Comments on: Porter & Frye Reviews

By: Mauritius

Mauritius — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:17:27 +0000

Try having breakfast or lunch on Saturday and Sunday if you want to be real disappointed. It appears that Mr. Brown and his FOH management staff take weekends off.

By: ananymous

ananymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:06:15 +0000

Went there last saturday and it took over an hour and a half to get our dinners and the lobster was undercooked. Don’t waste you time and money there.

By: srsmda

srsmda — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:18 +0000

Went there last Saturday and the food and service was not worth it. Waited over an hour and a half for our dinners. Should have went somewhere else. It is still a disaster.

By: jderusha

jderusha — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:41:34 +0000

I also had a wonderful experience at P & F, which I wrote about in the comments here.

By: katy

katy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:37:48 +0000

Too bad for those that had a bad experience at P&F, because my friends and I were treated like royalty this past Friday night (3/28). We had the best service I have ever had in MN (felt like NYC polish) and exceptional food. We had a wonderful experience all around. Porter and Frye is my new favorite restaurant. Try the Swordfish. It was exceptional. The cocktails are fabulous, too. The Frenchie is Yummy! I think that they are doing limited seating right now because I got the runaround on an 8pm reservation (had to book at 8:30) and there were plenty of open tables when we arrived at 8 for a cocktail in the bar. So just because the restaurant isn’t packed, they might be limiting the seating until they have enough polished staff and know things will run smoothly at full capacity. I say give it another go!

By: melbellr

melbellr — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:55:16 +0000

I’ll fourth it. What a complete disaster.

I’m no fan of Kathie, but I think she’s onto something here. I really expected more from Chef Brown. He’s got the chops, but you wouldn’t have known it Wednesday night.

By: donkey kong

donkey kong — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:05:15 +0000

I third it.

I have given this place three chances, they have failed miserably in service, food quality, and the 45 minutes it takes to get a beer.

By: badger

badger — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:42:39 +0000

I second the comment about the disaster of an event at P&F hosted by Sample Circuit. Clearly in my mind it was P&F that screwed up – - – where was the food? There were more than enough servers, but either there were no cooks in the kitchen, or no food for them to cook. Then to see Steven Brown walking around the event – - – HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE KITCHEN! So unfortunately I’m on Jenkin’s side this time. I love reading Zimmern’s stuff, but he obviously gets better treatment in town than the rest of us – I guess that’s no surprise.

By: ate76

ate76 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:34:56 +0000

Did anyone make it to the Sample Circuit event at P&F last night? What a disaster.

By: Donkey kong

Donkey kong — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:44:35 +0000

Cathy Jenkins was right.

I traveled all the way from new york
to eat a bland, yet pretty greek salad, over cooked dry char, some kind of white sphere dessert, which tasted of baking soda.

With all these big names working in one house, you would think they know how to cook.

They make pretty plates, but taste does matter folks!

To spend 400 dollars on a dinner for two, and still be hungry.

Seems to me this is nothing but glorified TGIfriday fare at ridiculous prices.