David N

Review of MARS 2112 Restaurant & Bar

I normally don't write reviews, but felt compelled...

I normally don't write reviews, but felt compelled because of how memorably horrible this place is, in so many ways. First, we had to wait in line for close to 40 minutes to board a ride to gain access to the restaurant. Admittance to the restaurant costs $2 per person. The ride is a virtual ship built that has clearly not been maintained and is dated looking. You exit through the other side into a subterannean cavern that is supposed to be Mars, but looks more like the bowels of hell, with red rock and flaming baskets hanging from the ceiling. On the right side of the restaurant is a large, out dated projection screen playing some sort of nonsensical, grainy, Martian video. The menu selection was marginal and overpriced with hamburgers costing over 15 dollars. My wife asked about the hamburger and cod fish sandwich and was flatly told by the waiter that the cod sandwich is awful and is returned 70% of the time. The hamburger was dry. My brother ordered nachos which were slathered with cheese wiz. They were inedible and were sent back; the waiter did not appear surprised by this. My chicken marsala was served with a mashed potato still firmly in the shape of the ice cream scoop that dug it out of whatever vat it came from. The chicken marsala also had that negligent school cafeteria feel to it...bland and of questionable origin. My daugther could not even eat her buttered pasta. According to her the butter tasted funny...who knows what they did wrong with that...it was too dark to see what you were eating. Oh, and they had a looping soundtrack of no more than 6-8 songs of horrible fusion spiro gyra futuristic jazz/new age garbage. Vastly overpriced, terrible food quality, oppressive and annoying atmosphere makes this place quite possible the worst eating experience of my life. I've been to places with worse service, but not with so many other horribly bad elements to it. Oh, the bathrooms are filthy, which makes one wonder about the cleanliness of the kitchen. One other odd, offputting fact: the women's bathroom had a candy vending machine in it! I don't know if the same can be said for the men's room...didn't notice one, but there could be one in there too.