Two Bucks Eastlake — Restaurant in Eastlake

My boyfriend and I have been "regulars" of this bar for a few years now. The previous owner had never said hello or ever tried to have any kind of conversation. During the years we have seen bartenders(some good, some not) come and go. Weve developed a great rapport with Katie, who has been there a long time. She is super sweet, attentive and always engaging in conversation. Since learning she will be going to 2 days only, needless to say, I'm sad but, super happy for her future path. Now onto new ownership- Brian. He does say hello to us when we are there which is a change from old owner. However, I feel a certain family member of his(sister) is/will run his business into the ground. EVERY time she "works" she is always eating in front of customers, spends unnecessary time in the kitchen or the back and you wont see her for 15-20 minutes at a time. I never see her wipe bar counters down or tables down after customers leave(Ewww) and was just in last night witnessing the ladies restroom a mess(pics), her walking in and right back out. Do you not have any pride in a family owned business to clean up your bathrooms on occasion or wipe your counters down after customers? She is always on her cell phone. Yesterday when she arrived she had her 2 small children(grandma in the kitchen was taking them after her shift was over) and her little girl was running around the bar area and the rest of the place with mom nowhere to be found at times. Poor business ethics. Come on, at least keep your kids in the back with you until you start your shift and grandma is able to take over. This becomes the reflection of the owner as these types of things shouldnt be allowed. It's a business, family or not. Run it as such. His wife is a sweetheart and a great worker. The grandmother is a cook and always says hello or smiles when seen. I think it's great to have family come together to help a business thrive however, the sister is hurting your business with her unethical practices and poor work ethic and customers do see it and are leaving because of it. I do not tip lazy workers. Tipping is not a given, it is earned. We have had good service and bad service through the years and have still tipped. People have bad days. But, when you see the same things with the same people it is obviously their work ethic. Its unacceptable. Sweety(sister).. my advice to you is treat your family business with respect. Entitlement isnt...

At first glance this restaurant looks like another typical sports bar, but looks are deceiving. It's a relaxed, family friendly bar atmosphere which I am seeing more of these days. We were immediately waited on by Erica O. She was sweet and courteous. The menu is refreshingly different from the usual pub fare, in that they have a cool $2 menu of tasty sliders and other apps. I started off with a Mexican mule made with some kinda cinnamon tequila. It was different but good. Then my hubby ordered a Cuban slider and a black and blue slider. I ordered the fried pickles. All 3 were just $2 each (what a deal) and really tasty. The Cuban slider did have a bit too much sauce on it, though.

For our dinners we had the Classic burger with sage fries and the cauliflower steak burger with onion rings. It's really exciting for me as a vegetarian that there are items on the menu that I can eat other than the typical lousy black bean burger! Both burgers were tasty, but I found the sun-dried tomato aioli to be a bit too greasy for my liking on the cauliflower burger.

I look forward to my next visit to Two Bucks so I can explore more of their interesting menu. Worth checking out if you're in the...

Okay been coming here for years.. never been treated so rudely by a waitress that wasn’t even serving us… Catie.. she brought our food out to us only… we had not received what we ordered… seasoned fries.. 1st told us they don’t have seasoned fries… then when we explained yes they do.. she rudely told us “do you want me to salt them for you?” Then promptly told us she had just put in a 300.00 order…like ours didn’t matter.. horribly confrontational and rude.. do better hiring two bucks!! Then she brought us out clumped up sage in small container that you could not use… worse then I watched her picking her teeth over the food sitting there in the kitchen waiting to be taken out to someone else..I’m assuming it was her 300.00 order of food.. yikes… poor customers just spent 300.00 for the waitress to sit there picking her teeth over their food before they got… horrible service by Catie who wasn’t even the original person serving us.. yeah not a pleasant experience…original bartender was awesome and actually tried to make up for...