Leo's Lodge - Lansing, MI — Restaurant in Lansing

First time visit my co-worker and I ordered for pickup. We ordered the following Patty Melt -Sub Pepper Jack cheese with tater tots Leo's burger cooked medium with fries and a Dino Original Thin Crust as is.

Before even getting the food the person behind the bar noticed that fries were with the patty melt and had the kitchen remake a side of tater tots. That was awesome that they caught that and fixed it before I even left....But that actually caused a problem and I will explain.

The patty melt tasted great but it had swiss cheese on it not the pepper jack that we asked for. Mistake #1 The Leo's Burger was made well, tasted great. It's the only place that I know that uses Montreal season on their burger. But....My burger came with a second side of tater tots. Not the fries like it was ordered. Not a huge deal but it was Mistake #2

So minus 1 star for 2 minor mistakes.

To set the stage I have to list how the menu puts it. "Dino's Original Thin Crust. A 12" thin crust pizza piled high with mozzarella cheese." I love pizza and I love cheese, but what I received was not what was advertised. The crust was great. Not burnt and very crispy. This thin crust pizza had barley any sauce on it. You could lift up what you would call cheese and find almost NOTHING under it. The most amount of sauce was right near the edge of the crust where there was no cheese. And secondly the cheese...The amount of cheese was so thin that it barley covered the pizza. The "piled high" description was more like a thin covering maybe about 2 pieces of paper thick. Pictures below of the actual pizza for you to make your own opinion on it. Without the sauce and moist cheese this was pretty much just a crispy cracker. I have ate a lot of pizza in my life and my co-worker and I actually could not bring ourselves to finish it. Minus 1 star for a pizza that was not as expected.

All in all I love the way the place looked inside and want to bring my teenage son for lunch because he loves hunting and would love the experience. But we will not be ordering any thin crust pizza...

I don’t know if this place has seen better days or what, but after eating there I’m shocked this place has anything above 2-3 stars as restaurant. I give the interior designer of the place credit, it’s gorgeous inside. However, that is the only redeeming quality of this place. 1. They gave me about 10 French fries which was laughable. 2. My girlfriend ordered a burger with a gluten free bun cooked Medium. They forgot the gluten free bun at first, then when she got it and was finally able to eat it, we found out this burger was NOT cooked medium. One thing every bar and grill should be able to do is get the cooking of the burger at least close to being right. I’m being very generous by saying that this burger, instead of being cooked Medium, was somewhere between rare and medium rare. 3. My French dip was so bad that I didn’t even finish it, and I’m a grown man that was hungry. I wouldn’t have even finished the fries if I wasn’t hungry, but thankfully it’s nearly impossible to make French fries inedible the same way they managed to make the rest of the food. The cherry on top was our waiter. We spent about an hour in there, and about 45 minutes of that was simply waiting for food and the check. Now, it’s not on the waiter for the kitchen taking too long. What is on the waiter though, is being posted up flirting with a coworker (maybe his boss idk,) while we sit there waiting for the bill for 10 minutes. Might I add we were one of MAYBE 4-5 tables the entire time INCLUDING the outdoor seating. There was absolutely no reason for him to take his sweet time, posted up against a wall, talking it up with another employee like they were out back ripping a cig. One of the worst restaurant experiences I’ve had in awhile. Don’t eat here, you’ll be making a second trip, spending more money on actually halfway decent food. Currently driving to get my girlfriend food while I feel like I’m digesting knives in my stomach. Wouldn’t recommend to the worst criminal for...

......ok,...I had to change my review to a 1, and delete the 5 from my previous dine in visit. Got a cod basket to go today. The fries were dry and tasteless, and seemed freezer burnt or something when I split one open to see why it seemed more like dessicated old shoe leather strips, It was a hard-pressed effort to recognize any potato in them, rather they looked more some kind of starchy lab created substitute with a chemically created spice seal around it, so as to resemble restaurant quality French fries. The fish, too, was unpalatable at best. Rather than a nice restaurant quality piece of flaky, delicate cod in a light and tasty hand batter, fried golden to perfection, it was dense and compressed, as though chopped and pressed to form a fillet, par fried and then left in the freezer until forgotten before being rediscovered and flash fried when I placed my order today but some how still magically sat around under a heat lamp to stay warm, which it failed to do, as nothing in the meal was warm except for the coleslaw. Ate very little of the meal. Only the Cole slaw was sorta ok, as it seemed to have sogged up just enough (not fresh) so I could "chew" it without too much difficulty, as I have few teeth. Won't ever order their fish and chips again. Ever. It might have been the worst I have ever had from a restaurant, and I have been testing restaurants' abilities to make a good fish and chips for almost all of my 58 years. Should have gone to Culver's as I had originally planned, at least they would have gotten it right. Who knows, I may or may not one day return, DINE IN ONLY, and try one of the steaks they claim to OWN well, but we'll see. Kinda of miffed I wasted like 20 bucks, and not sure if they...