Great place for a good piece of meat accompanied by a great salad bar and delicious fresh bread. The wait staff is very friendly. If there were any complaint, it would be that the place is always packed...but that just speaks to their favor with the area. read more

It was very good. I liked it a lot. My steak was perfect. Everyone at our table of six had a good meal also. The service was perfect. My beer was never empty and my water was too. The food came out in perfect time. No complaints. read more

This was my very first time coming to the Barnsider. For years, I have always heard such great things about their food, their salad bar, and that it was an upscale restaurant. The patio, where they used to have outdoor dining, was filthy with old crusty leaves, some overgrown vines hanging down, the decking is in need of a good paint job, and I'm pretty sure the stairs to the entrance are not up to code. The inside looks like you're stepping back in time, roughly 40 years. The salad bar was sparse, the cucumbers were completely soaked and falling apart, almost as though they had been frozen. The bins of toppings for your salad were either completely empty or so low, that you couldn't see what was in the bottom of the bins. The salad dressing, ranch, had absolutely no flavor, and was so watery that it was like eating salad soup. I got steak, which was overcooked, and tough, but the flavor was good. I got a drink from the bar that came in a martini glass but was only 2/3 full....Granted, I didn't mention anything to the waitress, because it wasn't inedible, but I would never go back. the bill was $200 and I just didn't think it was remotely up to par for a $200 dinner for 4 people. read more

What happened to this iconic steakhouse?? Two times now I've gotten over cooked, well-done beef when I requested medium rare. Disappointing as this used to be the go-to, always good local steakhouse choice. read more

The Barnsider is a great place to have a meal, if a little pricey. I always get french onion soup and beef wellington, and my food is always prepared to perfection. Service is always super, as the staff isn't tipped individually but share them at the end of the night. Because they work as a team, I've never sat waiting for anything. They're always on top of our drinks and asking what else we need. Desert selection could be a little nicer and tastier, but everything else is fantastic. read more

Good dinner and seemed a bit pricey. The service was excellent and they did comp and replace our parents steak which wasn't edible. This place has been around for a while and seems to have a faithful clientele. read more

1 star restaurant disguised as a 5 star. At first everything was going seemingly well the salad bar was awesome. Then I made the mistake of ordering their beef Wellington. The server reluctantly put the dark charred entree in front of me while the manager watched to see my reaction. I looked at it and asked, " is this how it should be served". The manager came and took it away. Now everyone is eating their meal and another grueling 25 minutes go by as my appetite had came and went my meal arrives. I guess it wasn't terrible as my dessert was comped. Hahaha I'll never go their if I'm ever invited there I'll go to Taco Bell instead if they mess my order up I'll get the same treatment. They will fix my order and give me complimentary cinnamon twist. read more

I love the Barnsider and having a local flavor deal helps....I have one problem, the salad bar. Yes,the salad bar. Why is it so wet?? Did you know there is a salad spinner that has been invented? The lettuce (which is not my favorite lettuce) is dripping wet. I am thankful that your lettuce is clean but can we please dry it off? I had the chicken and I had the pork there, both were good nothing out of this world but ok....however I am still stuck on the lettuce. I love the bread,the cheese and the selection of items on the salad bar but the lettuce . If you sit in the tavern part you can get free popcorn, pretzels and cheese and crackers! What a bonus! However, I never tried them. Lettuce people lettuce read more

Just OK for me. I came here a few weeks ago with a large party for a holiday outing. First thing I noticed after scanning the menu was that they are pretty pricey and their drink menu is sad. A jolly rancher martini at a steakhouse? Weird. It took our server close to an hour to take our orders. Salad bar was pretty good, but nothing mind blowing. I ordered the NY strip which is supposed to be the best they have to offer. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable. The garlic red skin mashed potatoes were really good, although there was an upcharge if you wanted them. They also charge extra for any sauces on the side, which my steak could have used. They gave me a bit of trouble about showing a clipper coupon on my phone...they claimed they needed the actual coupon even though there is no code on the coupon to ring in. Overall, It was a satisfying meal nothing amazing, but over priced. I'm not in a rush to come back. read more

