The Elbow Room - West Hartford

Very good burgers. Sort of weird vibe with attached LOUD bar space. Bathroom is in strange location and not clean. SOOOO many beers on tap though, so it's easy to overlook the small stuff.

Overpriced and bad. The location is great.We had the beet strawberry salad, overdressed, the ingredients were poor quality.The drinks were bad and overpriced. Aperol spritz, espresso martini, strawberry daiquiri. All bad.

Great atmosphere but god awful service. Rooftop was packed and they had one waitress, but she spent all her time talking to her friends. Food is mid.

Went and saw a comedy show here. Giancarlo Biondino was headlining and he was one of the most gifted people I've ever seen. I would give this place 5 stars but I can't because he is not always there. On the nights he is, it is 5 stars and on the nights he isn't I rate it 4 stars because I can't even give a fair rating because when I'm there and he isn't all I do is dream about him and I don't even pay attention to anything else. I think i remember enjoying the grilled cheese and my friends tell me the service was professional and friendly, I was just having a hard time because the greatest living comedian wasn't there to tell me his award winning jokes.

Overview: I was very excited to try this restaurant on our anniversary, and boy did we make a mistake. This place should not deserve my time for the review, they should pay me for this review for how horrible it was. I have never said this before about a restaurant, but this was the worst food I 've had in years.Food:The food here is limited in terms of menu size and that 's perfectly fine. What 's Not fine is when the items on the menu taste like you 're licking skin. You have a small menu, every single item should be unique and full of flavor. This is the opposite here. We ordered the cheese curds as an app, that was a mistake. The waitress told us they have been out for days, and would check. She informed us they have some and we proceed ordering. 10 minutes later we get 10 mozz sticks. Yes, mozzarella sticks. Not cheese curds and even the waitress was like 'these look like mozz sticks but they look good! '. Were they good? Eh. If you like freezer food oh ya. We were starving, so they were good. They were clearly freezer bag food mozz sticks. We ordered fajita bowls, one veggie, one chicken. I can 't explain this any other way than this: make overly cooked minute rice, frozen sliced peppers, corn, black beans, onion then add day old avocado slices (slightly browned slices) with avocado crema sauce (barely any) and that 's what you get. 0 seasoning, 0 flavor. The most bland food you could get from boxed/bagged goods. At least you get a large portion.Service: Was checked up on once, waitress was patient with us as we figured out what we wanted. One glass of water for the entire time we were there and was only offered more water AFTER we paid the bill. No stops checking in if we needed more or offering it with half a glass left. Waitress came over asking us how the food was while she was still eating food and was chewing in front of us.Atmosphere: If you want to hear your stereotypical 20s white women wearing a north face, ripped up jeans bicker about diets and Chad men that gave them a good night, this is your spot. It seemed to be very dead in the middle of a busy day for ever other restaurant. For such a dead restaurant why was it so hard to get beyond excellent service? I don 't think I 've had such an unsettling experience at a restaurant before with such subpar food; food that poor me in college could make way better, and that 's saying a lot.