Red Kitchen and Bar

Ordered room service and tried to get blue crab cheese spread and when asked them about it, they told me it was imitation… don’t call it blue crab then!!!

Attended the National Conference of African American Librarians. Ate most of my meals at Red Kitchen. Tasty, meals presented well., Loved the burger, and the breakfast buffet was best I’ve experienced in awhile. Great variety. Wait staff were Direct, pleasantly responsive, efficient staff. Photos don’t include greeters who also rock! Christina and another bartender made perfect Rusty Nails.

The breakfast buffet is amazing I especially loved the omelette station they make it anyway you want and thoroughly enjoyed the veggie omelette it was a wonderful experience.

The food isn’t bad for the price (my favorite is the Missouri trout dish), but if you need an itemized receipt for business reimbursement purposes, good luck. The staff will not know how to print one and it will turn into a veritable circus. Instead, they will give you another signature copy or an unitemized receipt or make you a photocopy of their one-​and-​only itemized receipt, accompanied by excuses, and hope that you’ll go away. You’d think getting an itemized receipt would be a simple issue, but apparently not.

1. This place is definitely $$$
2. I ordered the goat cheese stuffed chicken breast and there was only about a couple teaspoons of goat cheese in one side.
3. My dad and I ordered the chicken and some soup and it took a half hour to arrive at the table, with very few people in the restaurant.
The food itself is fine, the décor is whatever, nothing crazy but not ugly either. I just wasn’t particularly impressed, especially for the price.

Nice bar and grill located in the Hyatt Regency. Grabbed a drink here, so I can’t comment on the food. The bar is modern and quite large, as it is part of the lobby of the hotel. A large bar along with lots of large leather chairs and coffee tables so that you and your group can sit back and relax. Downside is that the drinks are pretty pricey. Nice atmosphere, but you are just sitting in part of the hotel lobby.

Located inside the Hyatt At the Arch. Nice bar area. I ordered the bread pudding to go. It was nice and warm with all the condiments packaged nicely. They offered me water and prepared my order relatively quickly. Maybe next time, I’ll try dinner.

Simply the best tomato bisque I’ve ever eaten. Stayed at the Hyatt last week and arrived around 1:00. Checked into the room and came down for lunch. The menu contains several good choices, but the temperature meant soup for me. As I stated, it was the best. The service was excellent, and the chef sources local suppliers, which makes you feel better on so many levels.

This is my favorite meal option at the Hyatt. They have really great people working– positive, friendly, efficient, and attentive. I appreciated the express lunch for $ 9.95– what a great deal. You can go serve yourself soup (I LOVED the tomato bisque!!!) and they have rolls and butter as well as a small salad bar and dressings that are included with the express lunch. Then you get half a sandwich and they bring that to your table. My husband and I both had the egg salad sandwich which was pretty good. A soda is also included with your meal. I think the unlimited soup and salad is worth the $ 9.95 on its own!
I went back tonight to order a bowl of chicken noodle soup to take to eat in my room and it is a huge container of hot soup with a lot of curly noodles, big pieces of grilled chicken, green onions, carrots, celery, a few matzo balls (I think– I didn’t really like them that much) and these big «kreplach» which are like dough balls with meat in them (I don’t think it was chicken but those were tasty once I realized there was something inside) in a nice and hot broth. It was $ 10 for a bowl but I understand why– it’s a big portion and a hearty soup– very good. I appreciated that they had me go sit in a big cushy chair in the bar/​lounge area while I waited for my soup to be ready to go, and even offered me a glass of water. I wasn’t given a soup spoon to go– just regular utensils with a regular size spoon but that’s a small thing. It was nice that they didn’t give plastic utensils but real silverware and cloth napkins.
Overall, this is where I recommend at the Hyatt– relatively affordable, very good food, friendly service.

Two parts — one for the bar, one for breakfast buffet.
The bar was great. Comfortable seating, tall tables, great drinks, great service. The almonds were provided with the drinks.
Usually dont like the breakfast buffets. This one was quite good. For me it was the omelet bar guys, making great omelets. Good variety of other things, and a lot of different breakfast sausages, bacon, etc. to boot.
The servers were a little weak.

