Cork & Pig Tavern — Restaurant in Midland

I called a week or so ahead for a very important party - my 30th birthday, which i planned for months. I asked how far ahead should I make a reservation to save a table. The young man didn't seem very confident but said "two hours or so" that didn't sound right to me, but what can a person do? I trusted him and said "hm I guess you don't get very busy..." I called 24 hours ahead and they said the round table i wanted was already reserved by someone else for the day of my birthday. So I said "ok" sigh. and reserved a different table for ten people. The lady wasnt very confident, said she wasn't making promises, she had to get it approved by her manager. Heard nothing back...we arrived at the appointed time, no reservation was there for us, they couldn't find it. All my friends were standing around awkwardly. One of them was elderly. Waited about 25 minutes to get a different table - ok fine. Got drinks and appetizers and the waiter was sweet. She asked if we were waiting on anyone and we said we think we had 2 more coming. Then she left us completely alone for about 30 more minutes. Everyone had long finished their appetizers and she didn't check in with us, didn't ask if we wanted to keep waiting for the others who didn't show up. We were getting nervous, our order hadn't been taken i was falling asleep. I flagged her down and asked if she was going to take our order she said "if you're ready" no apology. Food was good but everyone's portions were big except my husband's and mine which we planned to share. The steak with veggies i thought was more of their signature dish cause it's a grill. It was tiny!Server did well taking dishes and bringing out my cake. Overall pretty disappointing. Kinda loud, hard...

This is the worst case of the emperor's new clothes I have ever seen. I'm positive most of the patrons of this place just don't want to admit they spent $48 for a mediocre steak with one side.

I had heard about this place forever and I was good. I iknew I was going to spend a couple hundred dollars , I just wish it was worth it. The best part of the meal was the deviled eggs, but $9 bucks for five egg halves was quite a bit (still it was the most reasonable thing in the menu. Tortilla chips with what seemed to be pimento cheese was our other appetizer at $14. Seriously, that's what it tastes like, pimento cheese. My date also asked for a small plate of spaghetti. Nothing fancy, nothing special. I'd guess it was less then 4oz. and I was charged $14.

Drinks were also horribly overpriced. $11 for a shot of Apple Crown that we could get at any other bar for half that (it's the same apple crown everywhere).

Still as I said, I knew it was going to be expensive. The $48 dollar steak though, that was a crime against meat. If you are going to serve a $48 steak with one side and no bread it should be the best steak I ever had. My dates was cooked wrong and had to be sent back. Mine looked correct, but it was so tough I had to saw through it and had to fight to chew it. I've had more tender stakes at Steak Express. Oh, and my one side actually tasted good (butternut squash) but I came across something hard and it felt like it almost cracked my tooth.

It's hard to admit that you just played a small fortune for what was supposed to be an amazing dinning experience that wasn't. Just like it's hard to admit the emperor is not wearing anything, but seriously, that dude was frigging naked. Would...

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Just wanted to share an incident that happened today & let everyone know about cork & pig

Yes ! Cork & pig in midland

We go to cork & pig regularly! I called this morning to change the reservation I had for 1:00pm ( had it at 12:30pm)

The hostess kept saying I didn’t have it and it was for tomorrow giving me attitude after I had told her multiple times it was for today! I got an email and everything . She kept on saying I didn’t so fine I just told her I would walk in .

Got to restaurant and walked in showed her the email and told her I guess I just need to get on the list . She added me and didn’t know what to say on my reservation when I showed her the email. Anyways got on the list & went back to vehicle. We kept on seeing people come out and we were still waiting (40+ mins) I finally decided to call and the so called “ manager “ answered . I inquired about the table and he said oh we can sit you right now ( hadn’t received text table was ready or anything) I said okay thanks , walked in only to see MULTIPLE TABLES/BOTHS EMPTY !

We proceeded to sit . I asked for a manager and to my surprise that bald egg shaped dude came to the table) my husband proceeded to tell him what had happened , he cut him off and proceeded to tell us to leave & that I could contact the “general manager”

NEEDLESS TO SAY WE WONT BE SUPPORTING CORK & PIG or any restaurant related to cork & pig.

Spending our hard earned money in other restaurants.

‼️‼️‼️‼️thats how yall get paid ! Because customers go ! & yall decide to act...