Eighty One: User Reviews

Ed Brown's Eighty One...A Service & Culinary Disaster!
By melsteinberg from Upper West Side , September 3, 2008

Overall rating:

I am never going back. I've had better meals for a fraction of the cost.
We had a reservation and the hostess made us wait for our table
(meanwhile the restaurant was completely empty on a Thursday night)
We ordered drinks and it literally took 20 minutes to get those.
We asked for bread and water...guess what? This was aslo a huge challenge.
We waited literally 35 minutes in between courses and all our waiter did was complain about the kitchen. I'm sorry...shouldn't they work out these problems on their own?
The osso bucco was the blandest and driest piece of shoe leather that I've ever eaten.
I am never going back. Portions are really small. We left starving. Maybe some bread would've helped. NEVER again.