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Mt Vernon At the Wharf
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Brunch, Lunch
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
9 reviews for Mt Vernon At the Wharf
Go for the lobsters, and only the lobsters. Well mabye a couple of beers.
We showed up early on a Tuesday with the intention of getting the $9.99 twin lobster special. The lobsters were very fresh and cooked perfectly. Everything was very sub par.
The popovers instead of dinner rolls were a nice change.
We shared an appetizer of Chicken Cordon Bleu Bites. They were ok nothing special, but the chicken gravy that they were served with was very bland and took away from the flavor of the ham and cheese in the chicken.
They charge an extra $3 per lobster if you want it baked stuffed, I would gladly pay $5 or $7 if the stuffing had more flavor.
My friend ordered a side of asparagus, I would guess the asparagus had been delivered 8-10 days earlier, it was wilted and brownish in color and the side order only came with 3 pieces.
Next time I go I am only going to order the lobster special and a few beers, no appetizers or sides.
I wish I could give even fewer stars. This was topped off by the worst white trash restaurant manager ever!
We went for brunch. I called and asked what time brunch started and was told they start at 9:30. We arrived at 10 and there was nothing hot on the buffet yet. They had some muffins that felt like they had just been thawed, but that was it. Ten minutes later some items began appearing from the kitchen. I am still not sure if that was a good thing or not.
The food was BAD at best. The eggs were not nearly as good as what is served at Guantanamo Bay to the inmates. They were beyond dry and tasted a little burnt.
I tried some eggs benedict and the completely soggy english muffin tasted like it had been dipped in a bucket of water before being served.
There was some chicken, ziti and broccoli. The chicken was as dry as a bone and the sauce was bland and watery.
I think the only decent items on the buffet were the waffles. They were good, I think. Maybe they just seemed better compared to everything else.
During the whole time we could not get a server to refill our coffee. They were all huddled at the station talking loudly and enjoying their coffee.
And now the really bad part...
So, we had a gift certificate for $50. The bill for the food was $59. I put in the GC and $24. That included the $9 that the gift certificate did not cover and the tax and then gave the server generous gratuity. The manager claimed - and this is an exact quote...
"The $50 gift certificate is not really worth $50 because you have to take the tax off of it."
What?! I tried to explain several times but she kept interrupting me and getting so loud that three waitresses came over. So, now I am trying to quietly explain her mistake and she keeps getting louder and all of these servers are rolling their eyes at me! I finally told her to do whatever she wanted with the money but that was what I was leaving.
All in all, this was a terrible experience. The food is gross and the service is crap. Add on to that some manager trying to embarrass you in front of other diners and this place is junk!
SKIP IT!!
Since this is where my parents wanted to go for Fathers Day brunch, and I couldn't steer them away from this, fine. It wasn't that bad, but it's not some place that I would recommend or go to again.
My parents wanted to go here b/c of the brunch that is normally around $19/ person. Well for Father's Day, the price got jacked up to $35/ person and they included 15% gratuity automatically. Classy. So w/5 of us, we bought 5 overpriced brunches plus an extra in gratuity, none of which was worth $35. At the Omni Parker (is it even that expensive?) it's worth it, but not here. I got an omelette that was just okay; my mum got someone else's. The bacon was overcooked and nothing else really looked appealing, except for the oysters on the half shell.
The only positives for this brunch were:
1. oysters on the half-shell (love them!);
2. our waitress was nice and fairly prompt (though giving us coffees w/o spoons... huh?);
3. the performer (electronic music w/a nice voice) was great in the background, a little loud, but could still have convos;
4. and of course my family :)
Thus two stars sums it up perfectly: I've experienced better.
.- Choose Your Own Adventure -.
After leaving Nahant Beach, sunburnt and stahvin, you notice your parking stub offers $2 off an Entree or Appetizer at Mt Vernon at the Wharf.
-- If you decide to give it a shot, because, hey, $2 almost pays for your parking, go to @.
-- If you see it as a desperate plea for biz, go to XXX.
@ Aw shi! The inside shows quasi-elegance in the service uniforms, real silver on the tables and bubble gum oldies creating musical ambience. The outside has deck tables sitting on the Wharf (it ain't just the name), a full service bar and set up for live music.
-- If you take a seat inside, go to $$
-- If you sit outside, go to ()().
()() The frazzled server takes a while to welcome you, brings the beer bucket special (two featured imports, any combo of 6 for $12.99) ten minutes later and without a bottle opener, complains the kitchen ran out of ice and says "No offense to the people, but I hate this place."
-- If you see where this is going and start eyeing the sharpness of the butter knife to the convenient proximity of your eye socket, go to XXX.
-- If you understand these things happen and proceed with the food order, go to !!!.
