Commander's Place

05/10/07

Avoid This One

by bupkus at Citysearch

There are some great restaurants in Las Vegas and this USED to be one. It has fallen on hard times. The service is atrocious. The wait staff is lacking adult leadership.

• Pros: Drink the martinis and you might not notice how bad tthe service is
• Cons: Service (if you care to call it that) with a snear

01/10/07

Horrible Service Captain Steve and Joe! Van de Kamp Fish??

by djsaki at Citysearch

It was my friend's birthday and we decided to go here. She had been in New Orleans and loved it. Well, our experience was far from what you'd get at even a decent restaurant. The staff seemed completely confused all night. When we ordered drinks, three went to the wrong person. One person noticed and then had them take them back and fix them. To be honest, I think they just swapped the drinks. Joe, who took the order, wasn't the guy bringing the drinks. Either he didn't know how to take the order or the person bringing the drinks didn't know how to read it.

After finally receiving the food...which took a very long time for them to get around to taking the order, the food was just average, minus the fish...which was similar to Van De Kamp's. The presentation on the plate was nice and the greens were good, but the fish was horrible.

Two of us had gotten desert included with the meal (the bread pudding souffle), which was delicious, so the other two of us got desert as well. The coffee we ordered didn't come with the desert and when we asked about it, we received water...then a few minutes later we received the coffee. We were almost done with the desert by the time the coffee came.

They then brought out some pralines for our birthday person and a hat. We just looked at each other and laughed at the pralines. You'd get cake from even Chilli's or Friday's.

When Steve came around asking us if we wanted anything more, drinks or anything else. One of us replied sarcastically "sure" and then we all laughed. A few minutes later, the same drinks arrived that we originally ordered at the beginning of the night. We were annoyed and argued with Steve about them.

We then told who we thought was the manager, but in fact the maitre d', about the experience. He said he'd take a couple deserts off the bill and gave us a bag of pralines. 20 minutes of waiting later, we had to ask for a manager after receiving the bill and had to argue with him.

• Pros: Bread Pudding Souffle
• Cons: Service and Fish

12/24/06

Cajun and Creole, 25 cent martinis

by lvxena at Citysearch

We were really looking forward to experiencing their Cajun and Creole food after reading the reviews but, we were very disappointed. Our visit started with a maitre d? who may have been having a bad day; no we did not have a reservation but, it was 1 p.m. on a Monday and the restaurant was not busy. He was unattentive, rude and arrogant. Good thing they served martinis for 25 cents. The food was fresh but bland. The service, other than the maitre d' was excellent but excessive...one server per customer per table in addition to the main server and the bus boy..........that must be why they charge the prices that they do.

I would not return to this restaurant, not even for the 25 cent martinis.

• Pros: 25 cent martinis, food is fresh
• Cons: unpleasant maitre d', bland food