No longer open. Made a reservation, got a text from them to confirm and showed up to a locked door.
Lauren Caracciolo Moore
0/10. We had a reservation for 2 weeks. Showed up, the place was closed down. Ruined our Friday night. Also, if you’re closed down, take down your website!!!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Eric Hagstrom
Came to see a friend’s husband playing jazz. Love that we can listen to live music in a place and not be so loud that we can’t continue having our conversation with friends. Say at the bar and drinks were exotic if not maybe trying too hard. Friends Manhattan wasn’t up to standard. Staff was around, but this wasn’t an experience. The whole place is a vibe though.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Olive Oil Cake
Juan La Torre
My wife and I had an incredible night enjoying the best jazz in town food and wine. I had the Miso Red Texas fish and my wife had the beet salad. Both were excellent and they paired so well with the Coral Do Mar albariño.
M N
Service and atmosphere was great. Food was okay. Had the Buttermilk Fried Cauliflower (Excellent), Pork Belly (Okay) and Maitake Mushroom Pappardelle (Not my favorite).Would go again to try some of the other dishes.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
Alison Thornton
CT's Provisions and Cocktail Parlor deserves every single star! This hidden gem in downtown McKinney has the absolute best brunch around. Their avocado toast is absolutely delicious and the mimosas are served in generous portions. The impeccable service and speakeasy cool vibe make it a perfect spot for a memorable dining experience. Highly recommended for brunch enthusiasts and cocktail aficionados!
Recommended dishes: Lemony Avocado Toast
Bob T.
Fairly unique drink offerings plus not your normal entrees. All taste wonderful, but respect your own tastes and palate before ordering. My wife and I will return next week to celebrate her new job!Our server was very attentive and informative regarding both the menu and the establishment background and focus.Hard to describe the ambiance so go and experience it yourself. We like it, but it's not cookie cutter.
DeAnne P.
The best riffs on classic Prohibition era cocktails and an incredible and adventurous dinner menu! We make it a point to visit here every time we spend a day on the square!
Aric Kampschaefer
The food was excellent. I enjoyed the oysters and sweet potato Benedict! However, I was looking forward to trying cocktails at this wonderful-looking cocktail bar but after waiting 20 minutes for my first cocktail order I was forced to switch to wine. The one bartender on staff at 1PM on a Sunday didn’t seem particularly busy (and the restaurant as a whole was less than half full) but I was told there was a backup of cocktail orders. This is obviously extremely disappointing for a cocktail bar with such a cool looking cocktail menu. How can you purport to be a cocktail bar and yet a customer can’t get a cocktail in 20 minutes? The food and the friendliness of my server prevented the experience from being outright bad, but I can’t give a cocktail bar parlor more than three stars if they can’t serve me a cocktail.
Al Johnson
3rd and final time I’m eating there. Pluses: my food last night was very good. It’s a beautiful place. Negatives: 2 of the times we’ve had VERY off-putting service. Asking for a recommendation I told waiter I liked spicy whisky like fireball and he told me to try Chili’s. Ok, Dude. That waiter was actually rude a couple times. We ended up not staying for dinner. Last night waitress confused coming back and telling another gentleman in our party they were out of the special he’d ordered with another man at our table a couple seats down. Long story short, I’ve never seen a waitress argue repeatedly with a guest… “yes I did tell you.” And then he was still charged for the wrong meal. The service is disjointed. I’ve had much better experiences any number of places on McKinney square.
Food was good and presented beautifully... drink were good, some a bit on the smaller side but also beautiful! Waiter was very knowledgeable.. she was attentive and recommended good items.
