Vargo's Restaurant

My husband I visited Vargo's tonight and we will NEVER return. I suppose we should have guessed that the food was not going to be any good after we entered the large restauraunt at 7:00 p.m. and there were only two other tables of diners. The restauraunt seemed very dated and unclean, and our table was set with dirty/filmy glasses which was an immediate red flag for me. My husband ordered a dirty martini and it was, in fact , so filthy that it was undrinkable. My lobster bisque appeared to have been nuked way too long, as the bowl was scorching hot and the "soup" was covered in a thick film. It was not even a soup consistency, and was more like enchilada sauce. My husband's shrimp cocktail was served with broken, mushy shrimp that had obviously been frozen for some time. After the first course we decided that we didn't want to risk getting sick and left. The waiter surprised us by completely agreeing that the food was gross and refused to accept any money for the one drink I had consumed. I believe that the location and beautiful grounds of this restaurant are its only redeeming qualities. I'd like to see an investor step in revive this once charming place....

Vargos is the most ridiculous restaurant ever. Instead of paying for the meal, in actuality you're paying for the location, which is not worth it. My prom group of 16 started out the day fine arriving and Vargos and taking pictures in the lovely gardens, but once we arrived inside the actual restaurant the night went downhill from there. Our waiter forces us to order from the prom menu, even though for some people in our group $50/person was not in their budget. So we split our decisions where half of the group orders from the regular menu while the other orders from the Prom Menu. Our waiter appears to be nice, until we finally make our orders... A person in the group.. let's say MARCUS orders and like a normal person asks questions and changes his mind and decides to order from the Prom Special. A normal waiter would kindly change the order since he was standing right there, but instead stomps his feet and starts yelling at him saying how rude it is to change an order. We didn't realize that adding a salad and dessert to an order was totally out of his way. So the food arrives at totally different times, and my date and I received our salads after our main course arrived, which was pretty ridiculous. MARCUS ordered the salad that never came. All of us who got our food early had to wait for everyone else's food to arrive, which led to our own food getting cold. The food was not that good with steaks not being cooked properly, etc. At the end of the night we get our check, which the waiter did not separate, even though we asked him earlier to. Again, this same waiter attempted to be sarcastic and condescending and began to yell at us mainly MARCUS, which led to us talking to the main manager. It took us almost an hour to figure out the bill since there were charges for food that never arrived, which made us an hour late to our prom... all due to the waiter's incompetence. I suggest for everyone TO NEVER GO TO VARGOS. BAD SERVICE, BAD FOOD, BAD WAITERS.

We were very disappointed with the service, food selection, food preparation and overall experience that our group of 32 had on prom night. The prom menu online was a complete meal with several choices for entrees for $45.00 which included tax and gratuity. We prepaid the dinner the day before and our reservation was for 8 pm. Our group of 32 arrived by limo at 7:40 and we were not seated until 8:30. The menu posted online stated that a 14 oz rib eye was available and when we received menus a 10 oz rib eye was the only steak available. We had one server for 32 people and the table was set for only 30 people and two people were placed in lounge chairs at the end of the table. The dinner was not served until 9:45 and several people received the wrong food. Instead of receiving stuffed chicken they received linguine chicken and were told that it was the stuffed chicken. Most of the steaks were undercooked and it appeared to be done deliberately to get the meal out of the kitchen. Drinks were never refilled and the server was rude. The result of all this cause our group to be late for the prom. The conclusions that we reached were: Vargo's was unprepared for this dinner and if they couldn't meet an 8 pm reservation then they shouldn't have agree to this time. There should have been more than one server for this large group. This is fraud for publishing one size of steak online and providing smaller steaks for the event. If one type of food run out they need to be honest with the customers and tell them. With prom season approaching I can assure you that we will not recommend Vargo's to any other prom group.

We had a party of 8. I wouldn't think that is too unusually large to handle, but it took over an hour for our food to arrive after we had ordered. When it came, it was cold. I guess it had spent much of the hour waiting to be picked up by our waiter. Every member of our party sent the food back to be warmed. We asked to see the manager to make sure he knew about the service we received, but we were told he was busy. I've never heard of that before. The atmosphere is nice, and the food was decent after it was warmed, but I would recommend avoiding this place.

Took 2 trips to the hostess station and 1/2 hour to get someone to our table to take our order and get water. The restaurant was not crazy-busy and other tables around us were being served diligently. Our drinks and appetizer arrived promptly and the appetizer was delicious. Then the service came to an abrupt halt and a 3rd visit to the hostess station was needed to get our salads served. The manager served the salads himself, was very cordial but did not offer any apologies. We had to flag down a bus boy to order more drinks (which he served). It got to the point that it was comical, did we smell bad? Was it because we had something in our teeth? So after 20 minutes after our salad was served we decided to walk out before our entree was served (which I really doubt).