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Salmon Dave's Pacific Grille
- Price Range:
-
$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
4 reviews for Salmon Dave's Pacific Grille
A place like Salmon Dave's gives visitors a good snapshot of the state of cuisine evolution in the fabled unhip Midwest. This is a place that locals to go eat on a night out, old school style, related to the supper clubs of yesteryear and dishes that most people in California have never heard of, like beef wellington and chicken a la king. However, Dave's has kept pace with the times, so that while they still have a "Surf and Turf" category on their menu, they also have seared ahi tuna and szechuan green beans. Nothing is cutting edge, but everything is done as well as it can be, and this is a safe place for old-school diners to sample some new types of food.
While the martini menu is very of the moment, the beer menu is still circa 1970.
Had a lunch with 3 other adults, on a Wednesday.
Food and service were both quite good.
I had a cedar-plank grilled salmon steak that was excellent.
The waiter, unasked, brought me a tasting serving
of the lobster bisque when I expressed curiousity about it.
I would go back in an instant.
Salmon Dave's is all right. The dinner and lunch menus are pretty okay. Can you see that I'm not so enthusiastic? We just got back from their "happy hour". You can get three "bites" of happy hour stuff for $5.00. Yes, that is very reasonably priced. but, no, the food was not good. I would rather pay more and get something edible. We had a chicken tempura (blah), a veggie pizza(undercooked), and some bar-B-cue meatballs(extremely bread-crumby). All marginal. And we ordered a full price bottle of wine. There was nobody in there. It just seems like they're on auto pilot. We used to go to Salmon Dave's a lot for lunch. We like to sit at the bar. The bartenders were friendly and the food was edible. There is some kind of a pall over the place now. What is it? No original soups. The same old everything.
My wife and I went here and both had fish. It's been awhile, so I can't remember exactly what I had, but I remember that it was not very good and extremely over priced. Save yourself the effort.