Joseph Venutolo Review of The Porch at Schenley
First of all, I had never ever written a review......
First of all, I had never ever written a review... however last night I decided this would be the first simply because of the poor experience. I had the displeasure of coming here last night with a large party. Upon entering they were not even set up for our party and didn't really seem to care about us waiting there for quite some time. The service was very slow but not on the servers it was the kitchen, they were extremely slow.... what seemed like an hour and fifteen minutes later we finally got our food. The restaurant was not even that busy for a friday night. I do not see the problem what had happened last night. I had the steak which cooked great but was able to see it had been sitting for quite some time before brought out. The steam was ultra fatty, tough to cut with a steak knife, and SLATHERED with oil. I had a chance to try 1/4 of the porch burger and it was the same thing ultra greasy and slathered with oil and fat. You cannot pour oil/fat on everything and call it great food then charge it 4-5 dollars more then what it should be. Hard metal chairs, trendy hip "scene", unable to properly set up to accommodate guests, ultra greasy oily fatty food, and a painfully crawling kitchen are some of the reasons I will not be coming back to this place. They need to up their ante a bit, they have small potential in some places but they need to improve it so it all flows nicely together.
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