Brandon V.'s Profile

Good excuse for a Fall afternoon drive out from Boston.  We break enough wine glasses (even after going stemless!) to warrant a trip out a couple times a year.  6 for $15 is great!

Often crowded (on weekends).

The prices are a little better than in the normal Crate & Barrel stores.  A lot of scratch/dent furniture.

One thing I noticed is that the people there are always, without fail, friendly and helpful.  A big plus.

I usually park one lot away and walk over to avoid the crowded small lot in front of the store.

I'd known about the place for years, but never knew exactly where it was located (drr).  We (the SO and I, that is) have been on a quest to find a good place near our Brighton apartment for dinner and drinks after work for the past few months and haven't found exactly what we were looking for yet, after trying places on the Brighton side of the river.

This place fit the bill wonderfully.  Great service, good pub food, and just a really welcoming atmosphere.

Wow, I should have read the reviews before ordering from this place.  I would give zero stars if I could.  I want to warn people that this is NOT a place you should be doing business with.  Unless, of course, you want mediocre pasta delivered 45 minutes late and to be treated like utter shit on the phone by someone who could care less about keeping a customer.

I will preface this whole thing (well, a little late now) by stating that it was a busy Sunday and it was raining.  That, by the way, is absolutely zero excuse for the behavior I witnessed.

We ordered delivery from Lilli's through Foodler.Com, as we often order delivery through the same site and generally have no issues.  The food was supposed to arrive 40 minutes later.  So, an hour an ten minutes later, I call Lilli's to ask the status of the order.  The guy on the phone (without asking my name or order number, apparently (caller id?) knew who I was and said my order would be there in 6-7 minutes.

Fifteen minutes later I call to cancel the order.   It was past sun down (and we should have been fasting) at that point, and there was no way that the order was going to show up hot.  It's pasta and garlic bread, and getting any of that mushy would not have been good.  Upon asking to cancel the order, I immediately got treated like I was trying to run over this guy's puppy.  I said it was no big deal, and he countered with 'It is a big deal' and he outright refused to cancel my order.  This was after the order was 45 minutes AFTER it was supposed to arrive.

He argued with me saying that I shouldn't listen to Foodler's delivery estimates (that are generally accurate) and that it was raining and all these other things, and I just kept telling him that I wanted to cancel the order.  He continued to refuse and insisted that the food would be there in 4-5 minutes.  I gave up.

The food arrived 10 minutes later.  In hindsight, I should have simply refused the delivery.  The food was not hot.  They didn't even bother to include the marinara with the lukewarm garlic bread (as stated on the menu).  Oh, and the meat sauce was so dried out and gross that it tasted like sawdust.

I wish I had something to say about them, but I don't.  I implore you to never give your credit card number to these people, as you will have no recourse if they decide to treat you like utter crap as they did me.

You can read my other Yelp reviews - I'm not a generally nasty person when it comes to negative things about a place.  That's how strongly I feel about the horrible experience we had with Lilly's.  They could have handled it so differently, and after multiple attempts by me to fix the situation, they still refused.

I called my insurance company (Progressive rocks, BTW!) to report scratches and pitting on my windshield and they were nice enough to replace the whole thing for me.

The Safelite guy called ahead to tell me exactly what time he would be there, he showed up on time (early, actually), he was polite, did a great job at replacing my windshield, and even cleaned all the car's external windows.

Great company to work with.  If I ever need glass replaced again, I will call these guys.  Oh yeah, and it came with a lifetime warranty.

Nice little place that has a very distinct Non-Newport feeling to it.  The food was good, although the skin on my BBQ chicken was rather un-crispy.  If that's my only complaint, though, then it was a good place.  I heard the fish and chips were very good.  Great cornbread.  Good cole slaw.  Very relaxing room, and we were not rushed through anything.

EXCELLENT brunch.  Got there at just past noon on a Monday and the place wasn't busy.  The service was friendly and helpful.  The room is nice and clean and looks, well, like somewhere you would like to eat at.  Very welcoming.  The TV in the corner wasn't annoying, and the European decor of the room was refreshing.

The tables are spaced out enough that you have room to sit and you have room for all the food they bring you!  Great multigrain toast.  Eggs done perfectly.  Tasty juice combos.  Gigantic home fries.  

Oh, and they have plenty of quality reading material other than the local classified sections, including National Geographic and whatnot.

You would think it's easy to find a great breakfast place, but usually they end up being too crowded, rude service, food items that taste off, or SOMETHING wrong with them.  I have nothing bad to say at this place, not a one little thing I noticed.  I can't wait to go back to Newport to return to the Corner Cafe.

Good pizza.  Didn't try anything else (other than the beer).  Inside is just a big room and the crowd is true family style North Buffalo.  The pizza crust is really just a bit better rising than Neapolitan but with the basic ingreedients of said dough / crust.  Service is great and friendly.  Very good pie for the price!  Parking on the street on a Thursday night was easy.

Got there at the tail end of a brunch on a Sunday. The server was nice enough to let us order brunch just past 2pm.  Surprisingly the bacon wasn't the stuff you normally get at the end of brunch service (they usually make it so much earlier that by that time of day it's dried out or burnt).

Service was great.  Food was good.  They did a really good job and were very nice when someone in our party had to have eggs sent back (to be cooked a little more - but it was just their preference the eggs came out fine, not undercooked).  A lot of times the places are rude after you send something back but these guys took it all in stride.

Their beer is fine.  

The service is at least passable and usually good most nights, and was wonderful last night with a very attentive waiter from Armenia who really warmed up to us.  

The food has gotten worse over the past 8-9 years that I have been going there.  I ordered the fish & chips at 8:30pm on a Saturday night.  The place wasn't completely packed, but busy.  Three of the four of us at the table ordered the fish and chips, actually.  The fish came out completely undercooked and totally bland for all three of us.  The batter was soft and not done completely.  It was the same for all three of us.  It could have used just a couple more minutes in the fryer to finish up.

Also, the place was wicked noisy.  I have a hard time hearing, and I don't remember the place ever being so loud.

The only reason for the two stars is the quality of the food.  Everything else, well, that's understandable and a matter of taste.  But when a restaurant cannot even get fish and chips, a simple staple of Boston food, done right, I begin to worry.

HUGE screen.  Comfy (tempurpedic) seats!  Wicked awesome wrap-around sound.  Was there this morning for the new Harry Potter movie.  It was sold out, but the theater was filled with well behaved people and the AC did a perfect job even though the place was at capacity.  Can't wait to go back!