Bogart's At The Premier

You have to try the Steak Kabob, so yummies! Full Bar, if you don't finish you food or drinks not to worry you can always take them into the theater and finish there. Muvico is all RSVP seating so your seat will be waiting for you...

The movie theater is really great. no complaints. but the bar/restaurant on the second floor is SO SLOW!!

The food is great; the wait staff is nice;  but this is the 3rd time I've had to take my food to go to get to the movie on time.

The first time, we went to grab a bite to eat 45 minutes before the show. they asked what time our show was but nope, sandwiches came out 5 minutes before showtime. took them to go.

The second time was during horror con, we sat down 1:30 minutes before the show and ordered burgers right away. The food was so late we were 2 minutes late getting to the theater. But i chucked it up to the fact there was SO many people!

We went last night at 8:50pm (a wednesday) and our show wasn't until 9:55 pm. We ordered chicken nachos. Placed the order at 8:55. We literally didn't get our nachos until 9:43pm. Do they do this on purpose?? A nice night out was ruined by me worrying if I could cram food down and still find a seat!! Horrible. 50 minutes prep for NACHOS?!?! I'm done eating there.

It had some of the grossest food I have eaten in years. The food was so bad I literally had to stop eating after two bites even though I was starving. I would rather starve then eat that food -- yes it was that bad.

And of course its EXPENSIVE. Our bill was over a 70 dollars....but I am jumping ahead.

Service was mediocre at best. The place was dead and yet the server never seemed to check in on us. That said he did take down our orders and get us the food within a 20 minute time frame ....so fair enough.

But the food.....oh god the food....

I was with a group of three friends. Here's what we ordered:

1. two bison burgers with steak fries
2. pork chops marinated in chipotle sauce
3. cheese pizza

So let's talk about the abomination that this restaurant called food:

1. Pork chops

I call the item on my plate a "pork chop" because that's what the menu called it. However, this thing is not a pork chop as any person with taste buds would understand that term. An accurate description is "inedible plastic toy bought at Toys R US that was recalled because the toy's toxins would kill children that put the toy in their mouths." To some extent, I feel that I am being unfair--I am sure actual plastic toys taste much better then the thing that was served me. However, that's the best metaphor I could come up with to describe my experience of trying to eat this thing.

I was given a steak knife to cut the pork chop. When I  first attempted to cut the pork chop "a.k.a plastic toy", I failed. Plastic is hard to cut...and this plastic was particularly hard. But I was persistent due to my hunger, so I started sawing and yes I mean sawing literally. The table started shaking.....and finally I got a piece off the pork plastic. Now at this point, someone may have took that as a sign that this is not something one should eat. That person would be smart. I on other other hand was made stupid with hunger so I put it in my mouth.

You know how saliva and chewing is supposed to dissolve the food so that it can be swallowed? You know how that's supposed to take a couple seconds? Yea, well a minute later, I gave up and just swallowed it hole (and yes I know I should have spit it out).  I would describe the flavor--except there was none, which is odd when you think about it. Even plastic has flavor. Instead I had the experience of chewing on something that my taste buds could not detect. I can only guess that my taste buds turned themselves off as an evolutionary defense mechanism--I fear that if I could actually detected the flavor I would have gone mad.

So I tried another bite....yes I know that was dumb. But I held up vain hope that I just got some grizzle. And I was so very wrong. At that point I gave up trying to eat the plastic, and just glumly looked at everyone else as they ate their relatively better tasting food.

And relative is the key word. My friends felt sorry for me so they shared some of their food with me, which leads me to review their food.....

2. bison burger and steak fries

So I've had bison before and I have liked it. Bison is a sweeter, leaner meat than cow.  It also tastes different. This "bison burger" tasted like mediocre frozen hamburger patty that you can get at walmart for $6 a pound. Either the waiter screwed up the order or this was one pathetic bison. The steak fries were cold and barely edible. They reminded me of orelda fries you can buy frozen at jewel---I wouldn't be surprised if that was in fact what they were just cooked 4 hours earlier and kept warm under a lamp.

3. Pizza

This was actually best tasting food of all the meals. That said, hoo boy the grease. I want to say it was like frozen pizza at the grocery store except that frozen pizza tastes better than this. A more apt comparison is the cafeteria pizza served in high schools -- just imagine taking multiple napkins to sop up the grease where each napkin is soaked. Yea, like that.

And for this superb meal, we paid aproximately 70 dollars. The bison burger was over 10 dollars and the pork chops were 15.

I did complain politely to the waiter. He apologized but he did not comp anything for our meal. Crappy food, mediocre service, and you pay full price. Gotcha.

If you want dinner and a movie, eat at one of the restaurants next door. I am confident that the food will be edible, an assurance I cannot make for this place.