The Hawke Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Ambience

Pros:

• "The main dining room has a working fireplace (that's lit in the winter)."
• "Fireplace is awesome."
• "Food is excellent, the outdoor dining area has great atmosphere."
• "Atmospherically, this place is the coziest ship-bottom I have found yet, a combination of rowing club, English pub, and backyard at your best friend's house."
• "The atmosphere was incredible and we were seated within 20 minutes of our reservation."
• "The ambiance was upscale and inviting, creating a wonderful dining experience."
• "Beautiful outdoor, private and spacious dining patio and nice pub style inside bar!"

Cons:

• "It does get loud but they do their best and everyone was tremendous."
• "The dining room could use with some sound absorption - it is nearly impossible to hear table mates in the corner where we were seated."
• "The ambiance sucked. Extremely LOUD blonde millennial found it necessary to dominate all conversations in dining room."
• "The dining room was excessively noisy and loud around the fireplace area. Conversation was very difficult."
• "Soooo LOUD!!! Holiday supper with friends. Impossible to talk."
• "We were seated at a tiny table in an otherwise empty dining room, directly across from a large and extremely loud group."
• "Tons of bees circling the table, so much so you could barely eat your meal."

Service

Pros:

• "Quick, friendly, wonderful service."
• "Really friendly team, making the best out of a very tough situation."
• "Had a very engaging server. Bartender was personable while we waiting for our table."
• "Our waiter was great and we really enjoyed sitting in the back courtyard! Beautiful trees and lighting."
• "The service was great. The wait staff was polite and attentive."
• "The staff was very friendly. Our waitress was attentive."
• "Service was superb even though they were packed."

Cons:

• "Problem was spotty table wipe down depending on the servers. Tall guy with pony tail didn't wipe down any of his while we were watching!"
• "Did not appreciate being rushed through dinner after we’d ordered a bottle of wine for our table."
• "Staff was very immature and preoccupied so I was not even offered seating."
• "Service was bizarre -we had an 8:15 reservation but was told we would not be able to be sat till around 8:45."
• "Server didn't even introduce herself, just asked us for drink order."
• "The service was not as great as I'd like, we had to constantly ask them to remove things off our table or get us something."
• "The service was an issue. Friday night party of 8 at 7 PM and we did not get out until 10:20!"

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Braised beef delicious."
• "All the food and drinks were great, can see the Metro touch in here, perhaps even better."
• "Love this place! Great staff & delicious burgers and sandwiches."
• "The food is mostly German based, but also included a butternut squash hummus which was outstanding."
• "The Germanic'ish food is delicious and I loved the bread pudding."
• "Veal speatzle thing: 11/10 highly recommended this mouth watering and delectable meal."
• "Both fish absolutely melted in your mouth, and were cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "The only real negative though was my credit card was charged twice, once with the tip added and once without."
• "Could be five stars if the owner stayed home. She’s rude."
• "Brings out the bill-no discount given, not even a $1 off the taco that I couldn’t eat, so we paid $20 for an order of tacos with hair in it."
• "I’m a steak lover and my first time in three of us ordered the 18oz Ribeye .. granted it was cooked perfect and tasted amazing, i can’t for the life of me figure out where the other 8oz’s were??"
• "Food could have used more seasoning, was a bit bland and I have a very mild palette."
• "I knocked a full star off for false adverting on the size of the steak…."
• "The food looks good on paper but nothing tasted like it was seasoned."