We go here before Padre games, and the food and drinks are good. The service can be super slow, and sometimes we have gotten a server with an attitude. Overall it's a fun place to eat and drink. read more

Wonderful food and service. We had dinner at a much busier, more expensive restaurant the evening before and it did not compare to the food and service we experienced here. We absolutely enjoyed our food, the preparation was outstanding. our server Paul D. was took care of our needs and was a delight. We will be back! read more

Excellent service great appetizers and awesome entrees. Tuna and short ribs were very tasty

Food tasted amazing and was prepared perfectly. The lobster soup is a must have and the ribeye was cooked just right. Our server was very friendly and frequently stopped by to make sure we were doing ok. The restaurant had dim lighting which created a romantic setting. Definitely try this place out and go up to Altitude after for drinks and some stunning views. read more

This restaurant really gives you your bang for your buck. The service is excellent and the food is great. While meals for four can be up to $70 dollars, the food is well worth it. It's great for food on the go, or a nice meal. This is a great restaurant. I highly recommend it. read more

I especially like their great chicken taco soup and friendliness of the Paul, the helpful waiter who kept checking to see if all is well with my lunch selection...Yes! This is a new place for me and have already invited my friends for dinner the next day. read more

Ok I hope that this place can hang on in this economy because it is worth trying !! Most locals like me that live downtown or out of downtown do not place ourselves in tourist places when we have been here so long. We would only eat at a hotel resturant if we were on vacation right? So get out of your shell and come try this place out you will be thanking me. The menu is simple but a little bit of everything! The tortilla soup is the BOMB!! its like a meal! Also the ceasar salad is one of my favorites in town.....All of the dinners on the menu are great and the flatbread pizzas are fantastic as well. Tons of wines by the glass and they serve for fun cotton candy at your table before you get up! I love the fact that they are doing something different than any other place. Prices are soooo reasonable for downtown and they give you enough to eat! I will always go back and support the local places even knowing that I am not a tourist!! Great foor, service, great bar, indoor as well as out door seating as well......I will be back!! read more

Great for drinks, but the food is not good at all. Even the caesar salad was bad - sad when you think its hard to screw up a salad, but the dressing does not taste good. Had the salmon tacos - the most bland food in the world on tough soft corn tacos....yes irony, tough and soft do not go well together. read more

how on earth do you mess up brunch? eat here! what a flippin travesty! the wait staff is running around like the there are 200 people in the place when in fact, there was probably 45...maybe they were covering room service too? and had i known this was just a hotel restaurant (we came in the side door, not through the hotel), i would have bounced up outta there faster than i could finish one of their "demitasse" mimosas! when are people going to learn, if someone is drinking at 10:30 in the morning, chances are they will want more than one, so pay attention dammit! ugh, and the food! NO taste. i mean the saddest little nursing home would have better cuisine. i was convinced the festive red and green bits in the scrambled eggs were ColorForms! you might as well just wrap your tongue in plastic. But it was when the check came that i just KNEW there had to be a hidden camera somewhere! christ a mighty! i am not a frugal broad, i'll spend money happily - but not on this shite. Neither should you. the place is a straight jip. soleil @k can suck a big nasty hairball - fucking inexcusable, busy bee floor staff notwithstanding. read more

Would give zero stars if I had the option. Although the food is aesthetically pleasing, it somehow manages to be tasteless. We ordered the seared tuna and filet, and we're extremely disappointed with the bland flavor. The service was extremely slow even though we could watch the waiters and waitresses just hanging around the kitchen. The host was the only good thing about this restaurant, he had a great attitude and was very welcoming. Also, there was no AC... We were sweating profusely. Will not be going back to this place, ever. read more

This was the worst dining experiance I have every had. Girls Night turned into Are we on a you are getting Punked Show!? The service was HORRIBLE! When the manager tells you "Well at least its warm" when your returned steak comes back when you return a cold well done steak when you ordered a medium steak you know your in trouble. Our waiter pretty much was no exsistant and we started to bond with the table next to us over the horrible service and there was a line at the hostess desk to complain. My dining experiance ended with me only paying for what I thought I should since my meal was not comped and no tip. I also told the people coming in to RUN! So sad and I will NEVER go there ever again! Suprised its still in business! read more

