Turf Tavern
40 Mohawk Ave, Scotia
(518) 393-3671
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Staff were great, Doreen is as sweet as can be. The strip steaks were amazing and literally cut with a butter knife. Will def be back.
Great local restaurant, good food, service and location
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Wedge Salad
Turf Tavern, Scotia, NY food & service excellent and you can't beat their $10 Tuesday specials. One if our favorite places to go.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Marsala
Excellent food, excellent hometown customer service. Amazing ! PLUS the bartender Matt is wonderful. STRONGLY RECOMMEND Its definitely a must try!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent service! Food is always awesome! A+++ Restaurant! Thanks 😊 💯
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Small menu, but excellent food. Good service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Highly overrated and overpriced. From our experience tonight you can just stay home and cook yourself food that will be better in taste and quality and save yourself an inflated bill.
My fiancé and I found the staff and atmosphere of the restaurant to be off and uncomfortable. The staff weren’t exactly friendly, at least not genuinely, and they constantly gave me off vibes from the hosts (who I think were the owners?) to even our waitress.
Even the other patrons in the restaurant who happened to be predominantly elderly individuals threw off the atmosphere. We were seated between two tables of older people with one having a person who appeared to not know how to lower the obnoxiously loud ringtone on his phone, and the other table having what sounded like someone with an obtrusively loud oxygen tank which frankly made me feel like I was eating at a hospital rather than a restaurant.
This place seems like its trying to tout itself as being a higher-end restaurant, but its not. Besides the service and uncomfortable atmosphere, one of our bread plates was questionably dirty and the food took a long time to come to us. This restaurant has one of the worst and unremarkable menus I’ve encountered; it made picking something from their unimpressive entrée list a bit challenging for me, but I went for something simple – the pasta Bolognese, and my fiancé the braised beef short ribs.
Both meals were mediocre at best. The beef short rib was tender, but lacked flavor and depth; in other words it was bland. The mashed potatoes however were good. My pasta was disappointingly mediocre. The overall flavor was average, and the sauce lacked enough meat and was too overloaded with vegetables in my opinion; they even had the nerve to shove two, tiny, stale, and disgusting bread pieces into it that were inedible.
They don’t offer substitutions for their side-salads, which is ridiculous. Not everyone likes or eats salads. You have to pay to substitute it for a small bowl of soup. Either our waitress lied about the price or she was misinformed; we were told it was $3 to substitute, but when the bill came it was $5 and she didn’t even bother to address that discrepancy. My fiancé said the soup was ‘okay,’ but not worth the extra cost.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Never been disappointed here!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went here tonight. The food was so good! Best we’ve had in a long long time!We ordered everything from apps to salad and entrees. To full for dessert. But next time definitely saving room. Service was ok. Our server was very nice when she would come to the table but was very rare. I had to ask for every drink instead of being offered. Thank you to the two women helping her bring our drinks and food. We will be back. We are very picky but absolutely loved the food! I can’t believe we’ve never dined here before! Can’t wait to go back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Shrimp Cocktail
Great staff , quick service and food is always perfect 👌
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Excellent food, service and atmosphere. STRONGLY RECOMMEND. 1ST CHOICE
Great family run business in a small town.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went for the First time Yesterday. Our waitress was amazing and the food timing was perfect. However I have to say both my husband and I were pretty disappointed with the food. Everything but the French onion was pretty bland.
We ordered
Their Cherry smash which seemed to have only muddled a single cherry and seemed to be more of whiskey on the Rocks VS a whiskey smash.
A well cosmo that was the same price as their craft cocktails. Which is on me for not asking what their well vodka is. But it was definitely balanced and well made.
The bacon wrapped dates that was mostly filling a little dates but overall was tasty
I love French onion soup and theirs is definitely good.
We got 2 specials.
The homemade cranberry walnut dressing on the salad tasted good was very sweet but had a very odd texture to it.
My special was the Maple Bacon Salmon which honestly tasted mostly like watered down sugar water. The salmon itself didn’t seem to have any seasoning on it before putting the glaze over it with more glaze served on the side. The salmon could have been cooked a little hotter so there was more searing and crust on it. The rice was very bland and also had no seasoning on it.
My husband’s Special was the Veal and Shrimp with a tomato sauce over pasta. The pasta itself was cooked well. But again over all the dish had no flavor. The sauce tasted as if they didn’t drain off the pasta before adding sauce on top making it taste watered down. The shrimp was breaded for some reason and again very little flavor and very chewy. The veal was also bland.
The side of cauliflower was very dry and again bland.
Overall for the price of the food we were expecting very flavorful and creative dishes. And we’re very disappointed.
I love supporting local businesses but I don’t understand how this one has so many great reviews regarding its food and us having a completely different experience. I’m not sure if they catered to an older clientele and they are cautious of over seasoning for them or if it was an off day for the chief.
We did fill out their survey attached to the receipt. But did not want to complain to the waitress or have our food comped but did want to express our general disappointment.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: French Onion Soup
We had our DiCresce Family Reunion dinner here Sunday, with 42 people, the food & service were fabulous. Maria & her staff are wonderful to work with, highly recommend them for your banquet.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing food options. We had the steak and lobster and it was on point. The mashed potatoes were sooo good. A must try!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chocolate Cake
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