Bar Siena

⚠️ ⛔️ Exercise caution ⛔️⚠️ ⚠️⛔️ The owner of this bar does not care about you ⛔️⚠️ I visited Bar Siena while flying from Chicago O’Hare, and it was an incredibly disappointing experience. First, I had to endure a long wait to get seated because the place was severely understaffed. After finally securing a spot, I was left unattended for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, guests who arrived after me were already served drinks. It felt quite offensive and frustrating. When I asked a server about my order, his excuse was, “I thought my other colleague took your order.” Do they not coordinate or communicate at all? When I finally managed to place my order, I requested a beer and a pizza. After waiting another 7-8 minutes, the server came back and mentioned that they were changing the beer tap, so the beer would take longer. The pizza itself was tasty but severely lacking in chicken, which was clearly listed as part of the dish on the menu. As I sat there, I took the time to read reviews online, and to my surprise (or perhaps not), I found countless complaints about the same issues: rude behavior from staff, long wait times, and general neglect of customers. I experienced all of these firsthand, and it’s evident that management does nothing to address these concerns. They don’t seem to care about training their team, motivating staff, or improving service—despite the flood of negative reviews. The ignorance from staff and management alike is appalling, and if you value timely, respectful service, I’d strongly recommend steering clear of Bar Siena.

I don’t understand why the reviews are so low of this place, the food and service were both excellent, not just for an airport restaurant but for any place. You could tell the chefs and sous chefs are experts and take care of the food they serve. Next time I am in terminal five I am definitely coming back!

Bar Siena as an exceptional fine Italian dining restaurant in the new newly finished 4 year / $1.1 billion expansion project of terminal 5, and is certainly a culinary gem from at Chicago O'Hare. It's popularity was first engaged when our table for two was about a 45 minute wait, but given that we had some time before our flight it certainly was worth the it. On top of the restaurant being full until we wrapped up our meal a little after 6:00 p.m., there was a steady flow of people at the takeouts window as well. Once seated Michael was our server, and bar none one of the more personable waiters we had in our whole weekend trip to Chicago. Being electronic music lovers it was awesome to hear the sublime playlist that was playing in the establishment, and then asking Michael he said that it's about the same 12 tracks on repeat 😂 Each of the 4 TVs in the dining area was airing a different channel, and with the Olympics in full swing it was nice being able to catch a couple of the different preliminaries during our visits. The menu had so many amazing items on there that we had to try our own little tour of Italy, starting off with the meatballs combined with drinks, my wife and I sharing the espresso martini while she has the No 15 and my go-to favorite beer: a Blue Moon. 🍺 Served with a delicious marinara sauce and bread, the meatball was devoted quickly, and with the amazing flavors we were already won over in our claims of probably one of our favorite Italian spots ever - and it didn't stop there! We had ordered the chopped salad and the wild mushroom pizza to share and before we could get through the end of our meatball we knew we're going to have to get the pizza to go. The chopped salad had tiny little pieces of cucumber & cheese, bread crumbs, and a litany of meats, tomatoes and delicious dressing. One of the highlights of our table location was being so close to the kitchen and seeing the line cooks preparing and then one of the top chefs putting the finishing touches before the plates were delivered to their tables. As expected the savory pizza and the heavenly aroma of garlic only made it past one slice, so the rest of it came with us as we departed, in hopes that the entire plane doesn't try to steal a piece 🍕 Price wise it certainly had the cost of a fine Italian restaurant, but at the end of our visit our raving after finishing each item was worth the cost! 👏

I ordered take away from Bar Siena by enjoying Special discount in valentine day. The Pepperoni Pizza and Caesar Salad are good!!👍

Amazing pizza!!! I was incredibly shocked to find this good of food in an airport and prices are fairly! If you are ever in O'Hara airport definitely make time to stop by!!!

Love the atmosphere. This was my oasis when faced with a four hour flight delay but Michael was friendly and turned my afternoon around. Pizza was a bit dry but other than that the atmosphere and service was great!

This is near Gate 34 and you barely have any other restaurants..we crossed gate 28 and realized there was nothing around and were about to turn back when we saw the poster for Bar Sienna. We ordered Pizzas and beer and drinks,all were pretty good.

Typical bar food, typical airport bar. I will say that the price, while high was not outrageous like some airport bars. Sam L. was my bartender/server and his service is what pushed this review from a 3 to 4 stars.