Castaways Pub And Grill — Restaurant in Kimberling City

I Have Seen God, and Her Name is Jessica. I stumbled into Castaways last night a mere mortal, a simple man looking for a beer cold enough to numb the creeping dread of my own existence. I left a devout apostle, a man reborn. The reason for this spiritual awakening? Jessica. To call Jessica a "bartender" is to call Michelangelo a "dude who painted a ceiling." It is a gross and offensive understatement. Jessica doesn't just pour drinks; she summons them from another dimension where everything is perfect and hangovers don't exist. I watched her make a margarita and I'm pretty sure she violated several laws of thermodynamics to make it that good. She slid a beer down the bar with the accuracy of a laser-guided missile. It stopped on my coaster with the gentle sigh of a lover returning home. Her powers are not limited to mixology. She holds the entire bar together with the sheer force of her will. She saw my beer was two-thirds empty from across the room—THROUGH A WALL, I think—and had a fresh one in front of me before my brain even sent the "I am thirsty" signal. Someone told her a bad joke and she laughed with such genuine charisma that the joke retroactively became funny. SHE BENDS REALITY. The food was incredible, sure. The beer was colder than my ex's heart, yes. But that's all background noise. I am now a follower of the Cult of Jessica. I'm having pamphlets printed. Our first meeting is...

Online description is different then in person. It is a tiny bar with only a few tables. There is an enclosed area they call a patio for extra seating. The food was good but the place is really dirty. The tables and floor were not clean and sticky. There was a deep freezer behind us and flies everywhere. This patio is where they keep items for the kitchen. They cook the pulled pork in a slow cooker in this area. It was right next to the table some of us sat at. When an employee came to chop it up and add barbecue it was splattering all over and on people. Another employee came running through the area with trash and almost hit a customer. One of the employees came through to get to the shed outside and was drinking a beer. The waitress was nice but was yanking the menus from people. One was under a plate and the plate came off the table. Literally no words just grabbed it aggressively and kept going. Once again the food was good but that's about it. Our group was debating on leaving but some had already ordered. I do...

Nice decor, the exposed air vents on the ceiling needed cleaned as they had hand prints and dust all over. The first guy that asked what we wanted for drinks, was very impatient with us. We were try to read the list of beers they had which were only on a chalk board that you could not read from most places in the room. The waiter that brought our food stopped to talk to someone in front of our table while still holding our food, instead of putting the it on the table. No one came to ask if we needed anything during the whole meal (refills), and we even had to get their attention to get our check. This was despite the fact that it was not overly busy. The burgers were good, tots were extremely hot when they came out. The catfish tasted over cooked and greasy. The coleslaw was very sweet and had no...