City Perch Kitchen + Bar — Restaurant in Fort Lee

My date chose City Perch for date night!

As a pretty astute foodie I truly thought I was at Chucky Cheese. I do understand brand, concept and style of how a menu should complement the stylish decor. Please take note of not only the selections that were trendy 6 years ago but look how this place has the nerve to charge $17 For Buffalo Wings WITH BLUE cheese not to mention the preparation wording was hilarious. The chefs lack of attention to detail is displayed with over 200 English 101 blatant errors. I ended up ordering for the both of us. Calamari was the first appetizer, and the only reason why I ordered it was because in my entire life I truly couldn’t Believe what I was reading. CALAMARI | 20 calamari, artichoke, meyer lemon, sage, fresno pepper, roasted garlic salmoriglio . This is a monstrosity of an insult to simplicity and any chef responsible for this concoction should be ashamed of himself. Please keep in mind this date actually turned out to be fun. The second appetizer my date ordered The Braised Duck. Her reasoning was because she had never heard of such a thing.

BRAISED DUCK POUTINE | 18 braised duck leg, house fries, duck jus, sharp white cheddar, parsley. What is this? Cat food? We laughed. I forgot to mention about our Waiter and the cocktails we had ordered 20 minutes prior, that is why I forgot. I think you get the point. Let’s review the appetizers: The Calamari was as rubbery as taking a bite out of a Good Year Tire. Canned Wet Artichokes! Must I continue? 1 Ring each and that was plenty. It was the worst dish in which we both agreed ever. So we thought. Where was the Cat Food? Waiter please? Hello? In all of my years I have never gotten up from a table to get my own drinks. I told the Bartender that I have been waiting for my drinks for over 30 minutes. Ok so what are you having? 2 JW Black Neat Please in a snifter. Wrong move! Her response was to go sit down and she would bring them over. I said no I will take them here. She said ok. What do you think happened? Correct.

The BRAISED duck finally arrived as the waiter said that the chef made this dish to order. What came out was a quartered CHICKEN LEG GRILLED. Not 1 bite was taken. It was not funny anymore. Entrees: FIG AND PROSCIUTTO | 22 béchamel. fig, crispy prosciutto, herbed goat cheese. mozzarella, arugula, balsamic glaze. The Sirloin steak Sandwich. The server looked at me like I had 10 Heads and told me "That's the wrong menu that you received and handed me another." The lunch and dinner menus are very similar minus the steak sandwich which is the only thing I really didn’t want but we were having so much fun wanted. The young hostess who was extremely nice came over and told us that the Chef had made a mistake and took the duck/chicken away and brought us Bread. The bread was still frozen inside. The Entrees came as fast as could be. The Pizza was Identical to the one that Chucky Cheese uses. The steak Sandwich tasted like it came from a box and was reheated. We asked the nice hostess to ask the chef for the recipe for this incredible. She came back and said to us that the pizza GUY told her that it was from Rich’s the same place where the bread comes from. I asked her what is Rich’s. She came back saying that was the brand name on the box. I asked her for the Check immediately. It took 15 minutes for someone to arrive with the charges of the Chicken and the NEAT cocktails that were smothered with ice cubes included. The waiter was no where to be found. The bill was 190.00. The waiter finally came over and I had $19.00 in cash for the tip and I was paying the rest on my credit card. As I was getting ready to give him my credit card he left with the bill. We got up and wanted to explain to the hostess what happened. The waiter then came over to us and actually said that I left him less than 10% . I apologized and handed him...

On Nov. 15, 2023, Wednesday night I was coming home from work and was told to pick up burgers for dinner from city perch. I called their number on the bus at 7:32 repeatedly to order take out. Nobody picked up. So I got off the bus walked into the restaurant was told by waitress that I must order take out with the bartender. Did so and proceeded to wait 30 minutes for two burgers and 1 Cesar salad. The waitresses and bartender were staring at me stare at them as I waited for the food and decided to see how long I could wait and possibly to teach this Asian female a lesson in patience. By 8:30 I got the food walked it home in about 7 minutes. French fries were cold burgers were very very rare. I didn’t eat the burger and threw it out. My mom did and next day she had a very bad stomach ache. Now first of all, on Sept. 5, I was in the bar with fellow gym person who had two cocktails before our combat gym class while I had lemonade. That night I was injured during class from that same two cocktails drink person. I dislocated my hip, tore my knee and am still recovering in November with pt, recovery shoes and kinesiology tapes. Point is I’m physically not in a good shape. Waiting 30 minutes after work was excoriating painful to my leg even when I sat down. I also needed to stuff my face and work again from home. Regardless my suffering isn’t city pertch’s problem. What they could should do is be a professional restaurant that serves people. It’s not professional to have a phone that is never answered or waitress staff that teaches Asian females concept of patience. Pretty bad practice all around. Asians regardless of COVID deserve and should be treated with professionalism since I pay for my goods is same currency as white, black and brown folks. Novel...

Okay, let me start off by saying that I don't drink. Sure this is predominantly a bottomless brunch place. If you want bottomless brunch, it is just -ok-. However if you're here for just a regular brunch with no/one alcoholic drink, then you're in for a rude awakening.

First let's start with food: Small portions. I mean tiny. For 20 dollars? Are you kidding me? 3 egg omlette, 2 pieces of toast and 3 strips of bacon? Bro that is 3 dollars of ingredients. Charge 10 bucks, at most. 12 if you're feeling special. But 20???? Same goes for Benedict. 1 muffin 2 poached eggs and 2 pieces of meat? Same price, 20 bucks? Are you guys for real right now?

The meal includes a drink, right? For 20 bucks you get a choice of soda coffee juice or one alcoholic drink. Of course I don't expect free refills for the alcoholic drinks, no biggie. But no refills on a watered down coffee? No refills on a fountain soda? No refills on a from-concentrate juice? Are you guys kidding me? To add insult to injury, they don't tell you this before hand. What type of breakfast place doesn't have free refills on drip coffee? To further rub salt in my wallets wound, the damn entrée was 15 dollars and 5 DOLLARS FOR A SINGLE 8OZ CUP OF COFFEE!?! no forewarning, and no option of not getting a drink.

Only redeeming quality was our waiter. This guy busted his bum for our table was on top of the bottomless folks refills. Very nice guy!

What a bunch of snakes, this is an awful restaurant with an awful owner who is 100% price gouging the customer. Not even slightly, I'm talking about a full on point blank 12gage to your wallet. If it was expensive and good, I would gladly pay. Happily! Not this. Absolute trash. God damn this place has me enraged. Avoid if you...