Steve’s Dakota Grill

Came here on St Patrick’s Day at 630pm. They were out of the Midori to make their drink special. Who runs out of a St Paddy’s drink by 630pm? Service poor.

Worst steak house ever. Steak was not fresh, tasted like old meat soaked in vineager. The manager was very sarcastic when we complained. The drinks were awful. The blonde behind the bar couldn’t make a drink to save her soul. She was a bit snotty. Her and the manager were a bit to chummy. Could be sexual charges as he was flirting and playing with all the waitresses. The bartender seemed a bit jealous of the attention the younger girls weere getting. There must be something wrong there. No one cared about our food or drinks. Won’t ever go back.

The Steak was seriously undercooked. I asked for medium well and received rare. They did replace it and removed my entire meal from the bill. The second Steak was excellent.

Good food but inconsistent portioning. I get the same thing just about every visit and the sides are never portioned the same. The wait staff is usually friendly and the food comes out fairly quickly. I like the fireplace and the cleanliness of the restaurant.

Had the all you can eat fish and was horrible. Paper thin fish surrounded in a thick batter oozing with grease. Ate the fries. Need to do better before I return.

Meals where very good as well as the service. A bit pricy for Marion, Ohio but it was a nice change from the normal wings and burgers you can get down the road.

Stopped there tonight on my travels, recommended by friends. excellent prime rib you can even get extra ounces. the calamari was good and they have a large selection of Great Lakes micro brew beers. Would highly recommend and will return when back in the area… easy to get to right off the highway.

Love the new menu. The Wisconsin Cheese Puffs were fantastic! Service was wonderful and I really appreciated the large selection of wines.

This is actually good restaurant except for the fact there isn’t enough servers that can serve liquor drinks because most of the servers are under age to serve them. I was eating at bar when another customer sat near me. Unfortunately, I had to ask help from my waiter Austin to help with this customer, who wasn’t being acknowledged, passed by other wait staff or coworkers didn’t see him during a shift change after 15 minutes or so. I felt bad when he ordered a second drink and took longer to get drink.
This location could be a great place if there wasn’t a lack of communication between the workers on floor and between cook staff & floor staff. It appears tonight Austin, who was very attentive to my needs, the manager and one of the waitresses seemed to overworking themselves while others who were attending to napkin/​utensils wrapping duties which is part of duties, when they should at least pay attention to just acknowledge the customers, since these workers are visually on floor. Especially, I have to identify I needed a fork for my dessert, I pointed out that a customer still waiting for his ordered second drink for now almost 45 minutes later. I kept hearing random mistakes, coworkers’ small talk conversations, and plenty of apologies. Please pay attention to task at hand.
I have had 22 years of customer service and I’m just disappointed. I rather talked about the good food here but this overall situation stood out more than it seemed. Now I heard more coworkers are working double shifts/​overtime.
I really hope this was a random day and now a normal occurrence.

Worst steak house ever! My parents and I went there for lunch on a Saturday. The waitress gave me a salad with a spoiled tomato. Then mixed up the steaks giving us the wrong doneness. Then My father ordered mushrooms for his steak and they came out black! Then we noticed all the tables were getting bread and I asked «should we have gotten bread?» The waitress replied, «Well I could have brought you out some.» What?!

Not impressed, have visited here twice and both times service was extremely slow. We left the first time after waiting for nearly two hours for our entrees. We decided to give Steve’s another try on a Thursday afternoon and sad to say there was no improvement on service. The appetizer was okay. I ordered a strip steak which was prepared correctly but really had no flavor. The Caesar salad I ordered had wilted lettuce. Hamburgers were ordered for my children and they were burnt so the kids didn’t eat them. The only thing good was our bread and drinks. Chief Ramsey would have a field day in this place. A lack of good management and staff training is crushing this place. I will not return, and will travel to Columbus for a decent steak.

Used to enjoy going here. Feel sorry for wait staff as there tips must be horrible due to terrible kitchen management, cooks and policies. Rolls coming out when meal is half gone and potatoe served after meal is gone. Shrimp flatbreads with half missing shrimp. Waiter got in trouble when he put them on for me. We talked to manager who gave said she would give us a discount. $ 3.00!

Went there for the first time. The service was okay, but the food was not worth the price. The filet was terrible and the prime rib was tough. Will not be back.

Do Not, I repeat DO NOT go to Steves Dakota Grill in Marion ohio.
I’ve been here a few times over the years and service and food was always meh. this was definitely the last time for me. I ordered the park Avenue martini. (Vodka or gin with Italian vermouth and a colossal stuffed olive) and when the waitress sat it on the table I couldn’t believe what I saw #1 the glass was super dirty #2 it was half empty #3 there were no olives! So the manager was making her rounds and she stopped by our table to ask how everything was and I said «this is the saddest martini I’ve ever ordered» and she says to me «well we have big martini glasses here» (I call bs) and then she says she made it! I couldn’t believe a manager would be okay serving people crap drinks out of dirty glasses. So when I mentioned that it didn’t have the olives she says «she was busy and forgot them» and she would give me extra so about two minutes later she comes back with four olives on plastics swords and a few Hershey kisses on a plate I say «thank you» and she walks away. I look at the olives and notice that they are dry and have light blue/​gray spots all over them, so I pick one up to look closer and then I smelled it… IT WAS MOLD! the manager of this restaurant served me olives covered in mold. I was absolutely disgusted I immediately lost my appetite and my blood started to boil. Don’t risk going to this place you could very well get food poisoning they do NOT care about cleanliness or quality especially management.

