Barrels Of Margate - MARGATE CITY

What a disappointment! Had high expectations of this place,then reality came knocking.

I have a real problem when I've been buying food from a restaurant for years and they don't even give you a salad with your order

Barrels has changed dramatically. Used to love their soups. Prices are very high and the soup was all HUGE carrots, non existent chicken and low taste.

Grilled chicken cutlet/eggplant parm combo sandwich BUMPING! I don't like the fact that it's next to a synagogue though, but the giant Christian church across the street makes it a bit better!

We made a reservation and arrived at the appointed time. The hostess asked us if we had a reservation we said yes. They asked if we were the party of 15 and we said no. They then said that they would seat us as soon as there was an available table. The restaurant is small so the reserved table for 15 took up a little under half of the available seating. All of the other tables appeared to be less than halfway done with their meals. I was reminded of the Seinfeld skit in which he reserves a rental car but the agency does not have a car for him when he arrives. Bottom line if you don't want to search for the video),: we left and went down the street to Boca coal fired grill where we were sat promptly without a reservation and the food was delicious. Also worth noting that Barrels does not serve alcohol. This is fine if you are expecting it and plan ahead. They do allow you to BYOB, but we did not know that ahead of time and arrived from Ocean City a dry town) empty handed