!!! Hey! She brings a bottle opener. You kick back refreshing brews and give your food order - Scallops wrapped in bacon on crostini to start. For din, Steak and Shrimp: a 14oz cut of prime sirloin and seven shrimp, lightly coated and fried. Your choice of potato and salad or soup. Suddenly, the live music starts up and ruthlessly clashes with the oldies blaring from the outside speakers.
-- If you ask the place to turn down the doowap in favor of Captain Carl and the Wailing Seamen, go to %.
-- If you'd rather just move inside and avoid complaining, go to $$.
% Situation resolved. The Cap and his Seamen are spewing all over you. Scallops are served, wrapped in barely cooked bacon and sitting on a soggy piece of wheat bread. Voila! You share a laugh with your dinner date and wonder what's to come.
-- If you cancel your entrees and order two more beer buckets, go to XXX.
-- If you bank on a better main course, go to &&&.
&&& Thirty minutes later, entrees arrive. Your time spent eavesdropping on neighboring tables pitting Ponzi lingerie sales women up against New Jersey's Barbie and Ken equipped with designer rhinestone caps and tan-in-a-can skin is capped by the following presentation: a fatty, decrepit, overcooked "steak" you'd find under eggs at Bickfords and seven cold, rubbery shrimp skewered below a blanket of Old Bay. Completely inedible.
-- If you request something ANYTHING else, go to ???
-- If you eat the crap just to get out of there, go to the other Mount Auburn, have your stomach pumped, then go to ???
??? A manager half-heartedly apologizes, claiming a typo on the menu and brings a bland lobster bisque and fairly tasty chicken cordon bleu nuggets as a substitute. Hot, tired and sand-blasted, you pay too much for too little. And head towards the door.
-- If you think to yourself, it was probably an off night. Maybe I'll come back for the Twin Lobster special, go to @.
-- If you mentally recite "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" again and again while lugging your exhausted, battle-worn girl back to your car and out of this hell, go to XXX.
$$ You're a dork. Who sits inside when there's a wharf and live music? Go back to @ or find an internet cafe and meet up with your guild on WoW.
XXX - Good idea. Never go back.
Cooled in shade of a cleft lip baby billboard sits the shanty town that is Mount Vernon on the Wharf. Clearly not much of a looker, but maybe he has a good personality? Once you walk through the front door past photos of employees dressed up like lobsters..you come to realize that not every "$2 off" coupon slipped under your windshield blade is worth investigating.
$2 off decapitation!
Fresh off the beach, indoor seating was unappealing as the blaring A/C would be a shock to my newly charred system, and decided to scour outdoor tables along the water.
Originally, the hostess seated us on top of a group of tourists even with many vacancies down the way. I told her we would like to sit at one alternate tables far from the henpecked husband and domineering wife scenario I saw before me.
"Um..I guess you can..but we'll have to re-set the table and everything"
I looked down at a scraggly napkin and fork and knife set, grabbed the pair, and switched tables.
There. Reset. Glad I could help. So do you have a drink menu?
Well that would have been my next question had we had a waitress, but we didn't..like the sands of time..
The boy began to dissolve, I began to craisinify, so I went up to the outdoor bar for H20.
When our girl finally arrived, she apologized informed us that she hated it at the restaurant ..but not to get her wrong.. "it's not the people."
Listen-I left my fold out psych couch in the trunk of the car next to the beach blanket, can we just get a bucket of beer?
Oh, and the bacon wrapped scallops served over toast points sound good.
Hoping this appetizer could tide us over while we looked over the rest of the menu with its appealing options. Part of me thought I should get something from the sea as we were right on the water..but the chicken alfredo caught my eye as a filling dish that would hit the spot. My FTR coveting boyfriend was in a steak mood, and I had every intention of sneak attacking his sirloin served with shrimp.
Our boozebucket came out just in time for the trainwreck that sat down at the adjacent table. It was a couple:
He: early 30's, definite coke abuser, torn jeans, cross chain, smokers voice, gelled hair, Canal Street shades, wife beater tank, like a ghetto ichabod crane.
She:early 40's, aging Ed Hardy poster child, every article of clothing sparkled in pinks with rhinestones and was littered with skulls/roses/vines, and her leather face peeked out underneath knock-off shades, a baseball cap, and straw-like parched black hair that seemed to inaudibly whimper "oil...can."
The wino wife I previously tried to avoid took a liking to her...
Let the games begin.
While I noshed on the fatty bacon wrapped scallions atop a wilted piece of wheat bread(so much for toast points), I listened as the wife tried to sell leatherface on becoming a ...get ready...traveling lingerie saleswoman. Yes, the wife was up here from South Carolina for a lingerie convention and berated this poor woman with Cutco/pyramid scheme tenacity. I turned my attention to the daughter who I expected to be mortified, but she was all about it! A little clone in training. I wanted to smack her across the face with my soggy bread. There is still hope.
Luckily our entrees arrived before the wife whipped out her digital camera to show leatherface pictures of her in dresses and lingerie...
