Countryside Saloon

2501 E Ballard Rd, Des Plaines
(847) 827-5577

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Antonio Dinatale

Everything was good but the service was great. I would definitely go back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

David Coulombe

Went with friends. Turned out to be half-price pizza night. I had pizza, which was good. They were busy, but the service was excellent. They have a great beer selection. Many TVs. It would be a perfect place to watch a Bears game.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pepperoni Pizza

Carla Hernandez

Love the fried chicken and drink specials. Great place to watch a game on Sunday!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fried Chicken Dinner

Deb Eb

Had a grade school reunion here. The food was great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Alan Golden

A group of us went to dinner. The place is very popular and a bit crowded. It eventually got very loud. Food is good basic bar food and not expensive.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Danna Kobeski

This place is good to come to with your family. Nice outdoor seating area. Our server was phenomenal! They have a little bit of everything. The chicken chopped salad is good.

Jeffrey Meister

Coffee was burn made 3 hrs early poor service all the way around

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 4

Service: 1

Jonas S

I recently visited this restaurant, which has a lot of positive reviews, but my experience was fairly average. I ordered the 'Salon Special Burger,' requesting it medium, but it arrived well-done and lacked flavor, likely due to the frozen patty. Service was just okay—someone else brought my food, and it wasn't until halfway through my meal that the waitress checked in, at which point I reminded her of a missing item. On the bright side, I noticed many people ordering pizza, so perhaps that's where the restaurant shines. Overall, it was an okay visit for me, and I'd rate it around 3.5 stars.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

HiRaL Patel

I am only giving one star as its minimum to write a review. My husband, I and one of our friend went Sunday evening for dinner and drinks. My husband and his friend go to this place and like their pizza. So they wanted me to try their pizza. (It was my first time and last time I walked into this place)

We order two drinks, baked potatoes and 1 pizza for dinner. We got two drinks and baked potatoes right away. Our server didn’t show up even once after placing order. The place was not busy at all.

We called our server to check on our pizza order after waiting for an hour. We placed our order at 6:50ish and now it was 7:50pm. She is giving us excuse that the order didn’t print, I asked her if the order didn’t print how did we get the baked potatoes? Now she is asking us to repeat our order, ‘what kind of pizza did you guys order?’ So she can place the order now. We refuse to place an order as it was late.

We asked her to call her manager (The manager was not willing to talk to us, he walked by us and didn’t bother to stop) the server came back and mention “ I’m sorry, I forget to put your order in” and the manager mention he will take care of the check.

We insisted her to call the manager. We try to explained the manager on 1) how she lied that the order didn’t print, where she actually forget to place an order 2) she didn’t show up to our table once in 1hour to ask if we need anything 3) she rushed us to place an order as if kitchen is closing.

The manager had no expression, he just said sorry that she forget to place an order. I can put in the order now and it will take 15mins to bake the Pizza. So clearly the manager was not interested in listening anything. He also acted dumb and careless.

If the owners are reading this, PLEASE GIVE BASIC TRAINING TO YOUR STAFF!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Jim T

Nice place with great food and cold beers

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Danny Dahlke

This place feels like a Northwoods Wisconsin bar. Maybe it's the giant Leinenkugels canoe hanging above the bar. Anyway, their pizzas here are FIRE. Love it here.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pepperoni Pizza, Either Individual or Small Sausage Pizza

Sam Philip

I just entered the bar sat in the bar counter waited for the bar tender to attend me even after passing me serval times she did not even welcome me waited for 10 min she was busy taking to other customers and welcoming other guest her name is masha it happened at 2:00 pm i would like her to be trained how to work in the bar . As i work in the Hotel industry I do how to welcome guest and service them.

Atmosphere: 5

Service: 1

Robert Boyle

Great pizza and lots of beer.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Eve R

I don't know where to start. We ordered wings and pizza. Omg.. I m sorry, but pizza was so disgusting the only good thing was just french fries ? unbelievable how this place has good reviews. Our drinks didn't taste good. Mijoto was too sour and mango drink was disgusting!! I will never go back here . Sorry guys, but whoever is making drinks have to learn how to do it. I'm very disappointed!!!

Food: 1

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Salad Pizza, Buffalo Wings, Fries

Jeff Cremieux

Excellent neighborhood sports bar! Solid food and drink selection and prices

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