Plat8

I’ve never personally ate at Plat8 before but I do clean at the building (Geomar) and the restaurant is actually permanently closed! I’ve had to tell quite a few people coming in for the restaurant and I feel bad that nobody knows it’s closed!

Great burger and great service.

They do well with some things, but struggle with the majority of basics. I ordered a seasonal martini off their cocktail menu and it had ice chips floating in it and tasted like candy; way off-balance. It was also the first time I've ever been served a room temp French 75. On the other hand, I've had a few good cocktails there as well, like the spicy margarita. The food is the same story. They struggle with the basics like cooking a steak to the correct temperature ( I saw 6 steaks ordered medium rare and they were barely rare), and think a hasselback potato means cutting a cube shape in the top and neglecting to season it. Even the asparagus wasn't trimmed properly. On the other hand, they make a good duck breast and they have decent appetizers. In all, this was my second visit and I don't think I'll be returning. They want to charge high-end prices but don't execute at a high consistent level of quality. Also, adding a gratuity to the check on Christmas Eve was moronic. I'd fire the person who did that without telling the customers. We weren't warned it was going to be added, so it felt insulting when it was on the check, and we would have tipped probably twice the amount since it was Christmas if they hadn't forced us to tip lower.

BEST ceaser salad and fries i’ve ever had. Everything is amazing, so worth the price.

Great atmosphere, great wait staff, and for once a place that doesn't burn a burger.

I had the most unusual experience. I've never actually had a situation like this before. It was something almost out of a movie, a romcom I'd imagine. I guess that made me John Cusack or Jack Black? My friends made a reservation and had the screen shot of it as proof even, but when we got there they didn't have our reservation or even know about it. They made it right by seating the four of us promptly at the MAIN table, a table for 8-10 people. It was very nice to have the extra space and a bit more light. The atmosphere is very quaint, almost like a speak easy. Lots of wood, a large bar for a small area, and very simply decorated. It can get a little loud in there, but that might just have been the table of ladies in the corner that wanted to be heard by the politician sitting with his wife across the room. We ordered appetizers, stuffed mushrooms and the beef tips. Both came out in a reasonable amount of time. The beef tips were amazing, tender and the "gravey" was thin and almost felt healthy. The mushrooms were ok. The stuffing in them had an obvious vegetable presence, corn and something else, something leafy. Not too much flavor maybe, very light as well. The issue was, on maybe my third or fourth mushroom, all of which I cut in half, I had what I thought was an under-cooked leafy vegetable. I couldn't rip it apart in my mouth, but I started to flatten it out, unroll it on my tongue. Growing as I unraveled it, I had to pull it out of my mouth, because part of it started to go down my throat. To my party's shock, as I pulled it out, I probably looked like I was a bad clown entertainer. It seemed bigger in my mouth, no jokes please, but it turned out to be a sheet of plastic! Balled up, clear plastic, like you would find shrink wrapped around a quart of mushrooms at the store. I don't think I swallowed any, at least not in that mushroom. I'd eaten enough, and they were good, so I ate the last one, very cautiously, probing like, and cut up, even after my discovery. Clean plate club I admit. We told the waitress, so that they could troubleshoot to make sure no other customers would have the same issue. We proceeded with dinner. My apple salad was good, different then what I have had elsewhere, not better, not worse, unique. I liked it. My salmon was great! Just not enough. The best part was the vegetables that came with it. Brussel sprouts and a mixture of a couple additional vegetables. If there was any problem with my main course, it would have just been the, maybe 3 oz piece of salmon. Everything tasted great. I had a local micro brew beer, and my friend had a couple over priced cocktails, our wives had wine. The chef/owner? Is a very nice and polite man. He came out and apologized in person for the plastic wrap. He also said that he comped our appetizers and my drinks. Everyone was so nice about the situation I felt bad when I actually had brought a Foody Card for a bit off my bill. I didn't feel bad when I saw that my wife and I still had a large bill though. I didn't know the price and portions going into the restaurant, that was my bad. I definitely didn't expect to find a surprise in my appetizer, that was their bad. The place is nice and we had great food, sans my surprise ingredient. It just seemed not right, spending that much after getting so much discounted and then having to go home and eat some frozen pizza slices because I was still hungry. I'd suggest more salmon on the PL8, or at least a lot more of those tasty vegetables. I'll probably go again, because the food WAS great. I just hope this was an odd, one-off occurrence, and that there is no sequel to my romcom movie.

The food was amazing. Great bartender..... I had the asparagus ravioli.....amazing!!!

Friendly and the food was excellent .

Nice ambiance however the food lacked in flavor. Ordered fried green tomatoes very crunchy how I like it but no seasonings whatsoever also ordered the walleye crispy... it came out burnt. The waitress never came back to ask how was our meal. We asked for the check paid and left. $75 bill for food I couldn't eat