Brother’s Restaurant - Bar and Pizza — Restaurant in Washington

I wasn't going to write a review at first but after reading some of the others I thought I'd share my similar experiences. My wife and I went there about a month ago and we both had very good meals. I don't recall what my wife had but she enjoyed it whilr I had a turkey club pannini. It was very good with crisp bacon and other good ingredients, so we said we'd be back. The service wasn't all that great if I recall correctly, and the place was very noisy. It's all hard surfaces and sound just bounces all over the place. Now, two weeks ago I went there by myself for another delish turkey pannini, but that didn't happen. Again very loud inside.The hostess seated me but it took a while for the waiter to take my order (I ordered my drink, a draft beer, with my sandwich) but it took at least 10 minutes to get my beer, which was in a bottle, not on tap. My sandwich came right after it and it was as bad as the first one was good. Tha pannini was warm only on top, the bacon, if you can call it that, was small wet fragments under a tasteless slice of bird with a slice or two of Kraft singles American cheese swimming in kiddie pools of mayo. No lettuce, a few thin slices of small tomato. Disgusting. I have to say, though, that my french fries both times were excellent, but not very many of them. Since I hadn't eaten all day I was very hungry but only managed to choke down a little more than half the sandwich before I gave up and left it. Oh, and when I asked why I got a bottle of beer and not draft my waiter said some thing like that's all that they had, and when I said the food wasn't good he kinda like shrugged his shoulders and walked away. Don't think I'm going to be patronizing the...

When we arrived at the restaurant. We really didn’t have any expectations because it only has been open for a few weeks. When you walk in your greeted by a hostess, who is sitting at one of the available hightop tables, she asks if you want to eat outside or inside and quickly talked us out of going out sitting outside, she took us into a large dining room that had three other couples sitting already and places in the closest table to them. The tables overlap, so that if you’re sitting in one seat the person in the table behind, you cannot get out of their chair. The menu is as large as an encyclopedia. I ordered my usual go to which is a cheeseburger no ketchup, no mayo, no mustard I’d like to taste the meat for freshness for the char. My date ordered a ham calzone. Our drinks were a Gingerale and a Cosmo. What can you say about fountain soda, Gingerale wasn’t flat. Her Cosmo was OK. She said it would’ve been better if they sugared the rim. Her calzone arrived first which looked very good. My burger arrived and just at first glance I was disappointed already large plate with maybe 20 fries on it. The American cheese looked like, a slice of Kraft individual serving singles toasted to the bun and the burger was a frozen premade patty with no flavor. Our server was very good very attentive. But sitting us all in one area and having four different servers for every table in that area didn’t make sense. Total bill came to $42 for one Cosmo, a Gingerale, a cheeseburger and a calzone. I get it that it’s a new restaurant but no reason to try to make all the money you spent on it from the few patrons...

So disappointing! We were really hoping to like this place. The atmosphere inside was just ok, but too bright and very noisy. We asked to sit outside so that we could hear each other. We were seated outside and no one came for 10 minutes, until I went inside and asked that someone take our order. They took our order but never brought out utensils, napkins, or glasses for our water until we asked. I know the kinks in service can be worked out, and I will put up with an unappealing atmosphere if the food is good. But the food was not good, and 1 dish was awful. The fried calamari was dry, could hardly taste anything other than the fried batter, the spaghetti with white clam sauce was mediocre at best, but the lasagna was horrible!!! It was not a baked lasagna----rather, it was several layers of noodles with nothing between them on the bottom, then ground beef (flavorless, no sauce and only a couple specks of ricotta), then another layer of noodles, a little sauce, and then a thick layer of melted white cheese covering the whole thing. Watery sauce around it. It seems like they basically just threw it all together on the plate and microwaved it. What Italian restaurant cannot make lasagna?! My husband ate a little of it and just left the rest on the plate. The waiter apologized but we still paid for it. I worked many years in the restaurant industry, and understand that it takes awhile to work out problems with service, pace of the kitchen, etc. That is all to be expected in the beginning. But to have all 3 dishes be disappointing does...