Blue Anchor Bar & Cafe — Restaurant in Twin Bridges

My father and I came in on 11/20/24. Since we are both from Twin/ Madison area. We remember it closed and the previous owner. I ordered a whiskey and coke which was very weak more like a coke than whiskey, and my father ordered a Miners Gold. The salad bar was just okay, no soup, but looked like first come first serve. The NY steak that I ordered was extremely tough. Plan potato, when asked for a loaded potato, this was a waitress response “ all we have is butter and sour cream” didn’t push it because I’ve been in the service industry so if they “don’t have” means to much work for me. My father’s fish & salad, was under cooked. Though it looked cooked on the outside it was soggy on the inside. Fryer was clearly on the wrong setting or didn’t cook to the actual temperature time. After dinner my father ask about dessert and surprise surprise, no ice cream nor any pies… but the icing on the cake was when we came in I and sat down I really enjoyed the bartender and waitress side eye when we sat down. Way to assume about two locals!! Hence why I don’t go out to local diners for okay food and judgy people. Wouldn’t recommend unless you’re just going in...

The food was amazing! The steak fingers are some of the best ever. The place was a fun place, with amazing salad bar. For the food it couldn't be better. The cook with the pink highlights in her hair is your best employee. She saved the day.

However, the service was terrible. Our waitress, with her arm/hand in a brace was terrible. She ignored us. No refills, we had to ask the other waitress for our check and for to-go boxes. She kept playing with a small baby that was in the cafe. She walked right by our food order that had been placed in the window by the cooking team several times. Multiple times we tried to get her attention to get more drinks, but we were ignored. We didn't have enough silver ware and I had to go to another table to get another place setting. This ruined the experience.

She must be related to the owner because no one else...

The food was worth the time we waited. Great fries and the patty melt was delicious. Tots were cooked perfectly. Reasonable prices and had the feel of an old diner with some updates...nothing fancy, which was ok. I wish the service was better so I could have rated it higher. The waitress was just plain rude. Very short tempered every time we asked her something. And no service after we got our meal. Drinks were never refilled or asked if we needed anything. We asked for go boxes as she walked by and she just looked at us and returned a few minutes later with the containers. I watched her and it appeared that she was a lot nicer to the locals or what seemed to be regular customers. Hope she gets some sleep, maybe she won't...