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Welcome to Monks on the Commons your destination for sinful cocktails and soulful food. Located in the Ithaca Marriott Downtown on restaurant row in the Ithaca Commons. Here at Monks, we embrace the communal spirit and strive to promote the best the region has to offer. We consider it our calling to create thoughtful food and drink in a space you can share with other good and like-minded people.
Relaxed contemporary outpost offering hearty American standards alongside beer, wine & cocktails.
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Address: 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: (607) 272-2222 ext. 6654
Website: https://www.monksonthecommons.com/
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Cmoon
Ordered eggs benedict and it came out overly cooked and just like hard boiled egg.
The service was slow in morning. To make it worse, the waitress was lack of interpersonal skills and basically said we are short of staff and you need to wait longer.
… moreThe service was slow in morning. To make it worse, the waitress was lack of interpersonal skills and basically said we are short of staff and you need to wait longer.
Robin ML
My husband and I went for valentine’s day. The food was amazing and the service was beyond exemplary. Especially our server Kylie, she was amazing and made sure everything was perfect for us. All of the staff was friendly and accommodating, even on a very busy night!
We will absolutely be back.
… moreWe will absolutely be back.
Steve Mulloy
Enjoyed breakfast on Thanksgiving morning at Monks. There was only one server, Brianna, who was incredible as she was alone and at one point I counted 10+ tables being served.
The kitchen staff was assisting and the food was amazing.
I can’t compliment Brianna enough for staying calm and hustling to ensure everyone had the best dining experience possible. I hope the management appreciates this professional team member.
… moreThe kitchen staff was assisting and the food was amazing.
I can’t compliment Brianna enough for staying calm and hustling to ensure everyone had the best dining experience possible. I hope the management appreciates this professional team member.
Stacy Verbeck
Beautiful set up, the waiter was very accommodating, and sweet. Food was excellent. The shrimp saganaki was incredible, definitely a must try. The dinner portion of gnocchi was semi small, but had excellent flavor. The cheesecake was very creamy, and delicious.
… moreDavid Marcella
Drinks are good. Service was solid. Food is AWFUL for the price. $30 for Gnocci with Short Rib “Ragu” , which looks like Gnocci in a can of Campbells canned stew. $27 for shrimp and tortellini pesto, which they confirmed was from a jar/can after asking about nuts in the pesto. Fries were clearly frozen and soggy as well. A shame because the hotel it’s attached to is very nice.
… moreLuca Colonnese
We had one dinner and two breakfasts here during our two night stay at the adjacent Marriott. In my opinion the breakfast staff was superior to the one evening we had dinner there. But their main fault here is the food quality.
It’s like they’re trying to get things wrong. To start with the “no Coke only Pepsico” products – you should have a case of Coca Cola cans stashed somewhere – there’s no reason for it to be a fountain drink especially at the prices sold here. They also seem to be trying to save the planet one cardboard straw at a time (ergh…) In the end I wound up having iced tea and it was so watered down that I think the tea in it was homeopathic: A single drop of tea in a glass of ice water.
Secondly I had their 18$ hamburger (under protest) and they managed to get that wrong by providing a small beef patty on a generic oiled bun, with generic mayonnaise in the bun and nothing else, basically no trimmings other than a slice of tomato, a single raw onion ring, and a leaf of iceberg lettuce. I can tolerate this low level of effort at a ball game or a Nascar race but this is a sit down restaurant at a Marriott hotel and the restaurant prices reflect this. The fries were very forgettable.
Breakfasts were not as bad but still not great given the prices. At least the breakfast service was great compared to the evening dinner service.
In the end I concluded that this place was more of a bar than a restaurant.
… moreIt’s like they’re trying to get things wrong. To start with the “no Coke only Pepsico” products – you should have a case of Coca Cola cans stashed somewhere – there’s no reason for it to be a fountain drink especially at the prices sold here. They also seem to be trying to save the planet one cardboard straw at a time (ergh…) In the end I wound up having iced tea and it was so watered down that I think the tea in it was homeopathic: A single drop of tea in a glass of ice water.
