Clarklewis Restaurant - Portland

Food is excellent. Service is above what’s expected. Love this place.

Absolutely the worst experience I’ve had a restaurant. Let me start this off by saying this is the only review I have ever felt the need to post before of anywhere I have been. I came here for their Valentine’s Day dinner. I was one of the first reservations at 5 and we were finally able to leave at 7:45 and we made it a lot faster than the other couples who were there at the same time. The risotto that we ordered was watery like soup and our red velvet cake was dry dense and crunchy. our waiter never came to help us and we watched him turn away from our table when we tried to ask for help. I’ve never experienced such a disaster happen in a restaurant before. People were waiting 30min-1hour or more between their courses. We were lucky and got served quicker than most but the couple sitting behind us were still waiting on their main entree by the time we were finally able to leave after waiting 20+ minutes for the check and finally having to wave down another server to help us get our check. I saw several people finally get up and just leave because the wait to get their food was taking forever. There was a line of probably 40+ people waiting for their reservations and I have a feeling most probably weren’t able to be seated because of the atrocious wait times for the food to come out. The worst part was when we finally got the check for $400. I have never been to such a disappointing dining event in my life. If I had known it would’ve been like this I wouldn’t have come if it was free. An absolute disaster of a restaurant and I will never be back and will make sure none of my friends and family eat here. I could write a book on everything that went wrong this night. Do yourself a favor and never come here.

Was recommended this place by a colleague and unfortunately I might’ve came on a bad night perhaps. The charcuterie board was inedible, some of the meat was ground up and had the texture of wet cat food… crab cakes are expensive at $24.00 and you get two mini crab cakes in the middle of a huge plate. And as for the pasta with lamb, for homemade pasta it didn’t have the qualities of homemade pasta and the sauce was a bit runny but have flavor thankfully. Lamb was cooked good. Overall 2/5 stars and wouldn’t go back.. menu is a bit weird and is meant for a certain demographic

Great food and service! It's one of our favorite place.

Service was excellent, food was delicious. I didn’t like the extra 10% charged on top of the bill and not disclosed until the end. I would have gladly paid 10% more if it were built into the cost of the meal but I feel it was a slap in the face and ruined the experience. We won’t be back!