China Grill

Had a nice dinner there last night and the service was great. For a hotel restaurant it was a pleasant surprise. I did not have the sushi but the rest of the food was fine.

Also, the view of the marina is beautiful.

Good food, but INSANELY overpriced and honestly PF Chang's is a much better experience.

Expensive meal + OK food + Crappy Service = Unsatisfied customer

So I visited China Grill on Valentine's Day with my girlfriend and ordered the Valentine's Day Special for $69 person.  The meal started off ok with a 2 piece sushi appetizer and grilled shrimp with spicy watermelon salad.  The waiter forgot my tea so I reminded him after he finally returned back to our table.  I will say the restaurant was extremely busy this night.

The next appetizer was the Spicy Beef & Scallion Dumplings which were also delicious.  Here is where things started to go wrong. At this point we probably waited a good hour for our next course which turned out to be our entrees instead of the Tri-star salad or the intermezzo (champagne Cobbler).  When we asked about these we were told by the waiter "Oh, do you still want the salad?"  We replied yes but its hard to enjoy the salad when you are competing with your entree at the same time and the limited space on the table.  When we asked about the intermezzo the waiter advised, "Oh, since its kind of sweet I like to serve it for dessert."  My girlfriend totally believed he was making an excuse since its supposed to serve as a palate cleanser.  Additionally if this was the case the waiter should have suggested this at the beginning of the meal and not have made an executive decision.  We wanted to enjoy the meal as the chef intended, not as our waiter preferred.

The entrees which were Grilled Szechuan Beef and Grilled Shrimp were fair.  The Shrimp was much better.  At least half of the Beef was full of fat which I had to spit out into my plate.  Because the service was so bad and we complained so many times I hesitated to complain any further.  Nearly everyone in our section was complaining about something.  We were there for nearly 3 1/2-4 hours for our meal service. By the time we left it seemed most of the restaurant was empty except for the section serviced by our waiter.

For the $180 bill I received I truly expected better service.  Nearly every time the waiter came to our table, which was few and far between we had a complaint for him.  I honestly do not know how he got a job at this fine restaurant. I doubt he could survive working at Olive Garden.