I'm not sure which Barnsider the other reviewers were eating at, but the one I ate must have been different. I have to say that I was largely disappointed with my entire experience here. I decided to take my girlfriend out to a new place for her birthday dinner and we ended up finding The Barnsider on Yelp, like we find everything else. The reviews were mixed but we decided to give it a shot anyway. We walked in and the place looked very nicely decorated and clean. I had high hopes that the place would have good food and that we made a good choice. What a mistake... We looked over the menu and everything appeared fantastic. Their selection included a lot of tasty sounding beef / fish dishes and I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to get since everything looked so good. The waiter came over and asked if there was a birthday since I had 2 cards placed on the table. I told him that we were celebrating her birthday today and he let us know that we get 50% off her dish. That was a pleasant surprise, until we told him that her birthday was actually 2 days ago and he just said "Oh that's too bad we enforce a strict birthday only rule so you can't have it." I would have appreciated less of a "Gotcha" attitude about how he said that. YOU asked US, so don't make us sound like we were trying to scam a 50% off deal and say it's her birthday today - we didn't even know they had this deal. So anyway, I ended up choosing the 10 oz. Prime Rib with baked Scallops and my girlfriend chose the Beef / Bacon Wellington (I forget exactly what it was called). Then we headed to the salad bar for some salad / bread. Bread and butter was delicious, and the salad was fairly fresh. I was pretty excited because I thought we might have stumbled on a decent restaurant that we can frequent. Our food came very timely - probably about 15-20 minutes after we ordered it. Unfortunately, what came out was the biggest disappointment I have ever witnessed at a restaurant. My scallops were small, extremely mushy (so mushy that when I picked it up, it crumbled and fell apart), and dripping in butter. The potato was large, as hard as a stone, and dry. And last and certainly least, the sorry excuse for a piece of gray fat swimming in sauce on my plate. It was a piece of meat I'd feel bad giving to a dog. It was a carved piece of meat you'd find at a cheap buffett and it wasn't grilled at all. It was so gray it actually looked boiled. It was no where near 10 oz, and was about half fat and grizzle. It actually looked like a cheap cut of roast beef you'd get at the Walmart deli. The whole right side of the piece was white fat. I decided to just try it to see if I was just being picky and maybe I just picked the wrong cut of meat or something. This meat had absolutely no taste - no seasoning, tasteless sauce, and tasteless meat. I couldn't believe that they would serve this dish for $26. At best, this was a $10 dish at a truck stop diner. The waiter came over and asked how our food was, so I tried to be polite and explain my problem with the food, but he was defending the chefs! He was trying to tell me that prime rib is supposed to be like that. Prime rib is supposed to be a tasteless slab of crap? In what world? So after some discussion, he offers to take it back and asks what else I would want. I chose a sirloin. The sirloin was better, but still fairly tasteless. Do they not use seasoning here? Salt? Pepper? Rub? Anything? I will give credit that the cut was fairly juicy which is how I like it, but it was done a large injustice by not having seasoning. I was furious at this point, and it didn't help that my girlfriend's dish looked like dog food as well. She ate it, but it looked like trash. A small carved piece of meat with rice-a-roni on the side. It was something I could have easily made at home out of a box. This was the first time I sent a plate back in years, and I generally eat anything that is put in front of me, but this was just disgusting. I would not recommend that anyone goes here, unless you want to play an April fool's joke on someone. Your money is better spent at McDonalds - at least they use salt and pepper. read more

