Oak Terrace Grille - Barrington

Great environment. Great friendly staff. However, food quality is not good. Smash burger beef tasted old and skanky. Side Cesar salad was $8, way overpriced and not much flavor to it. Shrimp and andouille sausage grits had no sausage, even though they said it was in there. Dinner for cost $80. So not worth it. Won’t go there again.

The Caesar salad and other dishes, along with drinks, are all delicious.

I have only been here twice and the first time (weekend late lunch was good enough to warrant a second visit. I recall having a steak salad that I enjoyed. I made a reservation for a birthday dinner on a Monday night, requesting a table in the dinning room by the windows. Upon arrival it turned out that while they had the reservation they didn 't take note to our requested seating. The hostess (a young lady said she would move some empty tables together to place our party of 5 near our requested area but for some unexplained reason returned and said she was unable to do that. Subsequently we ended up at a table near the bar area, on league night (full at the bar and spilling over into the seating area . It was so loud that you could not hear the person next to you, a phone app said it was 85 db (think subway train passing by . To our surprise they have a limited menu on Mondays and Tuesdays (think sandwiches and a couple apps no entrees , it really would have been nice if we were notified of the reduced menu options when making a (birthday reservation. Not to mention they didn 't have enough menus for our party and we shared. Menus were not the only thing they were short on, they only had 1 wait staff serving indoors and outdoors. With plenty of empty tables I didn 't think it would be a problem, but it was. 15 20 minutes after being seated the bartender came to check on us and took our drink order (she was very friendly and apologetic . When the drinks arrived the bartender realized the waitress had not stopped by and took our order. IMHO, she did a great job considering how swamped she was at the bar. The French onion soup was good, as were the pretzel bites but the cheese curds were under cooked and and served near room temperature. The chicken panini was good, the steak sandwich ordered medium was served more towards rare, the bacon cheese burger came without the bacon and the 1 4 lb hotdog was, well a hotdog cannot mess that up. This selection was a good representation on what to expect on their Monday Tuesday menu. I know we wont be returning on a Monday or Tuesday.

Their prices are very reasonable. Their foods are excellent and their atmosphere is great.

Excellent and fresh Caesar salad with tender and juicy steak. Friendly and attentive service, and beautiful outside garden area.