What a disappointment. Went there for a party and although the appetizer (jumbo prawn & ahi tuna) and dessert (chocolate cake, creme brule) were good. They were so overpriced! The entree, bistro steak, was a sliver of untasty beef that was also overpriced! read more

Never in my life have I been to a worse place. I've been there 5-6 times because they are right next door and serve mimosas so it was convenient but horrible. So this is coming from a terrible experience numerous times. Usually takes 10-20 minutes just to get your water and order taken if you're lucky. You ask for your bill and takes another 20 minutes to get. They have no sense of urgency or customer service. I was a bartender for 6 years so ik how it works. I went in there this morning at 645Am and asked for a mimosa and asked them to hurry please bc it's been taking too long lately (mind you I'm a successful business owner and recently been playing poker at night and sleeping during the day so this isn't out of the ordinary bc for me it was a drink before bed) and I was completely sober. The completely unprofessional and rude hostess (looks like she shouldn't even be employed there) came out and said they don't serve alcohol before 8am, which is a COMPLETE LIE because they just did the day before at 635am and numerous times before between 630-8am over the past few months. When I confronted her (all the times I've been there, when I've been there, who the servers were, the FACTS) she blatantly lied to my face bc she was mad and said she was there the day before and poured the drink (which she didn't It was a different server) and it was past 8am which is LAUGHABLE because I had even had to wait at 625am for them to open and then sat down immediately and got one (again after a 20 minute wait) even the server said that "technically I had to get food to get alcohol bc it's 650am" which I did no problem. I literally said 4-5 times no I was here right at the opening, I know that bc I have a watch, waited for them to open, and was the FIRST one there (which they usually get 5-10 guests the minute they open. So I asked so you are telling me to my face you're going to refuse my request and I was here AFTER 8 AM yesterday, (blatant disrespect and a lie) and she said YES, all well being rude awkward and unprofessional. Long story short they were upset I asked them to hurry bc they have been taking too long and decided being rude and blatant lying was the way to respond. I dine out a lot and have been to all the best places in San Diego and I NEVER complain, ever, but between this places service, rudeness, and lack of professionalism, I have to say something. Lying to a customers face and then being rude and awkward about it just because they asked you to hurry is absolutely INSANE. If I saw one of my employees doing this they would be fired immediately. I'd love to hear their rebuttal or even try to defend themselves after this embarrassment. What a sad sad excuse for a restaurant and staff. read more

This was one of the most expensive disappointments I've had in a while. We had a party of 8, there was an event downtown and restaurant week so I should've been worried when it was so easy to get a reservation here and so hard elsewhere. And it's pretty much dead while we were there, you'd expect we'd have great service and hot food, except we got neither. I ate my caprese flatbread, if warm, I think it would've been good. We also had the $16 burger, it was so cold the cheese wasn't even melted, one bite out and servers never checked on us or seemed to be concerned it wasn't even touched. We had to order drinks twice. Empty restaurant and yet impossible to get service or hot food. Do not eat here. We went to In n Out on the way home, paid a fraction and about a million times more satisfying. read more

If you are looking for a quick and convenient meal at the hotel, DO NOT eat at Soleil K which has neither. It took me 2 hours to eat a terrible meal. First, no one was available to greet me at the front and so I waited and waited to be seated and asked the front desk to call someone. I finally was seated (I should have left at this point when it took so much effort on my part to be seated). I ordered the mixed green side salad with balsamic vinaigrette which was the only decent thing I ate during my meal. then everything went downhill from there. The "local sea bass" was recommended. when it finally came (took forever), I understood why because it was dry, overcooked with a hard weird crust from being overcooked and rubbery. it was not fresh either. I exchanged it for medium rare hangar steak thinking they couldn't screw up a steak very badly (miscalculation on my part!!) It took 25 minutes and it came rare and undercooked (perhaps because I sent back the dehydrated looking fish they served me??), very tough and sitting on greasy fried tomato slices with greasy corn and beans. I asked them to cook a little more and then that took another 15 minutes and came back on even greasier fried tomatoes, corn and beans. I just ate enough so that I wasn't hungry. No manager to be seen to apologize for the service or the quality of the food and no offer to reduce the bill. Scared to eat here again so will probably venture out to look for breakfast. read more

