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| - This was the first and last time I will ever set foot in this place. If you don't read this entire review I would like you to take away these adjectives used to describe this failure of a restaurant; disgusting, dated, bland, nauseating, repulsive, and low quality. I do not recommend this restaurant to anyone.
My girlfriend drove into town late and we wanted a place nearby to eat so we went to Grant Bar and Lounge. We walked in and were seated quickly. Our waitress was fairly busy and working a handful of tables but was quick to give us menus and take our drink order. I should have known by the quality and cleanliness of the menu that we should leave immediately. My menu was stained with unknown foods or fluids and crumpled like someone used it to practice their origami homework.
We shared the Fried Jumbo Shrimp ($13) plate as an appetizer although it is not listed as an appetizer. She ordered a glass of lambrusco red and I ordered a Yuengling. The drinks arrived fairly quickly and the shrimp were a few minutes after that. 5 battered and deep-fried shrimp on a plate with cocktail sauce. They were tail on, 12 count, de-veined and butterflied, then dipped into I believe house made batter and deep-fried.
We then placed our main course orders. She got the Broiled Seafood Platter ($23) - Comes with 8-10 36 count tail on shrimp, 2-3oz salmon, 4 scallops and a crab cake. Turtle soup and baked potato were the sides for her. I ordered the Marinated Top Sirloin Angus Steak ($20) - Supposedly this is a ~10oz marinated piece of angus top sirloin...sides were turtle soup and fries. We also pre-ordered two pieces of apple pie to go for friends.
The turtle soup arrives shortly thereafter with a breadbasket and crackers. The dinner rolls were the cheap kind that you can buy in a tray (think Sam's club) and bake a sheet of like 48 of them at once, then pull them apart. These are the type of white bread flavorless rolls that you would get at a fire hall chicken dinner or an all you can eat gun bash. I had a roll, regretting it shortly thereafter. I then tried the Turtle Soup. It tasted like Campbell's Vegetable Beef soup and I question whether there was actually any turtle meat in it.
I ordered my steak medium rare. The steak was rare on one end and medium at the other. However, that is not my main complaint. This piece of beef, or whatever it was, must have been pounded for ten minutes to tenderize it. The muscle fibers were smashed and flattened like a Swiss steak from a high school cafeteria. The meat was somehow folded over itself with sinew and tendons holding pieces together. I literally think that after hitting this thing for 10 minutes with a tenderizer, the cook took it outside and backed his car onto the meat and did a burnout on it and shot it onto the grill. Hands down, this was the WORST steak (if that's what you call it) that I have ever eaten. I did not finish it because it was DISGUSTING.
About the time I found out that my meal was going to be horrible, I look over at my girlfriend and see utter disgust and thought she might throw up. She tried the "crab cake". I put that in quotes because whatever this oil soaked, filler laden patty of failure was, it was not a true crab cake. She picked it apart and we find IMITATION CRAB all through it. I could not find an actual piece of lump crabmeat anywhere in that heap of nastiness. I was so embarrassed that I brought her to this butt crack of a restaurant. I tried it just to see if she was correct and let me tell you that this was honestly the worst thing I have tasted...since my steak 30 seconds prior. But now I was embarrassed for this restaurant and the people in charge of it. The management and owners should be embarrassed and ashamed that they serve swill like this to humans...and charge them for it.
She did not eat any more of that FAILURE CAKE or the salmon because it was swimming in a pool of butter. She ate the shrimp, scallops, and her baked potato. I ate my fries and we were out of that horrendous dining experience. When the waitress came back she asked 'Was everything OK?" because she noticed that neither of us finished our food. I responded with something to the effect of 'Not really...is that crab cake...made out of...imitation crab?" The waitress responded with 'It's a blend".
The bill was $83. Food this deplorable should be around $30. I will never go back to this restaurant and will adamantly tell anyone that asks about it to run and hide.
NOTE TO MANAGEMENT/OWNER: You need to immediately investigate what is happening with the food served to your customers. If you cannot figure out how to make a crab cake without FAKE CRAB, filler, doused in OIL then you should remove it from the menu. Also, I have eaten angus meat for years and your claim of top sirloin angus is laughable. You may be able to pass this filth off as steak in Millvale however I'm not buying it.
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