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| - I rated this place 3* before the remodel and my opinion hasn't changed much. This place needs to fix their service issues for me to consider a higher rating.
King's still has a good selection of seafood dishes, but it's not nearly as good as in years past. Worse yet they continue to slim their offerings... it seems every so often they drop another sandwich, another soup, another fish entrée - making it feel like death by a thousand cuts. (One of their latest cuts is the honey mustard dressing for salads, which was by far their best - really makes me wonder how much they are saving by choosing to offer one fewer salad dressing.)
The decreased variety is further hampered by consistency issues with food preparation - we've had badly overcooked fish and/or sides on a few occasions. Still, King's is one of my preferred spots for raw oysters with a nice rotation, usually of at least six varieties. Also a fan of the raw clams. Their clam chowder is no slouch either, although a bit heavy on the bacon.
Remodel makes restaurant feel more open and spacious, although I'm not a fan of the patio doors being open all the time. The big negative is that service needs a lot of work and not sure that management really cares. In general, I've found service to be slow and waiters inattentive.
One particularly bad instance - a member of my party toasted his hands on a wet towel provided by the server. The towel was at first cool to the touch but wound up being scalding hot inside. When we made note of it to our server, she told us the towel was prepared by pouring hot water from the coffee machine through the towel, then a tiny bit of cold water on top to cool it down. That's why it was cool to the touch at first, but scalding hot in the middle. We notified management because we thought it was a pretty risky way to prepare a towel for the customer, especially when our server didn't warn us it was going to be so hot on the inside. The manager didn't want to acknowledge anything might be wrong and kept repeating that it's how they always do it and it's how they are trained to do it by corporate. Well, I'm not really sure when people burn their hands that they're going to care that it's how it's always done or whether it's "corporate policy" or not.
Anyway, I might stick to the raw food for now and hopefully they'll work some of the service issues out, and I'll look forward to updating if they do.
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