The Mick — Restaurant in Holyoke

To start I really enjoyed the atmosphere. Staff pleasant and efficient. I started with the soup of the day, cauliflower cheddar which was very good. House salad next, plentiful and fresh greens. A basket of a nice bread selections was also brought to our table served with a maple butter. I chose the popover which was very tender and tasty. Unfortunately my entire’ was a bit of a disappointment. The coconut sole served over caramelized onion risotto. Portions plentiful however the sole was over cooked and dry and the risotto pasty. My friend ordered the steal au poivre medium rare. That too was over cooked and dry. She didn’t care for the pepper crust but couldn’t really comment on that since she only tried it based on our servers recommendation. All and all an enjoyable evening but next time I will stick to the appetizers, soups and...

Disappointing.

I had the Pork Belly popsicles. Which were nothing but seared pork belly in a sweet sauce. Not bad, but not great.

My main was Beef Wellington, sort of. I have never had a beef Wellington that wasn’t wrapped in a puff pastry and didn’t have a pate. This was a tenderloin laid out on an over cooked piece of puff pastry that had what looked like spinach on it, which was also over cooked because all of the flavor was gone. The meat was tough, not a very good piece of tenderloin, maybe they are having a hard time getting good pieces of meat, but the prices didn’t reflect that.

The ambiance was nice the wait staff was great, I sat at the bar. They had a really good jazz band that played some Steely Dan covers, which in and of...

I had ordered a steak au poivre medium well and I got medium rare. I asked that they redo the steak. They took it back and re-cooked. It came back, medium. I was then sent a manager which offered to have a different steak cooked or have it redone again. I opted to have A new steak made, but the time that it took was too late and the rest of the party had finished eating. I took it to go after which I found that The new steak was medium as well I had to cook the steak myself. I spent $75 to cook my own steak and...