Commonwealth — Restaurant in St. Louis

Have to say, it was a relatively "meh" experience. (Please understand my precursor being that I was a restaurant employee for 7 years) I stayed in the Angad Arts Hotel (Thursday night) for a show at the Fox, and dined here for dinner after having eaten here precovid on my last trip. Was happily surprised to see a new restaurant had moved in, as I enjoy trying new restaurants. I came from the hotel entrance rather than from outside and was greeted with stares by the staff. I looked around for a second before finding the hostess stand by the doors and made my way over. The hostess left me at the door while she got my table ready (pouring the water and setting out the menu). I did not have a reservation, but knowing it was a Thursday at 5pm, I was not too worried about this, and the restaurant was empty except for one at the bar and one seated. I was seated right next to the hostess stand at one of the small tables and left with the menus. My server came over shortly after, not directly asking me what I wanted to drink but "Are you fine with water?" Which was an odd way of asking if I wanted anything from the drink menu, but whatever. Probably just the first table of the night for her, had to get into the groove, been there. Ordered a Peach Fuzz and was left with the menus. At some point the other silverware was taken away from the table. The bartender delivered my drink, it was highly watered down, I noticed she made all tin shaken drinks be shaken an excessive 30 seconds. Taste was fine beyond watered down. Server took my order, decided on the pheasant. I did not see my server again until the food delivery, which was rather prompt (as previously stated the restaurant was rather empty). During my time waiting for my food I noticed the hostess full on staring at me several times, I explained it off as she was looking at the wall behind me. The food was fine, the breast had a crisp outside, moist and sweet. The 4 asparagus spears were thin and extremely crispy, like they had been burned in the pan. During my dinner I finished my drink and placed it on the opposite side of the table, hoping that my server would either come take it and ask if I'd like another. Which I was hoping to order another drink, a nice white wine to sip on. Unfortunately my meal was complete and silverware stacked on the plate before she appeared again. I was not offered the dessert menu, which I was looking forward to trying something, but if it's not offered I'm not going out of my way to ask for it. Of course the check was promptly dropped and picked up. Overall the experience was fine. Meh. The restaurant was in no way busy to have had as little interaction with my server and the staff as I did. The food was overpriced, but to be expected with a hotel restaurant so it didn't phase me too much. $32 Pheasant. $13 Drink. $50...

This was our first visit, and from reading reviews, it seems to be a bit hit or miss on what experience you have.

Ours was a miss.

The good parts that earned the 3rd star: it's quiet and it's easy to converse with people at your table, which is a huge plus for me. The staff we encountered were very friendly. The food and drinks were very tasty. The cocktails were also very pretty in addition to being tasty. They gave us a free slice of cake because we were celebrating a birthday, which was really kind.

The parts that kept this from a 5 star experience: We were seated (had a reservation) on the hour and the food appeared 40 minutes later. The appetizer we ordered when we ordered drinks had been forgotten, and when we enquired after it about 20 minutes in, the server said it was on it's way. Spoiler alert: it was not and never showed up. The entrees were delicious, but the side serving of pasta was quite scant. It's pasta, the cheapest thing in the world, you can be generous with the portion. We were celebrating a birthday and they gave us a free dessert with a choice of 3 different cake slices. The one we chose was out, but that wasn't relayed to us until a different cake came out and was set on the table. We were told, oh, we brought this out because we were out of the other. Now, we appreciated the kindness of free cake when they didn't have to do anything at all, but the gesture def felt like "here, be happy with whatever we give you!" because we would have chosen the 3rd option rather than the one chosen for us. So, that kind of tainted what could have been really kind, esp after forgetting our appetizer and the long wait for any food.

At no point did a manager come by to check on us, which esp after the lost appetizer and extremely long wait for food, also felt like a miss. That's just a normal thing to have happen at most nice restaurants, even when e erything goes well.

The bill was on the high side for the experience we had. We may try again some day and see how nice it can be on a good day.

We had planned to hit the rooftop bar after seeing the show at the Fox but decided against it based on...

Don’t let this place fool you! It is absolutely trash with servers who pretend not to notice it’s trash!! We stayed at the Angad hotel and I had paid for breakfast during my booking so they gave us two tickets for breakfast when we checked in. We went down there and the menu was pretty small.. I decided to go with the avocado toast with a side of salmon and side of bacon. My wife ordered the biscuits and gravy and she seem to enjoy them, but my avocado toast was the worst I’ve ever seen.. first the description on it sound really appealing and maybe it’s something more on the clean side so I gave it a try. They drizzled some type of vinaigrette all over it and just ruined it! I am not a fan of vinaigrette at all! But the fact that this wasn’t listen on the menu in the description of the food was really disappointing. I tried to work around it and I’m doing so I realized that they had only put not even half an avocado on the toast.. and put the egg in the center rather than covering the whole “avocado” toast with avocado then placing the egg on top. Not only that but the egg was poached and it was supper wet! They didn’t dry it after poaching it so when I went to pick up the toast it was so soggy.. so disappointing and I was so hungry already.. I picked up the bacon because eat this point I can’t make this avocado toast work anymore.. and the bacon is so over cooked.. not even crunchy just over cooked that it breaks when I pick it up.. so I just ate the salmon.. so defeating..

When the server came by and asked if I wanted a Togo container I said absolutely not and she didn’t bother to ask me what was wrong with it or offer my something else.. she just took it and left. Such lack of care for Their customers.

Don’t come here no matter how appealing it looks to you.. this was truly a bad...