The Lauber - South Bend

Tried something new for date night....I made a reservation so when we hot there we got seated right away! Service was excellent and food was good.

Pup friendly, relaxed, nice atmosphere for family or intimate meal. My son enjoyed the BBQ sandwich and I the tequila lime pizza. We split the dough bites with the spinach sauce. Food was excellent, service was less than good. Our server may have been having an off day.

Food was good, drinks were very good. Service was super slow, but friendly. Have to take off a few stars for what seemed like staff jacking around and goofing off. It was very loud and somewhat unprofessional.

Visiting town and needed to grab some lunch so swung into The Lauber. It’s a slow time of day so the food came out really quick. On the downside, our fries were stone cold and we didn’t love the taste of the BBQ sauce on the pizza. We’d come back if ever in the area again, it wasn’t bad, also wasn’t a 5 star experience.

I was pretty disappointed by my experience here. It started off frustrating because I couldn’t find any parking. Though they have a dedicated lot, it holds <20 cars. You then have to hope Macri’s has room in their lot, which they didn’t. This leads to street parking which is completely hit or miss, I ended up parking 2 blocks away thus making me late for lunch even though I arrived 10 min early. I can normally look past parking if the food is great. However, I was once again disappointed. I heard the pizza here was bomb so I ordered the Show Stopper. You can judge for yourself from my picture if this is a pizza worthy of $14. It seemed to have a ton of arugula, no “tomato jam” and barely any cheese. Disappointed is an understatement. On top of all that, during a 2 hour lunch, our server checked on us a total of 3 times. Meaning our waters were constantly empty and we waited 30 min to get our check. I do like that they have Toast as a payment system so the credit card gets processed right at the table, like in Europe. Overall, definitely won’t be back. This entire experience was disappointing, especially when I could’ve just gone to Carmella’s next door. Will not be back.