Such an exquisite place to eat with family! Our server, Robbie, made our visit so special! The food was absolutely delicious, the drinks cold and endless, and the attention paid to our party was just the perfect balance of making sure we had what we needed and giving us time to chat and share stories! The entire experience was like being cared for by a relative, and after a long drive or a busy day, when all you want in the world is something good to eat and a little time to talk with your loved ones, this is the place to go. People feel loved here. The food is so tasty, with something for everyone, from our nine-year-old to the dad who loves spicy things to an uncle who loves bacon and a mom who can have gluten but really shouldn't. The servers understand families here, and have the respect to ask whether a young lady of nine will require a lid, knowing some prefer it (ours likes it, as she hates to spill even a drop on the coloring page of the kids' menu, but her one aunt refused one as undignifed at that same age,) and don't bat an eye when kids ask for diet. (You wouldn't believe the odd looks some servers at other places give. Not here! Kids are respected here as part of the family!)
My partner and I used to eat here occasionally as broke students when our parents visited or for the most special of occasions, I ate at other Eat n' Parks as a child and these days we live too far away to take our little girl to the lovely old Eat n' Park. The Christmas commercial with the tree, the Smiley cookies, it's all part of my expat-Pittsburgher, WVU-grad heritage, and for weeks, our daughter has talked of taking her uncle there. She remembered Eat n' Park mainly from family stories and visits to Pittsburgh as a little thing, and she was so excited to visit one now that she is a great big girl of nine, planning a trip herself.
(It is entirely possible that she got...perhaps a little confused between our stories of Eat n' Park, 'Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies' and the scenes in 'Rent' at the Life Cafe after Maureen's show, this child's grandparents were WVU theater majors and she seemed a little puzzled at the lack of musical numbers, but the food was so very good and she was so absolutely enchanted by Smiley cookies, we persuaded her that those must happen when the theater majors eat there, i.e., after plays.)
Everything was so lovely, I was honestly surprised by the bill. In these times, I'm used to paying much, much more for such an experience. We will be...
Read moreThe place was short staffed. The salad bar was alright. I would recommend staying away from the sirloin & shrimp meal. We were extremely disappointed when we ordered them & could not even eat them. The steaks are highly processed meatloaf that looks like something fr a school cafeteria. I wish when we ordered them medium rare the waitress would have explained that these are not real steaks. Needless to say I am glad they did not bring these out medium rare.
However, we saw how busy they were and told the waitress that we would try them. She offered to bring out more heavily breaded shrimp since she knew we were unhappy. After trying the steak we couldn't eat them and pushed them to the edge of the table hoping that the manager that kept walking by helping guest would ask us about our meal. Needless to say many customers stared at the plates, but it was not a concern for management.
After we were finished we did ask for a manager who did finally come by. She saw the steaks still sitting at the edge of the table. Her explained to us that we misread the menu and knew that we were given more shrimp as if this may be a common thing. She saw the pile of peeled off shrimp breading in front of us on our shared plate of 6 shrimp and offered to adjust the check and reduced it by $5 for our troubles.
Our waitress was nice and attentive for how busy they were. Although she seemed unsurprised by our unhappiness with this particular meal.
I was excited to take my daughter to Eat'n Park as this was an old favorite chain of mine that we do not have where we live. She just finished a weekend tournament and was extremely hungry. I will not saw this is a terrible place, but be cautious what you order as they are not the best with resolving...
Read moreI'm a diabetic, when we ordered our meals I told the server diet soda whatever you have. She ended up serving me some watered down regular Coke. Yes I had about four to five refills because packed with ice. Then I went for my testing at WVU anesthesiologist office. We had gone to eat because we had a 3-hour wait before the anesthesia. They checked my blood sugar. My blood sugar was 429 points! Every half hour it was going up 20 points. The only thing could have caused it she was serving me Coke because I had no desserts we had one of the Angus burgers and I had to sell it bar which consisted of a cup style of chili. And some cottage cheese and lettuce tomato a little salt and pepper and a vinegar at dressing lightly. I'm sorry to say I will never go there again. That server cost me about six and a half hours of being in the hospital they were so concerned about my how high my levels were. But I'll say this too WVU emergency room sucks they did nothing for me but just keep telling me Oh it's so high oh this is getting higher. And when I would ask him what are we going to do about six and a half hours later I pulled the IV out of my arm and I told him I'm going home they said well the doctor will be in about 2:00 a.m. I said lady I've been here six and a half hours you people don't even know what you're doing you didn't give me any insulin did nothing. But prick and poke and prick and poke. But it was caused by what that server done to me she could have just said look we're out of Diet Coke. I would have had ice water with...
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