Dutchmaid Deck — Restaurant in Ephrata

Let's jump right into things, shall we? I would rather time travel to Europe in the 1300's and be devoured by the Black Plague than return to this establishment.

During my tenure as a soccer player, I once played a tragic game where I fractured several ribs and collapsed my lung. At that point, it was the scariest and most painful experience of my life. Now, with that being said, I would rather my entire rib cage be caved in by Gregor Clegane aka The Mountain than go back to visit The Deck. One would presume a place that has a night life would encourage joyous behavior and prohibit people from trying to start fights and unnecessary raucousness. But be weary if you enter...

We got there at a decent hour and began to leisurely sip away at our drinks. The night was young and we were trying to celebrate my friends birthday when an individual decided to take offense to my friend not washing his hands in the bathroom. Yes you heard me correctly... Some dude got pissed because my friend didn't throw a little soap & water on his hands. So, like everyone who notices someone practicing bad hygiene, this yahooligan proceeded to violently shove my friend in retaliation for his lack of hygienic awareness. As a result, a bouncer comes by and saves the day and kicks out the aforementioned attacker, right? Wrong. The bouncer clearly has 3 testicles and produces enough testosterone to choke out a water buffalo. He kicks out my innocent friend just as our group was starting to have fun.

All other employees were negligent in their attention to this matter as it was occurring. I could have summoned a patronus in the middle of the patio and they would not have noticed. The attacker does get kicked out, but so does our friend. Consequentially, our night falls apart faster than the wood tower in a game of Jenga played by Michael J Fox. We tried to have a good night but The Deck, specifically Mr. Macho Man Bouncer, decided to do their best Toby Flenderson impression when we were there - they sucked the joy and humanity right out of us. They have a fundamental misunderstanding of life and I hope God has mercy on...

What a HORRIBLE experience & this wasn't the first time either !! Took 30 mins to get our drinks after ordering them for a spider to be in my girlfriend's drink. Took another 15 mins to get someone's attention. Our waiter comes back & we tell her. She says they wont give you another drink, we are outside, you'll have to dig it out. I'm sorry what now ?! We should have left after that, that was on us. I ended up going to the bar & talked with the bartender who apologized & gave us another drink with no problem. We get ignored for another who knows how long to finally order. We order sandwiches. Yes SANDWICHES! We are at this place for over an hour with others before us getting their food. So we end up cancelling & as soon as we cancel what do you know our food magically shows. I tell her we canceled & no longer want our food. The COOK comes out with an attitude asking what the problem was & that our food is ready now. I said we have waited over an hour for our food. He said do you see this place? I said of course I do! We ordered BLT sandwiches BLTs!! While everyone else is getting their food. He tells us we are paying for our food. I said no we are not. He said yes you are & I will make sure of it. I said we did not eat any food & we are not paying for it. He said yes you are & walks away as our waiter comes up with our bill for our drinks & says ignore him. He comes back out & says your order was put in 36 mins ago. How about talking to your staff before arguing with customers on what is going on. Honestly don't even think the dude listened to ONE word I said on our experience. He didn't care about anything but getting his money. I will NEVER come here again nor recommend this...

Had lunch there over the weekend..Sat at the bar gentleman behind the bar asked us what we wanted to drink. I asked for a beer & cocktail menu.( haven't been there in years, curious what was new) Never saw him again 🤨. Finally a young lady came around She was nice but we felt rushed..like we were a bother. Gave her our drink orders she walks away she comes back a little while later. Mind you we sat at the bar which our drinks were NOT made there little sketchy. So now it comes to ordering food..I asked if the lunch special on the board was that days special..the response we got was hmmm didn't know there was a lunch special. Again felt we were a bother. We ordered Chips & Salsa $7 WTH ? 2 oz portion cup of salsa & a pile of chips that were obviously from the end of the bag ( small pieces) not 1 whole chip. Outrageous & overpriced ( definitely didn't give that one a thought on a pricing level 🤦‍♀️ just spit the # out). The entire time we were there we got to listen to I think was the owner about his life & how short staffed he was. As we saw 4 to 5 servers standing around, no one at the host station as customers arrived. Food was ok. Waited 15 mins to get our check 20 to get anyone to return to get payment So the young lady got a low tip b/c we couldn't get change to give her more. Definitely not as good as the Cloister Restaurant down the road. Cocktails were ok. Nothing to write home about. Definitely not a well organized business, seems like a fly by night place So chances are it'll be years until we...