We made a reservation after a Maryland basketball game. When we arrived, we were told it would be a few minutes. Then, a few minutes later we were told that there had been a glitch with Open Table and that they couldn't seat us even thought it was practically empty. We pointed that out but were told they couldn't accommodate us. So we left, and about 15 minutes later we got a call asking where we were. Are you kidding? I told her that we'd already been there and had been told to leave. She seemed confused and quite frankly so am I. We had never been before and are not inclined to return read more

Wow. Beautiful place. Awesome food. Their steak and appetizers are amazing. The seating is really cool and it is a nice quiet place -- especially on week nights. If you go to UMD and your parents have not taken you here, then you are seriously missing out. Its prices are reasonable compared to some restaurants in College Park which are mediocre but very expensive. This is a fancy, but not expensive place. Parking is easy here, and its in a better location than any of the other restaurants on busy roads downtown. The food is delicious. read more

This place is disgusting. I ordered the sea salt fries which were soggy and greasy and half cooked. The $28 dollar pasta with shrimp would have been improved with Kraft mac & cheese. There wasn't anything specific about the dish, but it just tasted like instant pasta with some poorly cooked tomatoes dumped on top. For the price, I expected a little more effort. Whoever their chef is, should be fired. read more

Great new restaurant at the Marriott Inn and Conf Ctr UMUC! Best buffet breakfast in the area, creative menu, delicious food, great service. Check it out for breakfast, lunch, dinner or stop by for Happy Hour! You won't be disappointed. read more

My wife and I don't live too far away from The Common and decided to try out their dinner options on a late afternoon. We were pleasantly surprised how well it looked both outside and inside. If we had driven, the restaurant has a free adjacent parking garage. Several events were going on when we arrived and quite a few people were there but it didn't seem to affect the restaurant's service. We were quickly shown our table and the wait staff were always nearby if we needed anything. They were quick to respond to our requests. My wife had the Maryland crab soup and bacon cheeseburger entree. I had the same soup and the chicken entree with fingerling potatoes and leeks. After reading some of the previous reviews, I wasn't expecting too much but was impressed with the quality of our meal and its preparation. Our total meal cost a little over $50 for the both of us and we thought it was a fair price considering the food, service and nice restaurant decor & environment. I spoke to the front wait staff on our departure and asked about their breakfast buffet since it was mentioned from another reviewer. The cost is $16.95 per person and they have a nice variety of options including an omelette station. Since we live nearby we may just try it out, too. All in all it was a nice dinner experience and we wouldn't mind returning. read more

The Common - Main exterior entrance to The Common. - New American Near Me - Hyattsville, Maryland

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Great restaurant! The food was quality. I ordered salmon and it was cooked perfectly. The crab soup was delicious too. On Wednesdays you can get a bottle of wine at half price so I took advantage :). It's been newly renovated and the decor is fantastic and comfortable. There's also outdoor seating with a fire pit. The staff was extremely friendly and attentive. Definitely will come back. read more

Not great. To begin with, the layout is spread out and leaves you feeling as if there is no "there" there. Next, the seating is uncomfortable: The chairs are too low; I felt as if I needed a booster seat. Now, on to the food: Again, not great. Here's what I had: (1) Maryland Crab Soup: It was watery and not particularly tasty. (2) Grilled Octopus (appetizer to share): Short story is that no one was fighting over it. There was not much to it, and it was, well, not tasty. (3) Crab Cake Sandwich: I did not eat the bun. I removed the crab cake from the bun and ate it alone. It was undercooked and not well formed. In Maryland, it's hard to turn out a disappointing crab cake, but this restaurant succeeded in disappointing with a crab cake. (4) Smith Island Cake: The final disappointment. :-( It was a fraud. (another sad face) A true Smith Island cake has ten thin layers and chocolate frosting between each of the 10 layers. This restaurant runs a fake Smith Island Cake. It's a three-layer cake, with each layer sliced part of the way thru, and frosting -- but NOT from edge to edge. What they sell as a "Smith Island Cake" is not a Smith Island Cake. As a Marylander, the restaurant was a total disappointment: In a Maryland restaurant -- especially one associated with the state's flagstaff university campus -- crab soup, crab cake, and Smith Island Cake should be standouts. Instead, the best I could say is that they were average. Unfortunately, the restaurant does not have any competition. People at the hotel or the conference center really don't have any choices. And that's the only reason that the restaurant survives. read more

Charged me $3.18 for a Pepsi and told me I could not get a refill by the extremely rude bartender because he was not the one that served it to me. I will not be going back here. read more

Crab soup tastes like Progresso. Ordered an Old Fashioned, but got a Manhattan. Nice atmosphere though.

