*This review was actually written last year, but wasn't posted until I resent my confirmation email. There may be new menu items/ chef / staff/ products used since then. Man I hope so.*
As I was sitting down to eat my snack of a frozen microwave dinner, that old familiar smell of the cardboard box they come in sent me back to the crab cakes I had here at Garfield's & I decided to finally open up my Yelp account.
Yep, this place was so disappointing & bad that I had to share.
This was my BDay brunch. I went for the lakeside seating & $10 bottomless mimosas & Bellinis with my husband.
We were seated quickly 5 minutes after someone walked up to the hostess booth, said "HI" & "just a moment", then walked away, we were then seated by, I assume, the MGR.
We then sat there for at least 15 minutes before our server even came out. We had plenty of time to choose, so we ordered, including drinks.
Our drinks finally arrived with the bread. They were good. We sat, chatted more, enjoying the time to ourselves, but getting hungry & our drinks were done. So, wanting a cigarette, I got up, found our server to let him know we ready for our 2nd round of the same. They came right after I came back to sit.
Finally our food arrived. I had crab cakes & Eggs Beni Florentine. The crab cakes were atrocious. Tiny & with the very obvious aftertaste of a frozen cardboard box that had been sitting out to defrost. The accompanying sauce may have been made in-house though. My Benedict was nothing to write home about. My husband got steak & eggs, and it too had a weird aftertaste. So much so that I'm very thankful we didn't both get food poisoning. It was that weird & not right.
Our 2 hour brunch that we planned turned into 3&1/2 since the service was so dreadfully slow, we decided to stay, enjoy the weather & the view & milk our $10 bottomless mimosas... keep 'em coming!
The quality of the food made me wonder what was going on in the pantry/freezer of the kitchen (I guess I watch too much Kitchen Nightmares).
I will never go back here & have Unliked their Facebook page & also posted on FB to my friends to never go there.
Waste of money & a birthday brunch. I should have gone to Eat. Downtown.