Currents

Treasure Island is so close that I had never spent the night or eaten at Currents Restaurant before. The weather was bad but I already had the day off so we booked a room and needed to eat dinner. We wanted to go to Tradewinds Buffet but it was closed due to inclement weather. I guess this means that there would not be enough patrons and food would go bad but I do not know for sure why the buffet was closed just because it was snowing outside.
So we want to Currents. Brandon at the front desk greeted us right away. He was awesome! The place was packed since the hotel was sold out and the buffet was closed. He went to clear a table for us but before he came back, someone else came by and seated us. Wait time less than two minutes and Brandon apologized for the wait.
We were seated with menus. After 15 minutes, I asked my father in law if he thought I should go to the host’s desk to see if they knew we were there. He said no, he would catch the next server that walked by. I had met the eyes of one server who promptly averted her eyes. I was less than hopeful.
He flagged down one of the servers and asked if she knew who our server was. She gestured and said «It’s him. He’s getting food out. You will have to wait.» We were seated for a full 25 minutes before he came over. (Do you know how much money the casino could have made from my gambling in that time?!?) He brought us each a water and took our order. I ordered the mushroom Swiss burger with sweet potatoe fries and a Mountain Dew, my father in law ordered the farmer’s omelet with coffee.
About 20 minutes later, the manager dropped off drinks and food. The burger was with regular fries and she said she would get me a side of he sweet potato fries. She never came back. The burger looked great but had no flavor at all. The fries, regular fries, were cold. My father in law said his omelet was just ok.
We finished eating. No one ever came by the table to check on us. Yes, the restaurant was busy but there were a lot of servers walking around, too. Our server walked by us numerous times without looking at us, at all.
We finished eating and sat waiting for more than 10 minutes. Our server refilled one water glass (this was the single refill in all the time we were there despite the fact that my glasses were both empty for quite some time) and I had to ask for the check.
Finally we were getting up to pay. Brandon was at the register and he asked how everything was. We said there were some difficulties. He apologized and accepted the $ 15 comp coupon but the register stopped working correctly and he had to get the manager. She fixed the register in about a minute.
All in all the food kept us from starving, cost $ 3.40 and was worth about that much but nothing more. It took forever and was not good, with only one person on staff who appeared to care.

Stopped for breakfast this morning after staying at the hotel overnight after a concert Friday night. We felt like we were invisible standing at the door waiting to be seated, it took some time before we were acknowledged while we were waiting to be seated. Our food was barely warm when we got it, It did not seem to be the waitresses fault, but when we complained at the cashier it was barely acknowledged as a concern, certainly not addressed at all. Some customer service training appears to be in order for the person at the cashier. Food was good, it’s too bad that there are so few options at a nice casino.

When your inside a casino your options are limited. We went early to have a few drinks and get something to eat before a concert. Bad idea!!! I wish we would have stopped somewhere else before hand. I certainly did NOT want a buffet — the idea of them just gross me out with everybody breathing all over my food. We wandered around and pretty much currents was the only option — we had to wait in line for 30 minutes because it was busy – however it appears they only had one side of this place open on New Years Eve… wha wha WHAT!!!
This is straight up old people dining here folks… The did not have the broasted chicken even though it was the day of the week they were supposed to have it. I got the salisbury steak special… it had those fake grill marks on a tough piece of some type of meat. The husband got the cod… it appeared okay however pretty sure they just sauntered over to the buffet and fulfilled his order. Both dinners were around 10.00 so it is not expensive but hardly worth the time or taste buds…