Hugo's Frog Bar

Natalie's aunt and uncle had a layover at O'Hare airport.  So we had lunch with them and Natalie's parents at Hugo's Frog Bar since it is one of Natalie's mom's favorite places to eat. It is located inside the River's Casino at 3000 S River Road in Des Plaines.

We ordered the big bowl of Lobster Bisque so we could share. It tasted good but wasn't the best lobster bisque soup ever - it didn't have any chunks of lobster in it and wasn't as creamy as it should be.  Also the size seemed like an average size soup bowl and not a "big bowl".

Nick had a steak sandwich.  The steak was excellent but because of the way it was sliced (very thick) it was difficult to eat as a sandwich.  If it had just been the steak maybe it would have been better because of the thickness of the steak and the bread. FYI - Hugo's is affiliated with Gibson's Steak houses, so they are known for their steaks. There are entree steaks that we could have ordered but because it was lunchtime we stuck with smaller portion items.  Natalie ate the King Crab roll sandwich. The bread was a folded piece of french bread which was very good.  The crab filling could have been a little more flavorful - it was a little bland.

The others ordered various soups and salads as a first course.  The wedge salad seemed like a good hearty portion.  For the second course 3 others ate sandwiches and 1 ate an entree salad. The entree salad was enormous and the slider sandwiches got rave reviews.

Final thoughts:
Food - good overall, but don't necessarily need to go back. Steak was excellent.
Service - excellent, constantly refilling water so it was never more than halfway empty
Atmosphere - nice piano music in the background to try to drown out the noises of the casino.  FYI - you may get carded going in because you have to slightly step through the casino to get to the restaurant. If you don't appreciate a casino atmosphere there are 2 other locations - in Chicago and Naperville.

Sorry we didn't take pictures. We'll get better at this.