We are a nice, sit down American restaurant located inside The Holiday Inn in downtown Portsmouth, OH. We are within walking distance of the historical murals painted on the flood wall that runs alongside the Ohio River as well as many other Portsmouth landmarks. We are open for breakfast Monday-Sunday and dinner Monday-Saturday each week. Although we are closed for lunch each day, we offer traditional breakfast items in the mornings and during dinner we offer so many delicious items from crab stuffed mushrooms and zucchini fries to seafood, burgers, and great steaks! We also have 3 event rooms located inside the building that are constantly being booked for business meetings, weddings & receptions, class reunions, and tons of other events!
Address and Contact Information
Address: Downtown, 711 2nd St, Portsmouth, OH 45662
Phone: (740) 354-7788
Website: https://www.oscarsportsmouth.com/
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Reviews
A nice restaurant for gatherings being in a hotel.
This place is located inside of the Holiday INN. It has two seating areas, lounge=bar and dining room= traditional restaurant seating.
Atmosphere:looks beautiful….at first glance. If you look even a little too hard, you will see the worn down, dated decor and areas of plain old dilapitation( stains on ceiling, wallpaper peeling, cracks in drywall ect. They add white table clothes and candles, but the effect is short-lived.
Service: Our service (while slow) was very good. The young gentleman who served us was efficient, kind, and well-mannered. He was tipped accordingly, because it was obvious the delay was not his doing by the way other customers were served the items that came from the kitchen after long wait times and not items the servers were responsible for.
Food: In short, it’s not true fine dining cuisine. It could be better described as “fine dining.” Emphasis on the quotations. It is basic food parading as upscale with its presentation. The flavor was… ok. The appetizer we got was the southwest spring rolls. They were tasty, looked handmade, and presented nicely. The salads were run of the mill iceberg lettuce salads. The entrees(everyone’s MAIN concern, lol) were subpar in flavor but very well cooked. The lovely plating and decent preparation was the food’s saving grace due to the absolute lack of seasoning.
Desserts: Stay away from these. They are low quality and not worth your money. Enough said.
Drinks: This is an area of no complaint. Well priced-ish. But they are well made and taste good. Just get them at the start of your meal because they are not shy with the pour.
Pricing: It won’t break the bank but it’s not worth the cost of what you get in quality, but it is worth the cost in portions. The sizings were sufficient.
OVERVIEW: Don’t go with high hopes true fine upscale dining as this diner did. You will leave confused and disappointed. Treat it as a trip to an SLIGHTLY more elevated AppleBee’s(but with worse food).
The food quality is MUCH better, these days. The menu is quite large, maybe even overwhelmingly so. The weekly specials are delicious and affordable. Great, friendly service!
Original review: I’ve eaten at Oscars on several occasions and each time the atmosphere was quite nice and the service was friendly, but the menu options and food quality were dull and underwhelming. Not terrible, just…incredibly dull. Most menu items are overpriced, but one can usually expect that from a restaurant housed within a hotel; however, no one expects a small slice of pie, scratch made or not, to cost around $8!
They have a good selection of beers along with mix drinks. The menu is large but the food is better than expected for a hotel restaurant. The prime rib sliders are turkey amazing.
I would highly recommend eating and drinking here