Gary H.
Yelp
Visited Congress Park today and noticed Danny's, from across the street! The three of us decided to stop in and have dinner there, without a reservation.
A bread basket, with a bean salad, was brought out and being hungry we eagerly enjoyed the bread. The bean salad seemed off, with a fishy taste, so we inquired of our female server, Poppy, what was in the salad? She told us and I mentioned there was a fishy taste to the salad. She took the bean salad away and brought back what seemed to be the exact same dish. We then asked her to remove the dish from our table, which she did.
We then looked at the limited menu and ordered the hangar steak, the scallop dish and an 8 oz. Filet, all kind of pricey!
When the meals arrived, the finger potatoes served with the hangar steak ($42), were inedible. To make it right, we asked for mashed potatoes, which were provided! BTW, the hangar Steak was delicious!
The four scallops ($52!), were luke warm and two were over-seared and two were still white! When I complained about them, Poppy offered to heat the dish up! My original dish was returned to me after they heated it and covered the scallops with a sauce, to hide the over cooking! My first bite of the Lobster Risitto, did not bode well either, as i encountered uncooked rice on my first mouthful. It got a little better, but nothing to rave about.
Our last dish was the filet, ($60), which we asked for medium. The steak was delivered well done and again when we brought it to Poppy's attention, she shrugged it off as maybe being a little more done than expected! The mashed potatoes were very good though.
All three of our meals came with green beans, which none of us could cut, nor eat, (because they were raw/uncooked)! Again brought this to Poppy's attention and she replied "they're farm fresh"! We were more concerned with them being uncooked!
The last slap in the face was our drinks! I ordered a whiskey sour, which I expected to be around $8-10 and after receiving our bill saw a charge for Jack Daniels, ($14)! I was never told that mixed drinks were top shelf and could not even tell that Jack Daniels was used in my drink! If I had known about this unsaid little tidbit, I would have ordered a different drink! We also ordered a ginger ale, which cost $7, no refill was asked for or offered!
Overall, this was a non-eventful meal, way over priced and very disappointing!
I will certainly make it a point not to return to this restaurant and would recommend that future diners think twice about visiting this establishment!
I think with all of the issues that we had, it would have been nice to have some adjustment made to our $200 bill! None was offered! BTW, we did tip generously, even though it was less than a stellar dining experience!
Buyer beware!