Similar to other yelpers my party experienced incredibly slow service. Â The food wasn't horrible- wasn't the best. Â Sometimes at a casual outdoor bar you don't mind slow service. Â I still had one of the worst meal experiences at Tavola- here's why:
We opted to go for happy hour on a Friday and pick up an early dinner. Â When we arrived the hostess asked us for a reservation. Â When we told her we did not have one she scoffed, looked over her should and said "I'll be right back, need to check with my manager to see if I can fit you in." Â She left for about 3 minutes then returned and said, "we have a table that faces the wall, is that ok." Â A little confused we looked at the nearly empty patio but we were hungry and wanted to try it out so we agreed. Â We were shown to the strangest table (long rectangle with two individuals on each end and one individual in the middle). Â As promised the table did not face the golf course, rather it looked directly at the cinderblock wall of the Marriott Courtyard. Â To top it all off, there was a small outdoor speaker located at the base of the wall that made communication nearly impossible. Â
We stayed and it was horrible. Â There was a special on margaritas so I order one and got the most vile cheap alcohol / margarita mix I've ever tasted in my life- it didn't even have salt around the rim. Â As we ate the restaurant did slowly fill but by the time we were finishing our meal (about 90 minutes later after waiting nearly 50 for our food) the "please wait to be seated area" the restaurant was till only at half capacity. I laughed to myself as I ate my ice cream egg roll dessert (actually pretty good- the best part of the meal). Â Anyone who makes a reservation for Tavola needs his / her head examined.
Tried them a second time bc they have the outdoor patio now. Â OMG...I don't understand how this place can have such beautiful grounds and such terrible food. Â I had the steamed clams and had to pour salt on the sauce to them to give them some sort of flavor...lacked any sort of taste whatsoever. Â The shrimp pizza w arrugula was sooo dry I almost coughed up an arugula ball. Â Drinks also lack imagination!
Review Source:Contrary to everyone else's bad reviews, I enjoyed a nice lunch on a beautiful Friday afternoon. The patio has excellent seating overseeing the gold course. The service was excellent and always made sure I was tended to. The food was probably about a 3, but it did the job. I'll update my review after I have dinner here.
Review Source:Went to Tavola on a Monday evening and sat at the outside bar. Â It was still early and not crowded. We ordered dumplings and another appetizer, which were mediocre at best. We both got a Cobb salad, which I think would be pretty hard to screw up. They did. It had to be the worst I've ever had. There were six pieces of tiny, hard as a rock avacado, totally inedible. Â I would give this place no stars, but the beer tasted pretty good. Go there thirsty, not hungry.
Review Source:Stupid me. Thinking this place was worth the money I dropped for garbage. Crappy service, disgusting food and expensive drinks doesn't equal a good time. I decided to drop in there to watch the Eagles start the Chip Kelly era. Sat at the bar. Finally got service after easy 8-10 minute wait. FAIL -a good bartender would greet their patrons, especially if they see them and ignore them a number of times. FAIL- limited glass choice of red wine and no happy hour deal FAIL - the food. The steamed clams had this gelatinous  mess of goop in the broth and they weren't hot. No bread - had to ask and wait for the bartender to find some. The Mahi-Mahi was in no way fresh and did not taste grilled. I loved the large chunk of grey fish running along on the side. NOT. Cold risotto and limp vegetables "completed"the plate. I did happen upon the new impressive new patio complete with live music as I was leaving. It was packed and looked like a great place for a drink. But I observed food coming from the same kitchen so PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!!!
Review Source:Menu is very good, with lots of salads, interesting appetizers and reasonably-priced entrées, and at dusk on a summer Saturday the outdoor seating looked great. But the service and management are awful. Our walk-up party of three was seated quickly, but a waiter came only after we'd gone back to the hostess after sitting for 15 minutes. We placed drink and food orders all at once, which he dutifully wrote down, and he helpfully answered a question about gluten-free options. Then we waited. And waited, for another 45 minutes before any food arrived. Our waiter came back in the meantime to refresh drinks and express exasperation with the kitchen, but we had to flag down someone else even to get bread for the table. Almost an hour after ordering, some of the food we ordered arrived. Sweet potato fries were good. A veal dish was overcooked, as was the salmon added to a salad. A waitress who was not our own delivered those plates and left the third in front of me saying "this must be yours." It was not, and we had to call after her as she ran away. Our waiter returned and asked again what I'd ordered -an hour earlier (a salad and a chicken sandwich). A manager came over to ask how things were, and when told, said the food would be out immediately, which it soon was, and he promised to return to talk with us about what he could do. The manager never did, and when the check came it was wrong - adding the mis-delivered entree - and nothing was comp'ed or even discounted for the extreme delay. Totally unprofessional. The waiter was embarrassingly apologetic, and we were presented with a coupon for our next visit - expiring in a month! We paid our check in full and left the coupon on the table. Awful.
Review Source:Ok went here the other day. We were advised that they just redone the outside. All new seating area and seating arrangements. They had couches with fire pits and burning tourches around. Very nice and cute, the bar was a good size under a big roof with tv's. We were told the resturant inside was just redone too. Good girly drinks about $8.50 each, I had the mango coconut crazy, which was made with ice cream and very yummy. Lots of whip cream and shreddad coconut on top. We liked all of our drinks, good size and made well.
We only got appetizers and they weren't priced to badly. We got nachos and also a pizza which they allowed us to switch out mushrooms for peppers. Both were quite good. You got about 8 small slices of the pizza.
