O'Donnell's Pour House — Restaurant in Sea Isle City

(Me and my sister are both Greek Americans)I was here with my sister and cousin, no issues with seating or the waitress, overall nice atmosphere and vibes, the biggest problem is the food absolutely no dressing in my salad and the onions are very horrible touch in the salad that came with my meal, the tomatoes did not taste fresh despite a LOCAL farm being less than 30 minutes away nor did the cucumbers, Don’t even get me started on the entrees we all ordered, first of all my Sister got the Greek feta dip, it had very little food for almost $20, more than half was the cucumber salad and with a very small dish for $16 MIND YOU, the feta was weirdly warm and the taste was overpowering with a weird lemon zest flavoring that was never mentioned in the description + the pita bread It came with was nowhere close to being warm like described, please don’t put Greek food on the menu if you don’t know how to make it, stick to more beer food since your “complicated” dishes taste don’t make up for the money spent! Next my cousin had the mistake of ordering the calamari, first the calamari was super small and probably the size of an squid fetus? The portions are more than disappointing, it felt like Someome prepared the calamari with a budget under $10, the red sauce sauce tasted and looked like the McDonald’s sweet and spicy BTS sauce and probably tasted 100x worse and had no tang, no spice, and not even a hint of garlic or zest. Just a bland, soulless red goo that tasted like it was made in a lab by someone who’s never eaten food before. It actually made the calamari worse, which I didn’t even think was possible. I’ve had more exciting sauces from a high school cafeteria. And the best for last, the airline chicken, don’t even get me started on the chicken, absolutely no seasoning more dry than a Popeyes biscuit with no damn drink, the mushrooms tasted like they were left in a can for 30 years, it was unbelievably easy the spot if something wasn’t fresh, that could have been bought at the LOCAL FARMS less than 30 minutes away! The mashed potatoes were very noticeably not fresh as my food had gotten cold due to the 20 minute wait for the food that will most likely give us diarrhea, do better and use local...

Our waitress was wonderful, our one steak dinner came out well done when we asked for rare, the waitress apologized sincerely and took it back to be cooked again for us.. the real problem came when it took 20plus minutes to bring our steak back out and when trying to find an employee to let them know to please take the steak off of the check and we would leave, we encountered their "security guard" Quinn who at the very beginning of our dining experience was screaming expletives over the fence while little kids passed and I don't mean one or two, I mean ten, or so. I finally asked our waitress who the manager was, she came over and I told her briefly what her "security guard" had done and that he was completely rude to myself, as well as being COMPLETELY unprofessional...She stated "that didn't sound like him, but she'd talk to him".. Uh huh, because an employee just randomly screams curse words at the restaurant they're supposed to be "securing" and has possibly NEVER done this before.. There was no "I'm sorry" or "I'm so sorry for his behavior blah blah".. We walked away COMPLETELY unhappy with our experience (minus our waitress), and Quinn was absolutely the most disrespectful person I have ever encountered. Strictly because of him and the horrible manager on duty with no apologies, we'll never go back there....

I really wanted to like this place, the workers were kind and the atmosphere was honestly lovely. but unfortunately, that’s where the positives end. The food? Absolutely tragic. How are you serving dishes this bland when you literally have a garden nearby? Did someone forget that seasoning exists? The feta dip tasted like regret and drywall, and the tomatoes were so bad I was questioning if they were grown in actual dirt or just sadness. It had the texture of spackle and the flavor of absolutely nothing. Just cold, chalky nonsense pretending to be “Mediterranean.” My cousin ordered a salad and chicken how do you mess up chicken and lettuce?? It came out looking and tasting like it was cooked in fear and boiled in apathy. No flavor. No effort. Just sad, soggy, disappointment on a plate. I swear it looked like they boiled the chicken in unsalted water and then left it out in a desert for 3 hours. The salad itself had zero life. This place is the culinary equivalent of a pretty Instagram filter on a rotten banana. If you're going here for vibes, sure. If you're going here to eat...