City Streets Restaurant — Restaurant in Waltham

I don’t know how this place has 4 stars. The waiter came by every 3 minutes for the whole meal; constantly checking on the food or asking us to order before we finished reviewing the menu. They brought us our appetizer and not even 5 minutes later, way before we finished, they had brought entrees (after complaining the apps were comped, at least). During entrees, they had come by to try and take our plates well before we finished and asked multiple times if we wanted boxes. It felt like were being pushed out and rushed through our meal.

Our appetizers were mediocre at best; the calamari was cooked in old oil (we know this because they were brown and not golden, and if they had been overcooked they would have been rubbery) and the nachos had basically nothing on them (it felt like I was eating just chips with cheese and salsa). The entrees were a massive disappointment: the ribeye was overcooked (medium-well instead of medium), bland, and had horrible sides (the mash potatoes were disgusting, at the green beans were decent), the sirloin tips were even more overcooked (well-done when ordered medium-rare) and had the same awful sides, and the crab cakes...

The menu items that are good are really good, the ones that aren't - well, aren't. Overall you can have a great meal here but I think you need to order the right things. The staff is super friendly, one of the owners was even there and chatted with us. Overall we had a good time and will be back. The good things were the arancini appetizer, the stuffed pork chop, and the blue cheese burger; all had lots of flavor. I especially liked the gravy that came one the pork chop, it was great stuff. We also got the mac and cheese, which frankly was pretty bland, and the broccoli side dish, which had a nice flavor but the texture was too soft (it was steamed broccoli, and I always like a little crispiness that you never get when you steam it). I was especially surprised by the mac and cheese because we'd heard from other people that it was really good. We're looking forward to trying the pizza on...

I have eaten here twice for late lunches and would highly recommend.

Recommendations: Buffalo pizza (neither of us like bell peppers on our pizza and didn’t realize it came with those so we just picked them off. The he rest of the pizza was super good Pastrami sandwich French dip sandwich Pulled pork sandwich- this has my southern girl seal of approval. Bursting with flavor but not dripping in sauce. Eat it quick before it has a chance to get soggy Pretzel sticks as an app

Drinks: they make their cocktails strong- recommend trying holiday flavors and the Moscow Moose

Facility: Bright and clean Outside seating in nice weather Bar booth and table seating indoors Has a window up front for takeout orders Plenty of parking Good for couples, families and solo. Atmosphere is casual but nice so you could dress up or down and not feel...