When this restaurant was new to chesterfield my soon to be husband and i went here to check it out. The food was phenomenal. He loved his steak and I loved my fish. The lump crab cake was great. The service was impeccale? We enjoyed ourselves so much that we returned for valentines day (2008). Again - great food and great service. So we decided we should go every valentines day - it would be our special place. That is until the next valentines day (2009). That turned out to be disasterous.my husband said they didn't take reservations but that they had something called call ahead seating. We were told we would not have to wait longer than 2 hours and the average was 30 minutes. We arrived slightly early for our 5:30 reservation and we headed to the bar. Finally at 7:30 my husband and I had had enough and insisted to be seated. I was intoxicated as I had been saving myself all day for the highly anticipated food. I had a couple of drinks at the bar to kill some time and it destroyed my appetite. Not to mention by the time we got our food it was after 8 and it was too late for me to eat. For destroying our valentines day all we received was a verbal apology. I had my entree wrapped in its entirety and we headed home after my husband was finished with his food. The next day I still had a bad taste in my mouth over the whole experience, but I thought what better way to make it go away than to eat my yummy food. So I grabbed my entree from the fridge and dumped it on a plate. That's when I saw it. A long black hair on the bottom of the to go container right where my $30.00 untouched fish had been. YUCK!keep in my mind my hair was short and blonde at the time. i couldn't believe it and so I threw the whole thing out and vowed to never go back to Stoney river. That was in 2009. This past Christmas time (2011), I thought I would return for some reason - mainly to get a gift card for my grandparents. It's not the most convenient drive so I figured we are here we may as well eat. Huge mistake! The crab cake I had so loved before was absolutely smothered in a horseradishy sauce that completely overpowered the taste of the crab (seems to have maybe been spilled or something - there was that much). My fish (the same one that I had ordered all of my previous trips) had a horrific taste and was so overdone that it was actually inedible. The waiter was slow and seemed confused most of the time making what should have taken no more than an hour take 2 hours. This is unacceptable anywhere but for the price it is blasphemous. I would rather eat $30.00 worth of fish sandwiches from McDonalds in one day that dare order from this restaurant again.
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