Willy D's Rock & Roll Piano Bar — Restaurant in Little Rock

Do not go here! The bar put me in an unsafe situation! As me and my friend were getting ready to leave, we were stopped by two ladies who asked us to join them downstairs and to go hang out with them. We got up to follow them and my friend went downstairs first, and then the girls told me they changed their mind and wanted to stay upstairs with one of the piano players and did not tell my friend. I offered to go tell my friend we were changing tables and they said he would figure it out. I sat down and chatted with them and realized my friend never came back upstairs. I asked the man sitting with me and the ladies if he saw my friend and the man said he was with the band and saw my friend had got kicked out by security and didn’t tell me. I asked why my friend was kicked out and they said he had too many drinks in an hour limit (had 1 mixed drink and 4 beers total versus I had 5 mixed drinks). I got up to leave since my friend was kicked out, and they told me to stay and my friend would be allowed to come back in after an hour and I could continue to drink on my friends closed out tab. They never told my friend why he was kicked out, only grabbed his arm and said he needed to leave. When he went to close out his tab and go downstairs, he asked the bartender if he needed to open a separate tab downstairs and the bartender said yes and did not inform him of apparently having too many drinks per hour at that point. We left, and later stopped by to tell them we would be contacting someone over this and the bouncer got hostile with us and said we needed to leave and weren’t welcome even though we were being pleasant. Attempted to call the bar three times later that evening and never got an answer, left voicemails and never received a call back. Do...

In my one experience, Willy D’s looked like a nice place on the inside but was not welcome to outsiders. When I followed my friend from Kenya inside, they asked him why his ID had no expiration date ... three times. Flustered he had no response and was growing anxious. [They had previously let my 6 friends in without asking any questions (totaling 40 seconds of double checking).] I asked why they were asking him this question - asserting the question “how many people are in graduate school and under-aged?” - and they escorted me outside while letting him in to avoid a scene. Sober, my only response to the bar manager and ID checker was to listen in silence. When I patiently waited through their 5 minute response, I asked what their rationale was for keeping me out of their bar, they said, “you didn’t get mistreated, why are you doing this?” At this time, my fiends came out and we left.

Moreover, the racism displayed in a 5 minute 30 second scene ruined my friend’s perspective of Arkansas for life, and this restaurant was satisfied with the result. This shift is to blame and needs to be corrected before more outsiders come and feel mistreated. This is not in the best interest...

I didn’t mind the wait at the bars, we knew it was Saturday Night on the strip. However, my friend said that the double cranberry vodka she ordered tasted like water. (As far as prices it was $26 for a double vodka/Red Bull and a double vodka/cranberry). We started going to the small bar upstairs where a young man with arm tats actually made all the liquor in the cup... instead of holding a bottle upside down 2 feet from the glass and missing half the cup and flinging vodka everywhere like the downstairs guys.

I would still give 4 stars at this point because he was putting on a good show.

As soon as they turned on the upstairs lights to close for the evening I went to go to the bathroom before we left.

Where I give two a stars is where the large, curly haired security guard said “no, you cannot use the restroom before you leave.”

Really dude. Really?

Completely ruined all the fun I...