Onyx Bar & Grill

Tried out Onyx on Monday night, and was disappointed with the experience.

The night started off well enough with me arriving a bit earlier than my dinner group, and was immediately waited upon when I sat down at the bar to wait.  When my friends arrived, we were immediately seated.  It was a REALLY cold night, so we pretty much had the pick of tables...but I really appreciated the fact that the guy (I'm guessing the manager?) was easygoing enough to let us choose where we wanted to sit, helped to pull together tables so we could be more comfortable (with our group of 8), and then was more than willing to change the channel to the college basketball game that we wanted to watch.

Unfortunately, it started to go downhill as we started to order our dinners.  Here's the play-by-play:

For appetizers, we ordered:
- Calamari -- which they were out of
- Variety of wings -- honey bourbon (which were apparently very good, but that I didn't try), Cajun (which lacked any kind of real seasoning, and tasted primarily of...grease), and mild buffalo (which had no kick...and unfortunately no real taste to them either)
- Mozzarella sticks -- average...but the "tangy marinara sauce" lacked flavor
- Fried dill pickles -- wanted to like these...really, I did...but they were overly-breaded, and it tasted like they were using old oil.

For dinner, I ordered the pork tender sandwich, which I split with someone who had ordered the Italian beef.  The Italian beef, although a bit dry was hands down the winner of the two sandwiches.  While it wasn't the most flavorful of sandwiches (even after dipping in the au jus), it was waaaaaay better than the pork tender sandwich.  If I were a betting man, I'd put a large sum of money on a bet that this sandwich is purchased frozen, warmed up in a microwave, then thrown in the oil to try to crisp it up.  What was achieved, unfortunately, was a really bad sandwich.

The highlights from the rest of the group:
- The grilled chicken sandwich was dry, lacking flavor
- The buffalo chicken sandwich was pretty good
- The burgers (can't remember which ones were tried) were pretty decent
- The panini looked...underwhelming
- The full rack of ribs looked incredibly small, and the ends were a bit overdone and tough, but the middle section of ribs were pretty good

May seem a bit harsh to give this place a 2 star rating, especially given that the service was actually pretty good.  Unfortunately, the meal was so underwhelming...and just plain bad (for a large part of our group) that the service wasn't enough to move this up to a 3 star rating for our group.

Would I be back?  Maybe to watch a game and grab a beer...and possibly some of those bourbon wings that smelled quite good.  But for dinner?  Doubtful.

Checked out Onyx over the weekend for lunch.  Nice space, plenty of seating, decent menu and lots of TV's.  

Food -- typical bar food.  I had the steak wrap and it was fine but it was loaded with bleu cheese, kinda overloaded to the point where it was over powering.  The walleye sandwich was excellent.

Looked like they had good weekly specials, will have to come back on a Monday night for wings.

Our waitress was sorta flighty, it started to get busy and it just seemed like she was a bit overwhelmed.  

Over all...tucked away in the back of a strip mall so plenty of parking.  Definitely will check it out again.

I went to Onyx 6/16/12 and I have to say that I was not impressed. I personally enjoyed when the space was Olive. The food, drinks, and atmosphere was better.

The majority of seating indoors is high bar stools and tables which proves difficult if you have back and or knee issues. In the back there are a few (possibly 6) tables that are lower but were snagged already by older women. I had a Patty Melt there which 1. was quite rare on the inside instead of the medium well I asked for. 2. I ate anyways and regretted that decision not terribly long after leaving as I was needing a bathroom asap. 3. Unfortunately the most flavor of the whole burger and fries came from the bread and ketchup i used.

Sadly the atmosphere, poor food, poor service, and waitress that was not very helpful/ knowledgeable about the menu just made the whole experience terrible.

This may be a good place if you like bartop tables, somewhat pricey food for what you get especially without much flavor, and a sports bar near 251 and 173. I personally have had better food, service, and atmosphere at other smaller local sports bars/ pubs in the area.