four stars instead of five cause its a hotel restaurant and not as good as the hard rock restaurant. four stars and not three because they validate parking! :) read more

Apparently our money is not welcome here because even though three different staff people looked at us they never came to our table to see what we wanted to order. Yes we were in costume and YES we had money to spend...which went to another business that was happy to serve us. read more

The worst dining experiences on this trip to Comic Con. We were staying at the hotel and just wanted a quick dinner. Service was slow and the staff was inattentive. Very noisy but I'll let that pass because of the Comic Con crowd in the bar. The menu was extremely limited. The pretzel appetizer with cheese and mustard was good but we were never given appetizer plates and the staff was nowhere to be found. My vegetarian daughter ordered the Caesar Salad - our waitress asked if she wanted to add protein - she said "no" - when it arrived- the salad was covered with chicken. Both I and my husband ordered a flat bread - they were both cold - mine more so than his. My son was the only one who was satisfied with his meal - a hamburger. Very disappointed with our dining experience. Don't waste your time or money here when there are so many good restaurants in this area . Marriott needs to step it up if they want hotel guests to eat here. read more

This was the worst restaurant experience ever! I am so irate, that I decided to make a yelp account so I could review this place. I went with my best friends for restaurant week thinking that because its in a high category that the overall experience would be good. I guess we were all wrong! I'm only giving this place 2 stars because the food was good and the hostess was great and friendly! We had made reservations in advance. Arrived 10 mins before our reservation, and given that it was restaurant week we didn't mind that we had to wait 15 mins past our reservation. We were seated outside in the patio. they were nice enough to move the heaters closer towards us. Initially we were brought a basket of bread and the server gave us water. She gave us time to pick our orders and get our drinks. After the drinks were served, I had to ask her to bring us plates for the bread. The waitress did not even give us butter or any condiments for our bread, we had to ask for it. We only knew to ask because we saw a couple getting served the same thing. So we sat there eating our small portion of bread, and before our appetizer arrived 15 mins later, not once were we checked on. We saw another server, and asked him if he could bring us some more bread but he never came back. When our appetizer was served, we asked our original server if we could get more bread along with oil and vinegar. that never arrived. We waited another 15 min before we finally asked the hostess if we could speak to the manager. He came over, we explained that we were unsatisfied with the service; not once was our glasses of water filled (mines was 1/4 full and the ice melted), asked for bread twice, asked for plates for our bread, the food was taking forever, and we just wanted our food. We were ready to leave but he said our food would take less than 5 mins. In that time frame, the couple sitting next to us overheard the conversation and they opted to leave because they didn't even get their food ordered, and they were seated longer than us. Another server brought our food within 5 min, we asked right away to get the dessert menu. Thankfully, that arrived quickly! And still our waters were not refilled. The manager did discount us 25% off (note that there was a mandatory 18% gratuity tacked on) and gave us a copy of a coupon for our next visit, which will never happen. Our entire dinner took 2 hours! I now know to check yelp first! read more

I am not sure what people are expecting with the negative reviews, especially on Valentine's Day? I have never been here other than for the Padre game day specials. Hands down the best deal for parking/dining for a Padre game. They have special menu that is very kid friendly and adult friendly. If you spend $25 on food they comp your valet parking, it is a crazy good deal. They treat you like a VIP and the food is great and reasonable for being in such a high end type restaurant. I have done this deal at least 4 times over last two seasons and have never been disappointed. Awesome service and atmosphere, I highly recommend. After game is over you simply hand them valet slip and your car is brought around in about 60 seconds with you heading in right direction to get out without any hassles on 7th Ave. My son had the Chicken Tenders last night and they are huge and come with amazing herb french fries. I had the beef sliders and they were also super fresh and tasty!! Do yourself a favor and save the parking hassles for someone else :) read more

