chart house

fine dining favorite. this place is a favorite for fine dining, great food, excellent service. thesaladbar is quite impressive as well. this visit, my guest had a shrimp pasta dish declared outstanding! my steak was very good also. i would like to mention that our server was very attentive. we will be back again soon!

chart house chain saw massacre. was a big fan of the chart house in southern ca on the pacific coast highway back in the 80's and 90's. now owned by landry's, this venue in daytona was a poor imitation of the chart a house i remember.
the signaturesaladbar was still great but that wasn't enough to make up for the poor service and the poor quality food.
everything is a la carte-saladbar $8.50 ;baked potato over $3 dollars and tasted like it was warmed over in the microwave- kind of like how your leftovers taste when you nuke them the next day. now onto the petit filet - $33 and stringy. this ain't no prime beef for that price- that's for sure.
went on a tuesday; many empty tables but not enough waiters so we had to wait past our reservation time.bill for two was over $150 (two drinks, one dessert , and tip).

disappointed. i went to chart house last evening for the first time in a year or so. i was most disappointed. i had thesaladbar as a entree. most everything on thesaladbar was dried up and needed to be replaced. the red onions were literally dried rings. the carrots had white edges from being out too long. the tomatosaladmix was rotten. the selection was very minimal for the price being charged. the only plus was the caviar which was delicious, however i had to request that it be replenished. i found the prices to be pricey for the quality of the food.

go to a chart house elsewhere!. chart house is a chain owned by landry's. other locations around the us are excellent and worth trying. this one is mediocre. if lousy food doesn't excite you, on two visits, the bathrooms have backed up and left a foul odor throughout the entire restaurant.

ambiance: 8/10 - without the stink, the location is quite nice

service: 5/10 - inexperienced

food: 4/10 - entrees on the menu sound better than they taste.saladbar was a mess.


-----05 dec, 2009-----

gorgeous building and location, food is inconsistent. dined here a number of times. love the location and view. sadly the food and cleanliness is up and down. one day everything will be excellent. a month later, thesaladbar will be a mess, bathrooms squalid, and the food improperly prepared. pass on the chart house and try stonewood grill.

great food like all the other chart house's - i love thesaladbar and their blue cheese dressing is the best i have had anywhere on the world. the view from the dining room of monterey bay was fantastic! highly recommended!

worth the trip for a nice evening out. we had a party of 4 and all of us were pleased with the experience. we all got different menu items and we got two appetizers, the shrimp cocktail and the calamari and friends. the shrimp cocktail was great, as was the calamari. a couple of us got thesaladbar with our meal and thesaladbar was really good. i ordered from the fresh fish menu and my dinner was great. the service was second to none...some of the best service i've ever experienced and as someone who travels a lot for work and eats in a lot of restaurants, that's saying quite a lot about their service.

be prepared to pay for the dining experience. it's a fine dining restaurant. that being said, i was disappointed in the choice of attire of some of the customers (cargo shorts and t-shirts). dress for the occasion...

always.a great dining pleasure. we' ve been here on several occasions but not in the last couple of years. so my wife and i decided on the chart house for our recent anniversary dinner. they did not disappoint us. my wife had thesaladbar ( always a great choice ) and the romano chicken and she loved it. i had thesaladbar and a remarkable spicey ahi tuna and cooked just the way i like it. both entrees were wonderfully presented too. our server gio was terrific and very attentive. next time i won't wait so long to get back to the chart house...

food not worth a repeat performance. the chart house in marina del rey is in a beautiful setting overlooking the marina. it is appealing inside with a friendly staff. that's where it ended for us and 6 guests celebrating our granddaughter's birthday. on the positive, they mentioned her birthday at the top of the menu. overall, this rating is given for taking so long to deliver the food and the quality of the food was not very good. one liners: they placed 2 small baskets of rolls/crackers on the table that were not fresh and did not refill them when empty (we were hungry so ate them since it took them so long to deliver the hors'd's). the hors'd's (artichokes were soggy and we know artichokes, the hummus on the tray did not taste fresh along with stale pita bread). now we get to the main meal - salads: i had the choppedsaladwhich was limp with hardly anysaladdressing and others had the ceasarsaladthey said the dressing wasn't that good; my husband had the sampler meal and he said it was terrible - i had the prime rib that was like eating rubber along with the baked potato (how can you mess up a baked potato - well they know how). the mushrooms were very good as was the water. i had read former blogs where they were slow to serve but thought it may have been a bad day for the staff. this meal took 3, yes, three hours to serve and finish the meal and we had a limo with it's meter ticking. i had requested window seating as the guests are not from the beach area. they were not busy when we arrived at 6:00 pm and the host said he got the next best location - behind the first row of tables. this disappointing evening cost almost $900 - we will take our money elsewhere in the future!

i had prime rib and my wife had a filet. both very good. chocolate lava cake for dessert was outstanding, so save some room. chopped spinachsaladwas nice too. and, make sure to ask for a window seat. great view of monterey bay.

love thesaladbar. my husband and i really like this place. it is on the water and i always have a quality meal here. i absolutely love thesaladbar and the lava cake!!!

very unhappy. we went to celebrate our anniversary, great table, lovely warm hostess and it went down hill from there. i do not know whay it takes 10 minutes to deliver a drink in a half full restaurant, sent back first drink, then second (how can you screw up jack on the rocks) and switched to beer. left second beer on table as it was delivered after i had finished my meal. food was ok but nothing i would go back for and no i did not go tosaladbar. waitress offered to bring manager,i said no, i was so upset i just paid the bill and left

don't bother. save your money. overpriced, lacking in quality and taste, and just plain bad. the only bright side used to be a greatsaladbar and i don't know if that is still in the same condition or not.

i've stopped going. the chart house in daytona has always been known as the "celebration/date/romance" restaurant. i've been visiting at least once a year for over 10 years, but gradually have become more disappointed each time. i probably won't ever go back.

they do have the bestsaladbar i've ever seen (includes caviar, hearts of palm), and the food is acceptable, although not worth the price. what bothers me is the attitude of the management. evidently, unless you are one of the well known "beautiful people" in town, have your boat at the marina, or obviously have a lot of money (and probably greasing the palm of someone), you can't get a prime table.

i personally went to the restaurant to make arrangements for my mother's 70th birthday. i wanted to make it a very special celebration. i had arranged for a limo to take us there, champagne, etc. i wanted flowers on the table... the works. i will say, they did print a souvenir menu for us, but were not helpful otherwise. i had asked for, and expected to get a window seat, but we were seated on the upper level next to the wait staff's station. there were empty window tables during our visit.

my husband and i have visited each year for the past 5 years to either celebrate my birthday or our anniversary. i will say, the main reason we've chosen ch is because i've had a gift certificate from my employer (and yes, we've tipped based on the total bill, not after the certificate). each time, we've asked for a window table... and each year have not been able to get one. what's going on??? there have always been empty window tables.

the wait staff is usually attentive, but as i say, we've been increasingly disappointed, and are now choosing to spend our hard earned money at a restaurant who shows us they want our business.