Comments on: Landmarc Tribeca

By: grace.g.yang

grace.g.yang — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:30:42 +0000

Tribeca33 – while I appreciate your comment, I find it unnecessary to call me a “Dis-grace” based on my review of Landmarc. I have no intention of tarnishing their reputation, instead, I feel that readers have the right to know what happened to me and my dining companions on Saturday at Landmarc and the restaurant manager/owner should know that to bring in new customers and keep regulars, they have to maintain their service and food standards, no matter who they’re serving. What we experienced on Saturday was unacceptable for any restaurant’s standards. I would hope it was an aberration, not a norm, especially since it is considered a “neighborhood joint” for so many people that live in Tribeca.

By: andreasvas

andreasvas — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:59:10 +0000

this place is a hot stinky mess.

i had clients who wanted to eat in a trendy nyc restaurant and as they had seen the chef on food network they thought it would be a fun idea to visit for lunch. landmarc tribeca is about 80 blocks downtown from me but they really wanted to go so we loaded up into a cab and headed downtown.

while our schedule was tight…we did allow for some flexibility that ended up not being enough extra time. this was lunch…not peak dinner hours on a saturday night. the place wasn’t even a quarter full. our food took so long i suspect our waitress just forget place it until a good twenty or so minutes after she took it. also our booth was not in very good order…we had a broken pepper mill, crumbs all over the seats and the silverware was dirty.

my clients…while certainly not hip and culture savvy new yorkers did not need to overhear the waitresses standing roughly eight feet away from our table making fun of their hair. my clients were not young actresses looking to make it in the big city but rather middle aged southern women who work in sales. things just really degenerated from there and i think the worst thing was that over the course of our lunch the distinct odor of pot wafted through the restaurant and lingered for about the last half of our way too many two hours there. obviously somebody decided to get lit up and did it someplace without benefit of ventilation. i don’t really care what people do in their spare time…i love a good blunt as much as the next guy…but in a place of business? i don’t know if it was another customer or if it came in from the outside or if it was someone on staff but by that point my face was just reddened, my clients just wanted to get back uptown and i just wanted to die.

i actually forgot all about this until i happened to come across your blog researching places to eat…it’s that time of the year for me again and the client lunches are coming and this time I am staying far, far away from this place.

By: maureen

maureen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:12:42 +0000

I trullt feel that you have no idea what you were going there for in the first place. You were looking for free food it seems why even post an email that didn’t seem to be addressed to you?
I have eatten at landmarc many times and can honestly say this review is alittle over the top. The apps you had were fried calamri and fritters they are fried food there are plenty of other apps to order. It seems the entrees were all up to par and only YOU had an issue with the mussels…that’s how they prepare them there and there is a dijon sauce for the mussels you could’ve had instead…
I’m sorry you had such a bad experience at landmarc
But this review seems alittle like you were looking for issues from the start
And they only take reservations for parties of 6 or more I though. good for you getting a table on a busy saturday night for only 4!

By: Finance Foodie

Finance Foodie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:02:56 +0000

Hi Grace! Sorry to hear about your bad experience…I never been to Landmarc, but I will keep your review in mind next time I am in NYC!

Great food photography though!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:29:37 +0000

not once, but twice?! maybe they were thinking about the economy…the more bad the service, the more people you’ll have demanding free meals. reading your entry almost makes me want to go just to verify! btw, i think it was fair how despite the poor service, you still gave them 2.5 Grace-Faces due to the semi-good food. so i don’t think grace really woke up that morning with a need to slam this place.

By: John the Mon

John the Mon — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:03:49 +0000

Dang, that was a harsh review! But, if that truly was the experience that you had, then I agree that you must say the truth. I just want to make sure that you didn’t go in there with a bad mind set; sometimes that can skew your tastebuds. And while I was thinking to myself “wow, this is a bad review!”, I think that if people always sugar coat things, then you are doing a disservice to the readers. So, in the end, I want to say thank you for your honesty and I’ll make sure that if I hit up Landmarc to let you know if things went a little better for me!

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:22:08 +0000

Grace, I really enjoyed that review. Keep fighting for the consumer! You are amazing Grace!

By: Tribeca33

Tribeca33 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:13:13 +0000

Grace? More like DIS-grace. I’m sorry, but after reading your recent post about Landmarc Tribeca, I felt compelled to leave a comment. I read your blog often and have enjoyed previous reviews, but this review borderline offends me. I have been a resident of Tribeca for many many years and have been dining at Landmarc since its inception 5 years ago. I can honestly say that in these 5 years, I have consistently had delicious food with impeccable service to match. I find it hard to believe that your experience was so awful. There are a lot of people, including my husband and I, that consider Landmarc to be our “neighborhood joint” and it bothers me to have you tarnish its reputation with just one experience. I ask that you, as well as your readers, give Landmarc another try.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:26:10 +0000

Wow Grace – i love reading your blog and i’ve never heard you reem out a restaurant like this –must have been really bad. Landmarc was on my list of restaurants to try, but i think i’ll skip it now.

thanks.

By: Hailey

Hailey — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:23:34 +0000

Hey Grace,

I totally agree that service plays a huge role in my dining experiences. If a restaurant is dirt cheap but the food is spectacular (like Joes Shanghai for soup dumplings), that’s one thing, but when the food is just good and the service is terrible, it’s not worth it. There are so many restaurants in NYC that this kind of attitude is unacceptable.