09/25/08

Do yourself a favor and dine elsewhere!

by aerogal619

With so many fabulous restaurants in New York City, I am sorry to say we wasted our dinner at this one. Dip Bar offered nothing unique, nothing exciting and blaringly poor service. From the reviews Ms. Rachael Ray left, I thought for sure this place would be jumpin! We were one of maybe 3 groups in the whole place and were seated at a very uncomfortable sectional towards the front. Drinks and food were very slow coming and service was lackluster. The food itself tasted fine, although I found nothing to be a culinary treat. I?ve been to several fondue restaurants and even the simple ones here in lousy Cleveland, Ohio diminish the cold, watery cheese dip that Dip Bar serves. I?m also not sure why it?s called a ?bar?. They pass it off as a trendy, hip club, but it?s really just a restaurant with inappropriately dressed hostesses

• Pros: Rachael Ray featured them on Tasty Travels... but why?
• Cons: most everything

06/12/08

Terrible Atmosphere and Lousy Food

by talise

This place is a restaurant, not a bar or dance club. The bar itself is tiny. There are only tables for those eating dinner. Why then, is the club rap/techno music splitting your eardrums so that you can't even hear the person sitting right next to you? The bump -n- grind music vibrates the tables it is do loud. The lights were down so low that I stuck my skewered shrimp into someone's beer instead of the melted Velveeta they call cheese dip. The food for dipping is ice cold, the chocolate watery and just gross all around. This restaurant trying way too hard to be a hip, happy-hour club-joint should be avoided. I will not return there, I know for sure.

• Pros: None
• Cons: Thuderously loud music, bad food, silly "wanna be" atmosphere

05/31/08

EWWWW!!! Who microwaves GRILLED cheese???

by hailsfromtheUES

This was the worst meal I've ever had in NYC. It's a fondue joint, so yes, the cheese was good, but the grilled cheese was obvi microwaved. The bread was chewy and rubbery. Soggy ceasar salad on mixed greens? Run out of Romaine did you? But the SERVICE WAS REVOLTING. I'm embarrassed for whoever hired their hostess. First she seats us, then asks if we can move our table bc she promised this one to someone else. For our trouble she will pick up the first round of drinks. We were 8 people, but at the time this "deal" was made only 2 were at the table. Moves us upstairs where we are the only people up there. Since the only thing this place has going for it is the atmosphere, now we were in the negative. Bill comes and there is ONE drink comped bc the others were not at the table to order. ONE drink between 8 people does not compensate for anything!! Why are ALL the bad comments on here about the service?? Her answer "Then why did you even bother coming?" Really? Nice. Learned my lesson there, Missy. Hope your closed by Fall.