Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego

Ribs were undercooked and unseasoned underneath the ho-hum sauce. Service was good but this is not where you go for good Q in San Diego. Even Chile's has better ribs. KC BBQ trades solely on it's Top Gun fame. Head for Phil's instead.

I've heard about this place for years and finally got a chance to go now that I live a mile or less away. Definitely a quaint lil place, it has character.

I ordered...uhhh...well it was BBQ brisket (a bit on the dry side) and a BBQ 1/4 ? (I've seen quails that were bigger and meatier and retained some of their moisture), ? salad (very good), baked beans (tasty) given a sample of the slaw (delish) and a Hard Root Beer (awesome).

I think there was only one server for the joint as it wasn't really busy but definitely her focus/attention was elsewhere but she was sweet. The bill winded up being I believe $24 something and normally I wouldn't mind if it were worth it as I'm not cheap, but the portions were very small (think kids menu). The sides were like 2oz cups if that and the dry chicken meat that not even the delicious sauce could save was really a huge let down.

This place was not good we ordered medium rare steaks, they came out so overcooked they were basically jerky... we ordered two cocktails that were awful as well. For 130 bucks I definitely would not recommend. You would be better off finding an actual steak house. To be fair the oysters were good though and the service was good.

I asked for two beers that happened to no longer be on the menu yet they where there, then I ordered a Shephard's pie for 16 dollars that was the size of a pop tart. Needless to say I would not recommend going to this establishment for dinner.

I have eaten here about a half dozen times, and it has always been good...until last weekend.
with a party of 9 looking for sushi, 6 of whom were out-of-towners, we headed back to the hotel where the 6 were staying, since we have eaten here before with good results. But this visit would be different.
we were seated quickly, and given water. and after that, we had to ask for water refills, had to let the waiter know that we were ready to order (after having to wave him down), had to convince the waiter that it would be best to put our sushi order on two seperate orders so that we wouldn't have to be reaching across each other to eat, the the waiter wanted us to put it all on one order to be easier for him! when he finally brought drink orders, he got two of the four beers ordered wrong. the two people who didn't order sushi got their dinners, and ate them (one had his lobster tail over-cooked, and his veal chop was tasteless), were all done and ready to leave, before the rest of us got our food, still had to ask for more water, when sushi finally arrived, one of the orders was wrong and the waiter wanted to take both orders back to fix it and didn't seem to understand why we were not going to let him take our food that we had been waiting more than an hour for. (the waiter didn't understand much).
my end of the table finished our sushi before the other side of the table got theirs.

BUT the good news is the manager sincerly appologized, comped the one dinner that wasn't prepared correctly, and gave us 25% off the rest of the bill.
He even addmitted that they were not too busy, and that the waiter has 2 years experience, so there was no reason to have such bad service.
I will not stop going here, but if I have one more bad experience, then that will be it.