I am so disappointed. I’ve been here a few times and loved it, including twice this past week. This will sound random at first, but you'd have to read through to understand the massive issue here; boy what a small world. So there are some people who moved onto my street fairly recently and have been extremely disrespectful to the entire neighborhood, being intentionally obnoxious, and we’ve just tried to ignore it. This weekend the couple living there got home drunk in the middle. Of the day in Saturday and got into a screaming match with 2 seperate neighbors a couple houses over, before they even pulled into their driveway, as their grey mustang sat in the middle Of the street, and of course half the block came out and walked over to see all the commotion. I could hear them slurring badly and the girl kept stumbling. This was the first time I’d actually seen their faces, and I could not believe the woman was the bartender who was on shift for one of my visits! I heard my neighbors call her letti when they were arguing so I think that's her name. The reason this is valid, we all talk on this street and pay attention, and both the man and woman (letti) drive drunk frequently, and I've seen guests from their house get into vehicles just trashed and drive off. This morning, I watched her son and his friends key my neighbors pickup truck. I let her know, they moved their truck into their yard and said to let it go because the poor kid has no guidance. If it was me I would press charges. It's scary. I feel bad for this buisiness because she seemed to do good at work and seemed sweet (it’s been slow when I go so maybe that’s a factor), and it’s clean with great ambience, a lot of potential. but I cannot support a business who has a bartender that regularly drives drunk, or has her boyfriend drive drunk, endangering lives, allowing her son to damage neighbors property. I hope she gets a dui and looses her olcc permit because a belligerent irresponsible alcoholic has NO business serving drinks, no matter how professional they behave at work. This girl is bad for buisiness. What a shame. Can’t believe this woman served us!
Caleb Finley
Elliot is awesome, the food is great, and he typically has some good tunes playing. I highly recommend their bbq!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brisket
Judi Lambert
Good food, fast service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Down Home Favorites Meets Haute Cuisine
As a displaced Southerner, I approach BBQ in the PNW with caution. Two bites into the pork belly and I was instantly a ten-year-old again eating the food my father and uncles worked for days to prepare. The Vault is what happens when Down Home Comfort Food meets haute cuisine - homemade, fresh, extremely generous portions of authentic, perfectly prepared fare. The BBQ is phenomenal and the sides are delicious as well. Corn was still snappy, the fries were hot even delivered, and the tacos are phenomenally flavorful without being loaded down with spice. Try the jalapeno poppers which are *obviously* hand made! The burgers are juicy and freshly-made to grilling perfection, and the Alabama white sauce will knock your socks off. The prices are ridiculously low, as I would happily pay twice the asking for the generous portions and extremely high quality of ingredients ... not to mention the obvious love, skill, and pride that go into the food. Bonus: no Styrofoam containers here, but reusable aluminum pans that just need a quick wash packed skillfully to avoid using too much container. And where else can you play cribbage while enjoying your food and superbly crafted cocktails?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wilson Fletcher
As a displaced Southerner, I approach BBQ in the PNW with caution. Two bites into the pork belly and I was instantly a ten-year-old again eating the food my father and uncles worked for days to prepare. The Vault is what happens when Down Home Comfort Food meets haute cuisine - homemade, fresh, extremely generous portions of authentic, perfectly prepared fare. The BBQ is phenomenal and the sides are delicious as well. Corn was still snappy, the fries were hot even delivered, and the tacos are phenomenally flavorful without being loaded down with spice. Try the jalapeno poppers which are *obviously* hand made! The burgers are juicy and freshly-made to grilling perfection, and the Alabama white sauce will knock your socks off. The prices are ridiculously low, as I would happily pay twice the asking for the generous portions and extremely high quality of ingredients ... not to mention the obvious love, skill, and pride that go into the food. Bonus: no Styrofoam containers here, but reusable aluminum pans that just need a quick wash packed skillfully to avoid using too much container. And where else can you play cribbage while enjoying your food and superbly crafted cocktails?Wheelchair accessibility: Excellent wheelchair accessibility both to and inside the restaurant as well as the bathrooms.
This place is amazing! Pool table, darts, games, lots of big TV to watch.The food is top notch, they have the best BBQ in this city. All the sides the we tried were delicious. They also have a white BBQ sause that is so amazing with the brisket!!! We have eaten here twice in the last 2 weeks and we LOVED it. This is a must try for anyone who loves BBQ.
Wilson F.
