129 Center Cut

Glows: Megan Lick was an excellent musician for live entertainment. The corkage fee of $15 is very reasonable. Our server Brennan was very attentive, yet respectful of letting us have time to enjoy eating and chatting without constant interruption.Grows: There are several.1. Front of house being run by a couple of teenagers with no sense of knowledge or urgency about table management and lacksadaisically getting customers seated is just poor for what is supposedly a higher end steakhouse. Your entire team deserves better than this - you need to hire people who are personable, act like adults, and will make an excellent impression as the front of house, the literal first impression a guest has.2. The tuna roll was incredibly confusing - you basically had a chunk of sliced avocado on the side with a rectangular mound of finely diced raw tuna and cucumber strips, served with crostini. This is a very mediocre dish that needs a ton of rehab - turn this into a shareable poke bowl instead, nixing the slices of cucumber for it being cubed, served with chips for $16 and you might have something. What we were served was confusing to eat, practically impossible to get all the flavors in a single bite, and crostini should be NOWHERE near this dish. Mindless construction.3. When I order a dish - any dish - I expect that 25% of what I paid to be represented in the ingredients on the plate. The stuffed mushrooms ($16) were woeful. Four baby bella mushrooms ($0.50) with diced tomato sauce ($0.50) with some seasoning and herbs ($0.30) and melted cheese ($0.50) is not acceptable. It was also supposed to come with Italian sausage, which must have been a joke, because in the entire dish I had two bites with a tiny nugget the size of a piece of ground hamburger worth of sausage. None of this comes remotely close to the $4 of expected ingredient cost for a $16 price point.Verdict: I will give this place exactly one chance on a steak dinner at some point in the future. If it continues to fail at this level, there will not be a third chance, and I will modify this review accordingly. This was a mostly unacceptable level of service and performance from the kitchen. They can, and must do better. 15 Lakes Steakhouse in Antioch is not far away and their execution is FAR superior right now.

Good place to get bar options in Grayslake, from drinks to food that can be greasy or even healthy. It's a great place for watching sports or whatever you feel like. 129 is located at that address on Center Street. Pretty clever name, but of course you need more than that for a restaurant to be good. This restaurant indeed does have more, including great drinks and some food that's much better than typical bar things. Came at happy hour because we heard about the specials you can get. It has specials for drinks and food, and they had a few that were going on. The place wasn't that crowded, so we got bar seats. It was Wednesday, and there were cheaper drinks. It was $8 for the Classic Mule. This was good enough for the price. Also the food. We got the Steamed Dumplings, which was the best choice to get for vegetarians. Good choice. It was $8 on Wednesdays. Came with a choice of filling. We got vegetarian. Also came with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce to dip it. This added a bit of flavor which was needed, even if it was extra stuff. Has lots of great choices of drinks and food. It makes a pretty good option for families and groups. The menus feature plenty of options for both meat eaters and vegetarians.

Be aware on busy weekends the reservation management is unacceptable. They regularly overbook and you will wait at least an hour even with a reservation. The front of the house is a complete mess with no manager present. Seems like this happens often based on other reviews.

The food, especially the steaks, are average or below average at best. They don't know how to cook meat. It's a loud restaurant but that's understandable as they didn't take that into account when they built the place. Lots of tv's and GREAT staff but it's not worth another visit. Don't be fooled by the pics on their website. You'll get nothing like it.

We went out for Valentine's dinner and the food was seriously lacking but the service was decent. They said they were busy but the tables didn't show it. The waitress was good but she was moving quickly and doing her best. Sounded as if they were overwhelmed. We ordered a wedged salad (large), a cup of soup (loaded baked potato) and Miso salmon with mashed potatoes and green beans. We ordered drinks and she brought them out very quickly along with water. She stayed on top of the refills as well. The wedge salad was a good size with lots of blue cheese crumbles and dressing. Very good portion for a large size. The baked potato soup was loaded but it was very loose and runny and not warm at best. The first dish of salmon that came out had a very small portion of mashed potatoes and no green beans. They took my plate back and returned it with 3 (yes 3!) small pieces of broccoli. I tried the mash potatoes and they were very starchy and cold. I flagged the waitress down to let her know, the dish came with greens beans and the potatoes were cold. 5 mins later she brought my new plate out. The salmon was a decent size and had good flavor. The mashed potatoes were warm and a larger portion but super gluey and had a weird texture. The green beans were way undercooked. I wasn't going to complain a second time so I just ate it. Very disappointed to say the least as it's not cheap and it was our Valentine's meal. The restaurant is very nice on the inside with ample space, including a full bar and a seating area in front of a fire place.

LOUD. LOUD. LOUD!!!!Do not eat here if you have any intention of speaking with your guests. The place is like an echo chamber and REALLY needs some sound deading materials. That is on a regular night. Add in their live music and it is IMPOSSIBLE to hold a conversation. The band was good, they just don't need the amount of amplification they used. That being said, the service was excellent, the food was OK, but nothing I would rush back to order again. Please fix your sound issues. It was bad enough that our party of 6 would think twice about returning. Really!

We ordered Tuna Avocado Roll with Teriyaki Sauce Take my word that the cook (not chef) has no clue what he was making. .

So i have always had a good meal here. Its never been a 10 but always good solid 7.5-8Anyways moving on. The chocolate moose... wtf is this crap. Its like my 7year old made it out of box chocolate pudding . Yuck!!!

Great steak they removed the chef and got a excellent one now. This family owns several restaurants in the area and all the restaurants serve excellent food.

My family is a frequent customer, about every other week,as we like the food and want to support our local businesses. Sadly, they lost a customer today. I found they began charging a 3% credit card fee which is new and it was not communicated. Hiding charges in your bill is fraud. What an unwise business decision.