City Tavern Kitchen & Bar 386 North Main Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067

"This is a review of the establishment itself and not the service or servers. Every person we've interacted with here has been wonderful. That being said we came here Thursday night tonight to watch MSU play in the sweet 16. This is supposed to be an MSU bar. We showed up before the game started with a reservation and...they are simply out of almost everything on the menu. They have completely dropped the ball on the biggest MSU sports night of the year so far. They are out of almost all domestics on draught and seemingly half the craft beers on the menu. I had to go back and forth with the server 3 times to find a beer I could order. On a busy night this took about a half hour through no fault of our server who had other tables to tend to. They are also out of most food (even more than what's crossed out in the picture I provided). The establishment responded to another reviewer saying they aren't out of everything but if you look at my attached photo you'll see the menu has half of the items crossed off and another person in our party was told the chicken tortilla soup was out in addition to everything else. We were starving and ordered the BBQ chicken pizza and it was terrible. It was 80% cheese and dough with a little drizzle of BBQ sauce on top. There is no other sauce underneath the cheese. To top it all off one of the two sinks in the men's room was broken causing a traffic jam in there on a predictably busy night. I absolutely cannot recommend that anyone visit this establishment."

"I would give zero stars if I could. Saturday evening my group had the worst service I have ever had at a restaurant in my life. French fry orders were swapped, incorrect salad dressing, not enough silverware, forgetting two of the guests orders, only to bring one the wrong order super late which she couldn’t actually eat. She got her correct order togo however the fries were incorrect and she couldn’t eat them. So we gave up. The restaurant wasn’t busy at the time we went — I can forgive a few blunders but countless mistakes from the kitchen and waitstaff is unacceptable. It was obvious the server was new and I can be lenient but if the manager knew she was struggling there should have been more coaching or a hands on approach. I’ve spent 6 years in a kitchen, and I’ve supervised staff. I understand what can be going on but we were all to embarrassed to complain so we left and won’t be coming back. We ended up leaving for another bar in town. Also, what’s up with these super thick onions? These are half of what was on the sandwich."

"Would recommend the adult Capri sun!!! I can’t stop thinking about how amazing it was. Pizza was good and the service was so nice! Would come back when looking for a tavern vibe"

"I had so much fun here at their Salsa Night yesterday! The vibe was amazing, drinks where amazing, staff was nice and friendly and the food was much better than I expected. The prices are very reasonable and their cocktails are a nice size (not in smaller glasses like other places). I couldn’t decide what to order, so I went ahead of ordered a bit of everything. I highly recommend going especially on Wednesday nights if you like salsa!"

"Update: Came back to give them another chance. Absolutely loved the chicken tortilla soup. The wait for everything.....was horrendous. Was there for at least 2 hours. Not worth the wait. Came during the Halloween bar crawl, so super busy. Got the pretzel before any of the drinks. Good drinks and very good pretzel! My waitress (Hailey I think?) was very nice."