Went to celebrate my girlfriends birthday and they told us a few weeks before that we didn't need to make a reservation for saturday because "it's not a problem", just walk in, they are very quick so no need for a reservation. We'll, we walked in and had to wait 45 minutes due to reservations..
Front of house was terrible. Confused. And lost. The receptionist looked young, had no idea what was going on, and she was not very nice.
The wait staff was dashing around looking like pure chaos while the young receptionist was arguing with them off and on where everyone could see. At one point their was arm flailing during the argument which was a little awkward.
I ordered a non alcoholic mocktail while we waited and it took over 10 minutes to make. The mocktail was the exact same drink but with the alcohol gone instead of replaced with something else, so it was literally just lemon and chili powder. Gross. But hey, it's a cocktail bar not a mocktail bar, whatever.
We ordered everything at once and asked the waitress if we could get appetizers first and entrees later, she said that was how they always do it, it won't all come out at once. I made a point to make sure because a lot of places will bring everything out at the same time and its chaos, so I asked again and she said that's how they do it, cool.... Well it all came out at once.
The Food
Spinach dip was not great. It was bland and had no salt. You can get better at cheddars. Craft96 has better spinach/artichoke dip but in fried stick form and both of those are cheaper.
The truffle fries were really good! I think hopdoddy might have better but they really do compete! All of us really enjoyed them!
Prosciutto greenbeans are AMAZING! I don't know what else to say about them? I'd love to get 10lbs every week and just eat that for lunch every day!
The garlic mashed potatoes were amazing! If you get those with the greenbeans make sure to dip the potatoes into the greenbean sauce! It's super good!
The $45 NY strip steak was grey, had almost no sear on it, overcooked, looked boiled, and was really tough! For the price I was expecting something on par to Perrys but what I got was a worse steak than i-hop circa 2006!
The steak tacos were cold. Tortillas were cold, the steak was cold, it was all cold. I think the tacos were the first thing made and it juat sat there. The flavor was really good though! Everything together was awesome! We should've asked them to microwave it though.
Manhattan pizza is SOOOO good! The steak, the cheese, the sauce! We loved the pizza! I would get a to-go order of this again it's that good! And ordering out will allow you to skip the terrible front of house! Annnnnnnd halfway through the pizza she found a hair in it! I cannot make this up... bruh...
I thought my goat meatballs were really good! I ate three of them and the third one I cut into was raw! How did this happen? I feel like I'm some kind of critic from another restaurant trying to bad mouth the place... I've never been somewhere where so much has gone wrong! My mind is blown!
The good things about this place was our server Hannah. She was super awesome and very kind! The pizza until we found the hair, the meatballs until I saw two were raw, and the truffle fries!
I would try this place again in a month or two when they figure everything out because right now it's embarrassing.
Edit: Just to clarify, I was going to give this place a 1 star but Hannah single handedly put a second star on her back for this place. read more