Orange Anchor

Good brunch! I got french toast (see photo). Bottomless mimosas are affordable too. I came here after a morning cruise on the Potomac. I sat on the patio, which had a good view of Washington Harbor and the water. Inside it seems a bit too dark, and the bathrooms weren't very clean, but otherwise it's fine.

Review is based on Saturday brunch with three other friends. The good - The food was really decent. I got the Anchor breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and I subbed fruit. Really healthy portion and the eggs were seasoned perfectly. The toast came out weirdly toasted (1/2 toasted, 1/2 untouched), but I wasn't in it for the bread, so didn't really mind. My friend got the Crab BALT, which she said was great. Our other friend got the Chicken and Waffles, which looked amazing. The bad - Service. Ugh. Our waiter left empty water glasses on our table for 10 minutes, after we asked for refills. He brought coffee, but without spoons, cream, or sugar. It took him another 10 minutes to get the cream and sugar. We asked for straws for our water when we first sat down and he came back 5 minutes later to ask if we knew what we wanted, sans straws. Overall, it was laughable at how bad it was. We ended up talking to the manager who took a % off of our bill, but the waiter still barely showed his face. I appreciated the manager trying to make it up to our group for the bad service, but I probably won't be back.

I don't often write reviews online, but I thought it was worth my time to save other people the hassle of dealing with this place. Overall: incredibly poor service. Our server was obviously hung over and couldn't remember our orders. Never came to the table to refill our waters or bottomless mimosas. It wasn't even crowded! And speaking of bottomless... They advertised a brunch special out front that said "bottomless with purchase of an entree;" turns out they mean bottomless plus $10 a person with purchase of an entree. When it came time to pay the check: it took literally, not figuratively, ONE HOUR. yes. 60 minutes. We were dying to get out of there and again, our hungover server, really let us down. How insane is that? Don't waste your time here.

Won't be back. They were out of virtually every interesting seafood option on the menu (which oh-so-conveniently included the happy hour options... the moment happy hour started, they "ran out"), the bartender flirted with a handful of ladies and thus had bar orders backing up (including ours), waiter had absolutely zero concept of how to politely wait on a table, virtually the moment we sat down we felt strongly encouraged by him to get the most expensive drinks and then leave ASAP. The appetizer we did order was average, at best - something I could have prepared out of a box at home, while groggy and ignoring instructions. Extremely loud music pumped throughout the interior for no obvious reason, since they also had TVs on. Entire experience was really unpleasant. Eavesdropping on the nearest tables implied others felt the same.

It is the worst of the worst places in town. It should get an award for it. There is not one positive thing that we can say about it. Waitress was the worst ever (she tried to be nice), but when you only show up at the table every 45 minutes and don't really attend the table it's hard to tell. Most of the orders were messed up (and they were just straight orders - no changes at all). Food sucks - 18 dollar Salmon Benedict and the crab Benedict sucked. We sent salmon back. Barely any salmon and the it smelled. Our table also had tuna that smelled fishy so we didn't eat it. Overall, everything about it sucked. We got overcharged for stuff, prices don't match the menu (specifically the beer prices). We complained three times and never seen the manager... Paid for the food and left! The worst ever!

I figured I'd use this now 25 minutes since we've seen our waitress to describe how everything is going. And no she isn't missing because it's super busy, theres three tables seated currently and we're her only one. The food is just okay but definitely over priced for what they serve. It's mediocre food, something I could drive to Safeway and pick up out of the frozen aisle. Our waitress has not once checked on us, and it would Be nice if she had so we could let her know the order we had her repeat is wrong, and for the kitchen to fix it -_- don't waste your time or money , the atmosphere has so much potential but it's so weak. Oh wait she just came over to check on us and said "oh my goodness they didn't put your pineapple salsa on the side you should have said something" really lady? Listen people, the service is awful, they don't even manage to stay in sight for you to signal for something. So unless you want mediocre food and you want to self serve yourself and get up out of your seat to find your waitress in an empty restaurant don't even bother.

My friends and I visited this restaurant for lunch last Sunday and it was the worst experience that I've ever had in DC. They served too slowly and the amount of the food we ordered was also disappointing. Okay, I could live with that, though. Because one of my friends came from NY to see me and I didn't want to ruin the atmosphere. What made us angrier was we felt like they really didn't care about our table much! It was not even that busy time. Their service was so poor that we were offended. Here's one more thing. The worst thing happened after we finished paying. Giving the receipt to us, our waitress told us "Have a good one, okay?" in a very impolite and quite offensive voice! Excuse me? Did we do anything wrong? I do not think so? Her inappropriate attitude ruined our feelings in the end. I highly recommend this restaurant if you want to "ruin" your time with people you love!

This is in regards to lunch I had with some friends yesterday. I wanted to order a virgin moijto and our server said the bartenders wouldn't make one for me because it was "too much work and inconvenience" and that I would get charged full price even though it had no alcohol. Forget it. I'll have water. The server blamed everything on all his fellow staff members. We finally got silverware after 15 minutes into our meal. As a server, he didn't acknowledge that we didn't receive silverware. Didn't ask how our food was, didn't refill our beverages, etc. Food was ok. Over priced for what it was. I would not go back to this place nor would I recommend it to friends.