Lakehouse Tap & Grille — Restaurant in Town of Ellicott

Avoid This Place Like the Lake It Sits On (Which Smells Like Rotten Eggs)

If you’re in the mood to waste your time, money, and dignity, this place is perfect. I gave it two chances—because I believe in redemption—but this restaurant is a slow-motion train wreck that somehow keeps getting worse.

First Visit: Waited 10 minutes to be acknowledged. Then 18 minutes just to place an order. The food finally showed up 59 minutes later—overpriced and laughably small. When we asked for the check, the bartender had to track down our waitress, who was—plot twist—out back vaping marijuana. You can’t make this stuff up.

Second Visit: This was the real kicker. We waited 25–30 minutes, totally ignored. It wasn’t busy. The waitstaff just didn’t want to deal with us—it was 10 minutes before the breakfast shift ended, and it was painfully obvious they didn’t want to take a “last-minute” table. They walked by us multiple times, made eye contact, and deliberately avoided helping.

I even flagged someone down to ask where our server was—and still nothing, for another 15 minutes. That’s when we said forget it. As we walked out, I told the host we’d been sitting there for half an hour with not so much as a “hello” or water. His retort: you would’ve been waiting a long time for the food. It wasn’t that busy.

We drove to Panera and—get this—we had our food within five minutes, served with actual smiles. Go figure.

Bonus ambiance: the lake smells like rotten eggs from algae bloom. It’s like eating overpriced scraps next to a sulfur spring.

Bad service, tiny portions, high prices, and an atmosphere that smells like failure. You’ve...

Stay here but do not eat here like most of these reviews. Went to dinner, Sam was our waitress she rushes everything gave us our soups and meals together. Surf and turf soup was so gross and the broccoli cheese was like baby food blended. We could not eat the soups at all! The bread basket is disgusting why bother. Bread smells like old grease dirty cloth napkins. Well Hubby tried to play it safe with chef salad I got chicken quesadillas. Chicken was dark and red with veins looked like junk meat I would never even feed my dogs! Ugh wine and beer was good thats it! One girl asked how everything was (not our server) I told her would not feed it to my dogs. Then I showed her the meat and soup. She went somewhere got our meals taken off the bill. We did not want free food we wanted good food. I could go back in kitchen make better meals so disappointing. Our server never checked on us once after dropping food off. I would of like more wine Hubby a beer. Now we will venture out today for meals. What a bummer. We came in 2020 was same thing. 2 years ago had burnt food carousel bar and glass on my plate in lake house grill wow! Nothing has changed will be our last trip here tho..3 days here cannot eat here ugh. Also Derrick the bar tender is horrible! He must really hate his job to treat people the way he does ugh. Told my Husband he was busy when he was waiting for...

We went here for my in-laws anniversary. Our server was brand new. She was extremely nice, however, had no idea how to open a wine bottle, offer us bread as a starter or even offer us water. After placing an order for a bottle of wine we didn't see her for another 15 minutes before she brought out the bottle of wine. Even then, she did not have water for us. This was on a Tuesday night. They were busy but not to the point of which our service should be delayed as much as it was. Our food was brought out, still with no water. After two of us were finally done with our meals, our server came up asking if we needed anything else. We asked for water and inquired about the bread that we saw many other tables get. Our server stated she'd get us everything and apologized. 10 minutes later she came out with a tray full of all of our water (4 of us), another bottle of wine and our bread. As she got closer, she accidentally spilled all of it. She apologized profusely and went back inside. Another 10 minutes later, a manager (we think) came out with another bottle of wine and opened it for us. Eventually, the server came back out with water and the bread. After the multiple delays with everything, we were there for an hour and a half. For a relatively expensive meal, our service we below average. Decent food, not great service and...