Although we had a reservation, we still had to wait over an hour to get a table. But, I wasn't too surprised considering the fact that it was a Friday night and I was rolling with a party of 24. Lucky for me, I had taken Carolyn B's advice and had made sure to arrive \"pre-appetizered.\"\n\nThe food is way over-priced considering it's depressingly low quality. I seriously wonder if my wiener schnitzel is available at Woodman's in the frozen meal aisle. It was bad -- but I was hungry, very hungry. The salad was a joke, plain and simple.\n\nI would have given the Essen Haus four stars purely based on the fun \"binge drinking from a boot set to live polka music\" experience, but the abysmal food quality ratcheted them down a couple notches.