Was looking for a decent steak at a reasonable price, and hit the jackpot here. Service was very friendly, fast, and attentive. The special on the weekend was bacon wrapped filet. I had the 7oz filet (rare) with two sides ($18). Wife had filet and lobster ($24). Hands down the juiciest, most tender filet I've ever had! Sides consist of salad, soups (there were at least 4), and various veggies and starches. Casual relaxed atmosphere. We will definitely be back next time we're in the tri-cities. read more

Overall, ok experience. Ok food and ok service. Nothing bad, except the soup, but nothing great either. I had a red curry seafood dish and the salad bar. Boyfriend had a burger. The salad bar was pretty impressive. There was a lot there. The only let down was the soups. None of the soup was good, and I tried all of them. Clam chowder was more like potato chowder. Chili was a joke. Chili soup more than chili. Beef barley had no flavor. The chicken noodle was ok. Fries were good. Get the fries. Best part about this place. Burger was a pretty typical diner burger. Nothing special but it wasn't bad. The seafood red curry was a surprise. I was expecting curry, but there was no sauce. It was red curry powder over the dish. It was pretty decent. Fair flavor. Everything was well cooked. Really liked the shrimp. Overall, this place isn't bad. Big and diverse menu. Large salad bar. Fair tasting food. read more

My husband & I & sister-in-law took mom & dad for my mom's 92nd birthday on Nov 1st, to the Kennewick Sterlings as my mom wanted a good steak so did everyone else. It was terrible, everyone's steaks were WELL DONE, instead of medium well, my mom's filet mignon had to be taken back twice, once for well done & next time for rare. I felt really bad because I chose the place to eat. We will never return there again. read more

We always come to Sterlings for their salad bar, but unfortunately lately it requires me telling folks they need to replenish it. There never seems to be a manager around making sure the wait staff and those standing behind the register are checking the salad bar. It would be nice if they changed it up now and again. read more

I love Sterlings. We eat there quite a bit. I gave three stars. I would be inclined to rate it higher but Fox News is ALWAYS ON!!! My own feelings taken out of the picture, I'm surprised that a place that puts out the family friendly, all inclusive, everyone's welcome, vibe wouldn't keep things neutral on the TVs. Try the Philly omelette. Can't go wrong. read more

Visiting my father and wanted some soup, he took me to sterlings for tomato basil soup. I loved it, the staff was very friendly, prompt service, great tasting food. Will be back when I visit my father again. read more

The service and food quality has declined dramatically. The Servers do not listen or care about what you've ordered. Had to have them fix my order numerous times. The new manager needs to learn to manage and not be buddies with staff. He doesn't understand quality or protection of his brand poor leadership. I will not eat there again! read more

Best breakfast in the Tri-Cities Great tasting, made from scratch food, fast, friendly staff and very clean (including the restrooms). Their grits were as good as I've had in Alabama and they offer a range of portions do you don't have to waste food good (or make a pig of yourself either). read more

My family loves sterling's. The omelettes are amazing and different styles of Benedict's are great. Everyone craves their hashbrowns.

The salad bar isn't what it used to be. Downgraded with higher prices. But the service was excellent

The place is clean, the salad/ soup bar is very full. The clam chowder was very tasty. The staff friendly. I would come again

I have ordered three times from this restaurant and you would think I would have learned after the first time from ordering. But, things happen and so I gave it another shot, not just once but twice. Now we are here for a third time. All three times my orders were not fulfilled. I had ordered one meal with the baked potato and they didn't bother to include it the second time I ordered or the three creme brûlée I ordered and paid for, along with leaving out the green salad. This time my mom wanted the captains platter which was fine, but there was no tarter or cocktail sauce, just a bunch of fried dough(hush puppies), with a couple of chewy clams and a fried hunk of cod. It was the worst looking dinner I have seen. They forgot her potato, salad, and forgot my soup. The menu stated that the tiger prawns I ordered this time were to be broiled, but they weren't, they were steamed with no butter sauce on the rice at all. We will not bother ordering from this place again. Why have a menu if you aren't going to follow it? read more

Great service from Bryce yesterday! A teacher by day and phenomenal server by night. The food was excellent and the atmosphere very accepting! Great to dine in! read more

It's a diner that has figured out how to charge crazy prices for basic food. We went for dinner, but I'm guessing they're better at breakfast since it's 2 pages of their menu. My husband had the unlimited salad bar. I had the patty melt. He liked the salad bar. My patty melt was horrible. Velveta cheese and an overcooked, cheap grade hamburger. Yuck. In the tip they ask to give a separate tip to your cook and the other to the waitress. So not I only do they have outrageous prices, but they don't pay their cooks well enough that I have to tip them too. Wow. What a s#$t hole. Tri cities has no idea what an upscale diner looks like...so sad that they were actually busy. read more

Omg! What a pleasant surprise. Great food! Great price! Great service! We looked up restaurants in the area as we are travellers. Pleasantly suprised. Next time in town we will be back! Thanks Sterlings for a great meal. read more

