The Firehouse Pub — Restaurant in Saint Clair Shores

We met friends for brunch on 9/25/22. We arrived first, were told to sit where we liked, and a server quickly brought menus, both brunch and their standard. She told us they were out of X, Y, and Z, though, "they never had Z so [she] wasn't sure why it was still on the menu." Given the brunch menu is a piece of printer paper in a plastic sleeve that could very easily be reprinted, we were baffled as well.

I was going to have the breakfast special ([2] eggs your way, choice of sausage or bacon and hashbrowns, served with toast $8). I asked for scrambled egg whites and the minute I said that, our server stopped me and said, (not verbatim, but the jist) that they have a temperamental cook and he won't do egg whites. So, heads up, not your way at all.

We all, understandably, looked at her like she was joking. She wasn't. I said something like, "okay I guess nothing for me and I'll just make something when I get home...," still thinking she was joking. Again, nope. She offered to try to talk to him and see if he would be willing to separate an egg, but anyone willing to die on that hill would absolutely spit in your food, so I declined.

We all thought it was very odd that one would continue to employ someone so obviously unhinged, but then K reminded me that the same thing had happened before and, in fact, was the reason we'd given FP a pass since last year. Obviously their cook is family, a very close friend, or has a ton of blackmail material if he still has a job. We paid for the food and drinks we'd ordered thus far and left.

Our server was fine and is not responsible for the cook's inability to function like a normal adult, so we remained pleasant and we tipped her as if we'd had a decent experience. She did avoid us for some time after we initially ordered, which made us think he does this a lot and she's so tired of being the punching bag for this unwell cook (not to mention lost tips from having to middleman his idiocy), that she'd risk her income to avoid getting yelled at for his actions.

Pros: Good beer selection, bottomless Bloody bar

Cons:...

I just ordered delivery from here and I have no idea what happened, but I have never received such terrible food for the entire order. It arrived hot, so it wasn't a temperature issue. The Buffalo chicken sandwich was a piece of barely seasoned overcooked chicken breast (oven baked? I don't know but certainly not grilled), with a quarter cup of just plain Frank's red hot just dumped on it, with a piece of lettuce and a tomato on a bun. It the flavor was Frank's red hot, which is excellent, but when I order a sandwich I usually assume it will have flavor other than SAUCE. Also did a build your own burger with bacon, American cheese, and thousand island dressing. The burger was dry and unseasoned and the thousand island wasn't on the burger, but actually in a container in the box with the chicken sandwich. I guess the sauce philosophy only applies to thar sandwich. The spinach artichoke dip, which I've had before and was pretty good, had the consistency and color of clam chowder, but a half melted gloop of cheddar cheese in the middle and some wilted spinach. It was a weird mix of spinach artichoke soup and dip but had absolutely no flavor other than "cream, artichoke, spinach" The fries were fine though. I bet that if the container didn't make them soggy with travel (absolutely expected, this is not a complaint - we all now fries never travel or age well) and I were eating them fresh on a plate they would be great. The same cannot be said for the rest of the food I ordered. Absolutely bafflingly bad. If I could give it a zero, I would. But instead,...

The waitress was very rude and almost seemed intoxicated. She seemed annoyed with even just taking our order. She came a dropped our food off and we were polite and thanked her and she just walked away every single time without a word… brought the wings we ordered and the cup of ranch in the basket tipped and dumped all over our table as she continued to reach over to put it down and then again just walked away.. half the cup onto our table. No opps, no sorry, no let me grab some napkins. Just walked away. I would give the service 0 stars if I could.

The food was not at all what I expected. Very bland and over cooked. Ordered a side salad and got literally just a small bowl of letruce with chunks of onion. No toppings as described. The pub pasta was undercooked noodles tossed in butter atleast that’s all it tasted like. My son didn’t even touch his chicken tenders. The hot wings were the only thing edible.

Heads up they also charge a fee for paying with a card and charged a liquor tax. NONE of that was disclosed to us at any point until I looked at my receipt after the waitress brought my card back. An extra 8 dollars on my bill. I would have appreciated the notification as I would have paid with...