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| - My four stars is only about my most recent server, Amber. Amber is 5 stars, but my previous experiences outside her in the last 2 years, are not. I give the food 3 stars. Previous servers 2-3 stars. I never sat at the bar, so didn't meet any scathing bartenders that other reviewers wrote about.
I have eaten here at least 4 times in the last 2 years, and only because 92nd Street Cafe is on Local Flavor and also Dining for Miles. I buy vouchers to eat here when LF has a sale, so I pay less than $10 for the $20 voucher, sometimes as little as $5 I have had mixed service, but I always order the same thing, because I love ribs. And the full rack of ribs is the only menu item that will approach the $20 voucher. The full rack of 12 ribs is only $17.00 and I upgrade the fries to sweet potato fries and order a Bud Light. $17 for a full rack is the most reasonable price I know of, for a full rack, unless you go to Golden Corral. Here, it includes soup or salad, and slaw, I always get the soup. One time it was french onion soup, very good!
The ribs are on the dry side, and the BBQ sauce is very tart. I like a sweeter sauce. I come here and eat the soup, drink my beer, eat half of the sweet potato fries, eat about 4 of the ribs, and take the rest home for another meal or two, to which I add more veggies or salad, and add honey to the leftover BBQ sauce.
I have had mixed service, and like other reviewers complained, I have never once been greeted and seated when I come in. I don't care, I go and seat myself. And if a server does not come to me, I get up and go to the bar, get a menu, and get someone there to take care of my needs. I always eat alone, but they have free WiFi and I bring my tablet for company. Sometimes my service is nil, other than bringing me the entree.
But the last time I ate here was on March 16, 2017. I got an exceptional server I've never seen here before. Amber brought me a menu when my butt was just sliding into the booth. I told her I already knew what I wanted. Unlike the other times I used vouchers, where I might be less than 50 cents under the $20, Amber insisted that I had to max out on the $20 and not even be a few pennies under. So she kept adding up my efforts to pad the $17 ribs, till I was over the $20. When I told her it was never like that before, they just subtract what I order from the $20 (less than $1 under), she said the management was cracking down, and they will no longer do that, I had to order AT LEAST $20.
Amber came to check on me at least 5 times "How are you doing?" "Still doing OK?" I do not recall that any server here had ever stopped by to check if I needed anything. Amber also saw that I was going to need a take out box, and brought me one, without me first asking for it.
If every server especially at the bar, were as attentive as Amber, the Yelp ratings for 92nd Street would be much higher.
Check out my photos and see what I get for $5-$8 Local Flavor voucher for $20 food. With tax and tip I end up paying maybe $5 more than what I paid for the voucher. A good deal for the 2 meals I get out of the full rack of ribs.
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