OK. There was 4 of us at the table. 9.45 AM on a Friday. Next to us, there were maybe 3 other tables that people seated (out of...15?). And 3 different servers that I could see. We waited 10 minutes to have someone come for the order. And then we waited 40 minutes to actually get it. Then I had to return mine 2 times because they kept putting sausages on my pancakes (I had asked them to leave them out since I don't eat pork). A quick breakfast turned into almost lunch. We were still OK-the food was great, worth the wait (and the price). The sausage-free pancakes with vanilla butter were among the best I have ever tried. The espresso was refreshingly good (I had a redeye-they call it hammerhead there, FYI). My friends were also happy with everything. All was fine, the check arrived, we wanted to pay and have the rest wrapped up for us (the portions are super-large). And then we waited again. 10 minutes. We wanted to leave when one of the servers showed up with an empty box, and a surprised look on his face, saying: "OMG, I'm really sorry, but someone has already cleared your table, so I can't give you your leftovers." At which point we just gave up. They offered to prepare a new order, but to wait another 1 hour-ummmmmhhhhhhh....no. Definitely not. So, if you want good breakfast and have time to spare, sure. But if you are in a rush, it's a big no no. And please Soleil@K-get a new manager! read more

I've been here several times for breakfast and everything has been excellent! The service is outstanding! My husband got Eggs Benedict one day, and a breakfast burrito the next, both were amazing! I had the fast fair - scrambled ham & egg one day, and a classic omelet the next, both were so yummy!!! The white cheddar melted on the fluffy omelet to perfection! My son chose the breakfast buffet one day and the pancakes another day. They were both so great! Awesome selection at the buffet. The pancakes were topped with a vanilla bean infused butter. It was truly heavenly. read more

Really enjoyed the service here for my breakfast. Justin was my server, he suggested the buffet for me and it was all fresh and excellent. I will definitely be coming back here! read more

First class service. Food delivery excellent. Was served by Krystal. No wait time, smiles all around a d finally a chef that know how to correctly make a egg white over hard with no yoke. Very impressed. read more

Ate here during restaurant week. The service was really really bad. It took 3 hour and 45 minutes to eat dinner there, 3 courses. Food was just ok, not great. In all fairness, it was restaurant week and they were overwhelmed, but it should still not take nearly 4 hours to have dinner. read more

For lunch, dinner or just drinks, this place is San Diego's best kept secret! The food is excellent and the portions are just right. Our waiter Paul was attentive, friendly and charming. His recommendations hit the mark every time- we've had the ahi tuna, the hangar steak and the lobster tempura (to name a few). Our only regret is that we can't sample the whole menu before we leave. read more

After they seated us we waited for 30 minutes then left because no one came to help us or take our order. We got water when we first sat down and that was it. There were only 6 other people in the place and the waiters were just standing around. Ridiculous...after reading the reviews I Am glad we didn't actually eat there. read more

Had a light dinner. They let us choose our table. The service was excellent. The food was excellent as well. A surprise treat was cotton candy on the house. read more

Went to soleil for the first time. My wife and I had a very nice time. The food was great and the service was even better. Our waiter Paul D was very friendly and very knowledegeable. Great time overall for first timers. We will definitely dine there again. read more

