Baker's Grill

"I own my home in Lewis county New York and I have paid land and school taxes in this county for the better part of 25 years therefore, I try to keep my business as local as possible as often as I am able. However, it has been some time since I have been out drinking at the bars with friends so we had decided to stop at Bakers bar and Grill as I’ve had fun there in the past. Upon entering the establishment on 12/31-1/1/24 I went into the smoking room to have a cigarette after getting a drink and while waiting for my friend. I was in the smoking area for approximately five minutes talking to a few people that I had recognized with one of them being Bobbi Jo Turk who I don’t know too well other than her being a friend of a few of my friends, yet we talked for a few minutes also. After Bobbi Jo and I were done talking Bobbi Jo stood up and left the smoking room at which time my friend had entered the bar and then the smoking room with me. Moments later Bobbi Jo returned and apparently her and my friend have had issues in the past and began yelling back and forth, I diffused the situation and Bobbi Jo left the smoking area l. My friend and I continued to stay in the smoking room talking with others when out of nowhere this lady, that I now know as Lori Buckingham, slammed the door open, screamed out my name and my friends name yelling that we needed to leave her bar. We were caught totally off guard and I asked why and she told me because she said so. I continued to ask why or what had happened as we were gathering our belongings when eventually this bar tender screamed out that she knew my friend and I sold drugs and when I told her that that was untrue and ludicrous when she got in my face and yelled she knew we were dealing drugs because we knew her son, Josh Youngs. Again I told her that that was also not true that I have never met anyone named Josh Youngs that she must have me mistaken with someone else however, to avoid any more of her threatening onslaught I told my friend that we would just go. As we were walking past Bobbi Jo who was sitting at the bar on our way out she looked at myself and my friend and said “…I told you I would get you out of here.” Not only was this experience extremely embarrassing, I also found it erroneously defamatory and unwarranted as clearly the bar tender was kicking people out of a public establishment based on the advice of her drunk friend Bobbi Jo Turck. I was also very concerned with the highly inappropriate, unprofessional and aggressively confrontational behavior of the employee, Lori Buckingham, as when she was screaming in our faces her breath wreaked of alcohol and I never once saw either bar tender ask for identification from the many young patrons present. I will never personally go to this business again however, I think the owner or at the very least the authorities should look into the activities in this bar as the current staff in this establishment are giving Lewis county businesses a bad name."

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"Great atmosphere, bartenders, probably one of Lowville's last original dives."