Dorothy's Cocktail Oyster

I regularly go to St Simons for junior golf tournaments, and I always wanted to go, but it seems like there are never reservations. I had no idea it was an Asian restaurant. The name sounded American and also oyster bar, so I didn't bother on the menu. The ravens were excellent! My friend had half the chicken, and unfortunately it wasn't boiled in the middle, and I don't mean pink. At some point, she cut herself into the flesh and rolled out blood. They took it out of the bill and reduced their rams by half, which was very nice of them. She also ended with the rams she loved. We had the One Night in Bangkok cocktail. It said that Thai chili had in the drink, but the spices were overwhelming, and we love spicy. We tried the cabbage rolls that had some kind of meat in them. You were just okay... nice restaurant. Beautifully decorated, beautiful ambience for a date night. I'd probably try again since the Uber driver said he never heard anything bad about the place.

Food was amazing, service was fantastic. However, we were asked to leave our table as soon as finished eating by the bar tender. Very rude! Our party of 4 spent over $300 for dinner and he acted like we were at Chilli’s rushing to flip the table. Not at all appropriate for this establishment. In all my years of business and personal dining , I have never ever been ask to vacate a table. Shame too. Ruined an otherwise perfect experience.

When I reserved I noted that one of us three ladies was having a birthday. That was never acknowledged. It’s a beautiful restaurant but for lunch it was dark and unwelcoming. There were very few people dining. The waitress was inattentive My hamburger had huge chunks of coarsest cut cabbage in it, hanging out of the buns. When I tried to cut the burger in half it collapsed into dry pieces of toast. It had been over toasted, burnt actually. The French fries were soggy. My friends meals, shrimp roll, kale salad were “OK”. The waitress was AWOL when we needed water refill or dishes removed so we could open birthday presents. Three lunches with three cocktails was $94 before tip.

The food is excellent but the lackadaisical, inattentive service is distracting. The last 2 times we dined, it was a 2.5 hour experience — for a meal consisting of drinks, oysters, some appetizers, and a main dish. Part of our table last night received drinks, but 4 waited 15 minutes or more — until we finally asked our server to find out what was happening. Please please invest in some training of your young staff. Or hire some veterans.

Hostess was very unkept looking, unfriendly and borderline rude. The waitress’s hair was greasy and dirty. Both were not good representatives for the restaurant. Martini was half the size of a regular martini. The restaurant did not even have the two standard gins for a martini. The service was poor. Dinner plates for four people came out at three different intervals and was not served close to the same time. Not one of the four thought the food was even mediocrely good. Extremely overpriced for what was presented. The shrimp toast was not eatable. Inadequate menu choices.