The Corner Room Kitchen - Portland

It’s the best place. We love everything about this quaint little place…

Average food, service on the slow side. noise level is very loud. it became so annoying at the end of the meal we could not wait to get out.

The food and espresso martinis were amazing. Our server, Doug, was wonderful and gave us great recommendations for the rest of the weekend.

Originally, I had made a reservation for two weeks ago and the restaurant cancelled last minute, citing that open table had made a booking error. I decided to try again at my next availability. The bruschetta and mixed drinks were excellent. I highly recommend trying the lemon drop. Great service! Our server was very attentive and made fantastic wine recommendations. I was super disappointed to learn that steak wasn’t on the menu; even though I had scoped out the menu prior to making a reservation. The pork was mediocre at best. Zero ambience. Nobody wants to sit smack dab in the middle of a loud restaurant on their anniversary. Overall, this dining experience missed the mark.

My two bridesmaids took me here last night during my bachelorette weekend. We had 5:15 reservations as we had an appointment at 6:45 elsewhere. We ordered our drinks, appetizer, and entrees all together, right off the bat. It took over an hour for our food to come out, meanwhile 2 separate groups of 4 that were seated well after us, received their food. Our waitress said it would be 5 more minutes, then she apologized to us because they only had one chef, then she told us to save room for desert because it would be on the house for having to wait. Unfortunately we didn’t have time for desert. We didn’t even have time to eat any of our entrees. We immediately had them boxed up to eat later in the evening after our appointment. Our waitress merely took off the appetizer as a courtesy. Just didn’t feel like enough.On a separate note, the older waitress that was working the tables around us was not very pleasant, as she did not exchange courtesies when one of my girls apologized for being in her way, and when we thanked her for dropping off appetizer plates to our table.Really disappointed in how my first experience was here, especially for such a big occasion.