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Review of Ivar's Salmon House on Lake Un...

Nice view from outside seating, but service sucked...

Nice view from outside seating, but service sucked. Server moved at a tired snail's pace, didn't know fish of the day, had never tried the featured dessert (yet recommended it highly), and had to be repeatedly tracked down-- to get the salt and pepper I'd requested 10 minutes prior (there was none on table), as well as summoned back to bring the check (and then didn't have the check in the sleeve when he came).

Food taste was fine, but not extraordinary, and certainly not at $30+ per dish. My medium rare salmon order was cooked poorly-- I like crunch on the exterior, but the ends we're overcooked and tough, most of the inside was medium to medium-well, and some parts were undercooked. Mine was not the only one cooked incorrectly, but the wait was so long between our server's table visits that we just stayed with what we had. The food was lukewarm when it arrived; I wasn't trying to place a new order at that point.

Additionally, bathroom was a mess, and we had a significant wait to be seated (in spite of having a reservation).

Maybe they'd gotten slammed the day before or something. The service and food prep we experienced were totally lazy.