Samantha Vanness
Bummed would be the only word I could use to describe our first experience here. We made reservations for our 15 year wedding anniversary and decided to sit at the bar rather than a table. Probably our first mistake. Due to an underwhelming lack of service we didn’t end up eating dinner there. The appetizer we ordered was delicious. The cocktails we did get, were also great. They had a decent whiskey selection but were out of the one we wanted. The bartender wasn’t sure what to recommend, he seemed new, so asked the other bartender who suggested an alternative, saying it was “only a little bit more” than our original option. Our bartender seemed hesitant to relay the suggestion, after we got our bill we understood why. It wasn’t on the menu so we trusted the suggestion. It was very good, however…we were shocked and actually disappointed in the lack of integrity from the bartender when we received our bill and the glass was over TWICE as much as our original option. While I can appreciate a $60 glass of whiskey, I don’t appreciate being taken advantage of. I also asked what the “cut of the month” was that they had on the menu, and was met with a blank stare and then after asking the other bartender (who also seemed dumbfounded by the request), and finally the chef…was told they didn’t have it that month. I had been in the mood for a good steak and them not having one plus the lack of service was enough. So we got the bill, realized we’d been swindled and left. Our actual bartender (the new guy) was nice. I felt bad that he was making the drinks for the entire restaurant while the other guy was only interested in taking care of one side of the bar (and it wasn’t our side). I had looked forward to dining here for some time and this experience was really disappointing. The tables seemed to be getting better service so we may try again when we don’t want a steak and sit at a table, not the bar
Russell Morris
We only had a couple of appetizers and met some friends for drinks, but everything we had was great!My only feedback for the location would be looking into add'l bartenders. I like that you have unique prohibition style cocktails that are complex in recipe and probably take add'l time to make, but it seemed to take a while to get drinks even before they had really any other customers there. It wasn't a terrible wait, but it made me wonder how the place could handle a large crowd.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Oysters on the Half Shell
Michelle V.
This is a cute place in downtown Mckinney. We shared the oysters which were good but much better after we asked for horseradish. My husband got the branzino which he was disappointed in, said it was flat and mostly bones. I had the ragu and enjoyed it. One of our friends had the pork chop it was overcooked and dry.I took a star off for service and for the dessert.Service was very slow and our friends waited a long time for drinks and our server forgot to bring horseradish.Dessert: Have you ever stopped to imagine what what the caulk between your tiles tasted like? Well look no further than the panna cotta here. It was hands down the worst thing I've ever tried at a restaurant and we eat out a lot. We had a party of 6 and we all tried it and each one of us gagged on it.Whoever made that needs to try it themself.We all told the server how bad it was and asked to have it removed from our bill. She said she warned us they were working out the "kinks" so we did not get refunded. It wasn't a lot of money but we def were disappointed we had to pay and that she didn't even pretend to care .Overall I'd say go for ambience and drinks w apps. Everything else was very hit or miss.
erik brewer
It is an excellent restaurant that rivals MANY upscale restaurants in Dallas. They have an excellent menu, and the food is ultra high quality. If you want to stop in for a drink with friends, Matt, Blake, & Juan are top notch bartenders, and they make the best drinks. The guys at the bar stear away from your normal mainstream liquors, and it makes the drinks cleaner and tastier. Definitely the place to go for food and/or drinks.
No longer open. Made a reservation, got a text from them to confirm and showed up to a locked door.
0/10. We had a reservation for 2 weeks. Showed up, the place was closed down. Ruined our Friday night. Also, if you’re closed down, take down your website!!!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Came to see a friend’s husband playing jazz. Love that we can listen to live music in a place and not be so loud that we can’t continue having our conversation with friends. Say at the bar and drinks were exotic if not maybe trying too hard. Friends Manhattan wasn’t up to standard. Staff was around, but this wasn’t an experience. The whole place is a vibe though.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Olive Oil Cake
My wife and I had an incredible night enjoying the best jazz in town food and wine. I had the Miso Red Texas fish and my wife had the beet salad. Both were excellent and they paired so well with the Coral Do Mar albariño.
Service and atmosphere was great. Food was okay. Had the Buttermilk Fried Cauliflower (Excellent), Pork Belly (Okay) and Maitake Mushroom Pappardelle (Not my favorite).Would go again to try some of the other dishes.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
CT's Provisions and Cocktail Parlor deserves every single star! This hidden gem in downtown McKinney has the absolute best brunch around. Their avocado toast is absolutely delicious and the mimosas are served in generous portions. The impeccable service and speakeasy cool vibe make it a perfect spot for a memorable dining experience. Highly recommended for brunch enthusiasts and cocktail aficionados!
Recommended dishes: Lemony Avocado Toast
Fairly unique drink offerings plus not your normal entrees. All taste wonderful, but respect your own tastes and palate before ordering. My wife and I will return next week to celebrate her new job!Our server was very attentive and informative regarding both the menu and the establishment background and focus.Hard to describe the ambiance so go and experience it yourself. We like it, but it's not cookie cutter.
The best riffs on classic Prohibition era cocktails and an incredible and adventurous dinner menu! We make it a point to visit here every time we spend a day on the square!
