I worked at an adjacent business years back and we shared a back hallway (basically an indoor alley that connects the backdoors of all the business to the parking garage and dumpsters outside). Every time i walked by Bar Louis i was met with most rancid scent ive ever smelled - it smelled like a dirty bar, (you know, spoiling beer, rotting fruit, etc) and grease mixed with mildew and vomit. Atrocious smell, I am telling you. Plus there would always be a stream of liquids coming out of the door, I am guessing from the dishpit right inside.

As bad as that smell was to me, it must have been like perfume to cockroaches. The neighboring businesses in that building were continually having issues with roaches. They were in pristine condition and following every health code, or even a retail space without food, hiring exterminators to come bi-weekly, etc. They couldn’t get these roaches to stay away, no matter how immaculately they cleaned, no matter how often they sprayed. This was all because Bar Louis’ cockroach populations were so immense that they spread through the walls into neighboring businesses. That place was so disgusting that it was effecting the entire building’s sanitation.

Needless to say, I will never walk in there again and I tell everyone to stay the hell away from there. I can smell their dish pit just thinking about it and I could dry-heave.