11/02/09

Great restaurant in the neighorhood

by FredTeng

This is my neighborhood restaurant. From the management to the wait staff, Hudson Place is my favorite in my neighborhood. I have been coming to this restaurant for over a decade. I would have business lunch here, or having a drink after work, or having family celebrations. We are extremely happy every time we eat here.

Hudson Place offers a great variety of food on their menu, whether it is a salad, or pasta, or burger, or fish, or even BBQ ribs, they have them. Recently, the restaurant went through a new renovation, it is even better.

I also appreciate the fact that rather than slipping take out menu under our doors, Hudson Place spends money to mail their takeout menu to the neighborhood. A very considerate neighborhood business indeed.

Oh I forget to mention the great desserts. :-)

• Pros: Good portions, great variety, comfortable atmosphere
• Cons: No parking, hahaha

10/02/09

Haven't had bad food like this in while...

by retailgirl

Is spinach tortellini that hard to make! Apparently for Hudson Place it is, because I swear that what I ordered must have been bought frozen from Costco. It was dry and cakey and salty. The bread before the meal was stale and the vodka sauce that the pasta came in had no hint of the vodka creamy flavor it should have. Service was also really lacking, the waitress rolled her eyes at me and stormed away when I told her I wasn't going to eat my pasta (mind you I didn't complain, she came to ask why it was just sitting there). I have to give them credit, they did not charge me for the dish. But really, skip the dinner at this place.

• Pros: Atmosphere's ok
• Cons: Service, Food

04/01/08

Dumbest management in town.

by decuir

First of all, the food is Ok, the portions quite generous and the prices very fair. A nice neighborhood restaurant.

We live a block away from this restaurant and have been going there for over 10 years an average of 2-3 times a week. That means we used to spend about $12,000 a year in this restaurant.

We even referred to it as "Headquarters" because my partner and I used to have our weekly dinner meetings there - with our husbands.

However, in all the years that we have been going there, the management never let us have the only round table in the place - a table for 5 - they always told us that the table was reserved - even though the restaurant was empty, and it was already past 9 PM. This is not a post-movie neighborhood so by 10PM the place is dead. Nedless to say, that table always remained unoccupied all evening :-)

Also, if we celebrated a birthday at the restaurant, this management, never saw it fit to offer us a glass of wine on the house - or some other token accommodation the way most restaurants do with regular and loyal customers.

So we finally got smart and now we go there about once in a blue moon - usually as a last resort - when we're too lazy to walk another block. Or it's raining.

A classic example of how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

• Pros: Food is OK, generous portions, fair prices
• Cons: Apalling customer service