Reviews for The Dining Room in Short Hills, NJ
Service is slow....
This is a solid dinner choice for a hotel restaurant atmosphere and food. It's a popular choice for local business people after... work with good cocktails and highly social seating arrangement. The menu has a wide variety of healthy options and, of course,has the usual favorites with an upscale twist and preparation. You can do small bites and full entrees. The steak sandwich withwagyu beef and gruyere on ciabatta was excellent and the mushroom gravy made it outstanding. Shoestring fries were perfectlyprepared and seasoned. The price is a little high as everything is a la carte, but it's definitely in the range of normal. Read more
Food was actually good. Ordered the salmon which was flavorful. Service however, was sloooooooow.
Nice place, good food,
The Food was very good I took my Girlfriend on vallentines day and she also enjoyed the food if you want amazing food come here.
A last minute change in plans brought us to the Short Hills Hilton for New Years eve. We didn't necessarily want to have our... celebration dinner at the hotel restaurant, but all the other restaurants had no reservations available. Generally, the lastthing anyone wants to do is to dine at a hotel restaurant. However, I was optimistic that THE DINING ROOM would change myperspective completely. I was wrong. As you would expect, the choices on the menu are limited and overpriced for what you get.The portions are small -- particularly the appetizers which are very scant in quantity. We had several appetizers that weshared: Pork Belly, Melted Cheese Bread, Shrimp and Scallops. It hardly fed our group of five, and the price for the appetizerswas rather expensive. The entrees were fairly good. Most of us had the cowboy steak which was cooked the way we wanted, withbutter on top. The steak cost $45 which is a bit expensive, but then again, look where we were. Someone in our group had the Macand Cheese and thought that was quite good as well. I think the worst part of our experience was the lack of attention by thewaiting staff. First of all, being New Years Eve, very few staff people at that hotel looked as if they wanted to be there.Saying hello and wishing them a Happy New Year brought a mumbled reply. What was really frustrating for us was the service inTHE DINING ROOM. At first, when we arrived at 7:30pm, the place was empty. However, an hour or so later, only a few tables wereoccupied (most people were smart and ate elsewhere) and yet the staff couldn't handle what they had on hand. We were handed adessert menu and it took 30 minutes for the waiter to even return to our table to take our order. Not many people in the place,and he was walking around completely ignoring our group who were sitting at the table staring into space. So you know what? Wedecided not to get dessert after all. Yet, we had to sit an additional 5 minutes until I could flag our Read more
