Columbia Steak House — Restaurant in Lexington

OK. We did not enjoy this at all. Think 1950's gangster vibe with a jar of urine sitting around. 🤷 I cant say for certainty it was urine, but I'll let you be the judge in the picture. It was just sitting up on the shelf by our table, eye level. There was nothing anywhere else in the joint to indicate it was part of their decor. There was also a dirty steak knife sticking up between the seat and the back. We just placed that up next to the jar o' urine. The place just wasn't clean. This Should've been a sign, but it was college drop off day and we had a very tight schedule, which is why we didnt hang around to dispute the bill. Old girl on the phone was like, "no, you won't need a reservation. There will be a table." I get that now. What I didn't get was a steak, but I should have. Menu said "Best Burger in Lexington," cant pass that up. Wasn't this Lexington, I guess. Wasn't fresh, touch under the medium that I ordered, but it was close. Fries were inedible wedge type fries. Like, large, soggy, room temperature wedges of potatoes. Wouldn't even try them. French dip fell apart immediately, couldn't eat it. Chicken Tenders were oddly flavored, Id say. We didn't eat them. Chicken Monterey, two bites.....nope. Baked potato was looking good, but the butter was almost certainly imitation. Server did a good job. We did in fact get in and out quickly, but that's a little easier when no one eats. The Cougar Bait beer was cold as was the mug. Mozarella sticks were decent. 5...

So me and my wife were going to an event at Rupp, I told her that we should eat here because the previous weekend me and my father ate at Columbia steak house B off of patchen dr and it was absolutely delicious porterhouse. So Columbia Steakhouse downtown was horrible apparently the lighting in the kitchen is like the lighting in the dining area my wife got steak and ordered it medium, I got fish I know steakhouse but I wanted fish after choking down a couple bones and pulling another large one out of my mouth i was done trying to eat it, looked over to my wife and she had a displeased look on her face, I ask what was wrong she lean over and give me a bite of her steak it was over well done or burned I asked for the manager she was an older lady with glasses in my option doesn’t need to be running a restaurant she told me all fish have bones in them and you never know when there will be bones in them and that it was typical to have bones. So order at you owe risk but there’s nothing in the menu that says under the fish dish that there could be bones so if I had got choked law suit for sure. She knocked 8 dollars off the steak when the whole meal in my opinion wasn’t worth the money or are time. I will never be back at this restaurant again save you money and time and go to the other one off of patchen dr. I will not even attempt to go to any of the other ones after this experience other than the one...

I understand that it’s a Friday and it was a holiday with a group of 6 people but I called ahead a week in advance to ask if they did reservations or call ins for the day of and was told no they don’t. But yet we go and had arrived at 5:00pm and were told 40 minutes. 40 minutes came and went with the actual wait being an hour and 15 minutes and it probably would of been longer had myself and my aunt not asked for an update on the time. They had forgotten about us even though we were sitting in the entrance, waiting patiently for our party to be called. They then tried to call a party of 7 who had come in after us to go be seated and we finally said something. It was unbelievable because usually they aren’t usually super busy and have great service but this was awful. What upset me more was I was told no reservations or call a heads are taken but we heard multiple people say they called ahead or had a reservation and they were seated almost immediately. I don’t like being lied to by a restaurant we’ve come to love, especially for their night hawk special. Service was also off their game and we had to ask for things multiple times. I was disappointed. I don’t know what happened but I hope it’s better next time or we...