Melvyn's Restaurant & Lounge

Reviews about Melvyn's Restaurant & Lounge

• 2 / 5

  By Katheryn Leszczynski
  As described by another reviewer, nice ambiance and good service but the food is mediocre. They need a new chef. We had the oysters Rockefeller, they oysters were tiny, hardly knew they were there. My pate was good, I love pate, but I was half way through it before they arrived with the toast points. My husbands scallops over linguine was good but I had the veal Oscar, it was awful. One piece of veal, it had been pan fried but the white wine sauce was so watery, the veal was mushy and they hadn't cooked off the white wine so it had that bitter taste of wine, and too much wine. The crab on top was tasteless, they didn't season it at all, normally you sauté in butter and garlic or something and then season but it's like they just took it out of the tin and placed on top of the veal. The vegetables were flavourless and the supposed scallop potatoes were not scallop potatoes. We were at Le Vallauris and La Spiga earlier in our stay and they are heads above for the same pricing. We enjoy the lounge at Melvyn's, good drinks and piano music and singing but you really need to do something about the food. Will never come back for the food, too many other great places to go in the desert.
  May 23, 2017
• 1 / 5

  By Steve Kowalsky
  Following a recommendation, we came to Melvyns. Here are the highlights...My wife asked for a balsamic vinegar dressing for her salad. She was brought the dual glass bottles that are usually red wine vinegar in one and olive oil in the other. No problem, that works too. However, we found out after dressing the salad, that the vinegar was in fact Worcestershire sauce. Someone must have mixed it up somehow, and we tried to let them know, however it was no use. The waitress claimed that she had tried it and "it tasted spicy but I like spicy". I don't think she had a clue what red wine vinegar tastes like. I have to wonder what kind of oil was in the olive oil container. They brought us a new salad, but what is the use of that? No balsamic, and no vinegar, and my wife didn't touch it. She ended up eating the carrots that came with my steak...My rib eye - below average, and they refused to make me a salad. My father did enjoy his salmon ceasar, but then, we have the elderly drunk actually falling *up* the stairs from the mens room. He even started cursing and blaming my father for his fall after my father offered to help the drunk up.
  
  Looking back on the recommendation, I think that we may have been told to go there for a drink and to enjoy the piano music. We just made a huge mistake eating there.
  January 06, 2017