Decent service, okay steaks and good burgers. I’ve hit every place near my hotel and I like this one enough to go back.

On 9÷09÷14 my wife and I took my brother and his daughter to this restaurant for his birthday. It was our first visit and it was a three star recommended establishment from a Unilocal search. From the moment we initially arrived on that Tuesday evening the Hostess/​Manager wanted to seat us somewhere we didn’t prefer. We told her we were waiting for my brother to arrive and wanted to wait by the windows and she told us that area was reserved for larger families. We told her we would gladly go elsewhere to eat when she sat us by the windows. Please keep in mind this was Tuesday night and they were not busy at all. We told our Server, Brandon that it was my Brother’s Birthday in the event they might do anything special, i.e., sing an embarrassing Birthday song, provide a complementary dessert or anything of the kind. But not only did none of those things happen, they never even offered us a dessert we were willing to pay for it! I ordered a New York Strip and received a Rib eye and my niece’s steak tasted & smelled like it fell into an ash pit. In fact she ended up getting sick to her stomach later that night. When we brought this to the attention of the Server, they only offered to make her another steak which she ended up taking home. When the Manager/​Hostess, whom we had to ask to come to our table to address our issues only gave excuses for why the steak might have smelled the way it did. Never once did she apologize or offer to reduce our check for all our troubles. To make matters worse, we completed a «Guest Satisfaction Report» the very next day (9÷10÷14) and mailed it to Mr. Michael Tsavaris, President, Steve’s Dakota Grill, P.O. Box 305, Ontario, OH 44 862 and shared verbatim the above comments and you would think he would have replied with his genuine concerns or a simple apology but NOTHING!!! WE’LL NEVER BE BACK to ANY OF THEIR ESTABLISHMENTS and WE’LL BE SURE TO SPREAD THE WORD ON HOW WE WERE TREATED!!!

First I would like to say the service was outstanding, our waitress Coral was very friendly I told her this was our first time here and she offered suggestions from the menu. I had the prime rib, (ordered med) salad and baked potato, she brought warm rolls with a unique maple butter, the salad was fresh and tasty with a ½ a hardboiled egg, cucumber, tomato and croutons on it, the wait time for our food was just a little slow but not bad, the prime rib had good taste but looked like it had been cooked 2 days earlier or had sat under a heat lamp, the au jus tasted homemade, and the baked potato was done perfect.
My wife said her steak (ordered med) was a bit dry and it looked kind of burnt on the outside, she said it had good flavor and agreed that the salad and potato were very good.
Our waitress Coral offered desert and told us the restaurant was known for its carrot cake, it was a very large serving that I took to go and later found to be moist with good flavor.
Over all the food was good and I would say if you’re traveling along route 23 and your passing thru Marion and its dinner time I would give it a try.

I ate at Steve’s Dakota Grill for the first time last night & I was pleasantly surprised. The caesar salad, mashed potatoes, onion strings & filet mignon were all very good! The house recipe steak sauce is great!
Service was excellent.
I noticed a few small brown pieces of lettuce in my salad. Other than the incident with the salad, I would definitely recommend Steve’s Dakota Grill.

I have had several bad experiences here. Very poor customer service and management is even worse. I typically have ordered the Park Avenue salad with steak. It’s never the same salad. Sometimes there’s mixed greens, sometimes it’s been shredded iceberg lettuce. Sometimes there are croutons, sometimes there’s not. My steak has never been cooked properly. I never plan on visiting this restaurant again! I’ve given it several chances and it’s disappointed every single time.

We recently had a trip to Dakotas. I had never been there before but those I dined with had. First off, I will say the waitress we had was wonderful. She was pleasant, helpful, and on top of everything… but that’s kinda where the good stopped.
– We all ordered soup as an appetizer. Two french onion soups and a clam chowder. The french onion came out cold and the clam chowder was basically potato soup. I counted exactly 2 pieces of clam in it.
– My husband ordered the caprese salad… the traditional salad apparently in this restaurant has iceberg lettuce? The cheese tasted like it was about 3 months old. AND I LOVE CHEESE.
– I ordered the lobster quesadilla for dinner. I LOVE lobster and quesdillas… and I can honestly say this is the worst thing I may have eaten in my 28 years of life. The lobster literally looked like someone had previously chewed it and spit it back onto the tortilla…
– My mother in laws calamari she said and I quote «tasted like a fish stick.» There was so much batter on it it literally tasted like a fish stick.
– My positive… the Great Lakes Christmas Ale was wonderful and cold!
I’m hoping this is just a fluke!