Nothing special about this dinner. I do though appreciate them taking us as walk-ins on a Tuesday when many other places are closed. The beginning of our dinner seemed to be fine. We were seated quickly and greeted by a server within 5 minutes. However, she didn’t introduce herself and dropped off the menu with specials and asked what kind of water we preferred. By the time she brought the water we were ready to order. Two appetizers, two pastas. Cesar salad lacked the dressing, but it’s whatever. Our server came back when our plates were fully cleaned and she asked how everything was and if she can clear the table which we said “ of course” to. Our pastas were taking some time and then our server came up to us and asked if we wanted dessert?? We said that we didn’t get our pastas yet and she was like - oh, what did you get? And then said that pasta should be coming in two minutes. Pasta did arrive pretty fast. After that it was impossible to get our server. She never checked on us. The table next to us was waiting for a while to be greeted by the same server. And they were even ready to order by the time she came up and that’s when we also asked her to bring us a check. Took another 5-10 minutes for her to stop by our table and ask AGAIN if we wanted a dessert menu after we already asked for a check. As industry people ourselves we are pretty understanding and patient, but it was just not it. Could not wait to get out of there any faster.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 1
Brendan Coors
Booked a reservation for 7:30 and our table wasn’t available until almost 8pm. Wait staff was kind but the kitchen was totally swamped with orders. Almost nobody in the restaurant was served food for a solid hour. We almost had to walk out before finally getting our meal 1hr+ after ordering. Food was good but the meal was spoiled by poor service. Disappointing given the upscale price & atmosphere
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
Eva H
The food was freshly prepared, imaginative, excellent. The atmosphere is soothing. The staff are considerate of the customer's experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Esther Melamed
Outstanding food, great service and pleasant, friendly ambiance. Also, they are open for dinner every night of the week where most others in the area are not open midweek. Highly recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Laurel Burgwardt
They have nonalcoholic beer but not wine
Reid Kendall
We love Fern! The new staff members are so welcoming and knowledgeable, and the manager Barbara seems to run a tight ship while always staying friendly and kind. Always a great experience every time we visit!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
V T (VT)
Sorry, but Fern did not reach the level of a good place to dine. Service..very sloppy, stacking dishes while eating. Too young to know dining etiquette among other things.food too expensive for what you get. $18 for Caesar salad..lettuce, bread crumbs! Pizza..totally soggy in middle. Hotter than hot in dining room..Manager insisted the AC was on everyone sweating! Unsophisticated, not worth it in an area where they need good food ! If you say something to waiters, they give you that sneering look. I never review restaurants but felt that I had to write this.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Rebecca Tapia De La Torre
Strangley to my delight this beautiful little secret was delightful. From being kindly greeted at the door to wonderful attentive service ( we were a party of 6 including 2 kids), it just continued into the evening. We ordered the ribeye steak, pizza and the kids pasta. All were well pleasing. The 2 things that were not my favorite were the chocolate pudding for dessert and the basil cooler cocktail. It could be just me, but the cocktail tasted a bit bitter and the pudding tasted just like Jell-O pudding. Def would recommend and will return!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Alex Glen
Great service and pizza
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Craig K
Family of 6
Went to the Fern for dinner with my two boys their significant other's and my wife on Saturday evening. 530 reservations seated promptly. Placed our beverage order and a pizza for the table. That all arrived about 15 minutes later. At that time the waitress took our dinner order. She comes back about 10 minutes later and asked us if she could get our order once again because she lost the pad that she wrote the order on. At that time we ordered 2nd round of beverages. Should have known then this was going to be interesting. About 15 minutes later we asked another waitress if she would find out about our beverages? Shortly after drinks came to the table which we didn't order along with apps that we didn't order. We have now been here an hour and fifteen minutes with just our empty glasses and water. Asked for the Mgr and within seconds he arrived at our table and he took excellent care of us the rest of the evening. The food. We started off with the margarita pizza which was OK but not worth $20. We shared the meatballs which were very good as well as the ceaser salad which was good but very small for $18. My son and his wife had the I think it's called pappadella pasta and a meat sauce with ricotta cheese which they both enjoyed very much. my other son's girlfriend had the artic char which she said was pretty good except for the greens. My wife and son had the pork shanks with an amazing mushroom sauce, which they both loved. I had the rigatoni with sausage crumble, peas, crushed tomatoes and crushed red pepper. Which I thought was pretty darn good. Sketchy service to start, nice atmosphere, prices for apps were kinda high ($18 for a few romaine leaves and dressing seems a bit much to me). Entrée all at a fair price point. Mgr did fix the problem for the most part. We would likely be back.
They sit the brown people on the left side where the booths are. The whites sit in the big space next to the cozy pizza oven. Coincidence? 🤔 server was good and food as well. Would had given it 4 stars. ps. Regarding the comment below. I meant non-European brown. Technically Italians are “brown” but are they really? Maybe at some point back in the late 1800s. 😂
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Snag Rat RH
I paid $50 for the worst pizza I have ever had in my life. Imagine if somebody took a dump on your pizza. That’s what it tasted like.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
manu r
They sit the brown people on the left side where the booths are. The whites sit in the big space next to the cozy pizza oven. Coincidence? ? server was good and food as well. Would had given it 4 stars.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Luka Angelica
Husband took me out on a date here. Beautiful atmosphere, you def feel like you’re in the city. And don’t get me started with the food now.. the steak guysss THE RIB EYE!!!!! Coupled with the Cauliflower dish…??? ?? I’d go back.
