One Thirteen Restaurant

We had brunch with son and roommate. Atmosphere and music were real nice. Think about if IHop and Carrabas had a child. This is 113. Wife and roomy enjoyed the French toast with bacon. My son had the bennidict breakfast with bacon. I had their Waffles and Chicken. We had good experience for our first time.

Restaurant was really nice. Good atmosphere...great background music. Nice selection of food and appetizers. Good wine selection reasonably prices. Wait staff knowledgeable of all menu items. Only reason for 4 stars.....presentation was superb for all dishes we ordered. I would have liked larger portions. You can have nice presentation and larger portions also. All in all a nice dining experience.

The food is top quality here. We sat outside which was a really nice atmosphere. We ate on a Tuesday so no trouble getting a table. The menu is a little deceptive as I had to order a protein which wasn't mentioned on the menu. My wife nearly ordered the fire oven grilled chicken which didn't come with anything else unless you ordered a side, the menu didn't say anything about this. That said, the pork chops and beef tips were amazing! No complaints, just felt stupid when ordering.

WOW!!! (But maybe it was just a bad weekend.) From the overpriced steak to the over priced hamburgers… (Which where all served COLD.) I was not impressed. • A better choice would have easily been Texas Roadhouse or Outback Steakhouse for a quality meal and good time at HALF THE PRICE!!! or… Spend the same money and go to Ruth Chris Steakhouse. The wait was ridicules…. Several groups waited over an hour for their food… only to eventually “call-it”….. get up and leave. The servers were great and working hard… but spent the night running around from table to table putting out “fires” with customers because they couldn’t get anything out of the kitchen. (I gave the additional star for the server’s effort because they are just trying to make a living.) One Thirteen’s inflated prices that comes with the “Reservations Only” attitude is not supported by the quality of the meal or even the experience. Now in their defense, I hear they are under new management and that they are trying to work out the kinks. (The new manager is nice, and did make the effort to comp a steak which was appreciated but I don’t see my money being spent there ever again.) If you do choose to give it a try, please update us because I am in hopes that they can right-the-ship and become a reflection of their original vision. The only reason I gave a review is because after spending around $300 for dinner, I felt the 4-5 stars on here is not an accurate reflection of what the consumer will receive. It’s only fair.

Half of the menu items were unavailable. Staff had no knowledge of the restaurant or even how to do their jobs. Sat for an hour before receiving drinks, an hour and a half before bread. 2 hours later..... they hadn't even started prepping the food order for my table. The hostess nor the waiter even bothered to give a "heads up" regarding how far behind the kitchen staff was running. The waiter was not aware of what foods the restaurant was sold out of so some of us had to order 2-3 times only to not end up eating at all. The experience was like something that I would see in a comedy.