The food was excellent. I enjoyed the oysters and sweet potato Benedict! However, I was looking forward to trying cocktails at this wonderful-looking cocktail bar but after waiting 20 minutes for my first cocktail order I was forced to switch to wine. The one bartender on staff at 1PM on a Sunday didn’t seem particularly busy (and the restaurant as a whole was less than half full) but I was told there was a backup of cocktail orders. This is obviously extremely disappointing for a cocktail bar with such a cool looking cocktail menu. How can you purport to be a cocktail bar and yet a customer can’t get a cocktail in 20 minutes? The food and the friendliness of my server prevented the experience from being outright bad, but I can’t give a cocktail bar parlor more than three stars if they can’t serve me a cocktail.
3rd and final time I’m eating there. Pluses: my food last night was very good. It’s a beautiful place. Negatives: 2 of the times we’ve had VERY off-putting service. Asking for a recommendation I told waiter I liked spicy whisky like fireball and he told me to try Chili’s. Ok, Dude. That waiter was actually rude a couple times. We ended up not staying for dinner. Last night waitress confused coming back and telling another gentleman in our party they were out of the special he’d ordered with another man at our table a couple seats down. Long story short, I’ve never seen a waitress argue repeatedly with a guest… “yes I did tell you.” And then he was still charged for the wrong meal. The service is disjointed. I’ve had much better experiences any number of places on McKinney square.
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Food was good and presented beautifully... drink were good, some a bit on the smaller side but also beautiful! Waiter was very knowledgeable.. she was attentive and recommended good items.
Bummed would be the only word I could use to describe our first experience here. We made reservations for our 15 year wedding anniversary and decided to sit at the bar rather than a table. Probably our first mistake. Due to an underwhelming lack of service we didn’t end up eating dinner there. The appetizer we ordered was delicious. The cocktails we did get, were also great. They had a decent whiskey selection but were out of the one we wanted. The bartender wasn’t sure what to recommend, he seemed new, so asked the other bartender who suggested an alternative, saying it was “only a little bit more” than our original option. Our bartender seemed hesitant to relay the suggestion, after we got our bill we understood why. It wasn’t on the menu so we trusted the suggestion. It was very good, however…we were shocked and actually disappointed in the lack of integrity from the bartender when we received our bill and the glass was over TWICE as much as our original option. While I can appreciate a $60 glass of whiskey, I don’t appreciate being taken advantage of. I also asked what the “cut of the month” was that they had on the menu, and was met with a blank stare and then after asking the other bartender (who also seemed dumbfounded by the request), and finally the chef…was told they didn’t have it that month. I had been in the mood for a good steak and them not having one plus the lack of service was enough. So we got the bill, realized we’d been swindled and left. Our actual bartender (the new guy) was nice. I felt bad that he was making the drinks for the entire restaurant while the other guy was only interested in taking care of one side of the bar (and it wasn’t our side). I had looked forward to dining here for some time and this experience was really disappointing. The tables seemed to be getting better service so we may try again when we don’t want a steak and sit at a table, not the bar
We only had a couple of appetizers and met some friends for drinks, but everything we had was great!My only feedback for the location would be looking into add'l bartenders. I like that you have unique prohibition style cocktails that are complex in recipe and probably take add'l time to make, but it seemed to take a while to get drinks even before they had really any other customers there. It wasn't a terrible wait, but it made me wonder how the place could handle a large crowd.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Oysters on the Half Shell
This is a cute place in downtown Mckinney. We shared the oysters which were good but much better after we asked for horseradish. My husband got the branzino which he was disappointed in, said it was flat and mostly bones. I had the ragu and enjoyed it. One of our friends had the pork chop it was overcooked and dry.I took a star off for service and for the dessert.Service was very slow and our friends waited a long time for drinks and our server forgot to bring horseradish.Dessert: Have you ever stopped to imagine what what the caulk between your tiles tasted like? Well look no further than the panna cotta here. It was hands down the worst thing I've ever tried at a restaurant and we eat out a lot. We had a party of 6 and we all tried it and each one of us gagged on it.Whoever made that needs to try it themself.We all told the server how bad it was and asked to have it removed from our bill. She said she warned us they were working out the "kinks" so we did not get refunded. It wasn't a lot of money but we def were disappointed we had to pay and that she didn't even pretend to care .Overall I'd say go for ambience and drinks w apps. Everything else was very hit or miss.
It is an excellent restaurant that rivals MANY upscale restaurants in Dallas. They have an excellent menu, and the food is ultra high quality. If you want to stop in for a drink with friends, Matt, Blake, & Juan are top notch bartenders, and they make the best drinks. The guys at the bar stear away from your normal mainstream liquors, and it makes the drinks cleaner and tastier. Definitely the place to go for food and/or drinks.