Christopher Druck

Review of Davenport Roadhouse

Came up here looking for reprieve from the big hea...

Came up here looking for reprieve from the big heatwave over Labor Day Weekend 2017, and thought this might be a good place to have dinner. The restaurant was clearly doing what they could to alleviate the heat by keeping the doors and windows open, but it was still very very warm in the restaurant meaning we were sweating pretty hard after only a few minutes. I realize this isn't the fault of the restaurant, but when our server failed to keep our water glasses full it got annoying very fast. Also, when you know it's this hot, you would think they would be smart enough to give you more than 2 ice cubes in your glass. Our waters were turning warm pretty quickly. I think at one point he waited almost 30 minutes before our server looked at our table and noticed our water glasses were empty. Keep in mind this is after he said he would be right back with more water when he last visited our table. We noticed him walking to the far side of the restaurant several times. It seemed like he was also bar tending when people ordered drinks at his other tables. Clearly management needs to hire more staff if you have servers doing 2 or 3 jobs at once, requiring them to leave their tables for more than 15 minutes at a time. Also, because the doors are left open, it means flies are abundant within the restaurant. And when I say abundant, I mean I was constantly swatting flies away from face and food, and could constantly feel flies landing on me. Mixed with the beads of sweat running down my face from the extreme heat, this wasn't the most ideal dining experience. I decided to order fish n chips, thinking they might be pretty decent since we were right next to the ocean. Well they were marginal at best. They were very over-battered and just not very tasty. My mom ordered the seafood pasta option which was better than what I was having, but it was overly saturated in oil and extremely greasy. So in short, the food is not very good.

Also, be weary of the bathrooms. This place had some of the dirtiest restaurant bathrooms I have seen yet, which makes me nervous that the employees are also using them. They didn't even have paper towels, just hand driers. If you know anything about hygiene, then you know that paper towels are much cleaner and safer to use because you're supposed to use them on the door handle instead of your bare hands, decreasing the chance of spreading germs and bacteria into the kitchen.

The only reason I give this place 2 stars is because I liked the location and the views, it had somewhat of a cool atmosphere inside, and they had live music playing. If you ever decide to stop here, do enjoy the view, but don't expect the food to be great, don't expect good service, and don't be caught off guard by the service charge on your bill (probably why the service is bad).