Tabitha T.
Yelp
I was a Bay Area visitor for a work event. I was so excited to go to a dueling piano bar because it's been a favorite experience on all of my travels, especially when traveling with colleagues. I am so amazed by the pure talent these musicians can showcase, especially on the fly. They are hilarious and simply amazing.
When I return to Dallas, however, I will be skipping Louie Louie's (unless the musicians spruce up their list of songs). This has been the only piano bar that I have been to (out of very many) where the musicians didn't know 95% of the songs that were requested. It was painful paying for songs that none of the musicians knew. They asked for backup requests and said that we stumped them with Shania Twain, Limp Bizkit, David Bowie, Beyonce, and so many others very popular karaoke song artists. My entire table of ten people requested songs, and only one of us had a song that was performed, and it wasn't even the song that was requested, just the same artist (which I told them was okay via Venmo). We definitely didn't choose random songs that no one would know and we paid between $5-$20 *each request. It honestly would have been so much easier to have a list of songs that they do know and we could pay and request those. When comparing Louie Louie's to others that I've been to, when the musicians come across a song that they don't know, I am used to them looking it up and performing it on the fly, using help from the audience and what I assume to be music notes on their phone.
Service was fantastic, the ambiance was amazing, the musicians were hilarious, but the choice of tequila was not good (*but this seems to be common in all TX bars), and the musicians *did not have a good library of songs that they could perform. However, I will still say that they SLAYED the few songs that they did know.