Comments on: Wild Jack’s Restaurant: Sickly Steak, Rancid Ribs

By: M Fisher

M Fisher — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:21:15 +0000

Worst restaurant we have ever been to. Charging Outback Steakhouse prices for third world food and service. Not one of the waiters could speak English, they couldant even understand the word booth, and they work in a restaurant. Every part of four meals was disgusting from anemic salads to pathetic overcooked potatoes, the salad was supposed to be sirloin and it was clearly not. In any case we called for the manager and sent it back, she started arguing and we said bring out the chef, which she refused to do. We walked out without paying and then he came out, but he was claiming to be the manager aswell. We asked for the bill which he would not provide, because the waiter had clearly typed it in incorrectly. Thus we refused to pay.
He then called the police! ( or pretended to ) and we drove off. Needless to say the manager/chef is a complete idiot.
Those of use who ate a little felt sick for days afterwards, DO NOT EAT HERE, this restaurant is a black mark on Orlando’s good name and can ruin your holiday and is a tourist trap.
I will be contacting Floridas Immigration, Foods Standards, Trading standards and Tourist boards. I would appreciate if all those who were conned by this place would do the same.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:53:36 +0000

You could almost copy and paste every other disparaging comment made and place it into mine. Foreign waiters with barely a grasp on the English language, and absolutely no personality! He showed up after about 4 minutes, and took our order with out writing anything down. Oddly enough he didnt make any mistakes. This is the only good thing about his service. Our drinks sat empty through the delivery of our appetizer, and our entrée. The appetizer was nachos, and they had the consistency of stale rubber, they also had a not so meat like substance sprinkled on them. Utterly disgusting. Next come the entrée’s, the filet was shaped oddly, and was full of fat, kind of like what you would expect from a frozen tv dinner. The potatoes were brown, and also rubbery. The pork shank was ok on one side, but a petrified piece of inedible awfulness on the other side. I wasn’t very hungry so I added a salad to my girlfriends dinner, along with a loaf of honey bread, how could they screw up bread and salad right? Salad was room temperature which made me think about all of the bacteria making its way down my throat, and the bread had a huge hole in the center of it, and had small amount of honey drizzled over the top which I couldnt even taste, but it didnt really matter as I wasn’t going to finish it anyway. My girlfriends ribs were very puny, and not very tasty, I think she ate 2 of them. She sent her brown potato back in exchange for fries which never arrived. We asked 2 servers to see a manager before one came out of the kitchen with an apron on, the fact that he was in the same vicinity as the poor excuse for food, told me alot about the place. He said something about getting a bad shipment of nachos in. If you knew they were bad in the first place, why the heck would you continue to serve them?!?!? Then he proceeded to tell us he was baffled by the steak being bad, because they are prepared in house and there is nothing wrong with them. He said he would take half off our bill. And yes, they added gratuity, but by law in Florida, it is not mandatory to pay it, so we didnt. Bottom line, STAY FAR FAR AWAY from this dietary nightmare.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:55:45 +0000

I am so sorry my wife and I did not warn you all earlier. We were married in 1999 and spent part of our honeymoon in Orlando. We spent 3 days in the area enjoying restaraunts, attractiions, etc. On the 2nd night, we decided to try Wild Jack’s because we had never heard of it prior, and it looked like such a promising steakhouse.

I ordered a sirloin, she ordered bbq shrimp. We were drinking,and didn’t really think much about the food. I hate seafood, but I eveb tried on of her shrimp.

When I say drinking, I mean 3 beers for me, 1 margarita for her. Hardly excessive… But we both commented that the table was sticky, it took 10 minutes to seat us even tho nobody was there, and my steak looked grey and fatty for a sirloin. She only ate half her shrimp because she said they tasted foul.

One hour later, in our hotel, she had the worst case of diaharreah you could ever had as a human being. It was so bad, we had to leave the room with the front window open for an hour. My stomach hurt so badly I didn’t even eat breakfast the next morning.

Word to the wise. Stay away from this place. It is 2008 and we STILL JOKE ABOUT IT TODAY.

By: James

James — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:35:30 +0000

Wow, I had no idea! I went just recently and thought to find their number on google, and I found this. I dont know if I would have gone had I read this! I dont know, but I had a good time. Maybe the place was sold?

By: April Majchszak

April Majchszak — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:02:53 +0000

I really wish I had seen this website before making the mistake of going to this so called steak house. My first impression after being seated was “YUCK”. There was garbage, straws, fries, and other stuff in between the space between the table and the wall. We had gotten there minutes after they opened and were the first customers of the day so I know it was there for a long time. Next, the salt and pepper shakers were very sticky and nasty.

The steaks were less than tasty. I always get the filet. It was under season, under cooked and just plain bad. I had to use steak sauce to get it down.

We were a party of 4. My 10 year old had the kids burger. My 15 year old had nachos off of the appetizer menu and my husband and I both had over priced steaks. I had one daiquiri and my husband had a large beer on tap. The total of the bill was $95.00. Needless to say, I was in shock and could have gotten a better meal at Denny’s.

They also realize that they are so bad, that they charge you the gratuity up-front to make sure that they are gonna get tipped. If someone is not watching out for this, they can really get screwed.

I am really sorry I had this experience, but rest assured once in the parking lot, we made sure that other people getting out of their cars did not have the same experience.