Essex Bar & Bistro

Great place for tapas-like dining. Inventive cocktails, good wine menu not so overpriced. Highly recommend. We had 4 different dishes that we 4 shared, Korean bbq shrimp tacos - excellent, surf and turf sushi roll - good, bbq sliders - great, dim sum - good. Wait staff (Justin) was great. I'd definitely go back when I'm in the downtown area. Kevin, the GM, is doing a great job.

My girlfriend and I were more than full off three dishes but could have been fine with two dishes; the server recommended ordering more for our group because she described the dishes as small to medium but they were fairly sizable. The dishes were in the high teens to low 20s price range. The food was okay I guess but I’m not sure I’d come back. I think they also forgot one of our dishes but quickly got it out (after I mentioned it) as all the food for my girlfriend and I (and the rest of our table/group) came out. I would rate this 2.5-3 stars.

Went with friend before the play. Food was good, wine was excellent. Only thing was server didnt come by enough. We need refill but kept waiting and had to ask another sever. But everything else was good.

The food is 5 stars the service was three. Hence 4 star rating. I must state that the food was out of this world. Crowded atmosphere and loud, but it was prime time on Saturday night. It had taken no less than 20 min to receive each drink we ordered. Was with a party of 10 and the food came one plate at a time at 10 min intervals. If it were not for how delicious the food was, I would of been very disappointed.