The Briars - BRIARCLIFF MANOR

Best Bugers I've ever, (in all of my 67 years on this Blue Marble had ... every single time!!! I cannot begin to count, how many folks I turned onto this place during my time at the IBM, TJ Watson, Research Center, just up the road in Yorktown Heights. That was a Fair while ago, having left the area and headed back to California in 2003... But I still crave those burgers, which is the very reason I wandered over here, some 20 years on... Just to check it out to see if I needed to hop on a plane for my Briars fix. I was absolutely tasting that burger, smothered in sautéed onions, and unfortunately just discovered that they have closed forever... Sadness and Burger lust unrequited. Very sorry to hear this, Briars may you RIP (rest in pickles?

Outstanding prime rib!!!!! The well done potato was baked to perfection!! Briars is a well hidden secret!

Great food and the drinks are not watered down. I'll definitely go back.

We went for restaurant week. Food fair, dessert was good though. Not all desserts mentioned at the beginning of dinner were available later. Big difference in the price of cocktails bw ordering at the bar vs ordering at a table. Service friendly. Overall meh.

I rarely write reviews but I felt compelled to write one on The Briars and give a fair warning to the general public. For starters when we arrived the owner was nice enough to seat us against the wall and directed us to our table by POINTING at it. Zero class this guy has, god forbid he had to walk us to the table like they do in any other restaurant I 've ever been to. Our lovely table had disgusting crumbs on it and only had one chair. We had to pull a chair from another table. It took about 10 mins to even get a drink order in. For whatever reason the owner ran the drinks to our table and rudely goes These Yours? And then plops them down on the table. It took about 40 mins to just get our appetizers in, I know it 's restaurant week but it wasn 't even busy. My entree was the total opposite thing of what I had ordered. The waiter however was very apologetic for the kitchens incompetency. He did offer to get me the original order I had placed but honestly I didn 't feel like being there another 4 hours. In fact the only bright spot of the night was our waiter, he was very polite and professional. He was the complete opposite of the Neanderthal owner who was grunting around the restaurant accomplishing nothing! I 'd recommend keeping the owner in the back far, far away from the customers. He is not fit to manage the floor. I 'd recommend giving those responsibilities to our waiter who was great! This guy deserves a raise and promotion having to work for such a cretin! As for the food, it was ok at best.