Blackstone (CLOSED)
3200 SE 164th St. Vancouver, WA 98683Phone: (360) 253.0523
Located in: Vancouver, WA - Visit Website
BarFly's Review of Blackstone (CLOSED)
Now closed, review saved for posterity, below:
After dark, this chi-chi, pueblo-tinted restaurant space becomes the hunting grounds of the local woot-woot VanCougar scene.
Professionals from Camas and the ‘Couv prowl the dance floor in pneumatic post-professional tops, stalking passable men or the perfect drink until their voices attain the true upper-harmonic register of the overexcited lady wine-and-cocktail lush—i.e., this is where they come to party themselves through their post-divorce second childhoods, once their kids are old enough not to need a babysitter.
The real draw for those not seeking the lusty sugar mama would be the all-night happy hour after 9pm, which offers up ahi tuna, burgers, wings, and “artchoke” dip all under the $5 line, along with some steep cocktail discounts.
I live near here and really liked the place because it hat a more mature crowd.
It went out of business!
What a disappointment! This once stylish and sophisticated restaurant has hit rock bottom. The food was uninspired. Chopped zucchini and squash were undercooked, underseasoned and laid in a pool of oil. Baked potatoes-Wendy's is better. Rice pilaf-oily over cooked mess. Clam chowder-looked and tasted like it had been reheated for days. Peppercorn sauce for the tough over cooked steak was a disaster. Service was abyssmal. When the soup was presented all six of our soup bowls had soup splashed over the sides of the bowls. No attempt was made to clean up or apologize for the presentation. One of the party was told that the chicken cordon bleu would take 25 minutes to prepare so an alternative was ordered. It took over 30 minutes for the 6 orders to arrive.
No one other than our absent waiter come around to ask us how the evening was going.
All in all a sad ending to what used to be a great place to eat when it was Bacchus.
