Courtyard Oyster Bar & Grill @ Lincoln — Restaurant in Lincoln

NOO!!!! STOP AND READ THIS!!!!

If there was a way to give negative point review for food I would GIVE IT. Let me start from the beginning. When this place was Montana's the food was awful. It got new ownership in the last few years (hoping that things would change) Every time the food has still been awful with overpriced drinks. When I say awful I mean a four year old held her nose when the food came out (an hour and a half later) because it was "stinky"-mac&cheese, baked potato, steak, fish, hamburger. Everything was spoiled. Came with a group of family and not a single person ate. One actually got sick in the bathroom after ONE BITE. Steak came out looking like it had been boiled, shaped like a BOWL, curved around the edges???? How do you even do that to a STEAK?? The baked potato was brown on the inside with an awful smell???, mac&cheese smelled like it was two weeks old, my four year old wouldn't eat it..... Shrimp & hamburger meat smelled like it was rotted. Manager finally came out to smell our table of food and went to check the refrigerator and never came back. No one even got salads, all the fixings and side orders were wrong. Which took an extra 30 minutes. I wish pictures could have scents or you reading this would understand the frustration. Our table was the only table eating in the restaurant.(should've been a sign-but I'm all for second chances) After TWO HOURS WITH A CHILD, we made the best of it to enjoy our time together, ordered pizza for on the way home. THANK GOD FOR DOMINOS. Our sweet waitress EMILY, took good care of us. As far as anyone else goes or the food- NEVER AGAIN. I will be contacting the Health Department in hopes this place will make a change. As a lot of out of town truck drivers, and local families would enjoy a large restaurant to visit and hangout. I would like to say it's family friendly with the large space, but it's simply not. Its JUST a bar. On-tap beer was OK, Mixed drinks were OK. I'm just glad we had family TIME together, hate the experience, but the fact the waitress took care of our tab and drinks afterwards is worth one star at minimum for services. Unfortunately we won't be back. Hopefully kitchen staff is replaced and a new rating is completed by the State Board. Lincoln Community deserves better. Customers...

Atmosphere is chill, honestly reminds me of a dive bar, ordered pretzel w/ queso, oysters, hot wings, hamburger steak, kids tenders, food was pretty decent, the pretzels were a tad on the extra crispy side, only real qualm with the food was that whoever is shucking the oysters.. bro you gotta rinse those things, there was more shell and grit than meat in every single shell, I've never had oysters with that many chunks of shell, I'm honestly surprised I didn't chip a tooth, now, let's talk service... it sucks... something fierce, I don't even know who our server was, the short guy with glasses got our drinks and app, some other chick took our order and then neither of them returned until we had already finished our food, nor did they bring butter for a potato or Bleu cheese for the wings, instead no butter, and 2 cups of ranch.. simple things but irritating, the black guy wearing a blue talladega shirt cleaning off the tables, you rock bro, he saw us looking around trying to find our server or anyone really and asked us what we needed, thank you again cause if we had to wait for a waiter/tress our food would've been...

Short guy bartender with glasses, took my order, I’ve repeated it to him twice to make sure he had my order right. He gave me the receipt to pay and I didn’t see the extra fries I have ordered. I asked him about it and he said yes is in the order. Nope it wasn’t, when I got home no extra fries. Plus he took the receipt back and I thought he added it on my order on the bag. Receipt was $52.53 I gave him $60 & he gave me back $6 plus he included 10% gratitude for him? WTH, I always give tips based on service not because I’ve been forced. Burger was so cold and looked like they had it from a returned dish or something, was broken in half. Same cold food with the rest of my order. I had to heat it up at home. No cheese on the burger even though I have paid for it. I had to add cheese at home.

The guy seems to take care well the locals but not so well for first time customers. Nope not again, won’t go back, cold food no taste and steeling the money you work so hard to make it right in...