Antique Garage Tribeca — Restaurant in New York

When you step inside you will be greeted by an unique atmosphere with Victorian era decorations. Antique pieces, beautiful chandeliers, Mediterranean dishes and live jazz..

I really want to love this place BUT, food AND service are lacking big time. There is no live jazz or beautiful antiques that will make you look pass the mediocre food and very slow (almost careless) service.

To be fair, the cucumber Cosmo was pretty delicious and makes me want to go back and give this place as second chance as an after work sitting at the bar having a drink and maaaaybe an appetizer kinda chance

Food: Hummus: good but is hard to mess up hummus so no brownie points here Pasta dish: nothing special pretty much flavorless Prosciutto Pizzette: SKIP!! Do not spend $30 on a giant piece of flavorless cracker with some rucola and prosciutto on top (see pictures)

It was very disappointing as our main dishes were completely flavorless. I probably would be much better of having a rucola salad over some dry greens and prosciutto “wanna be flat bread”

We wanted to order dessert and another drink but our waitress never came back, seems like was just one server for the whole floor so maybe I can’t fault her for not doing a good job. Still, with the price tags they should be able to afford more than one server…

All in all IF I’m in the area with some time to spare, I would give it a try for the cocktails and Jazz but would not by any means rush back there.

It was a disappointing...

So the food was really good. And the atmosphere was really pretty. Even the server that we had was really nice. I’m not usually one to complain about service. I know that things take time to perfect. The reason why this rating is low is because at just around an hour and a half we were told that there was a table coming in shortly right after us. We had barely even started eating our dessert. Then the hostess came back over to us ( we hadn’t been brought our check) to say that the table is coming in five minutes. A few seconds after we paid the bill she came up to us saying that we really had to go which was just a bad customer experience.

Now I would understand this pressure if we had been there for an exorbitant amount of time, but to be rushed in such an expensive restaurant is not what I’m looking for especially when it is customary to provide a two hour turnover time for tables that are four people. We were out the door before it even hit two hours. I would even understand if the food came out super quickly to turn over the tables quicker, but the food came out at a fairly slow pace, which I was enjoying. Regardless, it seems to me that the staff needs to do a better job of scheduling their tables or at least advising the patrons of the time limit maximum. This truly left a negative impact on my feeling towards this restaurant, which I have been enjoying prior because the...

First, food was great. Two of us shared 3 mezes, then two small mains. Fresh, flavorful, beautifully served. But the experience was far less good. We were seated along long banquette, and my dinner companion ended up seated under a dripping air conditioner vent on the ceiling. It was dripping continuously. The cushion where he sat was wet, and there was a regular drip drip on his head.

We asked to be reseated — there were 5 or 6 unoccupied two person tables elsewhere in the room at that time. Their response: all of the other tables were booked for reservations later that evening, so they were unable to reseat us. It became clear that they knew about the problem when they seated us, but did so anyway.

I had to get slightly agitated and raise my voice to get a dry table, but they did eventually move us. Amazingly, they subsequently seated another couple at the drip table, who also had to demand to be moved.

From there, service was poor. We ordered a nice bottle of wine, which they opened and set to breathe on a nearby console. But when it was time to drink it, we had to go through gyrations to get our waiter to retrieve and pour it. And several other service snags along the way.

We’ll probably go back and try again, since the food was so nice. But the business with the drip and refusing to reseat us was inexcusable and tells you a lot about their...