Hideaway Bar — Restaurant in Orlando

After never giving out a 5-Star Review to a local sports bar and pub before, this is amazingly the second one in a row. And this place deserves it! I moved to Winter Park a little over a year ago after having just sold my house in Apopka, and even though I had lived in the Metropolitan Orlando area and Central Florida since 1980 (Wow! 42 years!) I didn't know this particular area very well. But I find this particular bar has all of the things that I look for in choosing a local sports bar: A pool table (a Blue Diamond at that!), good locals supporting the place regularly, and a great staff dedicated to providing quality service to their patrons. Although having great food available may not be a priority on the list, it certainly helps! Nothing too fancy here, but good, dependable "normal" bar food like I like to eat. All of the bartenders here are outstanding and really work hard, but one gal named Lou deserve a shout out from me! She made me immediately feel welcome and extremely comfortable from the get go. That's of primary importance to me whenever I enter a new establishment & environment. I had actually met this young lady in another local bar last year, and she was smart to mention that she worked at the Hideaway. Because I finally did show up! LOL! And I'm glad to share that I had a GREAT TIME at this bar! If you're living in the area or just perhaps visiting Central Florida the and Orlando area, come and see where the locals go and have a great time! And why the smart ones come here! I highly recommend...

Even tho I heard this place has been around many moons; they just relocated across the street to a brand new spot. It’s super cool and nice for a dive/ish bar. Starters the parking is in back just a heads up and yes the back door is an entrance lol. I had to go pee like a race horse and the bathroom was sparkling (and there’s a TV?!?!) The staff was very local and friendly, the food was priced very daily and almost on the cheap side for today’s standards. I got the patty melt, my fri dns got the BLT, and the Bacon Cheese Burger, and we shared some Toto’s… that said our food came with house made chips which were really good (we prolly didn’t need the tots). So no body is perfect and we (me & my friends) debated on 4 or 5 starts… we arrived at like 1:30ish and it was a shift change and were a little ignored; we didn’t feel this was the norm or intentional but I like to be 100% honest sin my posts. Once we moved to the bar from our high top and made contact with the next shift, everyone was very attentive and we loved them. This is def a spot I’ll be revisiting and recommend! Only recommendation would be to state your drink prices and beer specials (at least the menu I got had no prices for bottles, buckets, drafts, wells, shots) the black board with specials was the only place they had these and so I ordered one and you did not have it… I asked for a draft beer as the same price as the beer on special and was laughed at… not cool. But u have next time took keep...

I frequented the Hideaway at the old location and was a “regular “ a few years back. Janine was always super kind and knew us by first name basis. Well today we decided to give this gem a try and had one of the worst experiences ever. Janine greeted us and recognized me which I thought was great since it had been a while. Well that warmth and good experience turned real sour once I went up to her and told her the cheeseburger had literally zero flavor (I tried a bite of the meat when I cut the burger in half). At this point she rolled her eyes and told me that they do not season their burgers but they make the patties fresh every morning. I politely asked her if she could please take it back because it was not edible. She got super sassy with me and told me she’d take it off. She did not once ask if we wanted anything else. Well my significant other paid the bill and once we got in the car he noticed the burger was never removed from the bill (we returned it without even eating any of it) Yes, our fault for not looking at the check but she had such an attitude that I did not have the energy to walk back and address this. Sucks their hospitality went to the trash considering it’s such a cool...