Moonlight Tavern & Supper Club — Restaurant in Port Washington

We have a very old rembrance of the Port Hotel when the food and atmosphere was great. Unfortunately times have changed!! Prices and food quality have not followed the past. You expect high standards when you go to a restaurant like this but they where sub-par! First, shocked the bartender Austin could keep track of what we drank or even could keep count. Between the 3 of us we had $150 sitting on the bar when we had our first drink. We would have thought our drinks would have been taken out of the money we had sitting there but it was not. Then when it was time to go to the table we asked for the bill at the bar and we were handed a bill of $110! Understandable we were surprised, but never knew the cost of what we were drinking. Austin was slow to service the customer, and we told him twice we had reservations! We understand,, keeping the customer at the bar brings more revenue than at the table. Additionally we were seated after our reservation time with a totally empty bar!! Once seated at the table, we ordered red snapper, prime rib, and the rib eye. It was ok, just ok! The red snapper was very cold and extremely salty. The other two plates were ok but when dipped in the au jus it was very salty!!! Sub par to us and very pricey for everything. The waitstaff was great, but not the old Port Hotel we remembered. Old building,, basically minimal renovations.. stress minimal,, new staff, new menu, but sub par service and...

Okay we went on a Saturday night, it was not overly busy or anything. We made a reservation and were seated right away. The first thing we got were drinks, the old fashion was extremely sweet and you couldn’t even taste alcohol, the mojito was served with mint that was so rotten it was probably 50% black and after I fished all of the rotten mint out I was left with an ironically artificially mint tasting drink, we didn’t drink/finish either. We then got the spinach artichoke dip as an app and I’m not joking it was 95% cream cheese. It was served with box crackers so also not appetizing. To make it decent we had to just go crazy with the table pepper but it was not great eating warm cream cheese with crackers. We got soup and salad with our meals the salad was standard but the baked French onion soup was sad. The onions weren’t caramelized at all it just seemed like they were softened by boiling in the broth and the broth tasted like chicken broth… not what I look for in a French onion soup. We got the prime rib and twice baked potatoes and they were less than fine. I’ve had better dining experiences at bars by a billion and also the server spilled one of the drinks all over the table and menus and like ran away and didn’t even acknowledge it lol we had to clean it up and ask for another dinner napkin. For the price, this is NOT...

If you're looking to spend about $15 on a cocktail... this it the bar for you. Probably the only bar in Port where you can spend that much on a single short cocktail. In Port. Its not downtown Milwaukee or Chicago, its Port. Did I mention its in Port and the cocktails can exceed FIFTEEN DOLLARS? lol, cmon. Is this some sort of joke? I won't be going back. 4 drinks is SIXTY DOLLARS plus a decent tip cause its not the bartenders fault... Good news is if you happen to want to day drink on Tuesday, AND they happen to be open, you have access to a very mediocre happy hour that of course doesn't include the laughbaly priced cocktails.

Edit: Apparently it matters what cocktail I had. I ordered four, from the chalkboard, right next to the bar. Choose any of those. TBF, the one I had was fine. And none of our group complained about their cocktail... they also didn't complain about not having to pay the bill. Put any drink on the chalkboard for less than 10 dollars, and we can revist this conversation. Otherwise, I don't see a reason to go here for the drinks. Any other bar in Port can provide adequate cocktails for half the price or better. I've paid less than these prices for high end manhattans,...