Kelly Lutz

Review of Daiker's Inn

Food was fine, but we waiting 90 minutes for a tab...

Food was fine, but we waiting 90 minutes for a table outside. I get they have to reduce tables for COVID, but they need to come up with alternatives to either make the wait better (i.e., add tables to the dock and serve beer and chips while people wait?). They ended up getting us a table inside so we could order before the kitchen closed, so that got the 1 star, then they moved us outside to another table to accommodate our request to eat outside. The waitress was really nice as well as the hostess so that got the other star. However, the table we were sat at was right outside the kitchen window and next to the bug zapper. The smell of the kitchen was like that greasy smell from a local hots place (those from Rochester know what I'm talking about.. the places you go after a long night of drinking to grab a garbage plate..). The bug zapper was doing it's job attracting bugs, lots and lots of bugs. I had about 6 bug bites in the 15 minutes we were sitting at the table, and had big bugs flying around the table, big enough to swat at as they buzzed around our heads. The waitress was again very nice, and moved us to another table away from the bugs.
We try not to be "those people" who show up at restaurants and complain, and we like to understand how irritating customers can be, and try not to be irritating... you know, be a nice, respectable human being to the people in customer service jobs. These jobs can be really challenging at times... but the wait and the bug things was a little crazy. If it wasn't for the nice staff and really good food, this place would have gotten 1 star. The level of customer service and the good food really earned this place an extra 2 stars in my review.