Four Seasons By The Lake - Stafford

The steak was spectacular. We had a rehearsal dinner with 19 people and the server was great. We started inside moved to outside.....until the heavens opened up and moved back in. She was able to keep people and orders straight. The music was a little loud for my taste. Made it hard to talk to the guests. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner

Went after a funeral and it was very nice. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $10–20 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 4

Wanted to leave a review since it was our first time trying this restaurant and first impressions matter some. We were looking for a local place to go out for dinner in Stafford and found this restaurant on Google, the website looked inviting and the menu seemed promising so we decided to try it out. Overall I have to give this restaurant a 2-3 star rating for several reasons. First, when you enter the restaurant we stood at the door which is poorly lit next to a stage with a sign saying “Please Wait to be Seated”. After waiting a bit we were about to leave when a server had yelled over to us we could just pick a place to sit anywhere. That’s where second issue came. We walked around a wide open restaurant with lots of tables and booths but none were clean at all. Dirty dishes, sticky spills on them and overall not inviting. We finally sat at one of the booths that was the least dirty, the server came over to place down menus with silverware and we had to ask the server to wash it before she did. The server was very friendly and did a great job taking care of us, she was great! We ordered two Long Island ice teas and wow, by far the worst we have ever had. They were definitely not made right at all, very bitter and it was very noticeable it was incorrectly made. We then just ordered their special drinks on the table tent (Shark Bite and Green Iguana) and those were really good. After looking at the menu we ordered an appetizer (Chicken Cordon Blue Balls) and they were fantastic. Highly recommend these. Next, the dinner. We ordered the Chicken Broccoli Alfredo entrees. They came with a salad which came out with browned lettuce. The entrees themselves were definitely not worth the $20 price tag for each. It was a large portion of pasta, barely any chicken and broccoli in it at all. The cheese was more like a Mac Cheese than an Alfredo sauce. The dish was still good, but not what was expected and absolutely not worth the price. I would recommend if you are looking for this same dish there is another local restaurant Basil’s in Stafford that makes it fantastic and definitely worth the price. Overall not the experience I had hoped for and not the best first impression. It was not the worst, but definitely needs some improvements. Please support local family owned businesses though, even if it isn’t the best it is great to look out for our communities instead of big corporate enterprises. Thanks for reading.

My husband Joe and I adore this place! Always great food! Always great service! Love this restaurant!!!

Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $10–20 Food: 3 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 3