Lou & Choo's Lounge

This place has come along way and for the better. New ownership and management is everything. It shows in every detail throughout Lou and Choo's basically is the same just refreshed. The downstairs is more open with a nice new bar floors walls upstairs great Decour play homage to history.

upstairs has been refreshed as well nice with the floors clean Chris bar the kitchen is still in the same area but it's been refreshed as well. This is a great place as always to go to a fish fry with friends and family. Outdoors has a very large seating area, in the summertime there were great events held here.

In addition so the upgrades the staff is friendly and more efficient. You have a few one off's that are terse but we have no idea how their day has been.

This is a local neighborhood bar. The bar food was sub-par. I ordered catfish nuggets, but something didn't taste right ( maybe the grease). I saw a patron eating crabs that had no seasoning on them, but she said that they were good. Being from Baltimore, Old Bay seasoning on the crabs is a must. $3 for a bottle of water.

Great place. Good is good. The stuffed salmon and stuffed catfish are must haves! Customer service can improve but overall the management it's great and amazing experience.

Went there for the first time last Thurs. We wanted to hear some live music but that wasn't on the schedule. Food was good, service was excellent. My date was a little fussy and the staff did all they could to accommodate her. Good selections at the bar too. Decor was interesting.

We just left and our experience motivated me to do a review. I saw on here the average was 3 stars and I just have to disagree. We came on a cold and rainy Sunday night. We went to the second level to order our food. You do need cash but they got an ATM. Long story short- salmon bites slap and I got a great amount of food and it was juicy! My husband got a burger (they didn't have what he was wanting) but he had no regrets- I have to back him up because I took a bite and was like damn! Delicious food, nice staff, nice vibe (mix of club and throwback music). Can't wait to be back in Philly to come here!

Lou and choo lounge is stealing our hard earned money selling fish fry tickets they don't intend to honor. I spent 20$ for 2 fish fry tickets and stood in a
Long line with other ticket holders for 1 hour and 15 minutes to get up to the kitchen window and have the staff say their remaining food was for cash holding customers ONLY. I paid cash for my tickets and so did my friend. They are scamming people who try to support their business and functions. DONT EVER BUY ANYTHING LOU AND CHOOS IS SELLING. Spoke with the owner Tracey Whitherly and other staff who shrugged shoulders and said oh well too bad they dont care, they already have our money go get something to eat elsewhere or give them 15 more dollars for a fish platter. THIS WAS MOTHERS DAY! THEY DONT RESPECT OUR MONEY OR US AS MOTHERS. DONT GO TO LOU AND CHOOS. TO CROWDED AND THE STAFF IS RUDE!

Decent spot...old head vibes! Great food and drink specials. 50 cent wings every night. Affordable and strong drinks. Came on "Twisted Thursday" they had a lot of $5 drinks. Only complaint was that it was a nice size crowd but only 1 bartender. She was nice tho and apologetic. They take cash and cards. I can definitely see myself coming back.

I believe this restaurant /lounge has potential, but there are some things they need to work on. When we walked in, we seated ourselves - which is fine. The bartender was really nice but it was very clear that there wasn't any communication between her and other staff. So first, we ordered our drinks - my initial drink I wanted didn't have available ingredients so the bartender suggested something else. I noticed they used a spout that measures the liquor? Whatever it was, we might as well had ordered regular juice because we barely had any liquor in our drinks - but I guess it's a plus that they didn't cost much. Now here's where our visit starts getting a little confusing. The bartender asked if we were ready to order and if we knew what we wanted, as soon as we started to answer she mentioned that we don't order with her but that we have to get up out of our seats, and walk upstairs to the other side of the bar to order our food BUT the server will bring it to us. My friend went to order our food and then calls me to tell me that the dish I ordered wasn't available because there's no salmon. Here's the kicker, about 85% of the menu are salmon recipes. So I was disappointed yet very hungry, and ordered something else. I asked the bartender why is most of the menu salmon and it's not available? She says "That sucks" this is where there is a lack of communication, why don't you know what's not available to mention to us? Then as I waited for my friend to give me my bill, they mentioned they paid for it already because it was cash only, we did not see any signs anywhere notifying patrons, but it's how they do things so...ok. So our food comes and the bartender comes and say "hey, I think she's trying to tell you that your food is ready and to come get it" as the server was standing at the top of the stairs holding our food, not even bothering to walk down (mind you, we were told they were gonna bring it) at this point we should have just went to the back and made our own food and carried it to the table ourselves because who is serving? There is some good to this review though, my friend and I both loved the catfish. It was amazing! The music was good as well, that's about it. I would definitely recommend this place as a quick to-go bite, but going in to sit and eat....just prepare yourself to work.

Came to Lou & Choo's while vacationing in PA, we went to the Friday nite all u can eat crab for $20- heyyyy!!! they had it set up outside which was pretty cool and trust me we ate a bunch of crabs. It was a warm nite and the music was flowing. The only suggestion I would have is to have lemons, the crab crackers and napkins on hand!! They ran out of napkins and the bar was not giving them up..smh. Karaoke was on point and a lot of fun. Outside of that it was decent experience,

I went for a fish fry event. The event was from 5 to 9. The crowd was older and a little more relaxed. Overall, I had a good experience. The food was good, music was nice and the drinks were strong. I would suggest to bring cash.