The Freight House

Friday night we tried to go in after attending a wedding.  My wife didn't bring an ID along - she is over 60 yrs old and hasn't been carded for over 30 yrs.  The three guys at the door who were checking IDs wouldn't let her in because she didn't have an ID.  We won't be back.

I went in with a friend because I heard the place had been revamped. We were sat on the patio and our waiter greeted us. He took our beverage order after sitting for 15 minutes. Then he brought out our bloody marys without celery salt or beer chasers. No problem, we thought that was just how they were served.

Then our friend at the table next to us order a bloody mary, and hers came with celery salt and a beer chaser. She asked her waitress why hers was fancier than ours and she said we must have ordered a spicier bloody or something. (Nope, we didn't).

Then we asked our waiter why we didn't have a chaser, and he said that the other table got hers by mistake and they didn't do that anymore. Totally fine, they are working out the kinks. So he brought us chasers (that we didn't ask for, but he was trying to be nice). Then he asked 3 times how the chasers were...making us feel like jerks for saying anything.

Then we ordered an appetizer to split. - Reuben sliders with hand cut fries. That's it. Over 45 minutes later, our food arrived. The "reubens" were cold, like they had been sitting there for a while, and they had dry corned beef with some coleslaw on top. No sauerkraut or anything. The fries were good.

The new General Manager walked around trying to look important and was unimpressive. And then when we went to dance floor, the poor bartenders were dressed like showgirls (the guys too), and it was just embarrassing for them.

If this was trying to clean the place up, they have a long way to go.

After all the other restaurants had a 30 - 45 minute wait in downtown Stillwater, we ended up at the Freighthouse.  It was Friday night and this place was almost empty.  That's always a little concerning...  We stayed for dinner anyway.

Our server was fairly young and seemed somewhat new as she wassn't very knowledgeable about the menu and struggled to answer some of our questions.  She had to go seek her manager for answers.  I can certainly cut her some slack since we're all new to our jobs when we first start.  It's probably good for her to get some expereince before the busy summer months!

The menu was fairly limited unless you're looking for a burger or sandwich.  I had to remind myself that this was more of a drinking establishment.  I had the blackened salmon BLT which was actually decent.  If my rating was based on just this I would have given it 3 stars.  However, my wife and her friend had the salmon dinner which was just OK and fairly bland.

Beyond this, the Freighthouse is a cool historic building.  I have been here in the summer for a few beers on a nice day.  This is really where the Freighthouse shines.  It's really a place to go for drinks, appetizers, burgers and is a great place to go in the summer to enjoy the patio!