Brickton

We were here at the Marriott for a day and tried all three meals - breakfast lunch and dinner at this restaurant.

Pros: We tried the Marriott cheeseburger (4.5/5), curry chicken sandwich (3.5/5) and one of the breakfast sandwiches (4.5/5) the lettuce, tomato and onions in the burgers and sandwiches were very fresh. I give a few less points for the dishes as the meat in all the dishes were under seasoned. But the condiments made up for it. The quality of the meat and buns/breads were very good. My wife loved their hash browns and I liked their sweet potato fries.

Cons:
The regular fries were very soggy. We tried their bagel and cream cheese, and it was a bagel from Walmart and the Philadelphia cream cheese for 8 dollars. The breakfast buffet was overpriced at $28 with very limited options in the buffet.
The lunch and dinner menu are the same with very limited options.
Also, I hate it when a place has a full bar and no drink menu. So, we just order what we want and then they charge us exorbitant amounts for the drinks.

Ordered omelette that came with hash brown and toast. Omelette was overcooked and bland. The hash brown was the worst I ever had - It was dry and extremely tough. Appeared like a pre made disk shape which someone may be threw into a toaster oven. Stay away unless you want mediocre food overpriced just because it's inside Marriott. Lastly I was surprised that they charged $5 for a cup of coffee.

At the end of my meal, a small fly landed on my plate.

I ordered an Angus Burger with homemade sliced potato chips I would have been better off ordering a burger at McDs! not a gourmet burger somewhat tasteless the fries/chips had a bad greasy take probably from reused oil. The restaurant is inside the Marriott and looks really nice. I opted for desert which was ok Cheesecake when I asked for coffee I was given a paper cup!!! come on this is the Marriotts signature restaurant. Now I understand why its empty.

We enjoy coming here, have done so many times over the years, with large groups.

Ryan is especially polite and a high quality server.

Very good dinner, especially for a hotel restaurant (Marriot At O'hare). Service was very good (Ernie?). They had a halibut special on the menu. I love halibut, but I did not like the preparation. I asked if they could go off menu and do a Beurre Blanc. They said no problem and it was very good!!

I'm staying in Chicago for one night and didn't want to venture out into the cold so I stopped in at the hotel restaurant- Brickton.

Nice ambience. Food was just ok. I had the short rib and the polenta was Not flavorful and was clumpy.

The absolute best part of my dinner was my waitress. What a sweetheart , her name was Angela. If the only thing you do is to stop in to say hi to her it will make your day.

Stay away from the hotel restaurant. We were hungry and tired after a long travel and decided to give restaurant a try and was disappointed with the food and service.

The service was extremely slow and the chicken salad I ordered did not taste good. The station to the train is really close. Jump in and try excellent restaurants in Chicago.

This is purely a review of the bar.

Easygoing drinkers rejoice. Snobs beware. While there will surely be one suitable libation for each of your particular predilections, like most hotel bars within this category of hotel top notch choices are found to be lacking. I opted for scotch this evening and had three options of which I sprang for Glenlivet 12 (not a bad option all things considered). The beer selection is about the same, finding two beers that could truly be called craft. You also will not find the makings for all your more unique drinks (Campari, negroni, Fernet, etc). Nevertheless, what they do they do well. If I am wrong about any of this it is because the bottles are impossible to make out and I was not offered a bottle list, though I did not ask for one.

The staff is nice and attentive. The people are caring and apologetic even when they don't need to be.

The ambience is dim and upscale. Granite counters and a few isolated hang out areas give room for larger parties. The music is really pop heavy, but played at the right level. There are a few TVs for sports, but the sound is off - which I like.

You can order full meals at the counter and people seemed to be happy with their choices. It all smelled and looked good, even for 11pm.

All in all, if you are looking for a drink and you are staying in the hotel, you can't go wrong here. Head on down and tie one on. If you are going out of your way to visit this bar, turn around and head back toward the city.

The food here was pretty good, even for vegetarians. There weren't a whole bunch of options but they were pretty accommodating. We ordered a mushroom burger and a chicken quesadilla but substituted the chicken with mushroom. The service was pretty nice and the ambiance was obviously nice since it was inside the Marriot.

I bought a Yelp deal for the first time! But this place didn't know about the deal so when it came to the check, it was a teensy bit time consuming...also I couldn't use the 10% off for checking-in because I was using the Yelp Deal...which doesn't make sense because I should be able to use the deal like I would use a gift card...but whatever...

This is an affordable place for a good meal! Oh and our orders came with fresh fruit on the side as well!

While on a recent stay here, I ended up having 2 meals here because of the convenience being at the hotel itself.
My first meal was lunch on a Friday. The place was pretty empty, because honestly, who wants to eat at a hotel as oppose to exploring outside. Me, of course LOL. They had a decent number of lunch options and a full bar. We did partake in some adult beverages and they were made correctly, not weak drinks. As for the food, I liked that they gave options of side to allow one to chose to be a bit healthier, if you wanted. I had the turkey BLT with a side salad and it was fine. The turkey was smoked and the meat was not as moist as I would have liked. It wasn't dry, it just wasn't as pull apart, if that makes sense. The waitress was nice and didn't rush us.
My 2nd meal was at the breakfast buffet. I was pretty hungry so I got my plate and started to go down the line of the typical breakfast buffet food, Oatmeal, potatoes, pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, pre-made egg muffins, yogurt, options of cereal/toast/pastries. Anyhow, so I load my plate and then i see a make a fresh omelette and/or waffle station! WHATTT I wish I saw this sooner. Maybe it's the layout that needs work as its a long row that everything is in. So you better believe I told the rest of the people I knew about it lol. I felt a bit bad for the lady working there as there were a lot of people wanting omelette's so she was busy, but it was yum. You had your option of veggies & cheese. I didn't have a waffle, but I imagine it was good. Again waitress was friendly here and accommodating as we kept adding people to the table/moving.