Blue 42 Restaurant and Bar Reviews Summary

Category: Bar & grill

Address: 158 Market St, Elmwood Park, NJ 07407, USA

Phone: +12017730970

Rating: 4.6
based on 172 reviews.

Atmosphere & Ambience

Pros:

  • "The atmosphere has a great vibe."
  • "Multiple outdoor hangouts with TVs, speakers, and propane fueled space heaters for cold nights."
  • "It's a fun clean Place everybody's friendly food is amazing it's just a really great time every time I go there."
  • "The music is great and on Fridays you feel like you're at a club!"
  • "Atmosphere was good, music good."
  • "Great atmosphere and vibe."
  • "This place was surprisingly small but very very cozy. The atmosphere was great and the staff was very friendly."

Cons:

  • "The inside is small and gets easily crowded."
  • "Parking is also terrible."
  • "I took one star away because I’m not a fan of cigarette smoke and when I went, the crowd of customers were smoking a lot."
  • "The only complaint I have was the 20 minute wait to get in the one person bathroom."
  • "The place usually has the local sport teams on TV. Sometimes people bump into you at your table or you have to squeeze by someone."
  • "Very limited seating inside."
  • "The place gets packed because it's not that big inside."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Excellent wings! Love the old Bay wings served with cocktail sauce."
  • "Scrumptious wings, and great bang-for-your-buck cocktails! πŸ—πŸΈ!"
  • "Slightly spicy Parmesan wings they were absolutely delicious."
  • "The food is delicious."
  • "The wings are soo delicious, it’s hard to choose just one flavor."
  • "The food was AWESOME, drinks ON POINT!"
  • "The food was sooooo good!! And the prices are on point."

Cons:

  • "Wings were obviously reheated and weren't tasty at all."
  • "Calamari was so dry and chewy, garlic bread was dry, burnt and barely tasted any garlic on it."
  • "So disappointed after reading so many reviews how great the wings are at this place I would have to completely disagree wings were super tiny and skinny old or refried and cold they were super dry and soggy and extremely hard to chew."
  • "Food tasted horrible and dry."
  • "I had the wings with buffalo garlic and they were sub par."
  • "The containers the wings came in trapped steam so in the end we were left with soggy wings."
  • "Found a band aid in my food too!"

Service

Pros:

  • "The staff were friendly, attentive, and very laid backβ€”appropriate to the atmosphere while providing quick and top-notch service."
  • "The staff was on point."
  • "The friendliest most attentive staff."
  • "The servers were also very friendly and patient."
  • "Service was great and the food was delicious."
  • "The staff was very attentive, the second your drink is empty the refill showed up."
  • "The staff and owner are very pleasant and all do a great job with making everyone feel at home!"

Cons:

  • "I wouldn't really say these are 'happy hour' prices though."
  • "DISAPPOINTED WITH WHAT I JUST EXPERIENCED. Not customer friendly."
  • "Horrible customer service! Employees were very rude to me!"
  • "Also forcing to tip 20% is insane. A tip should be up to the customer not the business."
  • "A younger waitress (in her 30’s) included the tip in the receipt when she shouldn’t have."
  • "Talk about terrible customer service! We were forced to stand although there were several tables open."
  • "Very disrespectful definitely not coming back here."

Value

Pros:

  • "And the prices are on point."
  • "Scrumptious wings, and great bang-for-your-buck cocktails! πŸ—πŸΈ!"
  • "The food was sooooo good!! And the prices are on point."
  • "The happy hour is all day Monday and 3-7pm for the other days. It's 10$ for food and drink almost everything on the menu."
  • "Wing are crispy and huge and the sauce list will blow you away."

Cons:

  • "The pricing is kind of high, and I expected a lot more from the food."
  • "I wouldn't really say these are 'happy hour' prices though."
  • "Prices are high but the staff is very friendly."
  • "The bartender charged me $6... Looked over at the bar special sign '$2 domestic beers all night Thursday.'"
  • "deserves less, they are force tipping people, there is a card charge apparently, there are errors in the menu in terms of the pricing."

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