Not impressed.
Arrived at about 10 minutes before kick off for the 2010 world cup final to find not a hint of world cup fever.
We were offered to find ourselves a table and after asking if they were showing the World Cup game found ourselves a table where we thought we would be guaranteed a great view of at least one of the screens showing the game. We plonked ourselves down at a high top and were greeted by a nice server who assured us that they would be showing the match. We ordered our drinks and when she returned with them she once again assured us they would be showing the game.....meanwhile..kick off time has gone by and I am in a panic. So I run up to the bar and start the whole "OMG WHERE IS THE WORLD CUP COVERAGE ITS LIKE THE BIGGEST SOCCER EVENT OF THE PAST FOUR YEARS AND ITS ON LOCAL TV AND STUFF AND WTF" - you know, embarrassing my whole family and stuff.
Thank goodness nobody scored in the first few minutes, but we all missed the whole pomp and circumstance stuff that comes with such an auspicious occasion. And the bar was filling up with people who were here for the same reason so it was not like we were the only ones there for that reason
Food..oh yeah. The food. Isn't that why we all Yelp in the first place?
I wasn't starving hungry...was looking for something "light" and tasty so went for these crab salad sliders with string onions. Ordered some personal pizza's for the kids and the burger for my husband.
We were caught up watching the game (which they had finally figured out how to put up on their tv's....about 10 minutes after kickoff) when the eldest kid said...hey...we ordered lunch seven minutes before kick off and it's almost half time. Yep, almost 45 minutes wait for lunch.
So we are watching everyone else around us getting their food and I'm starting to think I should not have started the whole scene about putting the world cup on and the waitress comes by and tells us that our lunch is delayed because of my crab salad sliders and will be out shortly. When it does finally come out I have three crab salad sliders (which are cold - as they should be....and waiting for the hot food before service) and my hubby's burger comes out which looks and tastes like it has been sitting under a hot lamp for at least 20 mins. The pizzas are great. They come in a Pizza Hut cardboard box. That's it. A cardboard Pizza Hut box plonked down in front of you. Real classy Hilton.
The crab salad sliders were OK. A bit too salty. Three of them on something like a doughy potato roll. Served up with a ton of unseasoned stringly onion bits. The burger came with a congealed slice of cheese and a tremendously withered piece of lettuce and tomato.
Sitting there watching the most boring game of World Cup 2010 I saw the manager apologize and give away a lot of food as comps for reasons that should not have happened. I saw a small overstaffed bar where three should have been able to easily handle the small crowd gathered there.
The lovely waitress asked if we cared for dessert and we asked for a hot fudge sundae......which arrived as runny ice cream with rivulets of chocolate fudge sauce.
Because of the delay with the crab sliders they were comped.
My hubby said "you are so going to give this a scathing review aren't you?'
Nope. I'm going to tell it as I saw it.
I stayed at the Hilton all week last week. After one night in this bar, I had found my evening hang out. The bartenders are very friendly, and while the prices are a bit high ($6.50 for a draft Guiness), at least they had Guiness on draft and sports on TV. Since the Hilton severely limits what channels you get in the room (to try to make you buy programming), you have to find a way to watch the other channels.
One problem though, you're almost better off going back to room to use the restroom, the ones in the lobby are so far apart it's almost criminal.