Beckett's Bar & Grill

Pretty awesome place. Very good atmosphere. The seafood platter (deluxe version) was great. Only negative about this place was the service it took twenty mind for someone to come and take drinks and another thirty to get the drinks. But overall a great place.

Large area with two levels. Can accommodate large groups. Middle of the road bar with TVs and seating area.

I don't know how places like this survive in New York. This bar is so New Jersey, maybe because kids coming on the ferry to commute keep it alive.

Beckett's doesn't try hard which is good because if they did they would fail. The food is awful (think Buffalo Wild Wings but without proprietary sauces) and the service is really poor. The only reason I have been in here more than once is because it's never packed during happy hour.

I stopped by Beckett's on Saturday November 8, 2014 for a quick crock of soup and a glass of red wine. The waitress and staff were very efficient getting my soup, wine and check in a quick response as I had requested. When I was half way through the French Onion soup I bit into something hard. After removing it from my mouth it was a decent size of a hard plastic that had sharp ridges. I was fortunate not to have cut myself. I immediately called over one of the staff and showed the piece of hard plastic in my soup. He took it and came back with a voided slip of my charge. He asked if I wanted another crock of French Onion soup. I asked him if it would be from the same pot. He looked at me as if why we would throw the soup out. He confirmed that it would be from the same pot. I had to decline his offer of a complimentary bowl of soup from the same pot. I don't think I will go back there knowing they continued to serve the soup from the same pot after a jagged piece of hard plastic was found in my crock of French Onion soup.

The party of 5 that I was with thought we got lucky because there was so many empty tables while the other restaurants around the area were busy. It didn't take long for us to realize that there was a reason why this place was empty. After 15 minutes of sitting, I had to grab a waiter to come to our table. We placed our drinks at that time, 4 of the five drinks were delivered in short order. So we placed our food order, after a while, 2 of our 5 food orders were delivered, those two were wrong (wrong fries). They did bring the correct fries in a few more minutes and we were told the rest of the food was coming. The two with food were able to finish their entire meal before we received the other 3 meals. The waiter came out a few times and promised the food would be there in 5 minutes max. 15 minutes later, he said it would just be a minute. Close to an hour after the first two meals were delivered, the rest of us received our food. I was amazed how it could take that long to deliver cold food. After we had eaten about half of our meal, the waiter came out and asked if there was anything else we needed. Well, we still were missing a Coke, so I asked for the manager. A lady showed up at our table, this lady did come by earlier to fill our water but had said nothing to us about our wait or anything at all. So I asked the water lady who was now standing by me if she was the manager, she said "Yes, that is why I am standing here". Now it all makes sense, bad management must be consistent here which leads to poor staff service. We explained our situation, she offered us a free round of drinks, which we declined, she did discount our ticket 50%. We didn't receive an apology either.