Problem: This is honestly not a bad deal at all for an $12.99 AYCE. For that price, you get crab legs, crawfish, shrimp, clams, mussels, and probably 40 other dishes that are all decent to quite good. Plus, you can use the coupon for $5 off the bill! Only exception was the sushi section where I thought the nigiri were not quite up-to-par. Service was typically stiff but very timely. Here's what I liked: - Crab legs were great, and unlike most places not salty at all. Only if I saw that giant pot of melted butter earlier... - Seasoned crabs also, which I did not have but mum said was good - Raw oysters!!!! - Crawfish was yummy, they put some type of seasoning on it that was great. As with any steamed crawfish, it's a pain-in-the-ass to eat though. - Mussels in the mayo-based sauce was great, mussels were plump - Clam in some type of garlic(?) sauce was also great - 4 types of soups - miso, wonton, hot & sour, and egg drop were good - Several flavors of ice cream - Fried bananas were awesome! - Mandarin orange - the canned kind, but I love those - The apple strudel-looking thing looked really good, but did not have room in my tummy Didn't like so much: - As mentioned above, stay away from the sushi - Desserts were not great. I had the cream puffs and they were awful. - Fried rice tasted like the ones at fast food places, not Chinese restaurants - Overall Chinese dishes didn't look impressive With at least twice as many good as the bad, and with the goods being so much bigger in stature, this place gets big ups. 4-star food, not quite, but 4-star deal, it is. Table-for-1 Factor: It's a buffet, not a good idea.
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A: positive

Problem: I can only give 2 stars when you have an expectation and the restaurant has poor service and stratospheric, mesospheric prices. The Capital Grille makes this place look like a healthier, far costlier Long John Silvers. The plus (singular) was the lobster cocktail, notwithstanding the shell chips and pervasive claw meat. The negatives were after the trade show at 5pm in an empty bar my $7 Heineken took 10 minutes and the cocktail waitress had zero (0) clue what was going on and said "sorry I'm busy", and the place was empty. For dinner our group of 18 had a head waiter who was cocky and arrogant. I think he showed only a modicum of respect to who he thought was paying the bill. The entree portions were really small. From what I recall the scallop entree my co-worker had was three scallops and he ate them and sarcastically grinned at me. My $36 fish had to be just 5 ounces, seriously, and due to the size of the group it was not warm on the surface just inside. I really, REALLY like the Canonita in Venetian and 5-starred after multiple visits, but Aqua-Knox has portion sizes weirder than it's name and our arrogant waiter must be a millionaire doing his job for fun.
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A: negative

Problem: My friday night at Avenue Bar was one to remember. Not because it had the best food or the best service but because my visit proves you can't always judge a restaurant by ranking or reviews. I will not be returning anytime soon. My goal in writing this review is not to bash on the Avenue Bar. you won't need to after you read my play by play of the night. 7:00-3 friends and myself arrive at the restaurant. We give our name and head to the bar being told it was an hour wait to be seated. Thank god basketball was on tv or we might have fallen asleep waiting. 8:20-we are seated in the back room right next to the kitchen. We had the luxury of sitting in foldup metal chairs on at a pull out card table with a cheap plastic table cloth-not the cool wooden tables or a booth like in the bar room. I honestly felt discriminated against because we were 24 year olds. I saw no young people seated in the bar room and saw so many booths with two people at them I thought it was universal date night. Instead we were with "our type" in the back room receiving second hand service. My waitress spilled water on me while attempting to fill my glass and just giggled and put napkins over it. Haha are you serious? Again, thank god there were big screen TVs to watch or I might have cried out loud. 8:45- fish fry arrives; soggy, greasy, and not very warm. Best part of my meal was the spotted cow and cheese curds for an app. 9:15-I feel sick and want to go to sleep. My night is over. Advice for anyone under the age of 30- don't eat here. Go somewhere fun where you are treated equally. Food and drinks-30 bucks. Gas money to get there-6 bucks. Never eating there again-priceless. Thanks for reading
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Problem: Horrific service. Paid $9 for a bagel sandwich and was offered no choice of bagel. The cashier decided I was having sesame. When my order came up, along with my husbands (he was only allowed a plain bagel) and some other dude's, I tried to ask which one was mine. She just screamed "ARE YOU TOGETHER OR NOT??". I had to open some strangers coffee to try and figure out if it was my latte or not. $19 for a latte and a bagel sandwich, neither of which was very good. I'm telling you, never again.
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