10th and Willow Bar & Grill

It could have been my expectations or just the dish I ordered so take this review with a grain of salt. I just wasn't impressed. Service wasn't that great especially because we were sitting in booths that were hard for the waiters to see into. Food was good, but not great. I guess I was just expecting more.

Neat place, friendly staff (maybe except for the guy outside). Food is a bit overpriced. $25-35 unless you get a burger.

Nice, classy Hoboken spot. Always have good specials, the food is good, the staff is excellent. I would recommend.

Do not give this establishment your money. I have been here on two occasions.

First visit I was underwhelmed by the food, atmosphere and service. It was only okay. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt.

Second visit: They were plain rude, and not flexible to my requests as a customer (i.e. I wanted dinner but to sit with friends doing the wings special and they said no). They only took cash/check so when I went to the atm it declined my card but charged me money. Not their fault I know, but the staff were rude and unhelpful with me trying to solve the issue. During all this mess the hostess asked another in my party, not even me directly, if I "was wearing sweats". I was wearing black spandex legging and they said we couldn't stay.

I should have listened to my gut feeling but now I know for sure this place is not worthy of anyone's patronage.

Do not give this restaurant your money. At least not until they decide to change some of their staff/policies, which apparently after a year or so, they have not done.

My last visit here was an awful experience. I went here with my friend and the bouncer asked us for ID, which is fine and normal for a Hoboken bar. Upon showing him our ID's, the bouncer asked us for a second form. My friend and I at the time were 23 and 24, so while we looked young, I don't believe we looked that young. I told him that I had credit cards that matched my name and a student ID from Stevens, to which he responded that Stevens students make fake ID's all the time and that he was going to refuse us admission. I jokingly asked him if I needed to show him my passport, to which he seriously said yes, that would help. WHAT AMERICANS CARRY THEIR PASSPORTS ON THEM! I told him to scan my ID if he didn't believe it was real, but apparently they don't have a scanner, so all he had to go off of was his gut instinct, to which I say is absolutely ridiculous. Eventually the manager came out after I argued with him for a while and he let us in.

I am not surprised to see other posters saying the same thing happened to them. I have friends who told me about the exact same experience that they had when visiting this restaurant. It's a shame because their food is pretty good and the all you can eat wings deal is great.

That being said, I won't be seen visiting this restaurant again any time soon unless things change, which does not seem to be happening.