Came here for a quick lunch. The food was good, not great. The service was fast and friendly. It’s in the lobby of the Hyatt.

I stopped in for a quick bite of lunch as I was working across the street.
Figured it would be safe and mundane hotel café type food. I was wrong. I was very pleasantly surprised by the grilled chicken sandwich. Really, really tasty. Slightly pricey, but not outrageous. Attentive service, too.

Great Service! Had the buffet and it was really good… there was a lot of variety and I got full so didn’t even get to taste everything I wanted to. Very happy

Just had breakfast but not the buffet.
Eggs, sausage, yogurt, and toast for about $ 12.
Service was really good.

So I have to say that this was the weirdest breakfast experience EVER! The servers all morning were asking everyone if they were «alone» and it was really awkward cause it felt like they were asking every 2 minutes to they could take the additional silverware off the table. The food is great, but the service totally killed the experience!
Everyone staying seems to be on a group so it is weird that they pressure you to say your eating alone just to clear the silverware. :-(thumbs down in my book. I already have a hard time getting to any ANY restaurant by myself so them «pointing it out» really didn’t help… leave the silverware on the table… seriously.
With some observation, it seems that the «manager» was possibly on the servers to get the «extra» stuff off the table so this could have been the reason, however I was there 4 mornings and didn’t receive great service.
I have been a server in the past which does make me jaded about the service that I expect, and each time that I came the service felt awkward. Especially in the morning, I don’t want to be asked time and time again if more people are coming… just bring me COFFEE/TEA…maybe juice and if I get the buffet let me be… it is weird for me to eat alone… really…:)
The Food: The breakfast was rather expensive, but the buffet had a great selection and if you have ever had steel cut oats — you know the worth of that being offered.
The food is not the problem… the service is…

I’ll start out by saying that we did not eat here.
However, we spent a few hours here, avoiding going back to our crap-​tastic hotel (another review), enjoying the band and the drinks.
Our bartender was wonderful, husband was pleased with the scotch offerings and we were both very happy with the gigantic $ 19 drink for two, the Scarlet Lemonade.
If we stay downtown again on a random Saturday night, we will definitely end up at Red Kitchen and Bar for a nightcap again!

Red Kitchen buffet: you get a selection of pasta (choose your own pasta, sauce, toppings, etc.), soups, breads, compound butters, grilled and marinated veggies, salad and more. Oh, and the dessert bar. The dessert bar is fab. And since you won’t have room for the dessert bar after the soup, salad, veggies (and olive tray!) and pasta, ask them for a to-​go box — they’re happy to provide it and then you’ve got an afternoon full of sugary goodness to power you through. (Or a treat for your significant other, maybe?)
I like that whole wheat penne is one of the pasta options. I typically go for the healthier options (I reiterate typically) and this one makes perfect sense.
One thing that bugs me about this place is that not all of the little shrimp in the make-​your-​own-​pasta area are fully cleaned. Shrimp that aren’t fully deveined bug me. Some people might not care… I do.
One thing that makes this place awesome: The $ 3 discount if you work nearby! Also, they have a frequent diner card, so if you go six times, you get a free meal. (I just redeemed my free meal today, actually — so easy! They never brought a cancelled out check back, though, so I left a tip with my colleague’s bill.)
UPDATE 4÷27÷12: Not sure if the buffet is so longer available or they just never open it, but the last three times we’ve walked over, it wasn’t an option, so we left. Bummer. It was one of the more upscale and quick lunch options available downtown.

When I pull up to a hotel with the intent of checking out its bar, I have two expectations… drinks will be pricey and parking scarce. I generally overlook these things right of the bat. Red Kitchen and Bar in the Hyatt refused to let me do this. In fact, it mocked me and dared me to bring it on. When you pay MORE for parking then you did for your drinks… that is f’ed up!
Since I refused to eat anything there and increase the size of the small loan needed just to be in the joint, my friends eat for me… lack luster at best. Salad was typical, pizza was dry and Red Kitchen charged a premium for it.
I had two beers and I tipped since it wasn’t server’s fault that Red is so idiotic. I go to get my car and my «tab» was $ 25! For parking for 3 hours! WTF?
NEVER AGAIN! I will never go back to Red Kitchen and Bar. Not only is the food ordinary, the feeling of being legally robbed was infuriating.

