I think `Le Roadhouse` is a better suited name for this joint. Rustic exposed oak, cheap mobile home trim, and curtains and wallhangings from Walmart.The Good: 1)the Wine List. 2) the homemade garlic rolls were out of this world. 3) The service. Our waitress Marion was terrific, not her fault the food is so bad.
The bad: 1) The salad came with a house dressing that was nothing more than creamy Italian slathered over bare leaf lettuce. Special recipe? Hogwash! 2) The `signature` Onion Soup tasted more like thick onion gravy, and had no flavor or onions to speak of.
The Ugly: 1) the Oysters Rockefeller? Big mistake. The oysters were not fresh, and were covered in some sort of milky cheese sauce like you might get on your nachos at a baseball game. terrible! 2) My `10 oz.` filet was overcooked from Med Rare to Medium, something no decent restaurant would ever do, and the piece of meat was more like 6-7oz., not 10oz. You NEVER overcook a filet. I ordered it because it was the safest thing on the menu, unlike my fiance's Veal Oscar which was smothered in so much sauce you couldnt see the one lone `white` asparagus tip on top of this mess. I ask you. white bernaise sauce/white asparagus/crabmeat? Who the hell is running this kitchen? Anyway, they are shorting their customers on this alleged 10oz. piece of meat, although I'm sure most people wont notice.
I dont think we'll be going back, and I dont recommend anyone else does either. To top it all off, in a restaurant that averages $22-25/entree there were entirely too many babies in this place, and babies have no place in a restaurant where other patrons are plunking down that kind of cash for a meal. My apologies to all you fledgling moms and dads of the 21st century but find somebody to keep your rugrats the next time you want to go out for a meal, or take them somewhere you wont RUIN the dining experience of a roomfull of people.
Rant over, Le Pavillion is as bad as it gets.