Secondly I had their 18$ hamburger (under protest) and they managed to get that wrong by providing a small beef patty on a generic oiled bun, with generic mayonnaise in the bun and nothing else, basically no trimmings other than a slice of tomato, a single raw onion ring, and a leaf of iceberg lettuce. I can tolerate this low level of effort at a ball game or a Nascar race but this is a sit down restaurant at a Marriott hotel and the restaurant prices reflect this. The fries were very forgettable.
Breakfasts were not as bad but still not great given the prices. At least the breakfast service was great compared to the evening dinner service.
In the end I concluded that this place was more of a bar than a restaurant.
Guillaume Pirard
Maybe the worst food I ever ate. First of all, the owners should be shamed for having only one waitress taking care of the whole floor. It is straight up abusive, and preying, behaviour. So I will not mention that person’s performance as it is irrelevant in those conditions. Second of all, I ordered a Caesar Salad and Duck confit quesadilla. There was relish in the quesadilla. So much relish that it was basically a hot sauerkraut with sour cream quesadilla with bad cheese and drown out duck confit. It made me nauseous. Literally. My friend had the duck breast. The green beans under it were swimming in water, so basically boiled. Just shocking. 1 beer, 2 negronis, 2 salads, 2 dishes: 125$ before tip. A monstrosity.
… moreElla Shinar
The restaurant is a nice hidden area in the Marriott hotel, the food was good and I especially recommend their ‘little bites’ menu which offers pulled pork blt sandwiches and grilled cheese with soup, it was a great intermittent meal whilst waiting out the rain. Their dessert selection was also great, I recommend the Creme brûlée.
… moreNick Tubbs
Still a little disorganized from just opening a couple weeks ago but food was great. Deviled eggs, veggie burger and veggie pot pie surpassed expectations. Layout is a little weird with no separation from the Hotel main lobby. This will become a popular spot in the summer when you can sit outside and they work out the kinks.
… morePaula Amols
Mixed results on dinner. Service was very slow, even though it didn’t appear to be a lot of diners. However, to be fair, there didn’t seem to be much wait staff on hand.
My burger was actually quite good, although more accurately medium rare instead of the requested medium, however, I actually prefer medium rare just never order it that way because I know many restaurants undercook their meat.
The big disappointment, though, were the fries. I paid the extra to sub in duck fat fries, and was so looking forward to some hot, crispy, tasty fries. What I got were limp, greasy, largely undercooked, and more lukewarm than hot. Having been in the food service business for more than 20 years, I am quite sure that these fries, after not being left in the fryer long enough to begin with, had been sitting for a long time under a heat lamp in the kitchen. A drop back into the oil for a quick second fry would have done wonders for them, and it’s not like there seemed to be any hurry to get our food to us anyway.
To top it off, when my card was run for payment, they somehow charged me for some other diner’s dinner–which of course was more expensive than mine! Took a long time before I spotted someone working there–my waitress was nowhere to be seen once she’d taken our payment–to point out the error and get it corrected.
Really, the only reason my friends and I had dinner there was because it was a fundraiser night for a local theater, with half the dinner proceeds going to the theater. It’s not a place I’d otherwise go to, especially with so many far better restaurants in town.
… moreMy burger was actually quite good, although more accurately medium rare instead of the requested medium, however, I actually prefer medium rare just never order it that way because I know many restaurants undercook their meat.
The big disappointment, though, were the fries. I paid the extra to sub in duck fat fries, and was so looking forward to some hot, crispy, tasty fries. What I got were limp, greasy, largely undercooked, and more lukewarm than hot. Having been in the food service business for more than 20 years, I am quite sure that these fries, after not being left in the fryer long enough to begin with, had been sitting for a long time under a heat lamp in the kitchen. A drop back into the oil for a quick second fry would have done wonders for them, and it’s not like there seemed to be any hurry to get our food to us anyway.
To top it off, when my card was run for payment, they somehow charged me for some other diner’s dinner–which of course was more expensive than mine! Took a long time before I spotted someone working there–my waitress was nowhere to be seen once she’d taken our payment–to point out the error and get it corrected.
Really, the only reason my friends and I had dinner there was because it was a fundraiser night for a local theater, with half the dinner proceeds going to the theater. It’s not a place I’d otherwise go to, especially with so many far better restaurants in town.