Had a not so stellar experience today at Enson Harbor. Let me set this up by saying I order old fashioned cocktails a lot when out for dinner. I also make them at home. It’s a very simple drink to make. 2 oz of bourbon,...1/2 ounce simple syrup, couple dashes of bitters. Mix with ice and strain in an old fashioned glass over fresh ice. Express a slice of orange peel over the cocktail, rubbing the peel around the edge of glass and then place the peel into the drink. Simple right? Not at Enson Harbor. What you get is a concoction of muddled fruit and booze in a cocktail glass. Not an old fashioned. They tried to remake the drink, which once again was an epic fail. I sent it back again. I wound up ordering a beer with my food. When presented with our check, the drink was still on the bill. I asked our server (Cammy was very delightful) to please take it off. She said she tried but was forbidden to remove it. I asked to speak to the Manager. A young woman came out, identifying herself as the GM. She proceeded to tell me her hands were tied due to investor rules. What?? Then the bartender comes out telling me she has made old fashioneds up and down “the levee” (whatever credibility that brings) and stating she knows how to make them. We bantered back and forth, and the bartender looked at the GM and told her, and I quote, “we don’t need their business anymore!” Ok, that is not a problem. We won’t be going back! Although I think the food is good, if you are touting a full bar, you better have someone that can make cocktails. An old fashioned is the most basic of cocktails and there are only two places in my life where I havr ordered one that had a disgusting pile of fruit in the bottom… The old Enson Harbor and the new Enson Harbor. By the way, the drink was finally taken off of our bill. 😉More

We had no idea that this was a type of Chinese restaurant. The name suggests another seafood restaurant. The menu is very limited. We each got a mini bowl and very glad that one of our party asked about rice because you had to order...that separate and pay more. There were no larger bowl options. There is only white rice and purple rice to choose from (actually black rice that when cooked looks more like purple). The meal comes out on a small snack size plate for $9.95. My sweet and sour chicken had 5 pieces of chicken with peppers, onions and pineapple chunks. Our friends' food came out and we waited for our food. That was very strange. We did order crab rangoon (which was very good) but it was too hot to eat when it came out with our friends' food. The drink selection is very expensive and doesn't include any non-sugar drinks except water. A flavored ice tea or lemonade was $5.95. We all had to opt for water. One friend ordered lo mein and hers came out first and was cold. She didn't eat it. We had to ask for spoons to move rice to the small plate. We had to ask for soy sauce. Two of our glasses of water were empty for most of the meal. Our waitress told us they have been open for 3 weeks. That is probably long enough to learn how to refill water glasses. We understand that this is a specialty restaurant...it's just too little for us.More

REOPENED July 21, 2023 as a Chinese Dim Sum restaurant. Opening night at this new CHINESE DIM SUM restaurant was Friday, July 21, 2023. Everything prior is old news. The menu was Chinese dim sum and pretty limited to that, which we didn't expect, since...we had seen a seafood restaurant menu online instead. So beware that this is a review for first public night open at a Chinese dim sum restaurant in an old Joes Crab Shack. My pan-fried, steamed pork buns were very good, especially when served with the appropriate sauce. There were pork belly Gua Bao (a taco of a steamed lotus roll, probably julienned daikon, and a green herb topping), which were very good, but needed to be trimmed of excessive fat before serving (not sure the chef agreed, but nobody wants to eat pure fat today). The deep-fried jumbo shrimp with broccoli came with a sweet white (perhaps coconut milk) sauce (house fruit sauce) over the shrimp... even when ordering it without. Food came out at sporadic intervals, which left my dining partner waiting until last to get food, an uncomfortable position, and the shrimp she ordered without sauce came out incorrectly covered with sauce and was sent back for correction, which extended the delay. She said she wouldn't return. There was no iced tea, and no Splenda (yellow artificial sweetener), which are my preferred beverage combination as a diabetic, and the standard fountain Coke tasted funny. Many of the other drink options were outside my comfort level. Gotta get that fixed. Service was attentive, and for a first night open, the waitress was fairly well aware of the menu. Was her name Destiny? The chef and the operations manager both dropped by for comments, which we offered. Three for now... four and a half if they get it together.More