I tried Biggies last night as I left a late afternoon NJ meeting on my way back to NYC and was starved. I did not want to wait for a table, so I sat at the bar. I asked if there were any drink specials, and was told it was bluemoon beer tuesday and that was the only special. I kinda felt like I made a mistake walking in, from the uninterested way the bartender answered me. I proceeded to ask for a bar menu and was told there was also no happy hour food specials. Ok , no problem told him I was ready to order regardless, and he gestured with his finger to wait a second. I did. Waited patiently and observed the bar had an extremely noisy, loud atmosphere. This has to do with the fact that every surface is a hard surface like wood, stone, steel etc. I know this cause I am in the business and a few noise absorbing fabric walls would make a huge difference. Bad stools are also hardwood and very uncomfortable. About 5 to 7 minutes later bartender takes my order. I ordered a fried Calamari appetizer thinking this place knows fish, wrong. My calamari was semi crisp and very tasteless, could not pick up a hint of fish anywhere. I also noticed the best part of the calamari, "tentacles" were missing. I believe if one orders calamari, give them the whole calamari not just part of it, if someone doesn't like it they can leave it. Obviously these wereRestaurant depot frozen bagged calamari and thrown in the fryer, then the plate. No biggie, no pun intended. I didn't finish the Calamari and left three quarters of it on the plate, mentioned to the bartender that they didn't have any taste,(he was emotionless) so I ordered a mussel dish thinking I would give them a second try. Bad mistake. The mussels were mush and overcooked, not to mention very sandy. I am done with this place. 1st time customer,last time customer. I did mention to the waiter/bartender that both dishes were a disappointment, and also left my 2 dishes unfinished. He removed the dishes, threw out my unfinished food and quickly slipped me a check. He never looked into my complaint, never brought it to a managers attention, didn't offer an apology or discount, nothing. So I basically paid good money for tasteless, sandy and overcooked food served with an attitude. Worth mentioning also be careful over the parking situation, obviously cars are parked opposite each other on a diagonal in the lot which is too narrow, one car pulled back out of the spot and hit the car parked on the other side. Luckily no one was hit and hurt. Just a bad place to have been on a tuesday nite. read more