 2 desserts to go just to get out of there. Service was terrible. Food was terrible. And we still had to pay full price for a meal that we didn't get all parts of without asking for it (they never asked us what we wanted to drink, or dessert), and our filets were inedible. Absolute disgrace.
    

    Barrel 53Responded on February 27, 2024

    Vince, we are so sorry to hear about your bad experience with us. We always strive to provide a 5 star experience and we are so sorry this how your night went. I will absolutely be speaking with our service staff this get this issue corrected. We sincerely hope you will be willing to give us another shot soon.
    

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