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Had a really great experience here. The service was great, the drinks were surprisingly good, and the food was top-notch.
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Food was good, service was garbage. Waiter with the pink hair was very rude. Made numerous mistakes and never apologized. I like the spot and might be back but if you’re the owner and reading this, fire that dude lol
I took my parents to Eel bar whilst they were visiting NYC and unfortunately was disappointed. While the interior was fabulous and very trendy, dimly lit, the food and service was a let down. There was 5 of us squished on a tiny table which did not allow for an effective family style experience. The food was ok, edible but nothing to write home about. The service was really poor. Multiple times we had to ask them for drinks/ menus and nobody seemed particularly interested in us despite us paying over $100 a head. Unfortunately this is yet another NYC letdown that has more style over substance
Certainement l’un des mes meilleurs restaurants de ce genre à New York. La cuisine est délicieuse, le personnel attentionné et la carte des vins est cocktails est impeccable.
Interesting decor. Made the space feel trippy and bigger than it actually is. Small tables and small plates. You need a reservation this place is bumping.
The oysters were good. It was spicy but you could still taste the oyster. The tuna was fresh. They throw the pickled peppers on everything. The summer vegetables were yummy. Chilled grilled vegetables with olive oil, balsamic and feta. Wines were nice.
I genuinely wish I could give this terrible establishment ZERO stars.
My girls and I walked in expecting a normal bar experience, but from the second we arrived, the staff was unnecessarily rude. There was no hostess at the front, so we went to grab seats at the bar, only for the hostess to eventually appear and rudely tell us we couldn’t sit there.
We eventually found a seat, but the bartender was somehow even worse. She wouldn’t acknowledge us, make eye contact, or take our order, while happily attending to other customers around us. As a Black woman, the way I was being singled out and treated made me extremely uncomfortable and honestly left me feeling like I was being treated differently because of my race.
We came to have a fun night and instead were made to feel completely unwelcome. Absolutely unacceptable service. Spend your money somewhere you’ll actually be treated with basic respect.
Love the vibe here… the lighting, the music, the decor, very cool atmosphere. The food was tasty but verrry salty. I couldn’t eat the pea shoots and arugula salad and there were lots of bites of the trout that were also super salty. Overall liked the restaurant but I think I’d have to ask for everything to be low salt if I went back.
Went here for a group dinner, we ate basically every dish on the menu.
The food is unfortunately rather poorly prepared - there is a weird obsession with vinegar here which destroys a lot of the flavors
Why would you soak a pork chop porterhouse in vinegar?
The seasoning otherwise is ok but not great - all in all this food would probably not survive in any larger Spanish city.
The service in addition is just not good, not friendly, not very professional.
I don't really get this place, however it always seems to be full. I think it's overpriced and slightly dull food. I appear to be in the minority as generally full. Maybe it's people from uptown but I just think it's very mediocre . They have a couple of tables out on the street together with a bunch of other places on Broome St most of which are better than Eel Bar
The attitude of the waitstaff is abysmal. I asked to sit at a completely empty bar while waiting for my date, and was shoved into the back-most corner next to bottles and the pungent kitchen. I asked if I could please not sit there, and moved over one seat, for the waitress to move my menu back to the worst seat in the restaurant because she “has to keep the other seats together” for the reservations. No one took up those seats during the duration of my over one hour stay.
When I was asked for at least the third time whether I wanted to order food, and I said no, the waitress sassily snatched the plate from under my phone which was titled on top while I read from it. My date showed up, excited to have a drink, and he was met with the check, which I had not requested. They then said they “need the table in five minutes.” There were many open tables.
Something about my having two leisurely drinks appeared to cause issues for them and their empty restaurant at 6 PM. Maybe a tab over $100 will bring you greater respect than I received.
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