Back Door Monkey - Menu

Juanita is the best server ever!!! The food is so tasty and the drinks are amazing, I love this place ? read more Juanita is the best server ever!!! The food is so tasty and the drinks are amazing, I love this place ?

Have heard a few good things about this place, so wanted to check it out. Sadly our dining experience was fairly average. First red flag was the complete lack o... read more Have heard a few good things about this place, so wanted to check it out. Sadly our dining experience was fairly average. First red flag was the complete lack of any kind of host at the front of the restaurant. This place takes a $30 deposit on OpenTables to insure against no shows, so one would think they would make sure to have a host/hostess ready to greet you. However, despite only about 4 tables being occupied and about 6 staff members congregating in the bar area (many just casually chatting to each other), no one bothered to say hello or see why we were there. After about 5 full minutes of standing around looking lost I finally went up to one of the employees and asked whether the hostess stand was located elsewhere in the restaurant. At this point we were told sorry, I thought someone took care of you and finally got sat. Service after that was just ok, with dishes taking longer than expected to come out considering what we ordered. The music was loud, which is fine, but it did make it difficult to get anyone 's attention. The food was decent, but overpriced. While the ceviche tasted good, the ratio of seafood to filler seemed to be less than 1:1. The pork belly also had great flavor, but arrived to the table lukewarm and a few of the chunks that weren 't as fatty were pretty dry. The Octopussy roll had so much sauce on top, it overpowered the roll itself and had to be scraped off. The bill totaled $160+ after tip for two, which seemed way over the top for what we got in terms of food, drinks, and service. In all, probably won 't come back..