Famous Freddie's Roadhouse — Restaurant in Fox Lake

UPDATE TO REVIEW from experience 6/21/24 Okay, so I wanted to come and update my review. Down below is my original review and experience. I am changing my rating of this place from 4 stars to 1 star. After our experience here last week , we told our kids about it all week and took them out for dinner. I went and placed my order and thought there was a mistake bc it was basically double what I had paid a week prior. I asked the cashier if I missed something because on Fridays, the food is half priced.... Well, apparently, the owners got greedy and decided LITERALLY that morning that they were no longer going to do that. No warning, no advertisement on social media or anything letting people know things would change... they just did it. They told their staff that morning also. I felt extremely bad for the girls at the restaurant. They basically got yelled at all day bc the owners pulled the rug out on their pricing after they had convinced people to go there on Fridays. You could tell people were angry. I even witnessed someone talking to a manager and a waitress, making them even more miserable than they already were. It is absolutely appalling and shameful. I do not have a problem with a restaurant changing their specials or pricing... but... to cold turkey, making a switch like that, and putting their entire staff in a very stressful environment is unbelievable. The owner wasn't there telling everyone about the changes... instead, he had young girls do it all night while people blew up on them and lost their temper. (I did not blow up on them, just expressed it was a little frustrating, but let them know I wasn't mad at them, and it wasn't their fault). I will say I was very impressed with how the girls and staff kept their composure all night as I don't know how I would've handled being treated like that all day.

Shame on you Freddie's I'm guessing you will now be famous for something other than your food going forward.

ORIGINAL REVIEW FROM DINNER 6/14/24 Okay, so this place is kind of wild if you've never been here. 😂 My husband and I went here on a whim, and when we arrived, we were thoroughly confused. We walked in, and there was a huge bar in the middle of the room, and no hostess or waitresses were to be seen. We waited a minute and asked the bartender for help. She explained that you find a seat anywhere, and then you order your food at the counter up front. We opted to sit outside as inside were all hi-top tables. I won't lie... all the tables were dirty. All of them... honestly, they were filthy... so we pulled out some wipes and cleaned one and ate there. We accepted that this is just how this place works. It's very self-service and just plan ahead that you have to clean your own tables...😂 after we ordered our food, we waited outside, watching for our order number to generate... it never did... we watched and waited, and it never moved. I went inside to check and saw that our food was done and basically had been sitting there bc they had forgotten to update their number generator. The food itself was fine. The burger was standard, nothing that was mind-blowing, but it was still good. The loaded fries were VERY good. All in all, while it was a bumpy experience, I would still go back. On Fridays, they have half-price food, which was...

i’d rate this place 0 stars after what happened tonight. My girls and i, 5 of us total, were trying to have a nice moms night out. we got to freddie’s around 9pm and sat outside at the tiki bar. we waited 30 mins to be treated from the 2 bartenders that were working. after one of the bartenders came up to us, sarah, asked us “what can could get for you, oh actually we’re not serving you guys because we’re not losing our job” we were very confused and understood we “looked young” we had 5 different staff members check all of our id’s including a manager named martin. they said we were fine to be served. sarah and megan continued to refuse any sort of service for us. told us continually they were not serving us but we were confused after 5 people told us we were good. we have been served here before, we have never had issues until tonight. and after being completely disrespected by both megan and sarah we don’t want to come back. that was completely unprofessional and we left crying. we then wanted to check out the nightclub so we went upstairs got our ids checked again and had a great night. brooke, nicole and caitlin were amazing and we ended up being happy we stayed, just went to a different part of the bar. after how poorly we were treated we will never be back...

Came here yesterday (Friday) around 8pm with my husband and 3 kids. Parking is on the side, there was stairs going up and stairs going to the balcony and stairs going to the patio, no signs where to go so we went through the patio and thought we should go inside so they can sit us down, we went up to the balcony and inside. It was pretty slow so we observed and thought its self order and sit anywhere. It was a young cashier, i asked her if the shrimp was boiled or fried and she said “you eat it raw” (looking at the pictures now they’re not raw) so i just bought an Italian beef, diablo burger (from its name i thought it was going to be spicy which is why we got it but it wasn’t at all ) chicken tenders and a plain cheese burger, all came with fries and spent $60 and $16 + tip for 3 drinks and beer at the bar. We took our food to the patio where there was a tent, First thing we saw was big spiders and no netting under the railing so I had to move the kids so they don’t accidentally fall off their chairs and into the water. It was dark, we didn’t see the ants on our table until we...