Rivers

My business team and I went here on a Thursday afternoon before catching our flight out of Chicago.  Came in for dinner.  Quick and dirty is after tasting the wine and appetizers we didn't bother ordering dinner and hurried to leave.

The food here was awful!  The service was awful!  The place looks great, but man they served some terrible stuff that night.  Let's break it down:

Bread:  Three types, all tasted awful.  Either stale or bad flavor.  Who gets bread wrong these days, especially in a restaurant in an office building?

Wine:  Brought us a few glasses recommended by our waitress.  All tasted watered down and bad.  When we mentioned it to the waitress she flipped her script and agreed with us that they weren't good.  We don't think she really knew what was good at all and was telling us what we wanted to hear.

The appetizers:  Had Angus sliders.  Tasted like white castle burgers but worse.  Buffalo chicken bits, overcooked and tasted burnt.  Some sort of mescalin strawberry salad but it was ruined by their use of a sesame dressing... balsamic is the obvious correct choice.  Chicken sliders were so so, nothing terrible there.  French fries were ok suprisingly.

After all this the waitress about disappeared and it took us 15 minutes to get our check.  

Definitely don't waste your time at this place.

Good food, great for business lunches.   Close to where I work and always to get in and out in a reasonable amount of time.  Menu has good selection including fish.  A little on the pricey side, so save it for a business lunch or special occasion.

Business lunch.  I always enjoy the Rivers menu and love the fish selections.  They always go beyond the standard tuna, salmon and tilapia.  Individual with me had chicken and it was also very good.   I highly recommend Rivers, especially in summer when you can eat outside.