I have nothing. To complain about at sterlings. It is one of my go to breakfast places. Love their chicken fried steak; the best in town! The gravy is average, but customer service makes up for that. The salad bar is always fresh. One person mentioned Fox News. I don't recall ever seeing any TVs on when I was there. Who goes to a restaurant to watch TV? Food: 5 stars Cleanliness of restaurant. 5 stars. Customer Service: 5 stars. read more

Kids liked their pancakes and French toast. Dad choked on SF omelette (asparagus + snow crab). It was basically two handfuls over undercooked and some nasty looking asparagus chunks and tiny bits of crab. Somebody was trying to make up volume by tossing raw asparagus clippings in. And the choking was from 2" long woody asparagus things and chewing on woody bits. And more were found after that. Hope food stays down. Server was nice. While lady at register said she would let cooks know but seemed otherwise not really interested (heard it before?). Not genuinely caring. Infamous perhaps, but not sure what it would be famous for. Won't be back. read more

I am torn on this review and rating. The pros Hayden - he was a fantastic server who also happened to be incredibly good looking and I was shameless in telling him so. He was very good natured about it. So for me he made the night. He also was the bartender for our drinks and they were spot on. The baked peartini was fantastic the huckleberry lemon drop was also great those are on the menu so probably very consistent but he also made a pineapple margarita by request that turned out perfect! His talents are wasted here. The other thing to rave about was the cinnamon roll desert it was huge and delicious and I want it everyday of my life! The bacon wrapped filet looked good. The halibut or cod I don't remember which I got was awful it looked like chicken breast the house salad awful. Those dinner items are deserving of one star. The drinks the desert and Hayden were what made this place, also the hostess she was a doll and had a great personality on our way in and our way out. read more

Overpriced. I had a grilled cheese and tomato soup for $8.99 which was nothing special. Toasted white bread with two slices of Kraft singles cheese. Soup was alright. Boyfriend had Eggs Sterling, which is Eggs Benedict with a bland cheese sauce instead of hollandaise for $13.49. Also pretty unexciting. Coffee was meh. Service was great. Looks like they have a nice cocktail selection though. My suggestion for the restaurant would be to have a smaller menu with higher quality ingredients. read more

Always great food and service at all locations. This is where the local eat! Very nice atmosphere, clean, they care about staying in business. read more

This place is okay at best. The food was just average and not cooked properly. Our waiter never offered to refill our water or ask if we wanted more drinks. He even dropped off the check with our food. The music was turned up just loud enough make our conversation difficult. All in all if you are in a hurry and don't want fast food this place is acceptable. read more

I prefer to visit local businesses rather than the big nationwide chains, so it is disappointing to state that Sterling's has gone downhill to the point where they are only 1/2 a step above the nearby Denny's when it comes to breakfast. Yes, the servings are quite large and meals can be good, but the food is usually cold by the time you get it, because there is often only 1 server to tend to 10-12 tables. Omelets, toast, pancakes and waffles do not taste good cold. The kitchen is slow, too, took over 25 minutes to get crepes the last time I was there. I never got a refill on my coffee. And I noticed that they now offer only the cheap flavors of jams or jellies. Sad. read more

Very rarely do I come across a place that is in the same playing field as my own cooking, both my husband and I were completely impressed with their breakfast great selection and value for the money, the fruit plate you get as one of your choices have 8 different kinds of fruit, the omelets we had were filled with our favorites I would suggest a better cheddar cheese though and more of it. I selected a blueberry muffin, as on of my choices, and when we asked for a replacement of item in the omelet we were not charged like other places. I often shop other places for food to eat as I love to cook and bake but we all need a break, this is outstanding for breakfast, we had a lunch there, but I think they do breakfast better, next time I am trying dinner, I will let you know. read more

They have this crab burrito breakfast thing and I never want a boring breakfast again! my mouth was in heaven!

Wow. That's how I'm going to start this, my coworker suggested we try Sterlings since she and I had never been there. We were seated and given water, however not asked if we wanted any other drinks to start. We Browsed the menu and waited for the waitress, which was about 15 minutes since being seated. She came back and took our four orders, to which I finally asked if she could take our drink orders. We ordered 3 diet cokes and a peach tea. We are a tad annoyed with the service at this point but still hope the food can make up for the lackluster service. The food arrived pretty quick. I ordered scrambled eggs, hashbrowns and toast. My food is pretty basic and hard to screw up, so it was okay. Other orders entailed half rack of ribs and mashed potatoes, steak and eggs and the last was a club sandwich. From what I heard the ribs had little to no meat on the bone and were not really edible. The steak and eggs were again pretty simple and hard to screw up but he had to ask our waitress twice to get a steak knife. The Club was ordered with wheat bread, but when she brought it she said "They put it on white, sorry. I forgot to tell them it was wheat." Terrible customer service. So we ate, and the waitress did ask if we wanted a refill on our diet cokes. I told her No, I was drinking peach tea and she walked away so I had to yell across the restaurant I was drinking peach tea. She nodded and understood, so I thought. She brought me plain unsweetened tea. The menu says peach tea has free refills, but apparently not of the same thing you order. When she brings us the drinks she drops a bill for all 4 tickets, didn't even ask if they were separate checks. We went to the front to have checks separated and they couldn't get that right so we ended up paying for each other's drinks because they were on the wrong checks. I will never go back to any sterlings, ever. read more

The food is great, but the customer service is horrible. They have the rudest managers I have ever encountered in my life.

