Dan B's Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Bay Saint Louis

I enjoyed the key lime pie I had ordered, but I will say I was severely dissapointed in the hostess/server/bartender. This was ground level before the upstairs opened up while it was still slow. My husband had asked to order the chicken tacos but was told that they only have shrimp tacos. My mother in law ordered something else with chicken.... 😑😑😑😑 Meaning there was no prep work done to shred chicken and have it set up and ready to serve, easy peasy. Had there been a slew of people or big table tops to cater to, I would understand. But there were 4 other people inside when we arrived, already served. 2 outside only drinking.

I'm sorry, but if taking a maximum of 3 minutes out of your deadly slow day, to prep because your station is out.... Well.... That among the...let's just say....unpleasant disposition...a customer orientated or thought provoking jobmay not have been the best career choice for this lady.

My husband simply said 'nevermind' and sat outside with our 4 top. We were not rude, or unpleasant in any way, simple manners were used and not seen in return.

I have eaten here in the past, durring the busier times when the 2nd floor is open, and service was great along with the food. That would have been shortly after opening.

Now.... If you'd like to be served by someone who puts off like you are inconveniencing them, and has the snobby attitude that many in old town have but never want to bring up that subject, then by all means I suggest you go and enjoy the aura of the main level.

I would never of written this review as it is not very positive, but Google kept...

I was in Bay St. Louis around noon today, 10/08/2022, to purchase Cruisin the Coast t-shirts. The crowd was large, as always. But...as I walked up to the trailer to get my shirt, there was a disabled man whose motorized shooter's batter had died at the entrance to the event shirt location. He'd finally been able to stop 2 event workers on a "gator" type cart for help; they told him to go to the guy at the gate (20 yards away). The man had one leg, and had a scooter that wouldn't move 2 inches much less 20 yards! Since absolutely no one in the vicinity of the man would even acknowledge him, I told the man I'd go to the man at the gate for him - to get him help. The man at the gate to me to go to Dan B's restaurant and ask for Daniel or his dad...so, I did. Those 2 men and 2 more men from Dan B's staff STOPPED WHAT THEY WERE DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUSIEST TIME OF THE DAY to go help a man in need! Y'all- if you eat anywhere in Bay St Louis, MS, PLEASE make one of your stops be Dan B's! This is an amazing group of people working for an amazing family...you see...Daniel is the owner of the restaurant and he truly cares about his community! I said all this to thank them for helping 2 people they don't even know - the disabled man, and myself. They could easily have sent me on to the next person to get help for a man I don't even know (never asked his name). I am well aware the MS Gulf Coast is a unique place - and these men only solidify...

Two po boys, bread pudding and a mixed drink, $70. Tldr. Go somewhere else for food.

Stopped in at Dan B's for the first time in their 'new' location, being that Dan B's has been around for decades and thought the food would be above par. Wrong. Asked the bartender if the po boy was any good, he exclaimed 'Yes, it's an 8" on French Bread.' I asked if the French bread was 'authentic'. Of course, he replied 'Yes.' All lies!

Not only was it not French bread, but the shrimp po boy lacked shrimp, and the 'famous' roast beef po boy will only be famous for being the worst roast beef po boy I ever consumed. Not toasted, or dressed, or pressed. Frankly, I think I could find a better po boy at Long John Silvers fast food.

It is tourist traps like this that are the reason why, in my travels around the country when the topic of po boy's come up, those not from the south say they have had one and don't think much it. Yea, if I my only po boy was from Dan B's, I would probably never get another one for as long as I lived.

Even the bread pudding was nothing to write home about, microwaved, too.

You could not pay me to eat here again. Hell, not even a waiter/waitress or host to greet you or take your order.

If I was going to plaster my name on a restaurant and all over the interior walls, or go so far as to claim a 'famous' roast beef po boy, I would do something to actually...