The Deck Bayfront Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Atlantic City

Don't waste your time going to this substandard bar. Everything started out fine with the male bartender serving us 2 excellent drinks rather quickly. We asked to start a tab since we were going to order food as well, but were told that they don't do that anymore due to too many walkouts. When we were ready for our second drink the male bartender must have gone on break and had a female barmaid filled in for him; that's where things went bad. She was too busy chatting up the only other two people who were at the bar and refused to even look over at us. I decided to walk over and approach her to inform her we were ready to order 2 refills for my wife and I, and she slowly started to fill the request. Instead of making us 2 drinks, she only made 1 and served it to me. I told her that she forgot my wife's drink and she replied that she didn't know I wanted two drinks. Once she slowly completed the order (bloody Mary's) she throws the bill up on the bar and demanded payment. My wife informed her that we were celebrating a wedding anniversary and asked if she could recommend someplace nice to go to which she replied that we should go to the pistol range so my wife could shoot at a target of my face, then she also suggested going hatchet throwing so she could throw a hatchet at me. This upset my wife terribly so we paid our bill and refused to leave any type of tip for her poor and rude service. One other silly practice they have at this place is that a waitress came up behind us while we were sitting at the bar and informed us that she wanted to take our food order. She said that the bartenders don't take food orders so we would have to order drinks from the bartender and food from her; Of course we had two bills to pay since they can't seem to put food and drinks on the same bill. Even though our food (soft pretzel) was horrible due to it being cold and stale, we still tipped the waitress nicely due to her being so pleasant and efficient. It only takes one bad apple to spoil what could've been a pleasant...

Well now I know why this place has a 3.8 rating. I used to come to the deck all the time by boat when I was a kid. Came back for the first time in years for the crab leg special. I asked for the strawberry lemonade without the vanilla. I got the drink, tasted vanilla, waitress said she made it herself and there was none in it. She brought over the strawberry mix for me to taste which tasted totally fine without any hint of vanilla. Didn’t drink the drink and said that it wasn’t good and it was not removed from our bill. Mind you the drink was 30 bucks for 32 ounces and I was excited for it on my last night of summer vacay.

As for food, my mom enjoyed her coconut shrimp and my aunt enjoyed the wings. The crab legs were good but lukewarm and by the time I was done cracking with my plastic utensils it was freezing. Supposedly by law they can’t give you a real fork? The fries were overly seasoned with old bay and rock hard. I told all of this to the waitress and nothing was done to try and reconcile the situation.

After I complained, the waitress (Madison/Maddy) was so rude. She tossed the bill down and basically ran away from the table. No “let me have the bartender make you another drink”, “have a good night”, “thank you for coming” nothing but rude silence. I’d also like to point out the place was empty! She should not be working with customers. I took the bill up to the bar to have the drink removed. Thank you to the bartenders who were very kind, took care of the bill and removed the drink.

I will not be returning to this...

Wish I could rate the food but it never got that far. I'm not usually one to leave bad reviews but this one got to me. Walked over and asked the bartender if there was a host/hostess or if we just sat ourselves. He told us we just pick a table and someone would be right over. We sit down and start looking at the menus on the table and about 15mins later no one had come over. I asked a waitress(of which there were many walking by our table) if we were indeed supposed to order at the bar or if these tables were serviced. She said she would get a waitress over to talk to us(I'm assuming it either wasn't her section or she was busy). We wait another 10 minutes and asked again but got no one. Finally after waiting an additional 10 minutes we decided this place just wasn't for us. It was semi-busy but nothing even close to mobbed so I'll just assume they don't...