Federal House Grille - Sylmac

We had the pleasure of eating here for a event Tuesday 4-16-24 and we had an absolute blast. Jessica was our waitress along with a young man who's name I did not catch. We had a party of 17 including 2 toddlers. The atmosphere was great, the food was damn damn good and Jessica and her colleague made sure we were takin care of for this special event. The food, everyone was very pleased!!! Just to mention a few, 2 of us had the hangover, crab cake, crab salad, chicken fingers, tacos, stuffed shrimp, sweet potato fries,calamari and more. We were across the board with the menu and not one complaint except the crab cake was a little over priced but other than that everyone said that was really good!!! So daughter and new son-in-law made a great choice after the event (hint hint). Thank Federal House for a very very nice dinner and thank you for the hospitality!!! Fine fine job to Jessica and her colleague and we hope to come back to visit soon!

The staff at the door is extremely rude and one female working at the door was extremely rude when we asked her name because we wanted to report her to the manager she refused to tell us and made us leave. We called the police because we had done nothing wrong and the officer agreed with us but told us it is private property and they can let in whom ever they choose. This doesn’t seem right but we won’t be returning. Hopefully management will see that whomever this employee is she needs to be fired as she has absolutely no customer service skills She looks at people and decides if she doesn’t like them for whatever reason then won’t allow them in. There were 3 of us and me and my one friend she was going to let in but our third friend she denied. So obviously we all left together, because we were not going to leave our other friend on the street alone. Unbelievable that she has a job only thing I can think of is she is related to owner maybe. We will just take our business elsewhere and we advise others to do the same don’t give this employee the opportunity to look you up and down and decide if she wants to let you in or not. Couldn’t tell you want the food is like cause we didn’t get past the front door. That’s ok we went O’Brien and had great good and great time!

French onion soup crab salad were YUM and the perfect amount of food. The server was very nice and attentive. A few other staff were talking amongst one another and complaining about various topics loudly. That soured the atmosphere a bit, but overall a good place to check out for a quick bite.

Actually got charged $9.75 for this weak pour. Really? Pretty bitter after the fact that it took over 20 minutes after being seated to even get a chance to place an order. This really shouldn’t be happening in the off-season.

Food was good, but when I ordered the fried avocado BLT... I didnt expect it to be spicy. After asking our waitress and then a manager, found out it was guacamole with jalapeño... NO Bueno!! I'm allergic