text: My grandmother brought my family here for my parents th Anniversary I made the mistake of Yelping this place the morning we were going I cringed with the low score and prayed for the best With this knowledge I ordered safe all night and I had a decent meal My family did not and I got to see first hand many of the complaints highlighted The first warning sign should have been that on a Saturday night this place was emptynnFor the record we did not have trouble with the cigarette smoke in the nonsmoking banquet room But I do not think anyone was smoking much so take it with a grain of saltnnThe family all ordered coffee and I started with a Cosmopolitan The waitress was great about the coffee refills and water refills The cosmopolitan was a joke First of all it was the smallest drink I have ever seen and it was so practically all cranberry juice At I was over itnnThen a basket of bread came out The bread was pretty good There was a good variety and some unique things in the basketnnMichaels one highlight is the number of sides you get with a meal Our meals included soup or salad potato and a vegetable Just like grandma would make However the soup was not the quality of grandmas We all had chicken dumpling soup little dumplings with a debatable about being homemade soup Not too impressed Another table got the salads and the salads looked sadnnMealsnPrime Rib As my mother so deeply said For being a special you would think they would know how to cut and cook this It was mostly fat and apparently pretty awful I actually think my mother threw it away when we got home My grandmother handed the waitress back the plate and asked her to dump out the excess sauce because it was mostly thatnnVeal Parm I played it safe and mostly won Two decent sized pieces of veal covered in cheese Safe choicennCrab Stuffed Shrimp For being over you would THINK Michaels used real crab Nope These things were stuffed with filler and the portion was tiny Not amusednnThe sides however were pretty good The twice baked potatoes were excellent and the fried zucchini was a score I would just order the sides next timennWe passed over on dessert fearing for more disappointment The final bill was right around nnThe moral of the story Michaels recipes are ok but the food prices are simply not acceptable I can say honestly that the Meh I have experienced better rating is completely accurate