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This is one of those highly recommended places downtown and a group of four of us dutifully reached for a mid week dinner having booked a table etc. C…
Gaurav Tamotia
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Love this place. We travel often and always make this a stopping place. Highly recommend the pork nachos. They are packed with lots of flavor and a me…
Brad Jewett
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Awesome atmosphere. High quality local food. Delicious unique flavors. Definitely will come again & highly recommend. Everything was outstanding from …
BJPeacock
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10 Reviews on “Fork”
Passing thru Boise. Sales clerk suggested Fork for lunch. Beyond delicious and so reasonable! A memorable meal on our trip. Service was excellent also.
Totally awesome morning with Chris and Jarrod at the bar. Service was over the top and the beverages and food is amazing. Can’t wait to come back to Boise. It will be our first stop!
Fork is one of the best restaurants in Boise. Based in the old bank building, the atmosphere is both historic and beautiful. Great preparation, delicious food, local to the region everything, and perfect service!
The Fork is my go-to restaurant to take folks from out of town. Always delicious food, a great atmosphere, and probably the best burger in Boise.
They called to change my reservation time & were very apologetic. We were seated right away. Appetizers and meal were tastey. We were offered a free dessert as they felt it took too long for the food to come out. It was a very busy Friday night but we didn’t think the wait was that long.
Not Impressed. After reviewing their menu online I thought the food looked great, I was excited to try it out. The space itself is great, very cool vibe with a big, open dining area. The bar looked like a great place to hang out for a few cocktails too. After ordering, one thing I noticed is nothing is served right away, such as something as simple as fresh artisan bread and oil. This is usually the mark of a restaurant that isn’t too guest-centric I’ve discovered, in regards to the food. Anyway, not a big deal but definitely noticeable to someone who’s eaten in many excellent restaurants in quite a few cities. The first course salad was honestly terrible. I was in the mood for something simple, so I ordered their Wedge Salad. I got about half a head of iceberg with maybe 3 tablespoons of creamy blue, a tablespoon of crumbly, a few red onion rings, and a few grape tomatoes. None of the ingredients tasted all that fresh, and the salad had way too much iceberg and not nearly enough blue cheese. In short, it sucked. A Wedge is a hard salad to screw up too.Onward to the entree. I came in looking forward to a NY Strip or Ribeye (like I saw on their outdated menu online), but they only had a Filet on the menu that night. Not the end of the world, I like Filet as well. The meat came out on a skillet platter, which shocked me. Why… on earth…. would you serve a cut of meat that’s cooked to temperature on a skillet platter that’s about 300 degrees and will continue to cook the meat long after it left the window? I can tell you why. Stupidity. My medium rare filet was heading upwards to medium well by the second, as it sat there in front of me. I almost sent it back for being overcooked on arriving to the table (it was medium by this point) but decided against it. The truly terrible part was it was a quality cut of meat, the kitchen just overcooked it with the presentation. The sauce was pretty good. The polenta that it was served with was awful. Overcooked and with little flavor. Scale of 1 to 10 this place gets an 8 for ambiance and a straight up 1 for food. It’s in no way a good value and not a memorable experience. At least not in a good way.
Food okay, service not okay. After a few swallows of the initial service of ice water, my wife noticed a large lipstick print on the opposite side of the glass from which I was drinking. When I pointed it out to the server she perfunctorily apologized and joked that it wasn’t my shade. A few minutes later I had a clean (or wiped clean) glass. Later, the manager brought our food and proceeded to instruct us on how difficult it is for the dishwasher to clean some types of lipstick. He told us the dishwasher water is 180 degrees, perhaps to indicate it was hot enough to kill any harmful things even while not reliably removing lipstick. The officious response to the lipstick from waitress and manager leads me to wonder if this sort of service failure is so frequent that they are both cold to it and ready with technical details. We won’t be back to Fork.