Food is very good! Service is very good! Very casual and lively and a very friendly place to unwind and grab something good to eat. Very cold beer! read more

Went for all you can eat crawfish and royal reds, it's a dive bar so be aware, it's smoky, it's dark and it's buffet style but the food is very good and cheap! read more

The all you can eat shrimp buffet on Saturday & Sunday is well worth the price. Even better when Crawfish is in season. You get both for the same price. read more

Great little bar, cheap drinks and live music! This is a 3am bar, they have live music from 10pm-2am, and serve food till 2am! Drinks are good and very reasonable, and there are two pool tables! Only reason I gave 4 stars is this is a smoking bar....not a big deal, just not a plus for me... read more

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Unfortunately, I'm leaving this one star review, as much as I don't want to. We sat at a table and after waiting 15 minutes we weren't greeted or our order taken even though the bartender saw us walking through the door. We came for the food and the drinks after reading others' reviews but we left hungry and thirsty. Very disappointing. read more

Undertow - Bars Near Me - Orange Beach, Alabama

Awesome! Met Post Malone there!!! Late night food and great prices. Food was really good!! A++++ read more

Undertow - Allison and Post Malone - Bars Near Me - Orange Beach, Alabama

Great Ruby Red shrimp boil!! Priced reasonably for all you can eat! Would love to eat the sides if potatoes, corn, and sausage but the shrimp are just too good!! read more

We heard about this little dive bar and stopped in to get the AUCE royal reds, but it was too early. They serve Sat and Sun 2-7. The bartenders were very nice and beers cold. We'll be going back before we head home in April! read more

We walked up and opened the door could not see due to people smoking and vaping, smelled terrible went some where else. Had heard they had good food but how could you taste it. read more

When looking for the best deal in all, you can eat Royal Reds. Be sure to check out The Undertow to satisfy your cravings. Occurring Saturday and Sunday, their shrimp buffet offers roasted corn potato's sausage & plenty of that delicious shrimp all for $10. Throughout the week be sure to check out events & specials offering live bands Karaoke & Texas Hold'em or rack'em up for a game of pool. Come for the food, stay for the fun here at The Undertow.   This is a favorite spot when it comes to enjoying a few cold ones with family and friends or to enjoy a few events & a variety of entertainment offered here. As mentioned in my short intro, I enjoy their all you can eat special on the weekends. Finding their shrimp hit or miss at times while snowbird season is happening the chef attempts keeping pace with crowd & with the volume they forget to restock on occasion. I suggest going early to get it fresh & moist. Their servers and bartender are some of the greatest people you'll ever meet, excellent attitudes, friendly & laid back.    As quick I was going through copious amounts of shrimp sausage corn & gallons of butter & cocktail sauce they made sure my table is spacious for additional carnage & made sure I didn't spend 1 moment thirsty keeping my drinks filled. When it comes to their pool tables, there's not much to say as their tables felted perfectly no uneven-ness with the table cue's seem perfect, but I enjoy a good pool game after a hardy meal. This has been an excellent visit & so excited to come back again another weekend for their Poker (My favorite hobby) Karaoke live music & indulge again in eating all you can eat shrimp  Be sure to like them on FB & tell a friend. The Undertow :  https://www.facebook.com/The-Undertow-162401577148377/ read more

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Attentive bar tender comfortable seating - good prices. Not as smokey as I thought. Music is on the hard rock side.

We were First timers... all you can eat royal reds Saturday & Sunday got our attention! wooohooo!!! Way good!!! We'll be back!! For sure!!! We had the most wonderful attentive kitchen guy keeping food refilled! No one waited on us, we had to order at the bar (which was busy). Seemed a little odd. read more

Best reuben around! Bartender/server Mack is phenomenal! As is bartender Jeramy! Great place to be yourself. Have a brew, watch some football, play pool, smoke your vape or cigar. Vape shop on site. I love coming here. Great laid-back local atmosphere. read more

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Love this place, such a good vibe. The Pool tables are great. Jessica and Sam are the best! Clean restroom for a bar.

