Hemingway's Zen Garden

Stephen Smaus

Great local dive bar with tons of atmosphere! Authentic down-home feel and amazing tunes every day!

Carissa Brooke

This place has a unique style and friendly atmosphere. The food and drinks were great as well. We also really enjoyed the live music on Friday night.

Amanda Benson

The best atmosphere and live music venue in O'Fallon! We loved sitting on the patio in the fall and can't wait for patio season in just a few short weeks. Check this place out if you haven't already!

Andrew Sims

Fun dive bar with lots of atmosphere that also serves food. The wait staff were all characters and fun to talk to. The cocktails were pretty good and reasonably priced. Your draft beer choices are limited, but they've got all the domestic staples in a bottle. Now we come to the food. I'll start by saying we were there on probably one of their busiest nights, so I won't ding the slow service too much. Ordering at our table was tough and we had to go grab staff to get our subsequent food orders in. The appetizers were not very good, we had the spinach artichoke dip and hummus. The spinach dip was extremely salty while the hummus had virtually no flavor other than blended chic peas. I had the Bison burger for my entree and while the burger was really good, the fries were undercooked and not edible. I might have sent them back for new ones if we hadn't had to wait so long for our food. My wife had the Caesar salad with salmon. While she said the salmon was good, the salad was not. Something that I wasn't expecting was to be served all of our food on paper plates with disposable sets of silverware. I don't think it would have really bothered me if the food was all good, but with most of the food just being passable, it made me feel like the food is an afterthought. Overall, if you're looking for a place to go hang out and drink, definitely check this place out, especially for live music on the weekends. If you're going on a night during the week when they're not too busy, the burgers are worth a shot, otherwise, I'd skip the food. PS, if you're covid conscious, no one was wearing masks (including wait staff) and there was no social distancing being observed.