The Nauti Mermaid Bistro - Lincoln City

Bartender is awesome and funny! Patrons are nice. Have a dog? There is an outside area.

At first we liked the place. It has a typical dive bar feel, in a good way. The bartender was friendly, and made some very tasty burgers. Then the owner showed up.... With his dog. The owner wandered around the bar on his phone, and the dog wandered too, barking occasionally. Maybe I'm wrong or overzealous about the health code but the only animals I want to deal with or smell while I'm enjoying a beer and a burger should be on my plate. After the dog we started to look around and notice how filthy the place was. Stains and food smear on the walls, stained unvaccumed carpet. I love animals, but barking dogs don't belong in bars, and neither do dirty carpets and walls.. The food was great, the bartender was nice, the place was filthy, the restrooms reeked of ****, and we won't ever stop in again.

Great bar to enjoy the sunset from. The owner and staff are friendly and always greet you with a smile. The regulars are quick to strike up a conversation with new people and make you feel welcome. The food is great around dinner time. With homey meals and good wraps.

We usually end up here anytime we're visiting in Lincoln City. It's bright yellow and hard to miss. Also we're always here around the afternoon so we've never experienced the local nightlife part of it, to say the least. I will say it's a nice spacious bar with chairs clearly bought from an out of business office store or something. That lack of pretentiousness I LOVE. The walls are lined with old albums covers (and this goes into the bathrooms as well) so it's fun decor wise. There's the typical lottery games a horribly complex golf game if you want that to pass the time. Drinkwise it's a full bar numerous decent beers on tap. All very reasonably priced. Reason for 3 stars? So this bar has the MyTunes jukebox that you can play music either by using the machine or an iPhone app. I decided to use the app bought the equivalent of 8-10 songs depending on what you picked. All went well for awhile, but then the bartender skipped two of my songs and SHUT THE JUKEBOX DOWN. Two paid for songs. This is clearly idiotic of the jukebox vendor allowing a bar to do this but he did this so he could watch women's gymnastics. To say I was livid is the least. Sorry you don't like my music but I paid for it so shut. the. eff. up. My boyfriend talked me off the cliff of rage since we'd probably come back but THE HELL. I've already contacted the vendor but to me that's a no no. Let me tell you the many times I've heard shitty bar music and would LOVE to skip that ****. But it's my understanding that you can watch gymnastics without too much commentary (unless you want to be old many pervy then well.....ew). So seriously, NM, don't you eff with my music. No. No you don't. Otherwise totes fine.

Relaxed, quirky and extremely friendly to locals and tourists alike. It will be my go to place when we come again.