ByrdCage — Restaurant in Atlantic City

Let’s talk about the owner Jason. I have a close friend who has a wheat allergy. Anything he eats needs to be gluten free and cooked separately from food that contains gluten. If his food is cross contaminated with gluten, he could have a serious allergic reaction, even becoming life threatening for him. We came to the ByrdCage simply for the drag brunch. We all thought It would be great and plus a drag show was going on so why not?! My friend always does his research before heading to a restaurant to make sure they have gluten free options. ByrdCage claims to have gluten free options on their menu. We got there, vibes were great at first, and the waitress seem to at least understand my friend’s allergy situation and assured him that the kitchen would cook any gluten free food separately from food that contains gluten. 2 hours went by and no food came out yet. You can tell other people in the restaurant were becoming bothered as well. Our waitress disappeared and we had to find a different waitress(who was very nice) just to get a 2nd round of drinks. Well the food finally came out after like 2 and a half hours and my friend can tell based on his food and ours, they were all cooked on the same grill. While his bread was gluten free, you can tell his bread was in the same toaster as ours which could be dangerous for his allergic reaction. Waitress got the owner involved and boy did this become a disaster. Owner took no responsibility and told my friend that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about because the food is cooked at a very high temperature causing the gluten to be burned off… if you go on Google right now and research this, it’s false because gluten cannot be “burned off” at any temperature. He then stated that my friend was too drunk and Jason himself was sober so he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. My friend walked away to catch some air because things started to get intense here. After that, another one of my friends told Jason that the Eggs Benedict dish we ordered did not have fried green tomatoes as advertised on the menu…. Can you believe this man stated, “Well they’re out of season you should know that.” Excuse me, then why is It even on the menu?! After that another friend and I started to get involved because his mouth was getting reckless. He then stated that he was not expecting 100s of people to show up…. There was no where near a 100 people at the brunch. The crowd was manageable and plus we all had to make reservations online…. With the amount of reservations, you didn’t prepare based on that? He proceeded to tell us we were all drunk…. We all had all of 2 drinks each at this point, not one of us even feeling tipsy… Come to find out later on, Jason was actually drunk and he was simply projecting himself onto us . Jason took 0 responsibilities here and after we left, he told one of my friends that were not welcomed back there. Well Jason no problem we won’t be coming back to your poorly managed bar. You had all the opportunities to make things right with customers, but yet you fought people on their feedback and concerns. Honestly, if you want to go to a gay bar where you’ll be respected, I promise everyone there’s plenty of gay bars in Asbury Park, NYC, and Philly where you’ll be respected. I appreciate the nice lady who understood and pretty much told us to not worry about the check due to the horrible experience and services. Also, shoutout to all the drag queens for amazing performances. As for Jason, I can only pray your bar survives and I can only pray you learn what It means to be professional as a business owner. You’re insensitive, rude self will not last as a business owner. Oh and being drunk while you’re trying to run a business, does not mix well. Saturday was a great example of why you should seek help for...

My partner and I came in tonight on a Sunday for dinner the theme was frank sinatra with a specialized Italian menu offered . The only other patrons of this place where 5 straight women that Were at the bar wasted and being very loud and one of these women came over to our table harassing my partner and i. Asking if we like women or men and that she thought he was there with a woman . I specifically asked to be sat at a table and not the bar because we came for dinner only. Not to drink and get drunk. This establishment should not allow people drinking at the bar and getting drunk to approach people sitting at tables and dining. We were not there to party. Our server was new and was trying but didn’t know much about the menu . The food was ok not great but not horrible. Middle of the road.i got the pasta bolognese and my partner got the chicken francaise and we ordered bruschetta for an appetizer. They only offer one kind of pasta which is linguini I’m not a fan of linguini pasta in anything. . My partner said his drink was good. He ordered the golden girls drink. I had wine because I was driving. The Pinot Grigio I ordered was table wine. Nothing special.we didn’t try any deserts because I felt very uncomfortable being there after the Patron at the bar came over to us uninvited and I just wanted to leave after that. I would give the atmosphere 0 stars if I could. They played frank sinatra none stop and the bird cage movie playing the entire time on tvs with subtitles. That’s cool if your into gay stereotypes I guess…This place seems like a wanna be gay bar based solely on gay stereotypes or kitch. As an actual gay man I didn’t feel very welcome and was uncomfortable the entire time we were there. I will say my partner enjoyed the atmosphere but I absolutely did not. We will not...

Had fun. Got drinks and food and stayed for a show. The ambiance was really nice. The food was good the drinks were great. They had movies on instead of sports which was a nice change. And with captions!! The show was fun to watch but there were only 2 single unisex bathrooms. One upstairs and one down which was annoying to wait in line with 5 people for how busy it was. They aren't big enough bathrooms to have like 2 stalls though I don't think so it makes sense. And the seating upstairs wasn't the greatest for watching the show. Because of the layout the seating is like in the back and on the right and it like cuts into the side kind if in an L shape and the bar runs along the wall on the left so when we were sitting in the one seats kind of close to the bar it was great until the show really started going because then everyone was just standing up talking and watching and you couldn't see anything and the seats all the way to the right of us were like blocked by a wall. There were a couple people sitting on the little tables so we could hear the show but not really see it for more than half until we went and sat at part of the bar but even then it was bits and pieces. But it was a good show! The crowd was nice/fun and danced too and the owner(i think not sure) was super nice walking around talking to everyone and being friendly. Id go there again. And probably a little early to get better seats for the...