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My wife decided to try a new place on valetines day, namely Louie’s Chop House located in chesterfield, michigan on the west side of gratiot ave.

Right off the bat I was thinking oh…great louie’s chop house. How great can it be with a name like louie’s.  What I pictured and what it is was way off.

Of course valentines day it was packed to the gills. We had reservations & had to wait about 15 mintues or so to be seated. Once we were seated, in the bar as me & my wife are smokers, the waiter brought us some basil infused oil with fresh ground pepper on top. the bread was a few minutes late in arriving but it was very hot & fresh out of the over – nice & crusty the way I like it.

They had a piano player in the bar who was pretty good. My wife doesn’t care for piano music much but as the night went on that changed as he managed to play some tunes that she really liked.

She ordered a pineapple juice & coconut rum, I got a dragonsmead red (produced in warren michigan). The beer was great! We didn’t get any appetizers that night.

I ordered the honey walnut porkchops with asparagus on the side & my wife got the coconut shrimp with augratin potatoes. It took a while for it to arrive but the food was absolutely great and worth the wait!

There where 3 good sized pork chops nicely char grilled, the asparagus was a bit mushy for my taste but passable. You’ll have to read Tami’s review to get her take on the food. We were expecting to have room for dessert but that was far from the case. By the end of the meal we were stuffed & satisifed with the food and the whole experience.

In total the meal cost about $65 plus tip. So louie’s isn’t the cheapest place to eat but the food is well worth the exra dough for a nice night out.

Since Tami had her heart set on getting banana’s foster or cherries jubilee we returned the following night.

Just to see how the staff reacted I was sporting my blue jeans, lamb of god t-shirt (a heavy metal band) with a fleece welders cap. Tami was wearing a bass pro shop t-shirt & blue jeans. The staff didn’t miss a beat. We have found some higher end restaurants react negatively towards us when we walk in looking like that so it was a good test which they passed with flying colors. Once we we sat down in the bar again, by ourselves this time as no one else was in the bar. I got another dragonsmead red & Tami a lemonade. Our waiter immediately said nce shirt when he saw it, turns out he is a metal drummer for an up and coming metal band & the bar maid/manager (possibly owner has a son who has toured around the world as a metal drummer). So needless to say I was quite happy that the staff was down to earth & very friendly.

This time I ordered an appetizer, the cajun beef tips. Tami actually order the crab cake appetizer as her meal with augratin potatoes again. My meal was the detroiter sirloin steak, mdium, with garlic smashed taters on the side.

The beef tips took a little while to arrive (enough time for us to smoke a cigarette) but were good, not fatty at all & served with garlic cheese bread. MMMMMM very good. Tami said that they were spicy but I didn’t notice anything. Once we finished with that Tami had enough time to smoke another cigarette before dinner arrived. My steak was great and the garlic smashed taters were very tasty. I used a butter knife to cut the steak it was so tender.  The steak had tobasco onion straw on top of it but I didn’t have any as I wanted to save room for dessert. Tami seemed to really enjoy her crab cakes & taters.

For dessert we(Tami) initially ordered the cherries jubilee but it turned out that they were out of cherries so she went with the banana’s foster. After smoking a cigarette a different waiter wheeled in a granite topped portable bar with a burner and prepared the banana’s foster right in front of us. It was very, very good. The waiter made the perfect amount of topping for the vanilla ice cream.

Once we finished that we were ready to leave and told the second waiter so. After about 15 minutes he returned saying that our first waiter left and voided the order from the computer so he had no idea what we ordered. He was extremely apologetic for the inconvenience. After we went over everything we had he returned shortly with our bill. In total it was about $62.

Ok here is my take on Louie’s on a 1-5 rating system 1 is horrible 5 is great

• Food – 5
• friendly staff – 5
• atmosphere – 5
• timeliness – 3
• food selection – 5 (the key here is that the menu isn’t massive so the food they do offer is great)
• Price – 4

Overall if you’re looking for a very nice leisurely dinner with good food and a friendly staff Louie’s is a good choice. While it’s not the least expensive it’s not the most expensive either and even with the few “issues” we really enjoyed it.

We will definitely return to this great locally owned restaurant.

Here is the info for Louie’s Chop House as of this post

50355 Gratiot Ave
Chesterfield, MI 48051

586-949-9566

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