Reviews for Bemo's

10/11/2024 - Urban M.
Bemo's is a fantastic spot to grab a drink, enjoy live music, and soak up the local scene! The walls are adorned with interesting artwork and nostalgic trinkets that make for a visually stimulating experience. With a variety of music acts featured almost every night, including the occasional open mic event, Bemo's provides a lively atmosphere that keeps me coming back for more. It's a gem in the Bay City area that never fails to deliver a good time!

05/27/2024 - Maria P.
excellent food and service

05/04/2021 - MenuPix User
Showed up for open mic night. As soon as I started playing, two people jumped up on stage and wouldn't leave even after I asked them to leave. I complained about this, I was told "you just don't get Bemo's yet." So later in the night, I jumped up on stage and started singing scat in A Minor along with these guys (A Minor is a super easy key but it was a weird chord progression, actually it went to a different key at the end of the progression slightly, but I recognized it and so was able to scat along with it since I took the time to listen to a few bars before jumping in).

The bartender Lou came up almost immediately and asked me to get off stage. At this point, I actually felt guilty, and tried to go up to her to apologize. She wouldn't let me speak. She ends up raising her voice to talk over me to tell me that I'm not respecting her in her house and I need to listen to her more. It took about five minutes before I was finally able to get out an "I'm sorry." At this point I am f-ck-ng PISSED of course! They just keep telling me "you just don't get Bemo's dude" apparently I don't because it's really hard to figure your why the one was okay but the other wasn't. I was willing to try tho, and that's all I wanted to say with my apology. I tried to calm down enough to drive but couldn't, I told the bartender it would help me calm down if she just apologized, she again insisted that she didn't need to let me apologize to her in her house if she didn't want to. I don't even remember what I said at this point, maybe I deserved it who knows, but that's when her partner the other bartender escorted me out saying he was going to call the cops. All because I wanted to apologize but couldn't then couldn't calm down afterward.

There are a lot of good Christian people singing songs here but trust me, the owners are not good, forgiving, patient people, who admit that they can make mistakes. This is THEIR house and that's the end of the story.

They may respond to this post saying that they couldn't even listen to my.reasonable words, because of my tone of voice. I am bipolar and hard of hearing and this was my first time our after recovering from cancer. I didn't know I was being loud at first but I'm 99% sure that Lou raised her voice to me first. But again, this is HER house and if she wants to raise her voice but not let me raise mine, she can.

They told me I "just didn't get Bemo's." Trust me, I'm a reasonable intelligent person, if I didn't "get" Bemo's then you won't either. Don't show up.

One star.