Market Street Grill - Downtown

Why so negative?. I hesitantly booked my reservation for Christmas Eve after reading what seemed like a endless slough of negative reviews. Once there my doubtful feelings began to disappear. In the end I concluded that most of the negative reviews I read revolved around price and service (and in many instances, service viewed through the lens of price; i.e. "I'm paying 'a lot' of money, therefore I deserve flawless service"). And although the logic is reasonable, I've noticed that price doesn't always equal service.

In all, we ate everything from seafood to steak. I was almost expecting the steak to be dreadful (again based on the negative reviews I read), but I tried the peppercorn London broil, the ribeye, and the New York and was pleased with all of them--although my favorite was the London broil.



I tried the oyster, crab, and a few appetizers (calamari and shrimp). Again, I braced myself for the worst; fortunately I was very happy with my food, everything tasted fresh, and everyone in our dinner was happy.

Again, in the end I realized that the negative reviews about the food are unjustified; price based negative reviews tell me one thing: it's Utah and everyone is a thrifty, budget shopper (and diner) and can't put money out of the equation--and I'll admit, I can have a hard time doing this myself. But if I imagined that the food was free, or my meal cost me $5 (instead of $50) I would say that I was overjoyed with my experience.

Last point, the service was average...probably what you would expect at Olive Garden. And let's be honest, you could get better service somewhere else. But I believe their practice is to bring you your food and let you (and your party) enjoy it without hovering over you to fill your glass in hopes of a better tip.…

What a Shame. This place used to be a favorite of mine and I still go occasionally because I keep hoping it might have improved. But I probably won't be back. This last visit put the nail in the coffin. I arrived and asked for a table. The hostess was in the middle of helping me, gathering menus for my table, and then greeted the woman who came in right behind me. That would have been fine except she proceeded to seat this person when I got there first. What on Earth? The hostess offered no apology and didn’t even acknowledge that she had just been terribly rude. I tried to brush it off but it definitely started the evening with a sour note.

Our waiter was very kind but took a long time just to get tea. It was a Thursday night and not terribly crowded so it really shouldn’t have taken as much time as it did. I ordered the special which was supposed to be a piece of fish served with crab. There were maybe three bites of crab, the fish was horribly dry, and to top it off I was charged $30 for a meal that would have been better served at Red Lobster.

When I had paid for the meal the waiter walked about two feet away from our table before he looked to see his tip! Horrible food, horrible service from the hostess, a few big slips from the waiter and I’ve really had enough. What happened to this place? It’s a shame because this place used to be a class act.…

Too Proud of Their Food & Poor Service. We went there on a slow night with a group of 10. Not sure of the automatic 18% gratuity for a party over 8 had anything to do with it or not, but our service was very poor. I never got a water refill without asking for it, once I didn't even get a refill after asking for it. At one point my glass ran dry and it was 10 minutes before our waitress came by and I had an opportunity to ask for more. On another occasion I asked for more tartar sauce and so did a couple of other folks at the table. When the waitress came back with the tartar sauce she didn't have one for me and she left before I could ask again!

As for the food, I will admit that the onion rings were some of the best I have had and my husband did enjoy the flounder he got. But the boiled herbed potatoes were beyond bland and my deep fried halibut was not crispy. The spinach salad that accompanies the meal was incredibly lame...just baby spinach in a bland dressing. No bacon, no mushrooms, no flavor.

The worst part of my fish and chips dinner was that I have had plenty of really good fish and chips for under $12 and I got soaked for $22 for this mediocre version. Even though my husband like his dinner he felt it was overpriced.

Overall our experience was less than satisfactory. Our mediocre dinner for two cost us $80! We are used to better food and vastly superior service when we drop this much money for dinner.…

Teriffic Breakfast!. Oh! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! Halibut & Eggs Benedict, best sause in town! Salmon and blueberry pancakes! DIVINE! Waffles, almost to crispy toast, CLEAN! Service pros like Rebecca, Ilona, Dave, Angelia, Severn, I wish I could list YOU ALL! Thanks for feeding me almost daily at the counter for a little price. and your coffee rocks too! But arrive before 11AM or you'll have to order from the luch menu. (and begin to pay for parking if it isn'ty christmas) - Too busy on Sunday, (and NO toast- only tose orange muffins) so go to the Cottonwood location on that day between 9-10AM for the $5 special seafood omlet with asperagus! Ummmm. (and play on the swingly bridge & give a thumbs up to the AA meeting upstairs!…