Came here for my grandmother's 90th birthday, and I was so underwhelmed. 1. I wasn't expecting anything spectacular, but steakhouses should always be able to deliver steak. My medium-rare 9 oz. sirloin, supposedly the raison d'etre of the place, was overcharred and tasted like stringy sawdust. 2. Entrees should always come with starches AND vegetables in my opinion, unless you are dining out of test tubes or something equally distracting. 3. Baked potato, rice pilaf, or a random dumping of steamed vegetables as a side = boring! Would it kill you to offer one interesting vegetable in season - grilled or otherwise unhumiliated? 4. Since when does pilaf translate to white covered in red peppers? 5. WTH is everyone so excited about with the salad bar?! I don't get it. Oh, and it doesn't replace a vegetable for the entree. No, it does not. 6. If you offer sauteed mushrooms as a side dish, yet the dish is actually more than half sauteed onions, you should mention the preponderance of those onions in the menu. I also counted only one variety of fungus where there were purportedly three. 7. The specials menu should be served to everyone, not secretively palmed only onto the plates of the two people who arrived late. 8. My mother and aunt loved their haddock, my brother and SIL loved their chicken florentine, my husband and I liked the sirloin for 2 ok, but it was my grandmother's dinner, and she disapproved... Since this is a steakhouse, this shouldn't be so. 9. The wait staff is in high school and swings wildly back and forth between fluttery and pushy. Or maybe I'm not yet old enough to find inept teenage boys charming. 10. The party tables are too long and there are too many in the private room; when the other tables are loud and drunk, you can't hear anything at the table where you're sitting, and you can't talk to anyone two chairs down. I drove 300 miles to see some of these people, and only had the opportunity to say hello and goodbye. Oh well... 11. The blinds in the party room are nonfunctioning. For an entire hour half the table was unable to open our eyes because the setting sun was directly in front of us. 12. Gripe gripe gripe. Moan moan moan. 13. The smashed garlic potatoes were yum, and the wine glasses and cutlery etched with Gory-esque figures doing gymnastics on bicycles were cute. The end. read more

Terrible service. Was served undercooked scallops and the server took the plate back to the kitchen and brought back the same scallops (which I assume were microwaved) on the same plate. Guess they don't care about food safety. Unfathomable how lazy can a person be. For two people to have an appetizer and meal it took two hours. At the end of the meal we sat for 15 minutes waiting for our check, with two waitresses assigned to our table I would think the service would be amazing. Each passed by about ten times without even acknowledging us. At one point one of them was standing in the middle of the dining room staring into space. If you are going to provide that level of "service" don't charge $30 a plate... especially when your serving poorly presented/prepared food. My husbands lamb was tough and undercooked. The chicken florentine I ordered had raw dough at the bottom and no mushrooms. Two years ago I had an amazing experience with my husband and parents. I'm not sure what happened to this place but we won't be back and will not be recommending. Oh and by the way get rid of the urinal cakes which make your entryway smell like a run down bar at 4am. read more

On Monday my two oldest - 34 y/o son and 27 y/o daughter - and my wife took me to The Barnsider to celebrate my birthday. It was a very pleasant experience. We made reservations for 6PM and were promptly seated upon our timely arrival. Much to my daughter's and my surprise the restaurant was fairly busy; after all, this was a cold Monday night in late March. We were seated next to the salad bar; not an ideal choice of seating, but it worked for us. My wife ordered the Beef Wellington; that's not my kind of thing, but everybody else at the table praised it My son ordered the scallops - an NFL sized body at a steakhouse and he orders seafood, you figure it, I can't. They were excellently cooked and delicious. My daughter and I ordered the steak for two which, because it was my birthday, we got for 3/4s price. Though I thought the seasoning a tad blase, it was an excellent piece of meat superbly cooked. The sides accompanying the entrees were all worthy companions; my daughter disliked her vegetable medley as containing too much cauliflower, which she dislikes and I relish, so I interrupted my quite tasty baked potato to devour it. Dessert was a delicious chocolate cupcake, which I shared with the table, that came complements of my birthday status. We were all much too full for a real dessert, though we all were tempted by the choices offered. All in all, this was a very satisfactory experience.The closest thing I have to a finding of fault is the choices of bread at the salad bar. At one time the bread one would find at The Barnsider Salad Bar was as good a choice of bread as you'd find anywhere in Albany; this bread, though entirely edible, was pretty bland read more

