For once the Tri's has a restaurant that offers a variety of drinks, food, and atmosphere.
The Martini's & Drink's: Â Egh... $10 for a martini is overpriced especially since they are prepared with pre-made generic sugary syrups. I really think the martini list and combinations are innovative, -for the Tri-Cities but certainly not anything that hasn't already been done. I already have a hard time paying $10 for a cocktail in Portland but now that I have a drink in that price range to compare it to -I need to man up because these $10 drinks in Portland have been infused on site and made from fresh squeezed/made juices, definitely worth it compared to drinks made at Twist with generic mass produced flavored syrups.
The beer list is nothing short of usual- it's your typical Kennewick sports bar tap list: Coors lite, Bud lite, Blue Moon, nothing of real taste or to please the craft beer enthusiast.
The Grub: Â The food wasn't all that great, and not all that bad considering most of it comes from a pre-packaged vacuum sealed bag. We were a larger group of 5 Â and each ordered something different and shared our appetizers and meals.My Argentinian fish tacos appetizer which I ordered like a meal -was dry like cotton and lacked the aioli garlic zing, a flop. The Bruchetta Flat bread was worth a double order- I think I could have eaten a batch of that alone! The Pork Osso Bucco was fall off the bone -as it should be prepared, delicious in preparation but salty, Waiter, More Water Please!
We ended our meals with an order of the drunken doughnuts and meh... unique sauce flavors but the doughnut holes must have been from a hostess box..
The service: Â Our server was a doll, she keep our drinks coming, easy to chat with, laughed at our lame jokes and I felt like we were homies from middle school. She did a fantastic job of making up for the lack of taste. Being that this is the one spot where you can mingle with your girlfriends over drinks and appetizers aside from PF's and Bonefish, I will be back to give it an other shot!
I'm not of age, so all I've really had to base this place on is their food.
It's not great.
One poor experience in particular was with one of their steak sandwiches. I had to give up less than halfway through due its ridiculous toughness. I don't know what the cut was, but it wasn't worth any amount that we paid.
I've also had their happy hour turkey sliders. Not bad, but nothing to rave about.
People hoot and holler about their gorgonzola fry sauce, but $3 extra for a little side cup? Nuh-uh.
I have a feeling that people wouldn't fall for the prices here if it were in a bigger city. Don't let the chain-restaurant (which it is, to note) "ooh" and "ahh" ambiance fool ya.
The service was bad from start to finish. From taking to long to get our orders, Â forgetting drinks, coleslaw did not have any dressing and when a different dish was served it was like nothing was on it anyway, crab mac & cheese was tasteless and used blue crab,,, hello we are in the northwest what happened to Dungeness, seating was very cafeteria style with not really any privacy without hearing the next tables conversation, Â fish & chips was good but nothing special, the pit ham and pulled pork was terrible and to top it off my husband spent the rest of our evening in the bathroom; coincidence maybe. I would not waste my money here again.
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