awful experience, do not go. we heard many great things about johnnies hideaway and being seafood and steak lover's we decided to give it a try. i cant say one good thing about our experience. first, we used valet to park our car. before we had all exited the car, the valet began driving off with my 3 year old nephew hanging half way out the car door. second, we reserved a table outside and when we presented our name to the hostess, we were handed a colored piece of paper and told to bring it outside to a different hostess. not sure what the deal was with the colored paper and why she couldn't just walk us out the door herself. next, we ordered a bottle of wine and had to ask 3 different people for it since our waitor vanished and it took over 45 minutes to get the bottle of wine. after we finally got our wine, we were short a few wine glasses, we asked our waiter , however he vanished again, so we then had to flag the hostess down to bring us wine glasses. we ordered our meal and thought maybe our waitor was new and decided to relax and enjoy the rest of the night. however when our salads came out, they forgot to bring us one, and suprise our waitor was missing, so we had to flag down a bus girl to find the other salad. then we ordered a second bottle of wine, surprise we had to ask for that 3 times before it was delivered to our table. when our main course was served, they forgot to bring out everyone's meal!! the waitor didnt even notice that we were short one entree, so we had to flag him down, and after about 15 minutes he brought out the missing entree that we were told had to be prepared in a different kitchen. at this point the whole table's food was cold and the 2 orders of seafood at the table still couldn't be eaten because their utensils had been taken away prior to receiving their meal. one of the girls ordered an oscar fillet (how can you go wrong wtih that?!!) well lets just say it was 50% fat!!!!!!!!!!! i have never seen a fillet with fat, let alone that much fat. we did not complain during the meal, however, once we were finished our meals she told the waiter, who then showed the manager outside. the manager apologized and went on to say that sometimes that happens when you order a ribeye, she said but i ordered fillet, he said "oh, well, i did see the fat chain. that sometimes just happens with steak" (what is a fat chain???). the alaskan king crab legs were over cooked and so dried out. three people ordered the porterhouse, and you guessed it more fat.... we decided to get desert because we had people visiting from out of town and wanted to enjoy the night together. desert was delicious, however, we were not given any silverware to eat it. at this point, we used whatever was left on the table because our experience seemed too bad to be true! every single person working outside knew that there were many mistakes and someone was dropping the ball. then comes the bill..... usually a restaurant would throw in desert, or wine, or do something when they know they have continued to disappoint their customers, but no one seemed to care that they had made numerous mistakes. so we decided to say something to the manager outside, and he said "sorry you caught us on a bad night." i said "this is ridiculous and poor customer service." he said "let me give you my business card and you can email me later...." he walked back over to the outside bar and sat down and continued conversation with 2 young ladies and a young man (how unprofessional!!!). so, if you would like to eat a good piece of steak and seafood i would highly not recommend going to johnnie"s hideaway. like the name of the restaurant says johnnie's should stay hidden!!!!!!!! i have to say, we are all very fair and easy going people when it comes to dining - in fact, this is probably the third time in my life that i have had a bad experience anywhere - and this is the only one that i am writing about because it was horrific and handled terribly.
again, keep johnnies hideaway hidden and off your radar screen!!