The best part of this place was the amazing staff! Sho was our server and he was friendly and attentive! I also loved the atmosphere of this place and was a perfect venue to eat and drink at before the concert I went to at the Gramercy theater! I feel prices are fair for NYC.
Also the speciality alcoholic beverages are by far the best I've ever tasted! I'm a vodka girl and a lot of places can't get the balance right, they were on point every time!!!
The food tasted great, just there was an issue where I asked for grilled chicken for the Turkey BLT (since they were out of turkey), and they brought out a completely different type of grilled chicken Sandwhich. I know for some people that would be annoying but, I didn't mind it too much.
Luckily, the Sandwhich was still excellent and they offered 2nd round of drinks on the house plus a discount on the bill as an apology which was very nice, we tipped extra to makeup for that, since our server was still awesome!
I would also suggest a different music selection - for some reason didn't really quite fit the theme of the bar for me. I think because of the name and ambience, I was expected more like rock music, lol. Not sure if the music changes later at night but might be a good idea to change up the music to more rock or something more main stream of the bar is packed. You have a concert venue by you, so you could look into what music is going on there, and have that be similar to what you play in the restaurant that night, just a thought :-)
Going forward, anytime I go to Gramercy for a show I'm going to this place!!! (Which...
Read moreWent on a Wednesday night and it was pretty packed. They may serve food but everyone I saw was drinking only, including us, so I can't comment on the food. They were short-staffed with a single bartender and one waitress for the whole crowded place. Bartender was friendly and attentive but understandably slow considering he was the only one. I kept it easy for him and we stuck to beer/wine. I was ordering at the bar and several in our party ordered from the waitress. The bar orders were much faster; in fact, the waitress was "in the weeds" and couldn't come close to keeping up. Felt sorry for her - management needs to staff better! Especially during this holiday time - anywhere decent is packed every night of the week. This area - east Chelsea - is jammed with restaurants and bars. This would be a good stop on any bar crawl. The atmosphere at Wild Ivy is young and fun so I do recommend; however the staffing level could definitely...
Read moreHad one of my worst meals ever. Ate there last night and it took forever to get food. We both ordered separate starters and then a second course. It all came at once..... more than 30 minutes later. That is poor table service. Also my pepperoni pizza was way overcooked and had one piece of pepperoni I could decipher. I just scraped the cheese off. The crust was hard as a rock and I tapped it on my plate to hear the "clinking" noise. I mention this to the busser in training but notice thru the kitchen porter window he didn't mention it to anyone in there. We wish it was better because we would have ordered desserts. In hindsight I wish I had mention it to our waitress but we couldn't wait to leave. Food was way way better when it was the...
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