Bill's Steak House Lounge — Restaurant in Portland

The best thing about this place was leaving. We waited for near an hour for our food with a waitress running around without a clue that customers needed service. We happened to be seated by the kitchen so sadly we could see how long food sat in the window, darn near 10 minutes in some cases. Our food came after we saw it get put into the service window. However, my wife's 'halibut' dinner? Well I can hardly say anything good about it, for 13 bucks, you got 4 small pieces of fish, I personally think it was cod and not a nice piece of meaty halibut as stated. The garlic bread was so incredibly salty, it was not edible. We were never asked once as our waitress wizzed by several times, how are food was, did we need a refill on our drinks, etc... I sucked on ice cubes and then took my wife's drink. My pork sliders tasted as if they had been sitting all day long, the chicken cordon blue bites were mostly chicken not horrible, but a small bit of ham with maybe if you were lucky some cheese. We left unhappy after having to flag her down for a box, not sure why I even brought it home except it was a lot of money to spend for the meal. Oh and the salad is just plain ole salad out of a bag, no added anything, no tomatoes, nothing. As I said the best part was getting the heck out. Would not recommend unless you are there to play pool get enough drinks in you that anything at that point would taste good. Maybe it was an off night? But I doubt it, there was no bell that even let her know food was up, but then again? there was only a handful of us in there.... Would not return...

Seems like a nice bar if you are looking for drinks but the food was HORRIBLE. Stopped in here for dinner because we were starving and stuck in traffic and were excited for some good hot food. We ordered a burger and fries and a breakfast platter (sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy) and were immediately disappointed by what we were brought. The burger was cooked well done (we had ordered medium rare) and seemed like it had been sitting out for a while as it was barely warm. The bun was cold like it had been in the fridge and the cheese wasn’t even melted. This was the burger that was listed as “hot” and “spicy” but there was no seasoning or flavor whatsoever. The fries were ok but were not seasoned at all, not even salt. The breakfast platter was also nothing to write home about. I ordered my eggs “over medium” and they came out with runny whites. The portion was very small and again nothing was seasoned and it had no flavor whatsoever. It was like eating mushy wet cardboard. We are only because we had been waiting for what felt like 40 minutes for our food but we left completely unsatisfied. Once drove away, we saw that Elmers was right ahead of us and we were both thoroughly annoyed that we had wasted our money at “Bill’s Steak House Lounge” when we could have enjoyed a meal with at least twice the quality at the same price at Elmers. We won’t be making that mistake again. If you do choose to eat here, we hope your experience is better...

I ate at Bill's a couple times several years ago & was very pleased with a good quality steak at a reasonable price. Sadly, it isn't the way it used to be. Tonight's supper cost 30% more that it used to and the quality was terrible. My NY strip was full of gristle and I seriously doubt that it even came close to the advertised 12 oz. It was both smaller and much thinner than when I made the same order on previous visits. On top of that, the veg was cooked to mush and the baked potato must have been keeping warm in the oven ever since lunch time.

I know times are hard for restaurants, but the owner has gone too far in trying to squeeze out the last dime of profit. I was there at around 5PM and the bar was full of drinkers, so there's no doubt they're making money...liquor is the source of most of the profits in a sports bar/restaurant.

On the good side, the staff was friendly and attentive. None-the-less, I don't think I'll be...