Refinery Modern Fare — Restaurant in City of Auburn

Please think twice. When I chose this I was looking at some older pictures of the menu and restaurant. The star is for the waitress/bar tender who was, serving a rather busy bar, taking the orders, bringing the food and cashing out customers. The soup was nice. The salad was generous but really doused in blue cheese dressing. Then things got bad. My husband ordered steak very well done. It came out bloody rare- sent it back- second time was about the same but more blackened on the outside. I ordered mine medium and it was much more cooked. The steak was THIN and VERY fatty. The two pictures are before and after I ate. I couldn't eat it. It was also topped with canned type fried onions and a ton of garlic butter. It was dripping. It was presented in top of the "smashed" potatoes that was mashed that really didn't taste fresh at all. They comped my husbands steak and a drink, we still spent about $70. I'm writing this review from Parker's a locally owned and excellent eatery. Please choose this- or one of the other local and delicious eateries that Auburn has to offer. Shame on you Hilton. This is not how you should...

We frequent this restaurant due to the fact we have never had a bad experience, that being said, our experience last night was inexcusable. We found our server to be un-friendly, we ordered the "Seward Platter" which we had had one time prior. So we ordered again last night to show our friends how good it was. To our surprise it was half the size of the first time, lacked the variety of fruit as well as different kinds of cheese. It came with a bowl of yogurt, but no fruit to dip in it. We received some grapes, cheese, and crackers. We expressed to our server our confusion explaining that we had ordered this same thing a few nights ago and it was extremely different than the one we were served last night. We explained how the first time there was more of a variety of fruit and this is what we were brought to compensate. Old, bad, apples. 15$ for this tray. Our server then told us, "I'm going to be honest, I made it myself because it's really busy". We were planning on having dinner but after the server and the disappointing platter we left and went elsewhere. We are unsure...

Atmosphere was cozy and eloquent. I got a lemonade and my fiancè got a caramel snickerdoodle martini. Both drinks were phenomenal. Then for an appetizer we ordered the pulled pork mac and cheese. Oh. My. Goodness...

The balance of the pork, pasta, cheese sauce, and barbeque sauce was divine. I was surprised at how good it was. This had that wow factor that seems to be so hard to come by these days.

For entrees we both went with something light; i got a pork belly sandwich, fiancè got a roasted chicken sandwich. Both tasted amazing. My sandwich came with truffle fries that had a garlic parmesan topping. It also tasted well.

Although it tasted great, the pork belly sandwich had an awkward consistency due to pork belly being fatty and chewy (which is normal) and the bread was very hard. Due to how well the rest of the meal was, I only knocked it down to a 4.75.

Overall a great and fulfilling (literally I'm...