Friday, February 20, 2009

Savannah: Part Eight: Disappointed in Pink


This is the final entry about Savannah, and it's about a dinner that we were really looking forward to, in the very expensive and historic "Olde Pink House."
Some background on why the Pink House is special: Savannah's Olde Pink House was so named for the beautiful shade of "pink" stucco, which covers its old brick. This Georgian mansion was built in 1789 for James Habersham Jr., one of Savannah's most important early cotton factors and founding-family members.
OUR EXPERIENCE: I've read on-line many good experiences at the Pink House. Unfortunately, ours wasn't one of them. We called the restaurant at 9am and learned the only reservations available were 5pm and 9:30pm- so we took the 5pm slot. It was exciting to me to eat in a haunted restaurant.
We arrived in plenty of time for our 5PM sitting. We informed the hostess of our presence, and after a few moments, we were taken upstairs, through several other dinner parlors into the upstairs dining room in the new addition to restaurant completed just last year.
Along the way, there were a lot of wait staff hanging out in the hallways and on the stairs for some reason. Our waiter came over, greeted us, and took our drink orders. Upon his return he asked if we were ready to order. We were never informed of the specials (so we thought there were none), but we heard him tell the adjacent table about them after we had already ordered. Maybe he forgot, although there were not many in the restaurant at the time.
Gary ordered a fish entree that he said was so poorly prepared and the accompanying sauce was so bland that he didn't eat more than 1/8th of it.
I ordered the 4 small burgers well-done, but they were served rare with a dark outside. I sent them back to the kitchen and they came back STILL RARE. I didn't eat more than 1 1/2, and later was sick that night and the next day.
The waiter didn't come back more than once - but only to get the dessert order which only Jeff had. Jeff and Tom said their dinners were good.
When the bill came for the four of us, (3 had a glass of wine each and only one had a dessert) it was $190. Pricey I would say - and not worth it for the money (or for Gary's fish entree, and my beef burgers that made me ill for the next 24 hours).
We were very, very disappointed and thought it was NOT worth the price we paid (and the anticipation of going there.
For potential travelers to Savannah, we would not recommend the Olde Pink House.

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