Public Landing Restaurant

The quality has gone down in this restuarant, while the prices have gone up! If you order dinner, soup and salad are now an extra charge! They will not even give you a piece of bread, we order two filet mignon dinners, overcooked on the outside, raw on the inside! A vegatable came with dinner, it was broccoli, it was tough and brown, it should have gone in the garbage! $ 72.00 worth of dinner, and not even a slice of bread!!! t was once a high quality place, has really gone down!!! Very, very dissappointing!!!

Not good. Prices ridiculously out of line. Our party ordered a strip steak, a filet mignon, and crab cakes. Both steaks were thin, dry, and flavorless. Not a drop of moisture in either one or on the plate — like they squeezed them dry before serving. The peppercorn crust was forgotten on one steak. The mushrooms were dry and rubbery, just like the steaks, as if they’d been left under a heat lamp all day to shrivel up. I cannot stress enough, how dry our plates of food were. The crab cakes were mushy and bland. The sweet potato mash and the garlic mash both were forgettable, and tasted like they could have come from a packet. For $ 35 plates, this is a cruel joke.
We also had a big issue with very loud knocking on the floor above the restaurant. Very loud and distracting. For this price point, your food and ambiance should both be quality. Too bad, as its a nice looking space.
Service was fine.

This place was excellent! Denise was our server and she did an outstanding job taking care of us. The food was outstanding! I had a strip steak with sautéed onions and soup. The steak was outstanding and the prices were fair. They had a decent beer selection with several Bells selections to chose from along with several other popular beers. The atmosphere was pleasant and we had an all around great experience here. This is one of my new favorite restaurants! Great job!

Stopped in for a quick lunch today while driving through Lockport. Great service and even better food. Check it out.

Was try for the first time. Service was very good. I had the crab cakes and they were outstanding. The parking can be difficult but we will be going back again.

I have been to Public Landing multiple times and have always had a great experience. The staff is friendly and the food is always delicious. We had our baby shower here in their private room upstairs. The room was beautiful and the staff was wonderful to work with during planning.

SERIOUSLY OVERPRICED!!! $ 32 for a $ 10 steak, fibrous asparagus and slow, non-​enthusiastic service. Most of the meat is very fatty and my wife’s meals are usually swamped with gravy. The sweet potatoes are way too strong with their spices. No bread, soup or salad included with the meal. Great building, terrible art. Great if you like wedding reception food. Very stodgy. Geriatric crowd with little diversity.

Nick the manager and Jeff the waiter, were super funny and fun! We had spinach artichoke dip for an appetizer and everyone ordered something different for lunch. I got the corn beef Sammy. And I think I got about 16 chocolate banana drinks. Everything was so amazing…

We had our wedding there in October. First off, the grounds are GORGEOUS-​there is no doubt about that. The food is great as well!
We picked Public Landing for our wedding because there were no hidden fees involved, the price included your food, bar, taxes, and gratuities. The planner was nice and friendly, but it was like pulling teeth to get her to meet with us, I literally did my entire wedding via email — which I felt was incredibly impersonal and almost rude. I’m paying you thousands of dollars and nobody had «time» to meet with me/​us-​not right.
The cake situation was a whole other issue-​I have already Unilocaled on them, RUDEST PEOPLE ON EARTH! The Landing’s deal with Orland Park Bakery is a JOKE. The landing fixed the situation by adding what I wanted themselves, but the entire process – HASSLE!
The day of was great, SHE was great, however, I felt rushed when my husband and I were taking pictures. I also heard from quite a few people that the bartenders/​staff were VERY RUDE. I haven’t even had the chance to call because an entire month later, I’m still upset about this.
Food was good though, way better than most wedding food I have had prior. Drinks were good – a good amount of liquor.
Just disappointed in the whole process to get to THE day. I will call, just wanted to vent out here to warn people that you WILL plan your ENTIRE wedding with Little to NO HELP. Creates a very stressful situation!

The ambiance is wonderful and the service very good. The food quality is variable. My grilled salmon and bread pudding were great. My wife’s and daughter’s steak frites were very inconsistent. Half of my daughter’s «medium» steak was medium, the rest was medium rare. Both seaks had tough regions: one bite tender, next bite tough. The other foods (burger, beef stroganoff) were pretty good. They have a decent variety of craft beer. Prices are higher than average for the south suburbs.
For these prices, I would expect everyting to be near perfect.

This review would be closer to two-​and-​a-​half.
The atmosphere is fantastic. It’s in a historic building, and the outside has beautiful views of the park and the I & M canal. However, the food left a little something to be desired.
Both my husband and I agreed that the food was nothing special and pretty bland. What you’re paying for is the atmosphere. We were also disappointed because we wanted breakfast, and they don’t serve breakfast.
Come check out the museum or take a walk in the park. Don’t waste your money on the food.

We brought our dog to lunch with us. My husband and I ordered the tacos. He got steak street tacos and I got blackened tilapia fish tacos. They also have a doggie menu: we ordered Fidos Feast for Molly. Great service and delicious food. I also had a white wine sangria and my husband tried the rum punch. Beautiful views of the park and bridge. We will be back this fall!