Only 4 stars because they took away the chili burger. Was my favorite from there! :( Other than that, excellent food and service.

I came for the breakfast today. Love the breakfast burrito! Black beans are a welcome addition. Only place i know that serves them. Service is great. Great interior. Glad to see the steak and salad bar back. 13.99, sun-thurs. That has been great in the past and I will return to try it again. read more

My wife and I had lunch recently at Sterlings on Clearwater. They did a fantastic job remodeling the place. Good decor and colors, friendly and attentive wait staff... you can tell they enjoy working at Sterlings. A very extensive list of entrees are available for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Wine list is limited to Barnard Griffin and Bookwalter at nice prices. I never could understand why The Country Gentleman moved away from this end of town. Sterlings is certainly filling the void..... we will be back. read more

Good general food choice restaurant. Nothing spectacular. Nothing bad. Just in the middle. Excellent local wine choices and good pricing makes this a monthly regular we visit. read more

Very good service but disappointed that when you order the omelet with crisp bacon, it was not crisp. Why advertise a choice if that's not what is offered. I even asked if it was crisp and assured that it was. Since I had a plane to catch, I scrapped all the filling out to only eat the egg. Waitress was very apologetic, (and that is appreciated), she offered to bring me bacon on the side to eat, sadly only half of the bacon was crisp the other half obviously not crisp. The coffee was so, so, I should have waited to buy one at a drive through coffee spot. Very lukewarm. :( Not sure. If I will return. I wish it could give more stars but the two are at least for good service. read more

Great soup selection! My husband got a $9.99 Filet deal and it was up to par with a $20.00 steak in Las Vegas.

This place was very much just okay. The food was nowhere near worth the price. The server was very sweet, but the food just wasn't worth the money. Nachos made me feel nauseous. Much better food several blocks away. read more

Best salad bar in the Tri Cities. Friendly staff.

Picked this Kennewick Location for my family on Mothers Day. Regretted it! They were not even full at 5pm. Didn't bring bread till asked. Mixed up two of our orders of Filet Mignon,One of which came so late it was pointless to take it back because the rest of the table was almost done. Brought the wrong pasta to my son, took it back when asked. Brought back what looked like the same bowl 5 minutes later!!! Waitress realized it a couple minutes later and sheepishly came back. Got it right after that! Wanted to talk to the manager but my son didn't want me to make a fuss. Kids spent $140.00 on dinner and still left a 20.00 tip! Never again, Only Richland for me! 1 read more

Nothing all that exciting nor bad either. Breakfast is pretty easy when it's eggs, hash browns etc...Typical semi greasy spoon type of restaurant. Some of the staff wasn't particularly friendly it seemed. Think I'll try somewhere else being that there are many choices in to pick from. read more

Nice restaurant BUT had my bacon cooked twice. Still could not eat it. They call it crispy. It was so dry and overcooked it was like shoe leather. Waitress had an attitude. Won't be back! read more

I ordered the soup and salad bar on Feb. 13, 2014. The food was tasty but I paid for it at 2:30 a.m. with abdominal cramps and vomiting. The next day I went back to the restaurant and spoke to the manager. My intent was to tell him what I had eaten and was the probable cause so he could clear it from the salad bar (tuna pasta and potato salad). I would have let the matter drop at that point if it wasn't for his attitude. He denied it could have been from their restaurant, telling me it takes 24 hrs. for food poisoning to show any symptoms. Below is an excerpt from National Institute of Health on Food Poisoning Symptoms: "Symptoms from the most common types of food poisoning usually start within 2 - 6 hours of eating the food. That time may be longer or shorter, depending on the cause of the food poisoning." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001652.htm read more

I haven't been to an American Restaurant in a very long time. And this was very good. I loved it! (check out my pictures too!) Food: I ordered the Rib Eye Steak with Pasta. And my husband ordered the Seafood ...something. The number 6 I believe...Seafood topper? Anyways, I got the asparagus soup and my husband got a salad as well. His salad was surprising good since it had spices in it. My soup wasn't too bad but it's best to eat it with the bread. I have to admit I was expecting my pasta to be very plain but nope! It had cheese and marinara sauce along with some spices. The steak was very nicely cooked. I absolutely loved my husband's dish. It was a mixture of thai red curry into shrimp and cod over a bed of rice. Not the soupy kind too but the shrimp and cod was like rubbed with it instead. Very good! Would only recommend if you love spicy food. Service: Our waitress was fairly friendly and well mannered so yay. Also liked the fact she actually came back to check on us and give us refills. I'm also glad the hostess didn't try to rush us out at first since we came in 30 minutes before they close. Overall: I loved it! I will defiantly be back! I'm coming back next week to try their lobster! read more

Sterling's Restaurant - My Rib Eye Steak with the side of Pasta. - American Near Me - Kennewick, Washington

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Overall a decent restaurant. Very well priced for the kids breakfasts. My wife and I split ours. It was average, I would much rather go to hills a couple blocks down the street. read more