Amazing service, great wings, good burger, no cheese on the loaded fries which was super disappointing. read more

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This place is definitely a must try. They had a all you can eat crawfish boil. The manager stated that they will start having these on a weekly basis. 20$ all you can eat crawfish with all the fixins. Best crawfish I ever had state to state by far. If you happen to be in gulf shore area must stop by there.. smoker friendly and live music... Win!!! read more

Undertow - All you can eat crawfish boil - Bars Near Me - Orange Beach, Alabama

A great find. Local bar and grill with reasonable prices. Fresh dip was big enough for 2. Friendly staff and all you can eat Royal Reds Sat and Sun for $15.99. read more

Undertow - Under Tow Grill. Local hole-in-wall. Great prices and food. Royal Reds All you can eat, Sat and Sunday. $15.99. Giant outdoor area. - Bars Near Me - Orange Beach, Alabama

Had a great time. Good local bar. Service was spot on. Yes, there was smoking - it's a bar and we expected it. Our hamburgers were perfectly cooked and tasty. I suggest everyone try the dumplings (Dj suggested them and it was very tasty with just a slight heat). oh and DJ was better than Joe read more

This dive was u expected . It was suggested that I go and try the food in a late night. The food was fresh and amazing and customer service was excellent and friendly read more

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Everything that I have had there is good from the cheeseburgers, fries, onion rings, fried okra, chicken tenders, wings and the AYCE crawfish and Royal Reds on the weekends. The only downfall of this establishment is that they allow smoking! But no worries go early and it's not that bad!! read more

Cool is good. Old school dive bar. Matt is attentive bar tender. Monday is great night together the groove crowd. Good music and Poole tables. Reminds me of FL Bama in the early eighties. read more

Best dive bar around. Food is good and beer is cold. Sam is an awesome bartender, and the cook can make some good food.

We went to the Undertow on Sunday based on the Mullet Wrapper ad that advertised the "all you can eat Royal Reds." Honestly we were kind of wondering how it would go. We arrived and the Bartender came over almost as soon as we sat down and explained the details of the layout and what was available and to take our order. We gave our drink order, and asked for a few minutes to survey the layout and menu possibilities. When the Bartender returned within short time we had noticed the long line at the buffet for the Royal Reds, sausage, red potatoes and corn. We decided to give the buffet a shot. The line disappeared pretty fast and so did the large amounts of Royal Reds that were already available and there was very limited Royal Reds left for our 1st run through the line. It was a little odd and worrisome at first, but within about 15 minutes the young man setting up the buffet was back in action and refilling the Royal Reds container at the buffet line and all was good again. Food, service, atmosphere was laid-back and great. Old-School type of Lounge and friendly Patrons and Employees to make you feel like you had been there multiple times. Very reasonably priced amongst the loaded-trails of high-dollar Tourist stops all throughout the Bay & Beach areas. We will definitely visit again.. read more

Great dive bar with the best deal on royal red shrimp in OBA. If you can't handle cigarette smell you may want to steal clear. Very local.

Awesome!!! Service and food is always great! Owners are amazing!!! Fun place for sure!!!

Don't gamble in this place if you are from out of town. We went to cash out and bartender told us won $45 on the machines and were told to come back in 24 hours. When we returned the next day they said we only won $2.25. Pretty obvious they only pay out to locals. read more

I've never been inside this sweet spot, but my husband picked me up a to go plate of the royal reds, sausage, potatoes and corn. Everything was great! The price was great too! We will definitely be returning and are looking forward to going inside to enjoy the AYCE royal reds. It doesn't matter if you dine in or grab it to go, this place has great food for a deal! read more

Undertow - Royal reds, red potatoes, sausage and corn. Butter sauce and cocktail sauce for dipping. - Bars Near Me - Orange Beach, Alabama

Cool bar but absolutely no tourists! They treated us shitty and we couldn't catch an uber. It was a 10 minute drive but 2.5 hour walk and they refused to take us no matter what we paid them. If you're thinking of spending money here go somewhere else like the warf or flora-bama absolutely ridiculous. read more

Great dive bar with outstanding all you can eat royal teds and mudbugs. The staff is awesome

Yelp check in wouldn't work here and said I was 8 miles away for some reason and Google Maps also gets the address location completely wrong so I'm not sure what's going on with that. This is a dive bar located in a small strip mall not too far from The Wharf. Every Saturday and Sunday they have an all you can eat Royal Red shrimp boil (and add crawfish when its in season) served with potatoes, corn and sausage all for just $10 so that's a really awesome deal. The drink prices are affordable so you avoid the tourist rip off pricing of most of the places nearer to the beaches. What isn't so awesome is this is a smoking venue and they also have a vaping store located inside the bar at a counter. The customers seemed to be mostly older local folks who were friendly and having a good time. Overall I really enjoyed the interesting people, beer prices and shrimp boil while the smoking made it less pleasant. read more

