Sunset Pub and Grill

To finish out a relaxing Sunday Nick and I decided to go out for a quick dinner before our favorite night of T.V. A few weeks ago we had a fantastic night out with our friends at Sunset Pub and Grill. The place had a great, fun feel, with out door bar, and enormous mixed drinks. Sunset sits right on the Lincoln Park Private Airport so as you relax with friends you can see the flights take off and land. It really is a great place for a night out with friends.

However, the restaurant’s website boasts exceptional food and friendly service, Nick and I would beg to differ. As we opened the doors to enter the restaurant at 8:00 p.m. we were smacked in the face with a scent of chlorine bleach and other cleaning supplies, a total appetite kill. After waiting at the hostess stand for over 5 minutes I finally disturbed the bartender, who seemed more interested in her cell phone than her customers to ask if they were still serving dinner. When the hostess finally arrived to seat us, a waitress approached the host stand. “You want this table,” the hostess asked the waitress as she looked us up and down and shook her head no. Are you kidding me? I was completely turned off. We were then seated in a, at first, quiet dining area surrounded by flies. We each had the French onion soup, which was decent, a huge portion, followed by a cheeseburger and fries for nick and the same for me, with onion rings. Before we began eating our dinner some of the wait staff began to clean the upstairs area of the restaurant and were dragging chairs along the floor creating a disturbingly loud screeching sound in the entire downstairs dining area. I could tell immediately Nick did not like his food. Which is horrible for us because we are bar food connoisseures. The burgers were cooked perfectly but too greasy, nick’s hand cut French fries were also greasy and COLD. My burger was equally as appalling. The onion rings had thick breading with thin strips of disintegrated I guess what used to be onions. We barely had two bites of our dinner, pausing to swat away flies, before we were asking for the check.

As we waited for our check, the screeching from upstairs only got louder. A group of elderly couples next to us were obviously distraught. One of the men in the group asked the waitress where the noise was coming from. She explained the floors had to be cleaned before the end of the night. The man asked if they could maybe wait until after they finished dinner, as the couples could not hear each other conversing over the noise. Astonishing me and the other guests in the restaurant, the waitress replied, “I mean, I’ll ask but I know their not gonna want to do that. They’re trying to get out early.” The man’s jaw dropped. “We’ll how bout we get out early and don’t come back,” he replied with a snap. The waitress scurried off and the noise did not stop.

Nick and I paid our check and left the restaurant never to return. Sunset Pub and Grill is a great place for cheap drinks and fun night out with friends, but if you’re trying to go for dinner, the only thing you’ll get is a stomachache.