Sunset 44 Restaurant

Unremarkable, bland food. Brought a group of 12+ people for special occasion.
Food portions are small, (especially for the price of $20+ per dinner entree). By the time the food came out to the group, half the dinners were cold.
I suppose because they cater to a senior living building above them, they have managed to stay in business.
We have a special event planned for this location in a few weeks for an elderly relative. I already feel sorry for our group. Another round of over priced, dreadfully bland, cold food - coming right up!

Went here last night, great place. Peopla a little stuffy

We went to Sunset 44 for Mother's Day, we decided to dine very early and arrived while the restaurant was almost empty. The people that were seated were almost all elderly.  (We learned later that there is a Nursing Home kind of next door/above).  Things started off well, although we were walked through a maze of tables to eventually get to our booth. The first thing I noticed was that the menu was missing about 1/3 of the items that had been on the website. I am a vegetarian and I'd sort of mapped out what I thought I wanted to order. Unfortunately neither of the items I wanted were on the menu any longer, (Summer Tomato & Mozzarella and Pasta Verde).  Nor was the Zucchini Bite starter that everyone had raved about.  We ordered the Lavosh and beer cheese crock.  The cheese was a bit like cheez wiz as one reviewer stated, but it wan't completely horrible. They also brought out rolls which were very good.

I ended up ordering a Wedge Salad without bacon and my Mom ordered the Ceaser.  My salad was decent. My mother didn't remark on it at the time but later in the car she advised that her ceaser was very bland with almost no flavor, she didn't finish it.  There were no vegetarian entreés so I ordered the Wild Mushroom Flat Bread. My mother ordered the Beef Tenderloin Tips.  The flat bread was inedible, room temp, cardboard crust, it had an odd smell and the mushrooms seemed to be dried and not all the way re-hydrated. I ate half of one small section and sent it back. It takes a lot for me to do that, I've been a vegetarian for 20 years and I am adaptable and will eat pretty much anything that doesn't have meat.  

The server checked with the kitchen and they agreed to make me a pasta dish without meat, which was nice but it didn't overcome the quality of the flatbread.  The pasta they brought out was a huge bowl of linguine with the veg of the day (steamed carrots, zucchini, cauliflower) mixed in and a tomato sauce that tasted like canned stewed tomatoes with no seasoning.  After three bites I decided it was something I could take home and add some seasoning to on my own.  The biggest disappointment was probably the Beef Tenderloin Tips which were covered in a thick gravy I could smell from across the table. It smelled like cafeteria gravy you'd find on cheap meat.  According to my mother that's the way it tasted as well, she said it seemed like it was out of a bag.  

In addition to our meals we got an order of sweet potato fries, they were very good. The best part of the meal by far. Sweet, nicely salted, crisp on the outside and soft in the middle.

We had a gift certificate and were trying to "use it up" so we ordered dessert to go. The Créme Brúlee and Chocolate Glazed Napoleon were both good but nothing spectacular.  

If we had actually been paying for the dinner without the certificate I think my mom would have sent back the Beef Tenderloin.

All of the waitstaff was very nice, friendly, they seemed to be especially kind toward the many elderly people. However, their behavior was not the stuff of fine dining. They yelled across the floor, they took plates from a table and scraped the scraps onto one big plate before carrying it into the kitchen, they used a loud swiffer vacuum under one of the tables right next to us while we were eating.  

We didn't need any additional dessert items but the cookies other reviewers have mentioned were never offered. There were also several periods in which we sat for long periods of time waiting.  By the time we left the empty restaurant was now filled.  

In the car on the way home we discussed the meal and decided the major issue was it didn't live up to the name or the website.  The food wasn't bistro-like.  It was more reminiscent of cafeteria or hospital food. Bland, canned, over sauced, un-inventive.  

We won't be going back.