Kelly C.
Yelp
We went to Duck City for dinner tonight while staying in Le Claire. Unfortunately, it was a very disappointing experience. Our server was apparently new and had little training. She was unable to answer simple questions about the menu. We ordered the mussels and pomme frites for appetizers as well as the garlic salad. For our entrées, I ordered the ahi tuna and my husband ordered the smoked pork chop stuffed with ham and Swiss.
Our mussels came in a bowl with no spoon to serve them, no bowl for the shells, and no little forks for pulling them out of the shells. The sauce was good, but not a good match for mussels. We asked for the spoon to dish up the mussels, and our server said, "sure, I'll take care of that for you" - then came back a few minutes later with only the little forks. We asked 2 more people for a spoon, until we finally asked a bus boy, who was wonderful and brought one immediately.
The pommes frites were the only really good thing. The garlic salad was good, but nothing to write home about.
The server came back and asked me what temperature I wanted my ahi tuna? I was confused - the menu calls it sushi grade ahi tuna, so I want it raw, as it should be. When I got it, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. It didn't really have the great flavor I've had from ahi tuna at many other places. The wasabi that came with it definitely wasn't real wasabi, as I had a huge chunk with the few bites I had, just to add some flavor, and it didn't light me up as real wasabi will do.
My husband had 2-3 bites of his pork chop, which was the size of his head, but overcooked. Of course, that was after waiting a few minutes to flag down someone to bring a knife to actually cut it with, since all we had been given was forks.
The server came and saw we barely touched our food, but just asked if we wanted a to-go box. We quickly said, "no."
We contemplated giving dessert a try. We asked her what the pineapple croustade was exactly and she said, "pineapple with a flaky...let me get a menu" (which we had already seen and had no description), so we just said we would just pass on dessert.
We will definitely not be back!