As a displaced Southerner, I approach BBQ in the PNW with caution. Two bites into the pork belly and I was instantly a ten-year-old again eating the food my father and uncles worked for days to prepare. The Vault is what happens when Down Home Comfort Food meets haute cuisine - homemade, fresh, extremely generous portions of authentic, perfectly prepared fare. The BBQ is phenomenal and the sides are delicious as well. Corn was still snappy, the fries were hot even delivered, and the tacos are phenomenally flavorful without being loaded down with spice. Try the jalapeno poppers which are *obviously* hand made! The burgers are juicy and freshly-made to grilling perfection, and the Alabama white sauce will knock your socks off. The prices are ridiculously low, as I would happily pay twice the asking for the generous portions and extremely high quality of ingredients ... not to mention the obvious love, skill, and pride that go into the food. Bonus: no Styrofoam containers here, but reusable aluminum pans that just need a quick wash packed skillfully to avoid using too much container. And where else can you play cribbage while enjoying your food and superbly crafted cocktails?
SHAD RUSSO
West Salems best secret! The food is better than any bar in West Salem. If you want to hang out with regular bar drunks and eat bland food, the Alibi is your place. If you want pretentious people and mediocre foid, go to the Rabbit place down the street. If you want a nice clean place that you and your friends can have food that you talk about the flavor, this is your place. It's not super busy. So they can host a few friends without being crammed. They also have a fun game room that has actual games, not just retired people putting their pensions into a lottery poker machine. If you don't like bars because they are bars, this place is for you, it's a great atmosphere that happens to be a bar. Did I mention brisket? YUMMY!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brisket
Jennifer Vaughn
Cleanest damn bar I've ever seen! I love the vibe. Tastefully designed comfortable space with plenty of room to hangout with friends and shoot some pool. I enjoyed my burger and roux style Mac & cheese (the way it should be; no faux cheese). My Mr. scarfed down his burger topped with brisket. Drinks were fantastic!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Hang L.
Really good food at great prices. They'll even deliver to you if you're drinking at the wine bar next door! Would recommend the pork ribs, beef brisket, mac and cheese, and elote corn.
The cook/owner of the food side is a super cool guy. Got the brisket tacos and esquite. Then he threw in this tasty unique spaghetti on the house. All of it taste super good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Bethany Van Patten
My husband and I went there for the first time and we are not going back the rice tasted like cigarette smoke and the ribs were dry and had no taste as a matter of fact everything needed salt and more flavor it is not worth the money.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
John Carlson
This place is great! The food and cocktails are amazing. We were treated like family, they have a great staff. For what it's worth, best Old Fashion in Salem!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amber Rasmussen
This place is such a gem! We just moved to the west side of Salem and found this place. Such a cool vibe and the food is amazing! If you love a good Old Fashion drink, this is the place. So so good!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
CSL
Great place to meet with friends. Awesome service and giod food supplied by the adjacent kitchen. Has good music as well.
I am so disappointed. I’ve been here a few times and loved it, including twice this past week. This will sound random at first, but you'd have to read through to understand the massive issue here; boy what a small world. So there are some people who moved onto my street fairly recently and have been extremely disrespectful to the entire neighborhood, being intentionally obnoxious, and we’ve just tried to ignore it. This weekend the couple living there got home drunk in the middle. Of the day in Saturday and got into a screaming match with 2 seperate neighbors a couple houses over, before they even pulled into their driveway, as their grey mustang sat in the middle Of the street, and of course half the block came out and walked over to see all the commotion. I could hear them slurring badly and the girl kept stumbling. This was the first time I’d actually seen their faces, and I could not believe the woman was the bartender who was on shift for one of my visits! I heard my neighbors call her letti when they were arguing so I think that's her name. The reason this is valid, we all talk on this street and pay attention, and both the man and woman (letti) drive drunk frequently, and I've seen guests from their house get into vehicles just trashed and drive off. This morning, I watched her son and his friends key my neighbors pickup truck. I let her know, they moved their truck into their yard and said to let it go because the poor kid has no guidance. If it was me I would press charges. It's scary. I feel bad for this buisiness because she seemed to do good at work and seemed sweet (it’s been slow when I go so maybe that’s a factor), and it’s clean with great ambience, a lot of potential. but I cannot support a business who has a bartender that regularly drives drunk, or has her boyfriend drive drunk, endangering lives, allowing her son to damage neighbors property. I hope she gets a dui and looses her olcc permit because a belligerent irresponsible alcoholic has NO business serving drinks, no matter how professional they behave at work. This girl is bad for buisiness. What a shame. Can’t believe this woman served us!
