Kim Marie's Eat n Drink Away — Restaurant in Asbury Park

This place does not even deserve 1 star. We had a group of about 9 people. We ordered a plethora of appetizers (potato boats, chili wings, bbq wings, jerk dry rub wings, nachos, chicken tenders, fries, sushi, and mozzarella sticks). The potato boats, jerk dry rub wings, nachos, sushi, mozzarella sticks were edible. The chili wings tasted like they had been fried in old oil, the chicken tenders were burnt, and the fries were cold. We mentioned this to the server and he said "they just came out the fryer." We looked at him incredulously and said "try them." They then brought out new fries which had actually come fresh out the fryer. They were bland but fresh. shrug We then ordered food. I had the blue cheese bacon burger and fries. The fries again, were old, hard, and bland; simply put inedible. Only 3 out of 9 people ate their food. NO ONE ATE THE FRIES ON ANY PLATE. Fries are easy to make so I'm not sure why these were so horrible. When we asked for a manager, it took 30 minutes to get one. Mind you, they weren't packed enough to say it took that long. Whatever, we waited. Then when the manager did come out, I went to the bathroom. I'm not sure what was said but while inside I overhear the servers stating, "they just must not be able to afford the food." Like really? This place lacks professionalism and food appeal. We paid them with an AMEX platinum card (which has no spending limit). I promptly told them they are unprofessional and we left. This place is terrible. There are many other places to eat that won't leave you...

I went with a friend to Kim Marie's since we are both fans of the other business establishment, Johnny Macs. I ordered a tuna steak and my friend ordered a regular steak. I had a total of two cosmos, and my friend had a vodka/tonic. He didn't like his vodka tonic, so he didn't finish it. My first martini was decent, but the second one seemed a bit off. Maybe the wrong vodka, too much vodka? Who knows. Just different from the first one. Didn't taste so good. So, I told my server, Brenna, that it tasted like a different vodka. She seemed pleasant about it and said she would have the bartender make another one. Cool. She brought the second drink back to me and left.

So, I am filling out the credit card info to pay for our meal totaling $90.97, with a $15.00 tip, and someone drops a napkin on my table. The napkin said: "They gave you the same drink you sent back - just a different glass - chilled."

So, instead of complaining about the old "bait and switch," I decided to tell Brenna that my drink still tasted the same to see what she would say. Would she come clean or take it back? Let's see. ...

When we flagged Brenna down, and I told her my drink tasted the same, she told me that she personally watched the bartender make me a new drink. Hmm, is that so? I didn't say anything to her, and I didn't take away her 20 percent tip. Instead, I decided to write this review.

I will never come back to your...

Ugh, this was a really, really bad experience. We showed up on what, admittedly, was a busy Saturday and waited patiently for about ten minutes to have even an initial conversation with the hostess. She told us 20 minutes. About 35 minutes later we got a text from another nearby restaurant where we had also put our names in for a reservation that a table was available if we wanted it. We asked the hostess what she thought given it seemed like things weren't moving and she told us "just a few more minutes" so we declined the other table. Another 20 minutes later we were finally sat, only after I went in for a third time and asked about an empty table outside that had been vacant for the last 15 minutes of our wait. When we finally sat, the woes continued... we waited another 20 minutes for the apps, and then the entrees came out before we were even three bites in. My wife's burger bun was burnt -- like, it's a bun, take more care than that -- and then they sat another family with a dog at our same table (I'm totally cool with multi family tables and am totally cool with a restaurant that allows dogs... but maybe don't sit a family with a dog at the multi-family table.) Rover (or whatever his name was) actually made his way over and got into my kid's Mac and cheese. One upside -- I will say the clam chowder was really, really good. The experience as a whole was, unfortunately, really...