Roger L.
Yelp
This is my HONEST review for the TIDE ROOM in the ASHORE Resort Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland.
I ate there Saturday night with my wife and a friend and was extremely underwhelmed.
First of all the pricing is like Ruths Chris restaurant, $36-$42 each.
First off let me start with the service, it took this young waiter fella 15 to 20 minutes to acknowledge that we were there and to get us a glass of water. By the time he got there we thought we better go ahead and order our drinks since it was taking so long and the restaurant may be had 15 couples total and the bar had maybe 12 people, so it wasn't that they were so slammed with people that they couldn't wait on them. It was clearly that they didn't know what they were doing.
So when I placed our order for two cocktails and a glass of wine, our young fella waiter immediately said I don't think you should order the cocktails because they're taking 20 minutes to get. Maybe you should go with a bottle of wine instead, which kind of astounded me since I only saw a dozen people at the bar but we went ahead and ordered a bottle of wine. This is the start of the ridiculousness. He came back with the wine in about 10 minutes and we thought let's go ahead and place order since this doesn't look like it's going that well. I ordered the $42 seafood fettuccine my wife the $25 vegetarian lasagna and my friend the rockfish for $36. I'm gonna tell you it took 45 minutes to an hour to get our entrée's..... and again I remind you, there are only maybe 15 couples in the whole restaurant, so clearly, they have some kind of significant service problem that they have got contained. My seafood pasta was good, but certainly not great just didn't have that real delicious taste you look for when you pay $42 for something and my friend, who ate the rockfish said it was good, but again not great, which, how do you mess up making fish on the other hand, my wife said the vegetable lasagna was quite tasty, but for some strange reason was quite a small little piece of vegetable lasagna that seems like it should've been a much larger serving for $25.
The Yungman waiter never returned after he served the cocktails as the entrées were brought out from another person from the kitchen and so we never got another glass of water beyond one or he never poured hard wine in our glasses, which I continue to do throughout the dinner for my guests , it was just amazing and probably insulting. After we finished dinner and sat there for 15 or 20 minutes, he finally wandered by again and asked about dessert. I said sure let's take a look at the menu, and he brought us a menu. However, please note that he never took our dishes away and we sat there for at least 30 minutes after we were done eating and he came by and took our dessert order and never took a single dish off the table... WTF???
The desert, I even forgot what I ordered but it wasn't notable and was probably 12 bucks.
So overall we spent $200 on dinner for 3, had the worst service I've had in a long while and paid the highest prices that I've paid in a long time to eat at a restaurant.
So if you want my opinion, save your money, save your time And find somewhere else to go. You'll enjoy it more. You'll pay less and you'll probably get better service. Sorry tide room, just trying to be honest for the people that are trying to evaluate your new restaurant, looks like you got a lot of work to do in order to justify these kind of prices for Ocean City. Good luck!