Saturday was our 5 year wedding anniversary and we thought we would treat ourselves to some prime rib. After making a call ahead seating reservation at our usual favorite Texas Roadhouse we arrived to find dozens of people standing outside waiting to get in and no place to park. We decided that we would make a pass through the parking lots of a few other restaurants nearby to see if there was any alternative. Upon pulling into The Barnsider's parking lot there was an empty spot right in front of the restaurant - (Oh my we are doing good here!) There were some people standing around waiting, but as I got up to the hostess she said there would only be a 20 minute wait. (fabulous!) We are not drinkers, but it was our anniversary so we went into the bar to order a cocktail. As we approached the small opening at the bar, the couple to our left had their table ready so we actually got to sit right down to wait our turn (Fantastic!) Drinks were served promptly and the bartender told us that he would let us know when our table was ready. I do not think that 10 minutes passed and we were being seated and greeted by one of our 3 servers. So far so good - the prime rib is A LOT more expensive here, but it should be worth it. Right?!? Salad bar was very very basic - whoever was doing the prep was cutting things ridiculously large - cucumbers and onions etc were 1/2in thick - the chunks of bleu cheese in the dressing were humongous - a bit too much for a mouthful. None of the prepared salads that they used to have, not even a coleslaw or carrot salad which are so cheap to make. Some bread which was stale and big block of cheese which was great. Although the staff seemed to be hustling, the food was sitting at the pass for quite some time. I noticed at the hostess kept coming over to help garnish the plates whenever the front desk was quiet - HUH?! (How unsanitary!) Hey I am all about helping one another but please wash your hands or wear gloves when you are alternating between jobs! Finally our meals arrive - mind you a 16oz Prime Rib is $35 and if you want either mashed or twice baked potato that is an additional $4.50 - So we are basically at $40 a plate. At first glance it is obvious that my husbands steak is much larger than mine - when I said something to the waiter he said "no, it's the same" - instead of replacing it - he said he would be back in a couple of minutes! Now I am only wishing I had taken a picture of this meat - Ribeye or Prime Rib has a distinct "cap" that is the most tender and flavorful part - those of you who love Prime Rib know exactly what I am talking about! This is why you order this particular cut of meat. On this $35 now $40 dinner the Rib cap was pretty much non-existent - there was about a 1/4 of an inch of cap to which there was not much meat just mostly grizzle and fat. There was no flavor just tough chewy tendons running through making it inedible. In my lifetime of being a Prime Rib connoisseur I have not seen a piece of meat so pathetic since the Old Deli Warehouse used to sell their famous $3.99lb Prime Rib (CRAPOLA)! Because we waited what seemed like forever, my husband - being the typical guy still inhaled his piece because he was starving even though he agreed it was awful - (Way to go hun!) By the time yet another server came over to see if we needed to get anything wrapped she noticed I had not eaten my meat. When I explained to her that this Prime Rib was totally unacceptable for what they are charging her quick response was "well I don't eat meat" - ok... but you HAVE seen what it looks like?!? Or how it is supposed to look? She told us she would go get the manager - but instead returned and said he was too busy and told her to just take it off the check. Way to give a crap about your guests experience... Bottom line - do not bother to come here for either Prime Rib or even a decent salad bar... $75 (before tip) for 2 cocktails and a soda plus 1 Prime Rib Dinner - you know they still charged me the $5 for those mediocre mashed potatoes PLUS an extra $3 because I asked for some gravy to put on them! - I received a tiny ramekin of gravy that holds about 2 tablespoons. I was sooo pissed off as there was never a mention of even charging for gravy. I swear I do not understand why this place is still around - there is potential to have a very good business here, but instead it is an insult to it's patrons who are paying way too damn much for what they receive. I was sorry the last time we ate here almost 6 years ago and swore we would never come back - now it is final - no way ever again. I will gladly wait 2 hours to be seated elsewhere... Whoever is ordering the Ribeye for this establishment obviously does not eat meat either!! I can only imagine the lesser cuts of meat. read more

I dined at this restaurant for the first time last night but have worked in Colonie for the last 13 years. The restaurant clearly has lots of history and is probably a restaurant that families remember fondly from back in the day. Based on the prices I would say they are over rated. Nothing was "Wow" accept the baked potato. Honestly that was one of the best I have ever had! The salad bar was standard but a nice addition. The bread is cut your own. My table ordered salmon, prime rib, stuffed shrimp and stuffed haddock. It was all good but lacked any wow factor. Parsley garnish lol was placed on the plate by waitors with bare hands. I watched two chef's that looked like high school age students working with bare hands. One was touching his nose throughout the cooking process I watched one touching meat without gloves. This has to be some sort of health violation. Anyway this is a restaurant from yesteryear. Not sure how they keep it going but it appears to still have a great following. read more

