The Place

The food was decent here. The portabella burger and the roast beef french dip was tasty too. The fries and chicken fingers didn't seem fresh though. Like they had just been heated up. The service was great from the patio staff, but it was smoky and a bit loud out there even with only four tables. We had our two year old daughter with us and there were other young children outside. I wish they had let smokers sit somewhere else or had a larger outdoor seating area.

The Beach Drive Burger and fries were average in taste but were room temperature by the time they made it to the table.  It was an older crowd for a Saturday night - and by older I mean several years of social security eligibility.

Came here for the towns "Oktoberfest."  FYI, the whole oktoberfest was a JOKE, but The Place tried to cater to this event as best they could.  TRY is the key word.  We came with a party of 7 adults and 4 kids(well behaved angels mind you).  Every table was full except the ENTIRE BACK HALF OF THE RESTAURANT.  If you are the ONLY place in the entire OKTOBERFEST that has classic German dishes, you should expect to have the whole resaurant open! They would NOT let us sit back there, under no circumstance, no matter how much pleading would they let us sit back there.  It wasn't "open".  We end up waiting about 10 min for 2 tables, completely separate...glad I could visit my sis and her family once a year to have to sit at different tables...awesome. Thanks Place.  And then the kicker is this, THREE things:

1. They opened up the back not 5 minutes after we were sitting down, so that the local drunks could party and take up the whole place.

2. They ran out of BRATWURST.  People, please hear me....THEY RAN OUT OF BRATWURST.  You might as well have an Oktoberfest and say, sorry, we ran out of beer.  They weren't apologetic, they didn't care.  At all.

3. I had the jaeger schnitzel with potato salad and red cabbage. I didn't mind the cabbage, a tad to sweet i think.  BUT, my schnitzel...after seeing many other diners enjoying a large delicious cutlet, came out. And it must have lost half its body weight on the trip from the kitchen to the plate. It was TINY. Seriously, at this point I think they are doing it on purpose. I think they just didn't like my face or something, or maybe it was because I was the only person(aside from one nice older couple) wearing a Oktoberfest hat.  Maybe they just hated my hat.

I can't judge them for their everyday typical food and service.  But on this day, I don't think I've had worse service or obvious lack of care for a customer.

I bid you good day sir!