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Wife and I visited the restaurant on Monday Oct 19th 2009. Ordered the Tuna and Mahi and both were prepared perfectly. Appetizers and deserts were wonderful as well. From a food quality perspective, we were very pleased. The bad news was our server was snobby, arrogant and VERY non-attentive. We were there for an early dinner at approx 6:00 and they were not busy at all. She just stood around most of the time visiting with other employees and seldom looked our way to see if we needed anything. She was very slow to take our appetizer and dinner order. After dinner, it took 20 minutes to get the desert menu. She just didn't seem to care. I noticed she treated the other couple of tables she was waiting on in much the same way. I will go back for the food but hopefully have a different server experience. I'm sure the other servers are very attentive and hopefully we were just unlucky enough to get the dud of the bunch.

Went last night for the first time, setting aside the not-so-good reviews, I decided its Flay...it can't be that bad...well boy was i wrong! Terrible service and one bad entree followed by the next. Not to mention, we went with a group of 12 people, 4 of which who got their food, while the rest sat and waited about 15 minutes for theirs to come out. Waiter got orders wrong and forgot things...I thought i was going to a top notch restaurant not some hole in the wall... Food was flavored and seasoned all wrong, burnt tuna, chewy meat...overall just a terrible experience and COMPLETE WASTE of time and money...

The blackened fish I ordered was so salty that I couldn't finish it .

My partner and I went for restaurant week. When we got there, there was a little "NY attitude." We arrived a few minutes before our reservation and they were still seating people with reservations from 15 minutes earlier. There were four people standing at the reservation desk doing very little except talking to each other. Once we were seated, the service was excellent. The bread guy brought some really great bread and the server was friendly without being overly familiar. The salad my partner ordered was mediocre, but jerk chicken on flat bread was out of this world. We ordered roast chicken with a spicy sauce and red snapper with a blackened coating. The chicken was excellent; the snapper was good. Both desserts, peach cheesecake and a chocolate cake, were both very good too. How good the coffee for dessert, when I order dessert, is my standard for how good the restaurant is. The coffee here was excellent. When I looked at the main menu, I found the prices not to be too outrageous. Portions are adequate. I would go again.

Wait staff was outstanding - we, and several other couples in our seating area, were allowed a long, delightful experience. The perfect amount of attention without pressure to vacate. The menu creativity was as expected - creative. The food was as expected - great. Flay's recipes have yet to disappoint us at home and this experience certainly did not, despite VERY high expectations set by outstanding results in our kitchen. Our experience was a very good value for the price paid.

I recently ate at Mesa Grill in NYC..Bottomline is my expectations were way, way higher than the actual experience. Once I arrived at the restuarant for my 9:30 reservation, we were greeted kindly and taking to our table next to the window. After waiting a few minutes to get water, we were greeted by our server. The first thing she told us was that they were out of the special. Not a good first impression. After recommending a bottle of wine, we ordered that. After 15 minutes, we finally got the bottle, our server spoke highly off, she informed us they were out of 3 other appetizer (one of which we came to eat), and 4 entrees (one of which was the NY Strip). Yes, I understand that eating on a Sunday night, in NYC is not the smartest things to do, any resturant, especially, such a reputable one, should be able to support the menu on all nights. Furthermore, this contracdicts, Bobby Flay's comments on his multiple shows and how he stresses that running out of food is unexceptable. While waiting for our dinner, another couple sat down next to us. They were immediatly served both water and Bread. Oh yeah, 5 minutes prior our server told us they were out of bread for the night, but yet, the table next to us got a fresh basket of french rolls. As a result of that, our server told us we could get breadsticks instead. It was not until 10 minutes after out dinner was served did we get the breadsticks, which ended up just sitting in the middle of the table like a vase of flowers. I got the filet and my girlfriend for the mahi mahi. Both were good, but not great. The best part about both was the sauce they were served on. Overall, my dining experience was good, but not great, and next time, I will be sure to try a local hole in the wall restaurant, in NYC that cares about the service. Also, my respect level for Bobby Flay has dropped signficantly. I hope you dining experience will be better than mine.

In spite of having made a reservation a month in advance, we were made to wait and then given a table right by the door, where we then provided entertainment for hungry diners lining up to wait for their table. We went to Mesa expecting the same big, bold and fiery flavours we see in Flay's recipes. We've tried many of his recipes with great success. We recommend that the chef at Mesa should try those recipes. Because whatever it is they were making, it certainly wasn't those recipes with those amazing flavours. The food was bland to indifferent. Seasoning was an afterthought that often didn't make an appearance at all. To add to this, we ordered the crispy squash blossom appetizer and were told that they were "sold out". This at 7.15 pm. Were we supposed to turn up at 5.00 pm for dinner to ensure that they aren't sold out of any of the dishes on the menu? Service was worse than poor - my husband's beer didn't turn up until he'd asked for it three times. This was our anniversary celebration dinner and it was an awful experience. NYC had plenty of incredible restaurants to explore, so we're never going back to Mesa. He seems to have dropped the ball completely.