My husband and I haven't eaten out much since Covid-19. What few times we do, we chose a restaurant that offers outdoor or open air seating. We'd eaten at Carlyle Grill several times and enjoyed it, so stopped for lunch today. We asked to be seated in the room that has the "garage doors", so it was open on one side of the room. We were impressed to see the list of precautions they said they were taking in response to Covid. Like "sanitize door handles every 5 minutes". We were seated right next to the door and not once during the hour we spent there did anyone clean the door handle! Why state you are taking precautions when you don't?! Not good! My husband ordered a burger and fries. He liked his burger, but the fries were ice cold. Our waitress brought more out that were nice and hot. I had a salad with grilled chicken. It was good, nice and fresh, but I felt a bit overpriced at $15.

The service was good, just not happy about the lack of door handle sanitizing!

Below review is of our visit 12/2019 My husband and I ate at Carlyle Grill for the first time last month and loved it. Everything was perfect, from the food to the service. However, I wouldn't recommend it for a large group. We and 5 other couples ate there last night (we made reservations). Right off the bat we were told they didn't do separate checks. That would've been a huge pain with so many people. My husband talked to the manager and they said they would split them as a one time courtesy, which we were happy about.

Our waitress didn't seem able to deal with so many people at once. We waited 45 minutes for bread and butter to come out. She kept forgetting drinks, and I had to ask for water refills at least 5 times. Everyone's meals were good, I had grilled salmon which was delish, though the potatoes that came with it weren't very hot, and were a bit dried out. My husband called the restaurant ahead of time and asked if it would be ok if we brought a cake in. He was told ok, no problem. Well they neglected to tell him that there was a $1 per slice cutting fee. Not to sound cheap, but I thought that was tacky and we should've been told that up front. We could have easily cut and plated it ourselves!

I also had to ask our waitress at least 5 times for a bag for my doggie box. Shortly after we left, my husband called and spoke with a manager about our poor service, all the manager did was say "thanks for letting me know". Not, "sorry, we'll do some retraining" or, "you can have a drink on us next time", nothing.

We will be back as a couple, but certainly not with a larger group. If I were rating last night on service alone, I would've given it 2 stars max.