After reading good things about the lunch pasta bar, we decided to try it out for dinner.
Our table of 4 started with the toasted ravioli and the calamari. Nothing special. I am glad I tried the toasted ravioli but I don’t know that I would try it again… it didn’t live up to my expectation based on what I’ve heard.
I had the prosciutto wrapped chicken roasted garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus. The portions were okay, I would have preferred more asparagus… you get 5 – 6 skinny stalks. My sister ordered the smoked chicken and penne, an entrée I considered but am glad I didn’t…the garlic cream sauce was very thick and didn’t look appealing to me (it also didn’t reheat well as leftovers, the sauce separated and looked even less appealing). My husband ordered the penne pomodoro, it was good… nothing special.
We shared 2 apple tarts for dessert. They were served under a scoop of cinnamon or caramel flavored ice cream, we agreed it was a nice twist from plain vanilla or vanilla bean. The common agreement was the tart didn’t have much apple in it. It was a flat tart with apple slivers.
Overall, the food was okay… but nothing special, I felt it was a little over priced for what you got and the overall taste.

After having an excellent dinner experience here in the past, when the beautiful wife and I saw that Red Kitchen was having an Easter brunch, we thought it would be a good bet (and having bottomless mimosas is always a plus).
Sunday buffets are sometimes the undoing of places. And unfortunately, Red Kitchen didn’t live up to my expectations. It wasn’t horrible, but…
Upon being seated, we were told our server would be with us shortly. After a bit of a wait, she showed up. Mimosas were ordered and we headed down to the buffet.
Now, the buffet was set up a bit oddly — breakfast items were between brunch/​lunch items for instance. If there’s such a thing as buffet feng shui, they are in dire need of a tuneup. It just felt weird. But as a semi-​literate adult, I was able to add items to my plate and head back to the table.
The food was OK — Eggs Benedict (mostly overcooked, poached should be runny, but hey, they’re making a dozen at a time, so I’ll give them a break), French toast, bacon, sausage, potatoes, seafood (mostly disappointing — itty bitty crab legs, clams, oysters (not good), shrimp (only good part — fresh and big)).
They had brunch/​lunch options as well — chicken breast, soups (corn chowder and clam chowder), three meats at the carving station (prime rib — pretty good), a ham, and a lamb (this was probably the best thing they had, especially with the jalapeño mint sauce).
Finally, there were desserts — white and dark chocolate mousse (pretty good), a crème brûlée cheesecake (way better in theory than application), and some other things that weren’t sampled.
The mimosas were made with Wycliff sparkling wine (which is a Gallo brand screw top sparkling wine, in case you’re curious. It’s fairly inexpensive, but gets decent reviews. Much to my disappointment, it has no relationship to Wyclef Jean nor John Wycliffe).
Now, this is fine (hey, it’s not like they’re going to make it with Dom), BUT the mimosa filling up frequency was less than ideal. We saw plenty of servers walking around with pitchers of juice and a bottle of Wycliff, but only when giving the «FILL US UP NOW» death stare did we get service. And it wasn’t really that busy. If they had just dedicated one or two servers to do the refills, they would have been fine.
Finally, while we were taking a bit of a digestion break, our server came over with our check («take your time»).
Damn right we will. We had only been there for about 45 minutes. It was a wee bit odd (and threw me off — I initially filled out the hotel guest version of the bill where you can charge it to a room. Yes, tempting, but I’m an honest egg. Mostly).
So, finally, the price. For the quality of the food and the quality of the service, it felt a bit too expensive ($ 39.00 per adult).
While this keep me from coming back to Red Kitchen for dinner and drinks? No, because it is really good. But would I go back for another buffet? Very doubtful.