This place has to have the slowest service of any restaurant I've been to. We were told here was a 45 minute wait, it was an hour and fifteen minutes. Took 10 minutes for a waiter to show. Anyway it was over 3 and a half hours of misery. read more

My husband took me here for my Birthday Dinner. I got food poisoning. Threw up immediately. Do not go here. Also the service was bad. Zero Stars. read more

Place is certainly overrated and overpriced but my relatives insist on going there. I try to keep my visits far and few between and for good reason. The wait was unusually long for our food and my baked haddock was overdone and dry. My wife ordered broiled scallops and got baked scallops that looked fried! Several people in our group complained about food temperature also. Why order fish you may wonder? Well honestly we make better steaks at home on our grill than we can get here and for half the price. Once a place gets a rep like this they can get away with anything i guess. Too bad! read more

Place is not as good as it used to be. Last three visits were mediocre. A steakhouse is to be judged on the beef - how was it cooked and how did it taste? Meat tends to be overcooked, time after time. Will think twice before going anytime soon. read more

It was overall a pretty good experience. I liked the salad bar with the fresh bread. It seemed a little busy and the interior was a little difficult to navigate, which made us, being situated in a corner probably a little more difficult to get to, so I guess I'm trying to say the service seemed a little slow. I got the Steak Au Poivre, which I wanted to try because the brandied peppercorn sauce intrigued me. Overall, the steak was prepared well, though the peppercorn sauce was not quite what I expected, it was good. They seem to use a generous amount of butter in the things they cooked, my mom's pasta and chicken were quite rich. Normally, I would've said this was a decent experience for a higher end restaurant, but for some reason we decided to get dessert (my dad and I were intrigued by the deep fried ice cream) and it was quite good. I personally liked the caramel rum sauce. read more

Reminds me of the Hungry Heifer that Norm always referenced on Cheers. I guess if you're a resident of (Sm)Albany, have a ball. I'm spoiled, what can I say. Over-priced, short on ambiance. Go to the bar area and have a hamburger. The meat's as good and reasonably priced. read more

Was so excited to try this place. The salad bar was just ok, nothing to brag about. The soda was flat and waited over 20 minutes to get new ones. My husband loves coffee and that was a poor quality. The prime rib I had was ok but was lacking that really good prime rib taste. My husband felt the same about his filet. My son ordered the combo platter. He bit into the scallops and they were raw so where the shrimp. The manager came over and said he would make a new one, but my son just felt grossed out and said no thanks. So then my husband ordered sorbet which came out in a broken glass with sharp edges. They made another and offered nothing for our troubles.We told 3 different waiters to remember to take my sons meal off the check. When the bill came the meal was still on there, guess they thought we wouldn't notice. Very over priced. For those prices I expect table cloths and comfortable chairs. not some old hard wood chairs. Place needs a make over including the manager and definitely the cooks. That is another thing at those prices I expect a master chef in the kitchen, not a bunch of line cook. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY on this place. Wish I could give 0 stars. read more

Was visiting for work and this place was recommended by hotel. Nice big place. Was excited about the salad bar but it was just ok-they need a few more toppings to give it a wow factor like homemade salads, cheeses, seeds, etc. I had the prime rib and scallops combo. Prime rib was a little tough in parts and could have a bit more flavor but it wasn't bad. Scallops were yummy in a garlic butter sauce. Potato was not very exciting. Bread was good. Service good. read more

The Barnsider is a very good steakhouse. I highly recommend this restaurant. Meals include a visit to a great salad bar. The menu did not list my favorite, a New York strip. The waiter said their version is the New York sirloin. I ordered that and it was excellent. This steak was comparable with a New York strip from Ruth Chris. The dinner comes with a side. I ordered the mixed vegetables. These were delicious. My family ordered the sirloin and fillet. These were also excellent. The restaurant was crowded on a week night. Reservations are recommend. My only complaint was a family with a crying child. I don't think this is a place for crying children. Go later and you may be able to avoid this. read more