Another visit to the Public Landing restaurant. It’s a warm Sunday afternoon and we take our dog and son with us to a nice lunch. We start with the Appetizer Platter, any three regular appetizers for a set price of $ 28.95 dollars. We get the Crab Cakes, two giant cakes with veggies, which my wife loved; the Shrimp Cocktail, six large shrimps and sauce, which my son loved; and finally the Won Ton Bomb, five smallish lightly deep fried and very delicious wontons, that I really loved. All items were really good. Individually we would have paid $ 10 dollars more, so it was a good deal for the combined platter.
For our main course items, we ordered our dog the Double Quarter Hounder for $ 8.00 dollars, which came with burger meat, carrots, squash and dog bones, and she wolfed it all down. Then my wife got the Crab Stuffed Whitefish for $ 13.95 dollars, she loved it and I thought it was very good too. My son got the Argentinian Flank Steak for $ 15.95 dollars, which he loved and I also thought was very well seasoned, nice and tender too. And finally I ordered the Fish Tacos, for $ 11.95 dollars, just average and a strongly okay item and the Carne Tacos, for $ 12.95 dollars, three excellent tacos. Now I wanted to order a mix of the two and was willing to pay for that too but was told the chef could not do that. So I ended up ordering both and brought half home with me for another meal. Again the steak out weighted the fish, but both were very good items. Well to take home with us my wife ordered a Bread Pudding for $ 5.50 dollars, and she will let me know how that is.
So overall everything was truly very good. The service excellent and the setting beautiful. I will say the prices are very high so this is more of a special occasion type restaurant. Our total bill came to roughly $ 107.00 dollars without tip. So again we do highly recommend the Public Landing in Lockport, IL.

Highly disappointing. Expensive for what you’re actually getting. Celebrated my birthday there and really wished I had picked somewhere else.
Started off with the house sangria. It tasted watered down and bland.
French onion soup: Easily best thing of the night. Borderlined on being over seasoned but after having had the entrée course, I’ll take too much salt over no salt any day of the week.
Entrée: Crisp roast duck. I don’t even know where to start. I’m pretty sure this ½ duck was thrown in the deep fryer. The skin was kind of crispy, but mostly just heavy with oil. The breast on the inside was cooked through! Duck breast should be medium-​rare, medium at most, and this was for sure well done. The leg/​thigh were so overdone it tasted like duck jerky. No salt or seasoning found anywhere in the duck. Served with mashed sweet potatoes that were lumpy, under seasoned and lacked the cream or butter sweet potatoes need to get that light, fluffy texture they can get when mashed properly. Also came with green beans. Cooked well, tossed in butter. Could have used some salt.
Dessert: German chocolate cake. How do you screw up German chocolate cake?!? Cake part was dry. Coconut frosting was bland. A true GCC is layered and gooey. This was flat and cold. Cake shouldn’t be cold. And it was topped with whipped cream and chocolate sauce, as if they knew it wasn’t good and were trying to hide it.
Stars for service. Server was polite & attentive.
I remember back when this place used to be awesome. I can still remember a meal there from 15 years ago that included the most succulent soft-​shell crabs coated in almonds served in a lemon butter sauce that was divine. This was THE place to get a killer meal in a great spot. I’m not sure whats changed but my last 3 or 4 meals here have been consistently sucky.
TL;DR skip it– the whole place.
Management: if you’re looking for a chef
(Which you should be if you aren’t already), call me…

Public Landing has a beautiful patio area but you have to make reservations ahead of time and mainly for food not just drinks only which is unfortunate if you want to enjoy the weather but not eat. Wine pours are pretty generous though and very friendly atmosphere.

Visited recently and the food was exceptional! I had the steak tacos and my husband had the white fish. Both dishes were cooked to perfection. I live in Lockport and have only eaten here twice. After our last experience, I will definitely add this to one of our ‘go-​to’ places!

I went here for a wedding and there’s a few good things and a couple bad.
For one, I was there with the bride during rehearsals. It didn’t seemed that planned out at all. It almost looked like they were just winging the outdoor wedding. They had a planner there but there wasn’t any real direction. Made everyone confused a little bit.
The actual reception was beautiful. You will need speakers to hear anything. It is by a train station.
The food was delicious. Definitely a plus plus plus.
The reception area is small. If you want a decent sized dance floor you should probably only invite 150 max. You also need to be aware of the amount of guests that show up. The wedding I went to had 5 – 10 people who weren’t on the guest list and they were given seats and were told to pay for their plates (during their wedding reception, I might add).
It’s a cute little spot. Worth trying it out for dinner.

What a waste of $ 100! Went for dinner, weekday night. Servers & service was horrible, had to keep asking for another drink & water to be refilled. Beer bottles are served not-​so-​cold (no condensation at all on outside of bottle), glasses not chilled. Ordered a steak, $ 25 for a fat-​laden piece of meat, disgusting. Baked French Onion soup had NO onions in it! Food was served warm, not hot. Really disappointing place for the price. Seemed like the food was bought at Jewel and given a ‘nice’ presentation. Will not bother coming here ever again…

I stopped in for lunch last week and had the Smoked Salmon dish. I am a Salmon lover and this item was perfect served with all the traditional accroutements.
The service is always courteous and prompt here, and the setting very comfortably unique.
When in the Lockport area stop in to Public Landing and see for yourself.

Food was good, price was a bit expensive, so not a great value, but a really cool building, and great atmosphere. They are dog friendly so keep that in mind.
Would go again for the yummy Baked French onion soup.