Nothing special about this dinner. I do though appreciate them taking us as walk-ins on a Tuesday when many other places are closed. The beginning of our dinner seemed to be fine. We were seated quickly and greeted by a server within 5 minutes. However, she didn’t introduce herself and dropped off the menu with specials and asked what kind of water we preferred. By the time she brought the water we were ready to order. Two appetizers, two pastas. Cesar salad lacked the dressing, but it’s whatever. Our server came back when our plates were fully cleaned and she asked how everything was and if she can clear the table which we said “ of course” to. Our pastas were taking some time and then our server came up to us and asked if we wanted dessert?? We said that we didn’t get our pastas yet and she was like - oh, what did you get? And then said that pasta should be coming in two minutes. Pasta did arrive pretty fast. After that it was impossible to get our server. She never checked on us. The table next to us was waiting for a while to be greeted by the same server. And they were even ready to order by the time she came up and that’s when we also asked her to bring us a check. Took another 5-10 minutes for her to stop by our table and ask AGAIN if we wanted a dessert menu after we already asked for a check. As industry people ourselves we are pretty understanding and patient, but it was just not it. Could not wait to get out of there any faster.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 1
Booked a reservation for 7:30 and our table wasn’t available until almost 8pm. Wait staff was kind but the kitchen was totally swamped with orders. Almost nobody in the restaurant was served food for a solid hour. We almost had to walk out before finally getting our meal 1hr+ after ordering. Food was good but the meal was spoiled by poor service. Disappointing given the upscale price & atmosphere
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
The food was freshly prepared, imaginative, excellent. The atmosphere is soothing. The staff are considerate of the customer's experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Outstanding food, great service and pleasant, friendly ambiance. Also, they are open for dinner every night of the week where most others in the area are not open midweek. Highly recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
They have nonalcoholic beer but not wine
We love Fern! The new staff members are so welcoming and knowledgeable, and the manager Barbara seems to run a tight ship while always staying friendly and kind. Always a great experience every time we visit!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sorry, but Fern did not reach the level of a good place to dine. Service..very sloppy, stacking dishes while eating. Too young to know dining etiquette among other things.food too expensive for what you get. $18 for Caesar salad..lettuce, bread crumbs! Pizza..totally soggy in middle. Hotter than hot in dining room..Manager insisted the AC was on everyone sweating! Unsophisticated, not worth it in an area where they need good food ! If you say something to waiters, they give you that sneering look. I never review restaurants but felt that I had to write this.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Strangley to my delight this beautiful little secret was delightful. From being kindly greeted at the door to wonderful attentive service ( we were a party of 6 including 2 kids), it just continued into the evening. We ordered the ribeye steak, pizza and the kids pasta. All were well pleasing. The 2 things that were not my favorite were the chocolate pudding for dessert and the basil cooler cocktail. It could be just me, but the cocktail tasted a bit bitter and the pudding tasted just like Jell-O pudding. Def would recommend and will return!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great service and pizza
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Family of 6
Went to the Fern for dinner with my two boys their significant other's and my wife on Saturday evening. 530 reservations seated promptly. Placed our beverage order and a pizza for the table. That all arrived about 15 minutes later. At that time the waitress took our dinner order. She comes back about 10 minutes later and asked us if she could get our order once again because she lost the pad that she wrote the order on. At that time we ordered 2nd round of beverages.
Should have known then this was going to be interesting. About 15 minutes later we asked another waitress if she would find out about our beverages? Shortly after drinks came to the table which we didn't order along with apps that we didn't order.
We have now been here an hour and fifteen minutes with just our empty glasses and water. Asked for the Mgr and within seconds he arrived at our table and he took excellent care of us the rest of the evening.
The food.
We started off with the margarita pizza which was OK but not worth $20. We shared the meatballs which were very good as well as the ceaser salad which was good but very small for $18.
My son and his wife had the I think it's called pappadella pasta and a meat sauce with ricotta cheese which they both enjoyed very much. my other son's girlfriend had the artic char which she said was pretty good except for the greens.
My wife and son had the pork shanks with an amazing mushroom sauce, which they both loved. I had the rigatoni with sausage crumble, peas, crushed tomatoes and crushed red pepper. Which I thought was pretty darn good. Sketchy service to start, nice atmosphere, prices for apps were kinda high ($18 for a few romaine leaves and dressing seems a bit much to me).
Entrée all at a fair price point.
Mgr did fix the problem for the most part.
We would likely be back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 3
Restaurantji Recommends
Consistently good and great staff
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
They sit the brown people on the left side where the booths are. The whites sit in the big space next to the cozy pizza oven. Coincidence? 🤔
server was good and food as well. Would had given it 4 stars.
ps. Regarding the comment below. I meant non-European brown. Technically Italians are “brown” but are they really? Maybe at some point back in the late 1800s. 😂
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
I paid $50 for the worst pizza I have ever had in my life. Imagine if somebody took a dump on your pizza. That’s what it tasted like.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
They sit the brown people on the left side where the booths are. The whites sit in the big space next to the cozy pizza oven. Coincidence? ?
server was good and food as well. Would had given it 4 stars.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Husband took me out on a date here. Beautiful atmosphere, you def feel like you’re in the city. And don’t get me started with the food now.. the steak guysss THE RIB EYE!!!!! Coupled with the Cauliflower dish…??? ??
I’d go back.
Don’t think about it, just go!!! ??
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pasta Special
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