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They have AYCE royal red shrimp for $10.00 WOW!! It's been happening for years on Saturday and Sundays both on and off season. Here's the deal, you not only get one of my all-time favorite Royal Red shrimp but it includes AYCE boiled new potatoes, sausage and corn with drawn butter. If that werenn't crazy enough you get crawfish too, seriously!! Now this place is divey, for sure because it's primarily a bar with some pool tables but they set up some king tables out back and they cook up all this food in bulk and you serve yourself. It's not where near fancy, it's actually exactly like a block picnic where everybody knows everybody else and you just make yourself at home and everyone for themselves. I may not be making this sound appetizing but, like I said, I love Royal Reds and while my wife isn't a huge fan of this rustic weekend culinary safari I can tell you that my Son and I really dig the whole adventure and of you might expect we eat too much. They start serving just after lunch and it keeps on coming until all the food is gone. I recommend coming earlier because everything is uber fresh and while being there at the beginning will require waiting in line it's best to hit it about :30+ minutes or more into the eating frenzy. Now I am really not doing it justice, hey it's not fine dining, like I said, but it's not quite feeding time at the farm either:-) Another big plus is the beer is pretty cheap and it's really nice and cold so that's always good. Bottom line there is no service, it's not all warm and fuzzy but the beer is cold and the shrimp is hot so nice you know. FYI this is also home to Orange Beach vape shop, it takes up a about a quarter of the indoor space. That is good for me because I am like Dartth Vaper ever since I gave up cigarettes in 2017 and these guys at OB Vape really know their stuff. read more

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My husband and I love dive bars and this on is at the top of our list. They have delicious food and specifically the seafood. The staff is super friendly and they always get your order right. Any good bar is as good as the customers that visit there. The Undertow is frequented by fun and friendly people. Do you want cold beer and great food? Go visit the Undertow ASAP! read more

Amazing staff and fantastic drinks! The best environment and had pool tables for everyone to enjoy!

I'm not sure where to start! I preface this review by saying I wasn't feeling 100%. But there we were walk in greeted pretty quickly and told to sit anywhere, drinks ordered... for our food order the waitress sat with us (pulled up a chair to the table... pulled my husbands beard and proceeded to say "I just gotta do it once"! My husband gets AYCE shrimp (It's help yourself) shrimp were goodish but for the price the only thing we are hoping is there no food poisoning in the near future. I ordered the appetizer sampler for my meal... it took over 40 minutes. I get if it's busy and even then I'm questioning where it's at. Let's go to bill/check time I go ask for the check she comes back and tells us our total is 31$ tells us doesn't give us a check! At this point I'm ready to go so we give her the card and she brings our check back to sign. Hoovers the entire time. Mind you she hasn't been involved the majority of the time. I'm positive I'm missing something. But you get the gist! Also the place stunk of cigarettes, rips in all of the chairs I'm sure they got tables and chairs from Golden Corral 25 years ago. read more

Great staff and reds were good. Fabulous bar. Will go again. Reasonable prices. Xxxxxxxxxxxcxcvfnhfgjj read more

Good beer prices. I walked in looking for a dive bar which I found!!! Had that musty smell to it. Then realized you can smoke. I don't mind vapes but everyone was smoking cigarettes and cigars. I haven't walked out of a bar in years smelling like that. Seems more of a locals place. If you don't mind smoking this could be your spot. read more

Bartender was very rude as soon as we walked in. She was not friendly. The drinks was terrible. I will NEVER come back here again!!!!

We heard about the "buffet" and had to try it. $12.99 for all you can eat boiled shrimp, potatoes, corn on the cob and sausage. It was all very tasty but the atmosphere was not so great. It is a dive bar and Smokey! Everyone was very nice and plenty of food. read more

This is definitely a dive bar. I'm sure some of us stuck out like a sore thumb----Granted we busted up in there with our shirts proudly with the logo of our own karaoke bar that happens to be miles away.... like-----a whole two states away. Dive bars are our thing... we run one. We also try to make people feel welcome. Dive bars are----smoking. Some reviews are crying about it being smoking. Well. So sorry for that.... but again: DIVE BAR. Cheap drinks, too. I mean---cheap drinks! The karaoke DJ is awesome as well! And, talking to the regulars----I kept being told, "You have to try to wings!!!" I will, next time... because... I have a solid feeling this is be where I roll up next time I am in the area. Heck, we ended up here two nights in a row. Nick is a total sweetheart, too! He was one of the bartenders who took care of us! read more