The Beacon Public House — Restaurant in Minneapolis

Probably one of the worst dining experience I've had in a long time. In short, the restaurant demands an upscale and premium price, but delivered little in quality of the food and service.

We had a medium sized group. It took about 10 mins for our drinks to come, and another 40 mins for our food to come. During that time, the waitress only checked with us for once. Mind you, this was on a Saturday night with the restaurant at about 25-30% capacity when we were there.

We ordered a variety of dishes, including the special dish of the night. Almost every single one of them missed the mark.

The walleye special was mediocre at best. Veggies are ok, but the fish was bland.

The salmon came little raw. We don't have issue with raw fish, we love sushi. But this dish definitely did not call for raw salmon.

The chicken sandwich was overcooked and had too much breading. Half of the sandwich had bacon and pickle, and half of the sandwich didn't. Too bad, because I don't think the breading wouldn't taste bad if it weren't overcooked.

The fish and chips also had similar issue. It was fried for too long. The fish was too greasy, and very bland. It didn't even come with a slice of lemon as advertised.

The only redeeming food was the cheese curds. We didn't care for the "curry ketchup", whatever that was. The curds were decent, not overcooked, and pretty decent.

Lastly, the drinks. Never again. Taps weren't available. A Heineken is $7. A lemon drop shot is $10. And the rest of the signature cocktails are anywhere between $10 to $15 each, and none that we had was very good. They definitely couldn't justify the price they were listed at.

Overall, I wouldn't recommend anyone to spend any money at this establishment. It's such a shame, the hotel it's attached to is great. I wish the hotel would've selected a better restaurant that its guests...

The service was not good. The whole place was so incredibly unorganized the entire time we were there. The drinks were awful - unless you got a bottle or tap beer. I ordered the Cosmo, which is $14, and it was brought out to me. It was ok at best. My friend got there and ordered the same thing. When the waitress brought hers, it was a completely different color and had a lemon stuck on the rim of the martini glass - which mine did not. Mine had a slice of rine floating in it and hers did not. We all looked at each other in confusion and she said, "a different bar tender made this one." We each tried her drink and it was just awful! It was clearly not made right. She couldn't even choke it down and there was no offer made to make her the correct drink or do something about it. So she paid her $14 for the awful "Cosmo" that she couldn't even choke down. Another friend of mine ordered a bloody Mary and it was so spicy, like pepper, that she also could not even choke it down. I love bloodys, so I tried it and I also could not even handle it. It was mentioned to the waitress and she apologized but nothing was done, but of course were charged full price. Both drinks remained full...

I don’t actually know if the food is any good here. We had a reservation, the lady at the desk was quite rude I could hear her being rude to the people in front of us and she says to us there’s a big wait time after these people, I said oh we made a reservation and she walked away. Another employee joined her and he had to tell her twice to “stop” for being rude she told the people in front of us they should have made a reservation. Anyway the man asked us if we were being helped(he was very nice and I could see he was very busy) I said we’re a reservation and he said table will be a while but he could sit us at a high top. I said that’s fine. He sat us and told us a waiter would be over to us. We sat for 25 mins and no one came near us so we left! While we sat I seen a young man come in and go to the bar, the bartender stayed at the other end chatting then walked by him multiple times and not even acknowledge him so he walked out. It’s really the worst service I’ve ever seen. The employee you seated us was very nice but I would not...