Oh. My meal looked like it was drained by Bunnicula. I think I saw my all white plate of meek chicken and undercooked linguine in a science journal once. D's steak was a strange creature of its own accord...cold shrimp atop a grey cut of meat surrounded in fat.
I unhappily doused my meal in salt and once a waiter was located, he reluctantly asked if he could order something quick and easy like one of their flash fry appetizers.
My next concern was re:A few minutes earlier when a live band had come out, yet the restaurant insisted on playing the speaker music alongside the group. The discordance of dualing vocals drove me almost to the brink of insanity before I had to pipe up and ask that they shut up the Moody Blues.
We couldn't be there much longer, he devoured his sustenance and I began slangin beers while talking to leatherface about how cool her full leg tattoo of fairies that looked like it was etched by a blindfolded autistic child was out of sheer boredom.
Ichabod piped up to brag to D about his new iphone.
"Isn't that the Samsung touchscreen?"
"Well..uh. Yeah."
What is that Mount Vernon? You want me to sign your yearbook before we graduate and go our separate ways? Kk.
-touches Clueless feather pen to tongue-
"Dear MV,
Hey, I never really got to know you, but man Mrs. McGregors Geometry class was the worst! LOL"..
-thinks-
"..Best of luck in your future endeavors, and I hope to never see you again unless its on a 6pm Eyewitness News reel about food poisoning. D.K.I.T. Bitch."
Love always,
Mandy.
No thanks.
Aside from the twin lobster special, this place is not only expensive, but so not worth it. I took my parents here for the lobsters and my mother was ready to cancel the order and storm out once she saw the prices for the appetizers. We waited forever - it was the longest dining experience I've had in a long time. The bar scene here is very scary: lesbian bus drivers and guys chewing OC's like they are chiclets. This is wild nightlife in Revere at its worst. Just say no...
I've been here a couple times for dinner with my boyfriend. I'm not a fan of the bread they bring out but I've always have a good meal here. I remember I got the steak one time which was great, but I dont remember what I ordered any other time. My boyfriend didnt care for the lobster because it was a female lobster filled with babies and junk (YUCK) ... but hey its lobster. I do feel its over priced but it's still not a bad place to eat.
I avoid the bar when I go in, not because theres anything wrong it, but because I perfer to eat at a dinner table.
Ran into their lobster special that they run Monday through Wednesday. Place was mobbed but we still got an outside deck table. Live entertainment was good. Hot popovers showed up right away. I had the swordfish special that was outstanding (very inventive presentation. Very upbeat, fun place with a great staff. Check it out!
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3/10/2009
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Let me start with I am in the food business (waitress for over 20 yrs) and tend to cut more slack for mistakes then anyone I know. It is a tough business, and everyone has an off day. That being said this is possibly the WORSE dinning experience EVER.
I was part of a party of five for Mother 's Day dinner. We waited until after 3 pm so as not to be bothered with buffet menu. We prefer to pay a little more, and enjoy ordering made to order food, instead of food cooked for the masses usually served at buffets.
Service was EXTREMELY slow, despite the lack of people. Our waiter ONLY had 4 tables. I know this as we were there when the other 3 tables were empty and being assigned to him. Our waiter was unable to work the register, forgot items we had ordered, delivered wrong item (we ordered onion rings, and received fries, and wrong salad dressing, forgot chowder until reminded). Several people who came in after us (seated @ tables in a section with seasoned severs), were finished and leaving before we had even received our entrees!
The when we finally received the meals they were AWFUL! I mean I couldn't even choke it down, it was that bad. And at $24.99 for a dried out over cooked piece of Haddock, oh please. I have to wonder if they were sent out of the kitchen lousy or if the entrees had to be reheated a.k.a microwave, because they were left sitting in Que on the line, as our waiter was so poor at his job. Or if the kitchen was being manned by ex-cons who don't care what they dish out to paying customers.
So I figured what the hell, it is Mother's day make the best of it. Yes, it is poor service, and lousy over priced food, well at LEAST we have THE VIEW of the water to enjoy...NOT! At that exact moment they closed the blinds!!!!!!!!! I can only assume to save $$$ on A/C, because people were complaining it was stuffy & hot inside the dinning room. C'mon people, when service is terrible, and food is worse, you should never ever lose the one "pro" people associate with the wharf, THE VIEW! I have gift certificate I received over the holidays to the wharf, thought but selling on e-bay. But alas, after this Mother's day experience I did not want to inflict this dinning pain on anyone else. So it ended up in the shredder, even the mere thought of a meal there makes my skin crawl, even if it already paid for via gift certificate. I am SUPER surprised that the Mt. Vernon allows its name to be associated with such a shabby run place. Not that Mt. Vernon is know for upscale dinning, but at least their food is consistant. RUN don't walk away, from anyone suggesting this place. YUCK!
