Fraternal Order of Eagles #34 — Restaurant in Minneapolis

I’ve been coming here for shows for many years& always had a lot of fun. There was a female bartender with dark hair that was the best bartender, I think her name Dalinda? Or something like that-she was a peach! But last time we went there we had horrible customer service. My husband& I sit down at the bar& it’s not busy at all. A bartender is standing right in front of us, as we sit down, he’s working on some drinks, looks like a pitcher & he’s pouring shots. So we sit there& he completely ignores us, even though we are about as close as anyone can be to someone. He’s also having a conversation with some guy, that’s sitting right next to us. Just really rude. Finally, I ask, “ are you serving people?”& he’s like , yes, can’t you see I’m pouring drinks?”& I say, ( I’ve had 20+ years in the service industry, as a server& cashier) “Well, I was taught to say hello to customers when you see them, especially if they are right in front of you!” Like how hard is it to say, “Hi, I’ll be right with you,” or “that bartender over there can help you,” etc.. Of course, he didn’t apologize. He’s middle height, dark hair& beard( that looks unkempt)& just has a horrible attitude. I went to the other bartender& she was very nice. I doubt if I’ll go back there...

The place is run like Grandma's clueless bar. Put a dance band in a room that's is quite literally a coat check room and expect dancers to have a good time. 3 rooms of live music? More like 2 with a coat check that they book as a band room. If they would move their horribly painful karoke in the coat check most of the days of the week you might want to sit in the bar and drink. But for some reason they want to annoy every passing customer with of key singing by their octagenarian dining clientele...

Don't get me wrong lots of good bands play here. But it's not for the bar area they get paid a pittance for their time here. It could be more of the managerial staff get there head out of their assess.

There is no reason two bartenders on for a house holding 500 people to have to wait 10 or more minutes to get a drink. I think the really don't understand basic math on what they are losing at all.

I still will hang out there. Waiting for the clueless bar managers to pass on and hope for a better Management...

A cheap and comfortable place to hang out and drink. I arrived a couple hours early for an event held in their large meeting room. I hung out at the bar and enjoyed a couple of inexpensive ($3 house wine!!) beverages in a relaxed and relatively quiet atmosphere. I also tried their corned beef Ruben which was delivered quickly and pretty tasty. Unfortunately, when people started arriving for the event, it was very clear that the staff were not prepared to handle this volume of patrons. At one point, I went to get more drinks and was told my tab couldn't be found so had to start another one. Then, when I went to close out, I was told neither tab could be found and was waved away without signing any credit card slip. It now appears that I've been charged twice for at least one of those tabs, but whatever. They try hard and the drinks were less expensive than I expected anyway. I'll probably come back and hang out some other time when they're not...