Wow!! This place has gone downhill! Haven't been in several years but back then it was the go-to place for prime rib an excellent salad bar. We were a party of four. Decided to come here for the half price birthday coupon as someone in our party was having a birthday. Years ago it was a free meal for the birthday person but I realize there were probably many people taking advantage of that and they are in business to make a profit. Read the coupon close if this is why you decide to come here based on a birthday discount. It applies to the lowest priced dinner in the party. I wish I saw that but thats on me. I ordered the 8 oz Scallops. They were tasty but considering the I suspect frozen side of vegetables, not worth the $28 price. Vegetables were not at all fresh. Literary 8 scallops and very watery vegetables. The salad bar had not been refilled in quite a while as there was little to no vegetables left in many containers. What I missed the most was the three bean salad they once offered. No salads, cottage cheese, etc. Just vegetables that looked like they had been out for awhile. It would have been a least nice to get some bread at the end of the line. So many people were choosing to hold the bread in their hand instead of the bread holder when slicing it that I passed. Had a tiny, tasteless salad. Other guests in my group had the prime rib (smallest portion) and said it was just ok. Not at all what it used to be. That came with a small dry baked potato. The other orders were a rack of lamb which I was told was overcooked and an order of very small portion of small stuffed shrimp for 20 plus dollars! (really stuffed shrimp!) They also received small dry baked potatoes. The potatoes didn't even come with butter! For these four small disappointing dinners and after coupon for half off one dinner, $130.00!! Before tip! Unbelievable! Years ago might have been worth it. They food quality and service is no longer there! So disappointed!! read more

Went here tonight, May 19, 2015 for my mom's 61st birthday. I wish it had been a pleasant experience. Shortly after ordering our drinks, my mom and I were rained on by shards of glass. A busboy had dropped glasses off of his tray and the shards got all over myself and in my mom's hair and on her clothes and all over our table. I understand this was accidental, but when we complained, we were offered a free dessert but they refused to compensate our dinner. This is completely unprofessional, we could have been injured much more severely, and now we have to clean the glass shards out of our hair and clothes. My mom has a physical disability, so this is even more of a task for her. SMH. Shame on them. read more

Every time I come here the service is amazing and the food is above my expectations! We love it here!

I went for dinner meeting, buffet. Cheese salad, dressing all ok. Rolls no flavor, potatoes well seasoned but about half were raw inside. Chicken was edible but not outstanding. Beef was not very rare but raw in the center. About 40 percent of the slice was raw and inedible. My expectations were far higher than what I got read more

Restaurant was nice but had the old carpet smell. Very fresh salad bar.the bread was at the salad bar instead of the table.and There were 3 choices,!It was just ok. Very good service. Dinners were expensive, mainly steak and seafood. The beef Wellington was good but not exceptional for the price. read more

Just about the best steak or baked stuffed shimp you can get! If you've been to any of their other restaurants (farther east in the Boston market) it's the same great quality menu you've come to expect from this enterprise. If you've never been, prepare to indulge in a fantastic atmosphere, salad bar (one of the few places I can think of with a great salad bar) & meal selection. They have some truly great cuts of steak and have the preparation down to a science. I've been a fan of this place for 20 years and have had the opportunity to try the Barnsider (Albany), the Beverly Depot (Beverly, Ma.) and their 2 former locations called the Mile and a Quarter & Dandelion Green (Providence, RI and Burlington, Ma.). I've never had a bad meal and recommend this place whenever I can. If you're in the market for seafood their lobster casserole or baked stuffed shrimp are sure to hit their mark and you simply can't go wrong with any of the steak selections. Truly a great dining experience. read more

We celebrated my wife's 60th birthday there and have been going there for 30+ years, but not looking to return. My filet mignon was like a carbon brisket instead of medium rare filet. Of course I tried to avoid complaining so I used my order of mushrooms to try to make it palatable. Could not do it. The waiter came over and noted the meat was very well done and offered to replace it, took the filet and my mushrooms away. A new filet came 15 minutes later without mushrooms and when others were about finished eating...and it was overcooked. My son said when I cut it in front of the waiter, the waiter response was oh not again, and he did not venture close until we were given the bill (no desserts ordered). When my $400+ bill came, I paid it even though my filet was not worthy, the mushrooms were not returned, and I did not see a discount for my birthday girl. I did not want to make a fuss in front of family, but it bothers me to pay that kind of $$$ for 3rd rate meal, so here is my complaint. read more

