Barefoot Peddler — Restaurant in Town of North Hempstead

We must have been here on a bad night! We stopped in because of the good reviews, and we're just looking for simple bar food and a cocktail. After we were seated, we asked the server for a drinks menu. He didn't have one, and dashed off to locate one. We tried to flag him back to at least get some water, but he didn't notice.

When he gets back, we order water, check out the drinks menu, and when he returns, we get an mule and a pint of power, plus the nachos. And that, my friends, is the last time we saw the server for nearly 29 minutes.

Another server brought us the nachos, which were burned black on the edges and cool to the touch in the middle. I'm a pretty mellow person, but this was a much in the poor food department. I sent it back, and we got another plate that was slightly warmer.

But where were our drinks? And our original waiter? I headed over to the bar to see if the drinks had been poured but not yet delivered. Didn't see them, and the single bartender was busy with a full bar, so I waited to see if I could catch his eye and make a fresh order. The. Our server appeared. He apologized and told me he was bringing our drinks now, indicating a different cocktail and a glass of Cabernet. I noted that we hadn't ordered those, and he honestly looked surprised. I reminded him what we ordered, and he grabbed a different cocktail and poured the beer, and took them to the table.

We left shortly after that. It's a shame the server didn't notice the wrong drinks order, the full plate of nachos left on the table - or even asked us whether there was anything else we needed.

No, man. No. Just a decent drink and non-fancy pub food, and we will go...

I had never been to Barefoot Peddler before, but had heard good things about it from my parents. My mom's sister has said that it was expensive so I was a little nervous. When I walked in, I saw a sign that said "23 & Older". My immediate reaction was "oh dang, they aren't going to let me in" and "That's strange." After about 5 minutes of standing there, a waitress told us to sit anywhere. No carding, no 'how old are you'? When our waiter arrived he once again didn't ask me my age and didn't even card me when I ordered a 7&7(but that might've been because I was with my mom). After looking at the menu, I would say that they are reasonably priced, not cheap, but reasonable. In the realm of Applebee's and Fridays. I will say some of the appetizers are a little more than I would expect, but nothing insane. Plus, I don't know how big the portions are. I got a cheeseburger which was $13. Can't go wrong there. My mom got the Thanksgiving Dinner which was also reasonable. The parking lot is very small and the bathrooms are all the way down 2 flights of stairs, so I don't recommend if you have trouble with stairs(ie: wheelchair, walker, etc). One of the only negatives is when you get the bill(not before) on the bottom of the receipt it says 'please no gratuities on credit cards'. Well, thanks for letting me know! I started to worry because I knew that I didn't have enough cash to leave an adequate tip(I like to tip around 20% unless the service is less than what I would expect). Thankfully when I got the credit card slip, it said 'cash tip preferred' where you can enter the gratuity. But overall I thoroughly enjoyed my meal and...

I would not here again after the first flop thought I give it a try again. They sat us down waited for literally 1hr 8min after ordering and no food came out everyone else were being served but ours was a miss. After waiting and searching for our waiter the owners own nowhere to be found. We asked another waiter where he was they went looking for him, finally coming back and telling us that our order was not placed. Never came to apologize and gave our table to the other waiter who now had to serve other patrons first and finally came back to us. We asked the waiter from the beginning for some bread his response to expensive to put a basket of bread wasn't feasible for them to do that. but it's feasible for customer to wait over an hour for our food. Skip this place it's not how you treat customers. No apologies offered nothing. Thank you but not how you treat customers. Lucky it got one star for the other waiter who helped but really should have left and went elsewhere not a very...