Doña-Magnolia — Restaurant in Spokane

If I could give this place zero stars I would. The one star would be thanks to our server doing her best to salvage the awful experience we had here. As we were seated we were told that there are several things on the menu they are out of, due to the menu changing in the near future. Most of the items they were out of were the items we specifically came there for so that was a big disappointment. We ordered 4 drinks, 2 spicy margs, a glass of wine, and a beer. They were out of several beers before we settled on one that was in stock. We ordered 2 appetizers, the arancini balls and the mussels. The arancinis were a disgrace as an Italian. They seemed like they were made with white rice and were barely fried. Out of the mussels about half of them wouldn’t open meaning they were dead upon cooking. We are lucky we didn’t get sick. Lastly we ordered for our entrees the shrimp risotto, 2 jalapeño and cilantro infused pasta with chicken, and the gnocchi. The risotto seemed to be made with the same white rice. It tasted like uncle Ben’s white rice boiled in water with some haphazard veggies. The shrimp were surprisingly not that bad. The gnocchi was so overcooked it tasted like a gummy piece of flavorless goo. The jalapeño pasta was definitely infused barely flavorful with super bland chicken on top. Not to mention that there was a slight debacle where the chef came out of the kitchen to tell the waitress he didn’t have enough chicken for both pastas but then he magically did. Like I mentioned in the beginning the server did her best to salvage our awful experience giving us a big discount on the bill. I HIGHLY recommend NOT going to this restaurant. I’m surprised they are still in business. We found this place on Instagram and I assume they paid this food blogger to make a post for them because there is no way he enjoyed his expire there. Sorry to be so harsh but don’t waste your hunger,...

I was excited to try a new restaurant with high hopes after reading a few reviews and looking over their menu for my birthday dinner. My party of 8 unfortunately had a lack luster experience. We were there for about 2 hours with a 6pm reservation. There were maybe 2 or 3 other tables in the whole restaurant. We all ordered drinks and 3 different apps and clam chowder for the table. The arancini were good, the dumplings had a weird texture, and the wing special were just okay, the chowder was great. I was offered a birthday shot which was great, so the rest of the table ordered shots as well.....however we were never asked/checked in on after that to be able to order another drink during the 2 hours we were there. The table ordered a variety of dishes off of the menu for dinner Craft risotto (did not have mushrooms but they added alot of freen peppers), Sausage Fried rice, Rose pasta, Alfredo pasta, and ribeye, all were disappointing lacking flavor, the ribeye also came out missing potatoes and the compound butter(it took 15min for the burnt potatoes to come out). When it came time for the check we asked for a few to be separated and offered to let our server know who was paying for what, she assured us that was not necessary then returned almost 30min. later with "incorrect checks" once we straighten out the errors it was another wait for the checks to return to us so we could settle the bill. I'm not sure i will be returning for a second visit but if I do it would only be for Happy hour and appetizers or the...

Menu is very small which is fine but there were items sold out and we weren't notified until we tried to order.

The braised beef meal said "short rib" in the description - it was just a pot roast. That's not the same thing. It was ok. We also ordered a burger and the fries looked and tasted like Kroger restaurant-style frozen seasoned fries.

It took us almost an hour to get our food. For what we ordered and how empty the restaurant was, that was wild. Water glasses were empty constantly and no one checked on us or let us know where our food was. The server was pleasant - just absent. There were at least 4 servers handling the floor and they would walk around to drop plates off at tables that had already been served, or circled looking for unserved tables. Seemed very disorganized and they wouldn't make eye contact with the tables they walked by.

Drinks were ok - nothing special. Other tables were served their actual entrees after they ordered way after us.

I've never been to a restaurant that was as loud as this one. It seems like a wine bar-type venue but there were so many kids everywhere. Definitely not recommended for a date night. There's better restaurants in the area - just make reservations for them and pass on this one.

Red Robin has a better burger and drinks and the service is better. And...