David B

Excellent. Great ambiance, professional waiter, personable chef and host. Everybody in our group of 7 raved about their dinner. Not loud and packed in crowd. Could talk at our table without shouting. Kudos to Chef Brian and staff. Definitely recommend and we will return. Try the 2 inch thick pork chop, filled, German potato salad, beef tips. Desserts also delightful.

James Bucki

WOW! Great food. Great atmosphere. Casual or fine dining, Eckl’s at Larkin has it all!!

+1

Steven

Spot on. Knowledgeable staff and delicious full, well developed flavors. The bar has an above average selection. Try the, "pineapple hibiscus hard cider," by Clarksburg. It was really a solid, well concocted drink. You are doing yourself a disservice if you don't try the risotto. Holy cow, spot on. Like top tier good, wow!

+6

Robert Richter (Rob)

Awesome place for parties. Celebrated my 50th with about 100 people. Everything from room, planning, service and food were the best. Consider this place for your event... seriously it is awesome.

Nadia Shahram

Renovated historical restaurant, with restoration of original woodwork is a fabulous place to take out of town guests to show off Buffalo. Food is of great quality and served tastefully, specializing in aged beef and seafood. The bar is in the middle of one of the several open rooms with original woodwork and exquisite detail.

+1

Lindsey Newton

So DELICIOUS! Fine dining, good prices, beautiful presentation, awesome waiter, and the food was bomb. We can't wait to to go back.

Decided to go out and have some dinner at a nice place, Eckl's did not disappoint. We ordered the crab cake and the weck rolls. I loved everything about both of them even the sauces, they were perfect appetizers. I don't usually get steak anywhere because I can make it better at home, they got the temperature perfect medium rare and was seasoned perfectly. We will be back!

elizabeth dangelo

I've been twice to Eckl's in the past month, once on a Friday night, once on a Wednesday night. Both times the service was excellent, atmosphere excellent. The food was almost 5 star, I gave 4 stars because my Cobb salad had a bit too much dressing for my liking. Steaks were tender, cooked as requested, and delicious. Scallops and shrimp dish superb. The dessert menu was hard to resist, but we were full from our meal, so passed on that. And I love the location, as it was easy for both my southtowns and northtowns friends to get to. I parked right outside on the street, and there was also a lot right across the street if street parking was full. Highly recommend.

Jim Rad

Wanted prime rib for birthday dinner and what once was a staple has become almost impossible to find outside of steak chain restaurants! Found it at Eckl's ( only on Saturday). Crab cakes, french onion soup for apps were delicious!! My "rare" prime rib was exactly what I wanted and tasted great! My girl's filet was also perfection. Food wise it was a great dinner! Service.... Ugh. Seated at only the 2nd table of guests in the whole dining room. Took a fairly long time for server to even acknowledge us as she set up the other tables. Finally arrived, zero personality, no smile, wanted to take complete order right now, but we ordered cocktails and apps only.... 1 martini, 1 vodka drink, no customers at bar, 1 other table of 4.... Waited..... Waited...... Waited. After 10 minutes, Miss Pleasant shows up for our entree orders?! I didnt even get my cocktail yet!! Oh, ok. Brings drinks, apps soon after and as taking my last bite of app, here come entrees. As I said all food was exceptional. Server wandered by a few times to check but didnt look real happy to do it!! Maybe a different job choice in her future. Unfortunately not worth hurrying back, but again kudos to chef!

Gunlord

I generally concur with the other reviews on Yelp at least--the restaurant's ambience is very nice, and I found the service to be pleasant and attentive, but the food is somewhat pricey. The Beef on Weck rolls are 14 dollars, for approximately the same quality and slightly smaller size as, say, Irish Spring Rolls at the Irishman pub for 11 dollars. Still, I guess if you really love a combination of ambience and location in Buffalo's urban core it's good enough.

Yasiel Cabrera

Overall, I had a poor experience here. The fine dining experience was not present, and instead, we paid for expensive food that didn't taste good nor well presented. Options are limited, and the atmosphere is very mediocre.

Thomas H

Came for Valentines day. They do not know how to cook a steak. Ordered a medium strip and well ribeye. The ribeye came out medium rare, redder than the medium strip. The strip was not evenly cooked, front half was more well. Waiter seemed unconcerned even after I had to ask for the ribeye returned to be cooked longer and it still came back medium rare. I was not impressed. Aside the french onion soup was tasty and so was the grilled flat bread.

Jay B

<<<<LATEST UPDATE>>>> Gave Eckl's another try on last day of June2023, and this will be my last for a long while until something changes. Appetizers had an off flavor and were bland. The shrimp cocktail was good, but how do you put 2 jumbo size shrimp on the glass and then 4 medium-sized shrimp. I felt so slighted seeing the smaller ones. Dinner wasn't much better. The lamb was served raw, and the filet mignon was supposed to be medium rare and was served medium well. The executive chef was nice enough to come out and apologize and advised that the chef was new, but where is the quality control. I can somewhat understand if the place was busy, but we were only ones in the front dining area(that in itself should have told us something that something is horribly gone wrong with place). The garnishing of the plates was the best part of the meals, as you can see in the updated pictures. They look good, but once you dig in is when the disappointment occurs. Seasonings are off on everything, again, no quality control check occurs prior to serving are my thoughts. Desserts were complimentary at least because of the dinner debacle, and I have to say, was the silver lining to eating here and was very yummy, but we did not come here for the desserts. I miss preCovid Eckl's and wish you would come back. Maybe in a year or so, I will try again but what I paid for this horrible dinner I will definitely think twice if I want to potentially drop up to $200 for my wife and I to eat here not knowing what we are going to get. Another 2 star drop for me. *****UPDATE**** Came here for lunch service in May2023 and was not a great experience. The bartender was the waiter, and the service was slow. Food quality and choices are not nearly nothing like dinner service. Overpriced for what you received or should say not received. Hopefully, dinner service hasn't gone bad as well, and I will visit again and review again for that. 2 star drop for me. ××××ORIGINAL REVIEW×××× THIS PLACE IS GREAT. FOOD AND DRINKS A LITTLE PRICEY BUT WAS WELL WORTH IT BECAUSE EVERYTHING TASTED GREAT.

+8