The Choice Restaurant — Restaurant in St. Louis

Im giving an honest rating based on EVERYTHING

Decor/Ambiance: the decor of the restaurant is astonishing.

Cleanness: The restrooms didn’t look they had been cleans in months. The wine glasses and and charger plates were both not clean. There was crumbs from previous customers food on the table as well.

Bar: they have two signature drinks the Lemon Drop and the Incredible Hulk both have four different liquors in them they stated and both have cup up fruit that looks like it’s been in there for months because it was turning brown. They don’t know how to make any other drinks honestly except for a daiquiri maybe that comes with a small cocktail straw.

Waitress: don’t expect the bells and whistles from the wait staff unless you get the young gentleman with the suit on. Because the older lady tried her best but honey my aunt had to go get the pitchers for drinks because otherwise we would all be thirsty. She doesn’t come back to see if you need refills until it’s time to pay for your food.

Food: IT WAS VERY DISAPPOINTING! The food lacked taste, the right temperature, as well as the right texture. The corn muffins were old, cold and hard. The rice was gummy and then some parts were hard from sitting too long. The Mac and cheese had sweet butter so it tasted like they put sugar in it. The chicken was VERY OLD and dry. The black eyed peas lacked seasoning. The cabbage lacked seasoning, the sweet potatoes had PINEAPPLES in it which made the taste different. Dessert was an option between yell cake and white icing or white cake and chocolate icing and both were old and dry.

OVERALL EXPERIENCE: SOUL FOOD RESTAURANT I THINK NOT! The price for a party of 10 or more is suppose to be $30 per person. They charged a five year old child $13.99 and he ate two pieces of chicken that’s all. Can’t understand how dinner is more than lunch but they have the same food for both. Also it’s buffet style however someone is serving your food to you while EVERYONE waits in a line. The lady puts all your food on one plate on top of each other…smh. They run out of food then you’ll be waiting for 10-15 minutes for fresh food. However what you pay for what you eat will leave you hungry because the food was not good. The experience was poor honestly and if they expect to retain new customers they should probably get a decent cook, and wait staff as well as a decent dishwasher/ janitor. I would not go back unless I ate before I came if someone is hosting a dinner party at this...

Where to begin. Had to ask three people where to sit. Eventually one lady silently pointed at a table for us.

They don't have orange juice.

I asked the server what kinds of toast they had and she just said the usual. I ordered wheat and was told they only have white.

My wife asked if the hash browns or grits were best, the waitress said both were good and wouldn't offer advice.

My breakfast chicken steak was actually just a boney chunk of fried chicken no doubt left over from a previous day's dinner service. My hash browns were actually a rectangle hash brown like you get 50 of in a plastic sleeve in the deep freeze section.

The toast was the absolute cheapest "bread" you can buy. No butter or jelly or anything. It was just dust. Nothing about this was good.

My wife's egg and cheese sandwich was one runny egg on the same bottom-shelf white bread with cheese SAUCE on it like you'd spoon out of a can.

The waitress seemed to understand very little about the menu, which only had 10 items on it.

Our reactions once finally being served our food bounced between shock and laughter.

Not surprisingly, we were never once asked how the food was. My coffee with a shot of bailey's was 7 dollars, the same price as my entire "meal".

Don't go. Don't go. Don't go. I can venture to bet that anyone who has posted a positive review of this place is either a friend of relative of the restaurant's management or actually insane. Please, I want to warn everyone, this is the worst place I have ever been. It's the kind of place where you don't get what you order. (I ordered a smothered chicken steak for breakfast and was instead served a boney chunk of fried dinner chicken that was not a breast or wing or drumstick, simply some weird ball of chunk, with brown gravy.) It's the kind of place that doesn't offer to refill anything. It's the kind of place where expectations die. It's the kind of place where the dishes are actually just boxed food items you can buy at Dollar Tree only here they make them three days before you arrive and then microwave them when you order.

Don't go. Don't...

Very disappointed. I was greeted at the door by a lovely lady that told me she did not work there but was a friend of the owner. She asked me if I would be ordering from the menu or eating from the buffet. I said menu. She then took me on a tour of the restaurant which was a bit ostentatious for my taste. Then she walked me back to the entry level and pointed out the buffet and the sign overhead. I didn't read the whole sign. Since I was there at 3pm in the afternoon I thought perhaps she was directing me there because it would be easier. After I chose gelatinous macaroni and cheese, a dry piece of fish and a bowl of green beans the very nice lady took me to the second floor where the owner was holding court behind the the bar. I ate half my food, which I usually do, and then asked for a container to take the rest home. I was advised that I could not have a container because I had eaten from the All You Can Eat Buffet. I said that there must be a mistake because I never go with "all you can eat". I said I understand the concept of not allowing people to do take home from the buffet, I pointed out that I had only three items. I was snottily told that I should have read the sign. When I received my bill for $19.71 I was in shock! I pulled out a $20 and said that I would have to let my friends know about my experience. The owner, very snotty again, advised me that there were plenty of people who like her restaurant and that everyone has an opinion. She then gave me $5. I find this so sad. Had the woman given me a styrofoam container she could have saved herself $5.00 and my food would not have been wasted. She would have had someone who would have given the restaurant an...