Shakers Good Food & Drink

One guess what I am having.

The lighting here is good. Not too dark, not too light.

Gorgonzola steak salad and a Yuengling on draft. Big salad. Won't leave you hungry.

fish tacos! fish tacos! fish tacos!

Fish tacos are good here

The gorgonzola siDE salad is amazing

Where do I start. First of all, it was our first time. When we entered, the hostess, who could care less that we came in, gave us an unenthusiastic hello, disregarded our request to sit at the bar, and sat us in area that was cold and drafty. We were really hungry so we sat down anyway. Our waiter comes out, and never mentioned his name. Real in personable. By our lack of a southern accent, and my San Francisco giants sweater, he should have known we were not from around here. We ordered salads and onion rings for dinner, a) it was late , 9pm and b) we in a hurry to get back to our hotel. The Gorgonzola salad on mixed greens was horrible. It was bland and made from iceberg lettuce. I had the spinach salad with salmon. The fish was ok, but the balsamic dressing was not good. Real tangy, not like a real balsamic. Truly something the south should not attempt. When the  waiter came out after serving our meal, he did not offer me a second beer,  and never asked how our food was.  At the end of the meal, or wen we were done looking t our half teen plates, I asked for the manager. This young puke comes out and could barely speak for himself. I politely asked for him to remove the Gorgonzola salad from the bill. When I was given flack because t was half gone, I told I'm we ate because we were starving. With some back and forth he finally took it off the bill. In reality, I should not have paid for ether entree. This place is not good for salads. I would have eaten something the waiter recommended,  but like I said, that did not happen.

I had never wrote a restaurant review but I got to say something about this place.  My husband and I took a guest who drove 4 hours to visit us to this place for dinner Friday evening.  We entered the restaurant with a 7 mo baby and saw a host's (a guy in a yellow shirt) smug and hostess' expressionless face toward us.  Definately not welcoming attitude for a host and a hostess.  One of the hosts took us to a table at the end of the building where it was surrounded by glass windows, dark and chilly when I saw 5 or more tables available in the middle.  Because we were not so picky about seating, we just sat down. But I wrapped my baby in a blanket and wore my jacket because it was cold.  The food were too salty and we kept on drinking water.  My gorgonzola steak salad looked like it was sat on the table for 3 hours- dry, tasteless steak. The waitress seemed so busy and we had to wait 10 or more minutes to get refills.  And she came to us when we were still working on the food- about half of the food still left on the plates, asking if we wanted desserts or a check. She brought the check in the middle of the eating. It was around 7:30 pm and I didn't understand why she had to rush and ruined our mood for Friday night.  My guest literally said that he had never been to a restaurant where the chicken stir-fry could be this salty and bad and a waitress was rude.  I felt bad to take him to this restaurant when my husband wanted to go somewhere else.  We won't go to this place again.  Avoid rude staff and "not worth the money" food.

I forgot to mention it.  I got sick after eating the gorgonzola steak salad.  I am up at 3 AM because I am having diarrhea and stomachache.