Blue Oyster — Restaurant in Brainerd

Three strikes and you're out! First time I made reservations for myself and my friend for her birthday. They promised a free birthday dessert. We ordered a bottle of wine and the artichoke dip which was delicious. She ordered walleye; delicious. My steak was so tough I couldn't chew it and it tasted like the grill hadn't been cleaned so I sent it back. A lady came out and basically interrogated us, making us very uncomfortable. She did agree to replace my dinner with the walleye. But then they refused to give my friend her free birthday dessert! Really? Second visit we ordered a bottled of wine and artichoke dip. Good, but not the same as it was first time. Third visit was our last. Since the walleye was delicious the first time we both ordered that with a bottle of wine. It was cooked perfectly, but it was tasteless and was on a bed of under cooked wild rice, completely different from first visit. My friend ate hers, but I sent mine back and asked they just take it off the bill. Same lady came out and she actually crouched down to be at eye level with us and said staff had tasted the dish and they all disagreed. She also said "haven't we had a similar problem with you before?" What? What happened to the customer is always right? I will not go back, and I will not recommend this place to anyone. Expensive, inconsistent food,...

Our trip was at the end of a very long day, everyone was tired and hungry and we decided to go to 612 station as we heard that they had good burgers. It was a very quiet evening there, and when we arrived there were 12 customers there including the three of us. Our food took 45 minutes from the time that we ordered to arrive at our table. Two Cooks in the back but 45 minutes for the order of one chicken sandwich and two cheeseburgers seemed fairly excessive to me. I think when they realize they had forgotten our order, they tried to rush it out and the onion rings were virtually raw. The batter on them was not completely cooked. They took them back and put them in the fryer again and once they were finished they tasted good. I've heard people saying that they have the best burgers in Brainerd. In my opinion this is not a very good representation of the accuracy of their quality. It was an okay Burger, not bad, not great just okay- grade C. 45 minute wait after ordering when there were two Cooks in the back and only one other table was served in between the time that we ordered and we finally got our food. Overall it was not a very good introduction to this restaurant. The one positive was the waiter who was pretty fun &...

Very rude male bartender. I understand being 21 I will be carded everywhere. This man didn’t even say hi and asked for my id. Asked me what year is currently the year to be 21 and I said I didn’t know. Didn’t even ask if I wanted something to drink when he checked my Id. Food was average. Wasn’t bad but nothing to brag about. Ordered coconut shrimp and tots. Did not receive tots. Told him it was supposed to be tots and he said he would go fix it. Finished our food and still didn’t get my tots. Asked if they were on the way and he said ‘yeah sorry the kitchen is backed up and she’s new’ there are only 4 other tables here and for you to blame it on your cook is just rude and doesn’t look good for the business. And I saw him go back to kitchen to tell the cook he needed tots so not a good cover. Waited to leave so I could take the tots home and when I got them there was 4/5 huge balls which were their homemade tots? Wasn’t expecting breaded tots that had a onion or chive flavor. Aweful. Had empty drinks almost the entire time. Will not be coming back. It’s seriously not hard to just be a nice human being. Especially if you work for tips. Heard him interact with other tabels and much nicer to them, told them...