06/01/09

low class help

by mdhall7

trashy bartenders, terrible service...

So DON'T ruin your whole night because of this joint... go somewhere else.

• Pros: none to speak of
• Cons: bad service/obnoxious staff

11/25/08

Overpriced - Overcooked

by Gwennie38

It's not a restaurant that I would have ever chosen because I don't like high priced restaurants, but I got a gift certificate from my boss so I took my mother for her birthday. I asked for a window seat when I made my reservation and mentioned that it was my mothers birtday but there was no mention of it while we dined. I would have liked for it to be acknowledged and for her to receive a little dessert. I'm not talking about having the waiters sing at the table, but a little something is nice.

General observations:

One little bun sized piece of bread cut into 5 slices for a table of 4? Dinner was $130, and no extra bread? I don't understand ala carte dining, I gues I appreciate the lower end restaurants where you get a salad with your meal.

My mother had the ling cod, the fish was good but it was served with what looked and tasted like plain white rice Yuck!

My daughter had the crab stuffed salmon which was tasty, but it was swimming in a big puddle of grease on her plate.

My son had the sirloin & scampi, no comlaints, everyone at the table wished they had ordered what he had.

I had the wild mixed grill-no sauce on the crab cake, the salmon was over cooked and dry, the risotto was tasty, but there was that all too familiar puddle of grease on the plate.

I've got $18 left on the gift certificate, anybody want it?

• Pros: It will quickly relieve you of a pesky chunk of change that's bothering you
• Cons: Everything else

09/13/08

Great All Around Seafood Place with enchanting view.

by uchylisa

We ate at McCormick & Smicks Harborside tonight and though we've lived in Portland for many years it was our first time. We took our two children (2 and 10) and it was a GREAT experience. They kids muched on tender calimari and delicious steamer clams and watched the passerbyers on the Esplanade as they waited for they dinners, Dinner was not only tasty but beautiful, no detail was missed. They even took the tails off the shrimp for the kids shrimp meal. I had Albacore and my husband had Ahi, both cooked perfectly. We had a nice bottle of wine and the kids shared a deseret trio which satisfied both of them. They only thing that could use improvement was the coffee. I was expecting a french press or at least something strong and local such as Stumptown, but it tasted like coffee you got in college when pulling an allnighter at Denny's.

• Pros: great location for people watching and a nice view of the water, every food item was had was good!
• Cons: coffee was NOT good!