Elliot is awesome, the food is great, and he typically has some good tunes playing. I highly recommend their bbq!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brisket
Good food, fast service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
As a displaced Southerner, I approach BBQ in the PNW with caution. Two bites into the pork belly and I was instantly a ten-year-old again eating the food my father and uncles worked for days to prepare. The Vault is what happens when Down Home Comfort Food meets haute cuisine - homemade, fresh, extremely generous portions of authentic, perfectly prepared fare. The BBQ is phenomenal and the sides are delicious as well. Corn was still snappy, the fries were hot even delivered, and the tacos are phenomenally flavorful without being loaded down with spice. Try the jalapeno poppers which are *obviously* hand made! The burgers are juicy and freshly-made to grilling perfection, and the Alabama white sauce will knock your socks off. The prices are ridiculously low, as I would happily pay twice the asking for the generous portions and extremely high quality of ingredients ... not to mention the obvious love, skill, and pride that go into the food. Bonus: no Styrofoam containers here, but reusable aluminum pans that just need a quick wash packed skillfully to avoid using too much container. And where else can you play cribbage while enjoying your food and superbly crafted cocktails?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
As a displaced Southerner, I approach BBQ in the PNW with caution. Two bites into the pork belly and I was instantly a ten-year-old again eating the food my father and uncles worked for days to prepare. The Vault is what happens when Down Home Comfort Food meets haute cuisine - homemade, fresh, extremely generous portions of authentic, perfectly prepared fare. The BBQ is phenomenal and the sides are delicious as well. Corn was still snappy, the fries were hot even delivered, and the tacos are phenomenally flavorful without being loaded down with spice. Try the jalapeno poppers which are *obviously* hand made! The burgers are juicy and freshly-made to grilling perfection, and the Alabama white sauce will knock your socks off. The prices are ridiculously low, as I would happily pay twice the asking for the generous portions and extremely high quality of ingredients ... not to mention the obvious love, skill, and pride that go into the food. Bonus: no Styrofoam containers here, but reusable aluminum pans that just need a quick wash packed skillfully to avoid using too much container. And where else can you play cribbage while enjoying your food and superbly crafted cocktails?Wheelchair accessibility: Excellent wheelchair accessibility both to and inside the restaurant as well as the bathrooms.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Burger, Crinkle Cut Fries, Brisket, Pork Ribs
This place is amazing! Pool table, darts, games, lots of big TV to watch.The food is top notch, they have the best BBQ in this city. All the sides the we tried were delicious. They also have a white BBQ sause that is so amazing with the brisket!!! We have eaten here twice in the last 2 weeks and we LOVED it. This is a must try for anyone who loves BBQ.
As a displaced Southerner, I approach BBQ in the PNW with caution. Two bites into the pork belly and I was instantly a ten-year-old again eating the food my father and uncles worked for days to prepare. The Vault is what happens when Down Home Comfort Food meets haute cuisine - homemade, fresh, extremely generous portions of authentic, perfectly prepared fare. The BBQ is phenomenal and the sides are delicious as well. Corn was still snappy, the fries were hot even delivered, and the tacos are phenomenally flavorful without being loaded down with spice. Try the jalapeno poppers which are *obviously* hand made! The burgers are juicy and freshly-made to grilling perfection, and the Alabama white sauce will knock your socks off. The prices are ridiculously low, as I would happily pay twice the asking for the generous portions and extremely high quality of ingredients ... not to mention the obvious love, skill, and pride that go into the food. Bonus: no Styrofoam containers here, but reusable aluminum pans that just need a quick wash packed skillfully to avoid using too much container. And where else can you play cribbage while enjoying your food and superbly crafted cocktails?
West Salems best secret! The food is better than any bar in West Salem. If you want to hang out with regular bar drunks and eat bland food, the Alibi is your place. If you want pretentious people and mediocre foid, go to the Rabbit place down the street. If you want a nice clean place that you and your friends can have food that you talk about the flavor, this is your place. It's not super busy. So they can host a few friends without being crammed. They also have a fun game room that has actual games, not just retired people putting their pensions into a lottery poker machine. If you don't like bars because they are bars, this place is for you, it's a great atmosphere that happens to be a bar. Did I mention brisket? YUMMY!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Brisket
Cleanest damn bar I've ever seen! I love the vibe. Tastefully designed comfortable space with plenty of room to hangout with friends and shoot some pool. I enjoyed my burger and roux style Mac & cheese (the way it should be; no faux cheese). My Mr. scarfed down his burger topped with brisket. Drinks were fantastic!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Really good food at great prices. They'll even deliver to you if you're drinking at the wine bar next door! Would recommend the pork ribs, beef brisket, mac and cheese, and elote corn.
Restaurantji Recommends
The cook/owner of the food side is a super cool guy. Got the brisket tacos and esquite. Then he threw in this tasty unique spaghetti on the house. All of it taste super good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My husband and I went there for the first time and we are not going back the rice tasted like cigarette smoke and the ribs were dry and had no taste as a matter of fact everything needed salt and more flavor it is not worth the money.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
This place is great! The food and cocktails are amazing. We were treated like family, they have a great staff. For what it's worth, best Old Fashion in Salem!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place is such a gem! We just moved to the west side of Salem and found this place. Such a cool vibe and the food is amazing! If you love a good Old Fashion drink, this is the place. So so good!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great place to meet with friends. Awesome service and giod food supplied by the adjacent kitchen. Has good music as well.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5