Food was outstanding! There is no doubt that the cooks are on top of their game. I had the hanger steak and it was cooked perfectly (doesn't happen too often) my husband had the ribeye, and wouldn't even let me taste it because he didn't want to waste a bite! Unfortunately the service lacked in almost every aspect. We were greeted with a friendly greeting and then we were showed to our table, and about 10 minutes later our server came back as he put his cell phone back in his pocket, and asked if we were ready. He took our order and walked away, and was out of sight until we were about halfway through with our meals, when he asked (without concern) is everything alright? We informed him that the food was good, but we would appreciate a little more attentiveness (we were one of two tables). We ordered a couple glasses of wine, which we were never asked if we wanted more, I'm glad he left us a bottle of water on our table so we at least had something to drink. The server did apologize, and offered to pay for half of our tab in exchange for a good review on this site. I was shocked and declined his offer. Luckily Tyler was working that night and brought our food to us as soon as it was ready, had it not been for him we probably would have waited another 15 minutes or so and received food that would have been cold, and not gotten the justice that the food at Soleil deserves. Upon finishing our dinner, our server did the only thing right for the whole night and asked if we would like to have dessert. As much as I would have loved to try an after dinner treat (I can only imagine how decadent the dessert must be after enjoying such a great meal) I had to turn his offer down as I was thoroughly upset with our service that night. Once again our compliments to the chef! We will be returning without a doubt, but will be sure to request a different server. This establishment can easily earn a five star rating with better service. read more

I stayed at the Marriott this restaurant is located in and ordered room service which comes from the restaurant. It was not good. The tortilla soup tasted like it has cornmeal added and that's all you could really taste. The calamari was cold and mediocre at best. The $6 peanut butter and jelly I ordered for my child was on what seemed to be slightly stale bread. Her side of fruit was good. That's the only positive I can offer. I would never go to this restaurant or order room service here again. Not good at all. Especially for the price! read more

I ate there several nights ago for dinner, and I had an amazing experience. My server was fast, he was professional (not that fake over-the-top style like some people/places), nice, very knowledgeable, and his slight accent was ever so awesome as he spoke. I really liked this place, and I would definitely come here again. read more

this is the worst place ever the food was horrible. The portion was just plane wrong even a new born couldn't get full off of it. The waiter and waitress were not friendly and didn't look like they were too happy serving us. I will never ever go to this place again. $16.00 for for four shrimps that's just scandless. read more

I spent 5 days at Gas Lamp staying at the Marriott, but did not eat at Soleil @k until final night. I should have eaten there more often. I wanted to try the plethora of restaurants primarily located on 5th street. Many were good, but there were some disappointments. Soleil @k was the best value of the week. Not well attended - probably due to being a block of the main strip and/or the belief by people that a better value or more interesting food is better found not at a hotel. I have to say that the value was far greater at Soleil @k than any other place I went to at Gas Lamp. The taste, the quantity, the service and the price was a win at Soleil @k. I have been in food for over 15 years eating high end causal and fine dining at hundreds of locations throughout the country and if I were to go back to Gas Lamp Square and choose to dine for dinner at a $20 plate or higher location I would go to Soleil @k. I had the filet, which was very good (tired of eating seafood), but I was close to ordering their seafood special - swordfish with risotto. My wife had free ranged chicken with risotto that was extremely good. I suspect that breakfast or lunch would also be done well. So the 5 is primarily due to comparing to other restaurants at Gas Lamp. If I were to go back to Gas Lamp for a few days I would eat more meals at Soleil @ k. Bottom line it is a hidden jewel and worth straying a block of the main path to eat there. read more

We loved the food and the service. Favorites were the cheese plate appetizer, which changes seasonally, the Ahi meal (about the best anywhere!) with wasabi mashed potatoes and tempura green beans. The presentation of the food was lovely and everything was pleasing to the palate. The portions were large, so we took some home. Our waiter was attentive, informative on the offerings and not overbearing so that we had time for conversation and great fun. The validated valet parking was very convenient, having the windows open brought in sea breezes and downtown ambience. We were there on a non-ballgame weeknight, so the ambience might be different on a busy game night or weekend. It was great having preferred seating at Altitude Bar upstairs overlooking Petco Park and Coronado Bay. The restaurant decor is contemporary and appealing. All in all a wonderful evening in an upscale restaurant! read more