Bistro 197 — Restaurant in City of Oswego

If you are going to the bar… its awesome

Good drinks and great service plus live music was fun (great original cocktails)

Until we moved sides it was a great place

The restaurant side was very disappointing, poor service and very slow getting our food… took 20 min just to bring us water after we got our menus and asked for it… food was quite ordinary… fish and chips and a burger should not take over an hour

Over 1h30 between us sitting down and getting our meal… we were hoping it would be a least good but not at all (cold fries and oily fish in batter) at least it was inexpensive

On top of it all, very cocky owner who could only saw hello to local friends, not even acknowledge other guests… Im guessing that out of town money isnt any...

Although our entrees were good, I was disappointed that although the menu provided for a garden salad for several of our entrees they were not provided. Also, the side offered with the salmon entree was French fries. That certainly seems like an inappropriate choice for a health conscious entree. Our waitress seemed overwhelmed and not particularly attentive. One of the entrees did not arrive until the rest of our party was more than half finished with our entrees. Not until I went into the kitchen to ask the waitress did that meal get delivered. This was my third visit to this restaurant and it was certainly not up to the standards of my...

Very nice inside. Needs more air flow a little stuffy is all. The waitress was very helpful and pleasant (Chrissy) Gave some great insight on the dishes.

Food Fried Catfish dish was better than I expected from a restaurant in the north. 7.5/10

Fried calamari Think they were trying to do too much. Not a fan of pesto bathed calamari. 5/10

Grilled Meatloaf This was amazing and you must try it. Everything tasted great in the dish and complimented each other well. 9/10

Carmel lava cake Was good reminded me of a thick pancake with homemade whip cream and Carmel as the syrup. 8/10

All of these were great big portions all...