Marketplace Café at Nordstrom — Restaurant in Tigard

Nordstrom decided to "upgrade" their menu, and just about wrecked the place. The Tuscany roast chicken went from two pieces to one piece, then to one smaller less tasty piece. The lovely roast potatoes that came with it are now replaced with some fubar grain. Classic case of a chef stretching his creativity to the detriment of the food. Today I had the French dip. The beef was a travesty, horribly over spiced (pepper and garlic?), and severely overcooked; not even a hint of beef flavor to it. The bread (roll) was excellent. Aside from Ranch and Caesar, their list of salad dressing is laughably pretentious nonsense. I chose Caesar, and it was was inedible. Got a bite close to my mouth, but after one smell I put it back on the plate untasted. Good Cherry tart (with a pretentious name). Excellent chocolate chip macadamia nut cookie. Service was great. (As is usual here, despite the idiotic practice of ordering and paying up front, sitting down, having to pay again if you decide to add dessert or another glass of wine, etc. Moronic at best.) The new chef or new manager has wrecked what was once a favorite place, good for twice a week on my list. I will be back, but only when they have Strawberry shortcake, and only for that. I want to reiterate, they have a GREAT STAFF! This botch job is fully on management and executive chef. Creative cooking and creative menus can be both fun and delicious, but creativity without a talented guiding hand end up... like this. They will probably throw me out next time I show up. I go there enough that my comments will be recognized. ...

I have eaten in several cafe's across the country and order the exact same thing and I have had this dish at this Nordstrom several times, the Turkey Club sandwich. It's my go to and have ordered it for years. Either Nordstorm has changed the sandwich for the worse or they were out of or low on ingredients. My lady ordered the pasta and meatballs and the food came out super quick, like never have Nordstrom served food that fast and the lady was like, yeah they were back there waiting. My sandwich was way short on Turkey so either Nordstrom told them to be stingy with it or the chef didn't know how to make it, the avocado had lots of brown spots, the bread was not toasted properly and almost was like it was not toasted at all and lastly, the mayo stuff didn't have any flavor to it at all....again I've had the sandwich a ton of times but that was probably my last time. The bread comes out cold also, but it was good and...

The food was delicious. This is a place where you order and pay and tip before you get service. The service I received was just okay. My waiter was cool towards me and abrupt. I did not feel welcomed. I was not offered bread while I waited. This has happened several times. I have had the same waiter twice now and both times she was not terribly friendly. The table in front of me was offered bread. I had to ask at the end for bread to go. She immediately got it but I couldn't tell how she picked it up . It kind of looked like she just grabbed the bread with her hand.

I tipped well but the service I received was not worth the amount I gave. She did the bare minimum and that is not good hospitality.

I always enjoyed eating there...