FoxFire - Geneva (IL)

5 /5 Krystine W: My brother , Uncle and I went to this place after a long day. The service was great. The food was top tier and large portions. I had so much ribs I was able to share with my family lol! Everything was on point. Drinks always full and atmosphere was fun with the live music. This place is great for a fun night out. Thank you all again for everything! We will be coming back on our next visit to IL.

4 /5 Jon Novak: Nice location in the heart of downtown Geneva. You can enter from the front or the rear and the hostess stand is near the middle. Nice outdoor patio area for warmer weather and plenty of seating inside. We were seated in a back side room which was cozy and quiet but service seemed to suffer being seated in there. The food was absolutely fantastic from the appetizer to the main course. Bang Bang Chicken appetizer was great and I highly recommend adding on a Cesar salad to your entree. For our meals we had the Forager’s Risotto and the Blackened Chicken Alfredo which I subbed Rigatoni noodles for. It was our first time eating here so I am not sure whether bread and butter is included but the table behind us was offered it and we were not. Water and soft drink glasses were empty for a while before being refilled but we will be back just based off how delicious the food was. Everyone has an off night so we will hope for better service next time.

1 /5 Mary F: Please beware before coming here!! It was my husband and I’s first time here and I never had an experience like this in a restaurant. If you need a sign to please save your time and money let this be it! 1. We sat at the bar at the spot closest to where the servers get their drinks. We got two beers and started to notice tiny little flies fly over our drinks and they were all over the service well and then noticed these little black dots on the wood of the bar shelves. It’s winter, why do you have flies!? So we move towards the very end of the bar with our drinks and right in front of us, was a printer, clutter, and the office door open and OH MY GOD. It was the most DISGUSTING thing i’ve seen in a restaurant. I wish I took a photo to show now that i’m writing this review. There’s papers spread everywhere, cups, clutter and on the floor there were jeans, shoes and a DOG! This dog looked like it was very old and struggling to breathe. There’s no way that’s a service dog. And if you need a service dog you should not be cooking, and messing with peoples food!! 2. We made the mistake of ordering food just because we were starving. We got the ribeye and the chicken. Chicken was so dry and rubbery, and the potatoes were so lumpy and lacked flavor other than grease. Same with the Ribeye. Ribeye tasted like it was frozen and they tried their best to defrost it. We can see why the age demographic of the place is 65+. Lumpy, mushy, dry cafeteria food. 3. We were watching the line cook since it’s an open kitchen and the guy who is I assume the owner was yelling at staff from the line and then picking at and eating bits of food while cooking. We should have left then. The bar service and drinks were also sub par. The guy wasn’t personable and didn’t seem like he wanted to be there, but I can’t blame him because if I worked with flies in an awkward space I would too. If you do go please sit at the bar closest to the kitchen and look for the flies and the melt downs in the kitchen oh and the dog! NEVER coming back!

1 /5 Michael: Weve been looking forward for weeks to trying Foxfire after hearing about its high-quality steaks and seafood, not to mention the wonderful warm ambiance and surroundings. The bar and bartender were pretty good -- though ingredients for one of the cocktails were out of stock, and 2 of the basil margaritas seemed to have virtually no taste of basil. After finishing our drinks, the host set the 5 of us at a table directly next to a table linen folding station, literally 2 feet away, which was distracting and unacceptable. When I requested a different table, I was informed that we couldnt move because those had prior "double" reservations. Still not sure what that meant, but we also had reservations for 2 weeks prior, and the entire dining room was nearly empty. It was 4:30 PM. I asked if its possible then to reserve a specific table, and she repeated the "double reservation" comment. Makes no sense. We started with calamari and "Ninos Mexican Shrimp cocktail." The calamari was soggy with no crispiness whatsoever, apparently it was fried in old oil that was not hot enough. The shrimp, though large, were nothing special -- 6 shrimp with a simple dipping sauce, Ive made better at home. 3 of us ordered the Pittsburgh prime rib eyes, 1 ordered a shrimp dinner, the 5th short ribs. The steaks were nothing short of awful -- the worst any of us ever ate. Ordered as medium rare, all 3 were well overdone: tough, oversalted, comprised of 2/3 gristle, with extra rather plain sauces to accompany them. And these were $69 prime steaks -- really? Thats close to the cost of a steak at Gibsons Steakhouse or Ruths Chris. Inedible. Any chef would have or should have seen that these steaks were unworthy of serving and should have tossed them before setting them on the grill. The creamed spinach was a small pate of milk with a few spinach leaves floating in it, nothing creamy about it. The fries were cold and tasteless. Our friends rated their meals 2.5/5.0, every one of these steak meals were 0/5. Why did we not just get up and leave? -- because our friends and us wanted a happy time together over the holidays and we just didnt want to go search elsewhere at this point. In hindsight we should have taken our $680 elsewhere.