We heard good things about this place, but we were disappointed.
We would have appreciated signage to direct us to the back for parking. We figured it out, but then we were trying to get in the wrong door and would have appreciated signage to direct us to the correct door. Maybe we missed it, but it certainly wasn't obvious to us, so it was a rocky start.
Upon entering the hostess was somewhat underwhelming. I don't expect much, but I certainly felt a chill when we walked in. Lol. If you look at my other reviews, I'm usually very lenient, but these few things were just not a good customer experience.
The atmosphere was rather dark and drab in the inner dining room area. I kinda wanted to just leave at this point, but My husband and I were famished. I did like that there was a nice amount of space between the tables though!
Our server was lovely, but not exceptional, hence the four stars for service. No offense to her but I reserve five stars for service for truly outstanding service. I got that feeling she was inexperienced, but she was pleasant and trying hard and I appreciate that.
That said, our waitress was the highlight of the visit. Well, also the salad! The side salad with my meal was really, really good! It had a nice dark lettuce, little tomatoes, onion slices, croutons and blue cheese dressing with some great chunks of blue cheese, which were very tasty.
Unfortunately, the other food that was to come was the worst part for me. The steamed oysters appetizer were rather dried out and shrunken. The rockfish dinner was overcooked and dry. It was plentiful and had great promise, but just was not cooked right. I had the crab cake stuffed shrimp and I was not aware it was going to be wrapped in bacon. I may have missed that on the menu, so I definitely wasn't expecting the bacon part. I believe it was deep fried. I thought I was ordering something relatively healthy and so it was a bummer. My husband had green beans, which were definitely canned and to my palette, just yuck. He did like them though! He also had a baked sweet potato muffin type side dish. It was pretty much a dessert, but tasty...
All in all, a disappointing time, which when you spend nearly $100 for two people, it makes it burn a little bit.