Sidel's Restaurant — Restaurant in Scranton

Overall- unsure if I would eat here again. Too expensive vs the quality and price in the food dishes.

Friday evening 7pm dinner We were greeted and seated right away. Bread and butter was provided while we waited. The bread slices were fresh and tasty.

We ordered the Lobster Fra Diablo and manicotti.

Each dish came with a salad. The salad wasn't impressive; mostly iceberg salad mix with a piece of spinach and arugula on top to cover it, 3 olives, 1 slice of cucumber, 3 slices of radish, and a sliver of tomato. Oh! If you want ceasar dressing it's an up charge too.

The manicotti was delicious, absolutely nothing to complain about there.

The Lobster Fra Diablo had great flavor BUT all the seafood (lobster, clams, and shrimp were so over cooked they were hard and rubbery).

Why so few stars? The waitress didn't check in on us while we ate. When she came back with our check and to take our plates we advised of the over cooked seafood. She didn't offer to have it remade or replaced with anything else and they didn't remove it from the bill. Instead, they discounted the dish from $28.95 to $16.95. She said it's all she could do "without making a phone call".

She did provide a complimentary piece of cake. Which was a nice gesture but pretty disgusting (maybe we just don't like whatever kind of sponge cake it was supposed to be?! The chocolate frosting tasted exactly like pillsbury chocolate frosting out of a can from the grocery store and the cake had an odd flavor.)

We were disappointed in our experience. For the price we expected fantastic food all around.

Unfortunately we will probably stick with Olive Garden for this kind of food. Where prices are more reasonable and food is ...

Food was delicious. Service was not that great. Had a 6pm reservation. Drink orders weren't taken til about 620pm. Waited a very long time for our drinks. Our dinner order was placed at 635pm. A table of 2 left and 2 more people came in. They had their drinks before us and got their salads very quickly. Around 715, we had to ask for our salads. Needless to say we waited another half hour and then had to inquire where our dinners were. The 2 people that came in 20 minutes after us were already eating at that time. Finally got our dinners at 748pm. Luckily they were hot! And the food was good. Probably because they knew we were annoyed, we were pretty much ignored for the rest of our time there. That. In my opinion spoke volumes. Had to ask for our check at 805pm but didn't get it til 822pm. Meanwhile a table of 4 that came in at 715 was already finished eating and had asked for boxes. It was a very disappointing experience. I had heard from someone that they haven't been back there in over a year because of how slow everything was and now I believe it. I just feel the wait staff appeared rather disorganized. Too many people were coming to the table for different things. Perhaps if one waitress took total care of the table, things would have been much smoother. Not sure if...

Tried this place on Friday evening around 7pm. We were seated quickly and given the low down on all the specials of the evening. We tried the Manicotti and the lobster fra Diablo. The Manicotti was excellent and full of flavor. The lobster had a great flavor but the seafood that was in it ( clams, lobster, shrimp) were overcooked to the point of hard bites. Our drinks ran dry twice during the evening and for that the tip was reflected. At the end of the meal when the waitress asked how our meal was we let her know of the dislike of the seafood and she took the plate to the back. When she returned she reduced the price of the lobster fra Diablo from $28.95 down to $16.95. in her statement she said that she couldn't do any better without calling a manager. I had about 7 bites out of the entire plate and didn't even get to take the rest home to pick out the seafood out of it. I was displeased with the service. The waitress tried to make amends with a piece of cake, and that was displeasing also. Sorry to say this was not the best experience with this...