Seven of us dined here on Mothers Day. Each of us enjoyed our meal. The menu is a little pricey, but it's a decent restaurant, not like the other chains on Wolf. We're back on my moms birthday. Finishing my review here. I downgraded the review from 4 stars to 3. Our waiter seems not so attentive. He was annoyed that my elderly parents were a little slow ordering. read more

Expected better than what we got. Service was less than average. Several people in our party ordered prime rib. After our apps. were served we waited about 15 minutes to be told that they only had enough prime rib left to serve three out of four of us. Many apologies but when the meals were finally served, it appears they split what meat was left to fill our orders (two of us ordered 10 oz. prime rib and it appears they split one 10 oz. between us). Meat was dried and over-cooked - sat under warmers too long!. Staff mixed up other parts of our orders also - ex. two of our party ordered dessert (ice cream w/ carmel sauce and both got ice cream with chocolate sauce. Place was not busy (6:00 on sunday night). read more

I have been there a few times in the past and they were alright, they did however have a good beef wellington. I recently revisited the barnsider for a family outing. I of course ordered my favorite, beef wellington medium rare with a baked potato. After ordering we then went to the salad bar which is alright, they do have good bread and cheese there to snack on. Everyone at the table finished their first course, and chatted for a while and we all began to wonder where our food was. The waiter came out and said your food will be with your in a moment. Twenty minutes passed and still no food. After the arduous wait the food came in. Everyone seemed to be somewhat enjoying their food, but my beef wellington was read more

Bartender on Tues 12/1 was a complete jrk. Prob either the owner or manager. Couldn't find it in his time to break up the drink bill because he put them all on one bill without anyone asking him to. Also said, "I put it all on one bill and that's how it is"....really? Then had the nerve to talk to his regulars about it within my earshot. Very unprofessional and if it wasn't for the other 6 people, I would have went somewhere else. read more

Food is ok price is way too high, don't come here during weekends. They over cook their steak I don't know why people come here. Overprice food is ok at best read more

this place deserves 5 + stars ...the service alone was absolutely on point i was beyond happy with that alone and the food was so freaking good i don't even have words to do it justice .. haven't left a place that satisfied in a LONG time read more

Going here to have dinner was a big mistake. We made reservations for 5:30, and stood around waiting for our table to get set up for 15 minutes. Our waiter grabbed our drink order then a little while later our app and entree' order. About 35 minutes later our apps made it to the table, and 5 minutes later our entree's. Apps Calamari- Over cooked, tasted ok. Crab cakes- Tasted like crab cakes Escargot- Completely saturated in butter and some batter that I peeled off. Dinner Stuffed shrimp and prime rib- 2 med shrimp, loaded with "stuffing" that was over salted. Took that off and ate the shrimp. Prime rib, ordered med rare, came out almost still mooing. Completely tasteless. Couldn't finish ot, and didn't take it home. Ordered rice for my side, they gave me a potato. Girlfriend ordered a piece of Salmon, it was so dry you could choke on it. Husband ordered the Beef Wellington. It was ok, not awesome. Boss ordered the T-bone. It was the only delicious thing that hit our table. Waiter seemed like his head was just somewhere else. Got our check, the woman dumped a pile of Andes candies on the table and said have a nice night. We couldn't get out of there fast enough. For what they charge, and the way the menu looked, you would think you were getting a pretty decent meal. KFC would of been better. At least you know what your getting. read more

I eat here every time I am in Albany. The steak is just always perfect and the garlic mashed is to die for. The fillet mignon is cooked medium rare to perfection. Granted, this isn't a "fancy" restaurant (I mean, it does have a salad bar), but food never disappoints. Another bonus; prices are very fair and the portions are generous. read more

The steak here is very good, and The Barnsider offers a very nice salad bar with every meal, in fact the only salad bar at a restaurant that I have found worth eating. I always have great service here and the steaks are always cooked perfectly. A great wine list, the menu has fair prices, nothing too outrageous. My one complaint would be that it can get loud in the dinning area because of the big open spaces. read more