"More than Simply Overpriced, BAD The three major criteria I use to evaluate restaurants are a) food; b) value, and; c) service. Cliffs Steakhouse gets an F across the board. First, the food. Simply tasteless. Things I would NEVER imagine could be bland, they managed. For example, onion soup. In some places it may too salty, in others, they don’t use quality cheese, here, it tastes like dishwaters with pieces of boiled or frozen onion pieces. Cheese is of unknown origin- without any flavor whatsoever. The filet mignon on the bone wasn’t a bad piece of meat, but once again doesn’t appear to have ANY seasoning. Sauteed mushrooms- no way they were sautéed – again, perhaps boiled? Second value. Totally overpriced. They don’t bother telling you the prices to their “specials” so this filet mignon on the bone wound up being $48. Everything is ala carte- and so for $6/7 for a 40 cent baked potato that they didn’t even bother to put some seasoning on the skin… you have to be kidding. Third, service. So slow, make sure to have your Iphone fully charged because it takes forever to get anything. And they don’t even get the order correct. We ordered crabcakes and onion soup—ten minutes after we had finished the crabcakes my husband said, I think they forgot your onion soup—and they had. Too bad I didn’t know how bad it was—I wouldn’t have reminded them. All in all, one of the worst restaurants I’ve been to in NJ or NY. Don’t waste your money."