Since it was a new set up and you could tell because the waiters had no idea were the food they had was going. We were asked twice if something was ours and we said no. Also I did ask for a water refill and plates and never got them. Another issue I had is a golf ball flew by and hit a woman in the hand. I really think they need to do something to prevent that. The golf course is right there so not sure how they can prevent it.
I liked the place even with those little issues . Now even though the appetizers and things like pizza, burgers etc were priced reasonably, the actual entres were a little pricier , around $20-$25 bucks. Â
They're building a marriot right there , the resturant is somewhat attached. I think it will make a great place for the hotel guest and anyone else.
Went out to dinner with my wife, she wanted to go someplace that had outdoor seating. Â We were sat within 10 minutes. Â Our waitress did not come to our table until 10 minutes later. Â Place our order all at once. Â Iced tea and Beer, came 20 minutes after placing the order. Â Onion rings and Brushchetta came 36 minutes after placing our order. Â The main course came 55 minutes after placing the order. Â
Was there for my first time. Â It was also my last time.
Total fail for Mother's Day brunch...should have checked Yelp first.
$230 for 7 people. Before you get all excited thinking what a bargain (not really), there's a reason it's so cheap.
This must be where the Country Club makes the bulk of its money once a year because seriously this brunch is run like a mass market cafeteria. 'Check In' was a giant line literally 100+ people long. You give them your name, you pay and they give you a ticket. I felt like I was at my high school reunion.
After you pay, you get shuffled off to the right to have your party wait to be seated. This would be fine in a classy establishment, except 5 other parties of 6+ are also waiting to the right. This turns the 'waiting to the right' line into a giant second mass cattle car of waiting, just like check in.
At some point we were asked to move to the left to wait. We move off to the left. And were asked to move around a bit again so that they could get the chairs set off to the sides. I mean seriously, figure out where you want people to wait and then seat them vs shuffling them around. Poor logistics. Poor execution.
Finally we get led to our table. Which is... 2 too-small round tables placed next to each other...one of them was higher than the other so the tables didn't even align properly. Really? We asked to be re-seated to one of the other tables that actually could hold 7-8 without looking cobbled together. First gal gave us some song and dance, but thankfully whoever was in charge said no problem we'll reseat you. Again, this should not be that hard. We were one of the smaller parties there. The staff was in a flurry, with everyone rushing around, working hard.
The brunch is not even in the restaurant itself, I assume it is what passes for a giant wedding reception kind of hall for the country club. Think lots of 80's arched windows and double paned glass that has lost its seal, leaving streaky watery marks down the windows. The noise level in this place got to ear-splitting decibels, you could easily have been at a local kiddie cafeteria. No private luncheon vibes going on here, you knew at all times that you were amongst a couple hundred of your closest friends.
Coffee cups on the tables were dirty, smudged and smeared. Awesome staff got us new ones. I got apple juice for my son promptly and once the coffee was served, it was actually very good. One point.
The food...well it's a buffet that goes on for hours and hours. Keep your expectations low. The only positives at this thing were the fresh fruit, the crab cakes (surprise, they were amazing, barely fried and 99% crab), the bacon and sausage, and the carrot cake on the dessert table. Everything else was meh meh meh or total crap. The scrambled eggs were comical, the potatoes were cold, the stuffed shells were cold and congealed and the chipped beef (What the heck is that anyway) looked regurgitated.
On our way out, used the restroom, in which we discovered that almost every stall was out of toilet paper. I could be at your local rodeo in a porta-potty at this point...the experience was so disappointing. I mentioned to a lady in charge that she might want to look into refilling the paper and she just stared at me. Guess she's loving her job.
Overall, total and complete miss. Bad on me for not checking Yelp and getting seduced by Tavolas slick looking website with pretty pictures of their 'outdoor seating' which led my SIL and myself to be imagining some swank, secluded, beautiful-view-laden Mother's Day brunch that we'd be proud to take our families too. Good thing is that we won't be back next year. I cannot believe this thing is as popular as it is, surely not everyone is new in town, our only excuse, and a lame one at that really.
Went to the late seating for Mother's Day Brunch, if I could give this hole a zero I would.
Where to begin?
Curdled cream for coffee.
Send the pancakes & waffles to the skating rink down the street, good for ice hockey only or as a weapon of mass destruction.
Had two nice waitresses, but when they started breaking down the room they sent a real winner. When I told her about the hockey pucks, her reply was "I don't have anything to do with the kitchen".
Poorly executed Lox, no toaster available for mediocre bagels. One bread station had no cream cheese. No typical accoutraments - chopped egg, sliced onion, tomatoes.
The roast beef still had whip marks on it from the the third race at Philadelhphia Park. One of the stations had fish on it that had been through a war.
The shrimp boat sank, with shrimp swimming in a foot deep bath of room temperature water. I passed.
Not a lot for the kiddo's. When they started breaking down the room, they kept giving us the bum rush taking plates & the boy's chocolate milks away.
Ice cream gloriously presented in a 1963 cooler with delapidated lids, and the products 2 1/2 feet at the bottom. Real delicacy ice cream favors that you can buy at the corner store for 50 cents each.
Overall, a very poorly executed buffet. A poorly spent $220 for 6 adults & 2 kids, Concordville Inn or anywhere in Philly next time.
One word sums this place up: regret. Â I don't even want to waste the time it takes to write a review, but I feel you should be warned: the service is horribly slow. Â Like time is measured in eons while you wait slow. Â My wife and I did not even eat half of our entres and we might as well have been talking to a rock as far as the server was concerned when it came to listening to how we answered her questions. Â The food is no where near worth the cost... The calamari fritte, however, not half bad.
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