For a hotel restaurant, this place is definitely in the top. We stayed at the hotel for about four days and the service and quality of the food remained consistent. The place has great options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Service is always attentive and extremely friendly. read more

Loved the ambience, the decor, the staff. Its modern hip and contemporary. The bartenders Alex and Gigi we very accomodating. Had the crabmeat pizza not my favorite too doughy and bland didnt really taste the crab meat. I shall return. read more

Perfectly acceptable hotel restaurant. Service was fine except they seemed unsure what tondo when I as a solo diner asked for a table and not a seat at the bar. Breakfast was fine but ridiculously over priced. But that's typical. read more

Newly renovated spot at the Marriott on the University of Maryland campus. Great food and yummy desserts. Try something different and go for the butterscotch pudding dessert. Yum. read more

This place is located in the Marriott College Park next to the University of Maryland Campus. We spent a few days here in mid-June for the National History Day finals held at the college. I really liked everything about the restaurant. The food was great and very afford ably priced. The service was super as well with everyone on staff going out of their way to accommodate us. The bar was awesome with a ton of draft beers available. We watched the Warriors kick the crap out of Cleveland during the final 2 games of the NBA Championship here. It was a great place to have to spend time away and see our team win! We really liked this place. read more

Meh. Had breakfast here twice and happy hour once and was underwhelmed all times. Seems that they opened and haven given it a thorough cleaning since - new but worn and not particularly clean. Breakfast was mediocre and happy hour drinks were blah. Service was ok. read more

This place is of only slightly better quality than an Applebees. I would be honestly shocked to find out that they make anything in the back. They've changed their menu recently--it's gone from a relatively bad but uncontroversial typical American dinner to, basically poorly done sandwiches. I have to wonder if they've lost their chef and replaced him or her with one of the waitstaff. I went with a large group, and despite having made a reservation well in advance, it turned out they couldn't seat us all together, despite the fact that they have in the past. Interestingly, the manager assured us that they have in fact never seated us all together, and perhaps more preposterously, that no restaurant could. We are not 40 people. We were 16. Of course, despite attempting to contact them multiple times in advance, they never let us know. Then the food came out. Pre-made hamburger buns with iceberg lettuce, American cheese and blackened bacon, frozen and reheated french fries. My chicken caesar salad had quite literally 4 croutons and a puck of overcooked and basically unseasoned chicken that must have been microwaved. Even the dressing tasted like absolutely nothing. Salads with great chunks of cheap salmon filet served with a scab of skin that needed to be peeled off before consuming. The wine was fine, but the server literally could not open the bottle himself. The manager made not the slightest attempt to apologize, and the food really displayed their lack of care. Don't eat here. Why give them your business? You can find just as awful food with better service elsewhere in College Park, and you can find much better food for the same price. read more

We decided to dine here after a sweep of Tom Izzos Spartans. GO Terps! When I heard one of our party making a reservation to a hotel restaurant, I thought it was a little cautious but upon arriving decided was definitely necessary. This place looks like the hot spot to go to after a MD basketball game. It was filled with coaches, players and fans. The place was riddled with Terrapin Red. Our group of 6, All MD fans, were sat in the back at a high table. We began this experience with a few orders of wings and bacon burger sliders. We ordered a little light as there was only 3 sliders for 6 people, I happened to be one of the lucky 3. While I was eating this standard slider, the other 5 were smashing the chicken wings. When I went to wipe my face of the mayo from the burger, the wings were gone and everyone was saying how good the bbq sauce was. So good, that we decided to order another round. Needless to say, there was only about 10 wings per order. One of the party was on his fifth diet coke, they use small glasses (this is a classy establishment) but he must have been extremely thirsty after his "shortcut" from the xfinity center to the parking garage. He then proceeded to eat a wing with a fork. He does live in Massachusetts now, but grew up in MD, this was a move I have never seen before, and hopefully will never see again. Next was the main dishes, 3 salads (1-Greek, 2-Waldorf) with grilled salmon on them. The salmon looked cooked to perfection and the critics agreed. Maybe a slight salty, one said. The pickiest eater in the bunch said " Now that....That was a great salad!" "Phenomenal" was the word used to describe the mushroom ravioli and was completely scarfed down except a few spots of sauce. After the night he had, I thought he would have ordered 2 entrees. Pre dinner, This guy put in some good work and I'm not even taking the "shortcut" into consideration. Next was on off the menu order. The requester did ask nicely so the kitchen said yes. The penne with cream sauce, some sort of cheese (meant to be like Alfredo) and grilled chicken. "That is a huge bowl of carbs ", his brother gracefully pointed out. If your looking to carb up, this is your dish. He said he liked it but I always thought, teenagers had big appetites. Or maybe that was just when I was a teenager. He packaged up the rest and said it will be a late night snack. I'm not sure how that really turned out. Finally, I order the chicken dinner. Which was grilled chicken with arugula, tomatoes and beans. After reading it on the menu I was expecting something a little different but this dish was plated like an arugula salad on top of chicken. It could have been a eh, 8 star dish but the chicken was dry. The taste was good but dry chicken is hard to muscle down, I did somehow find a way since I was also a part of that "shortcut". I was famished. By this time Mr. Shortcut was on his 10th Diet coke and the attentive waitress had finally brought a carafe to the table for him. Overall a great experience, the company was way better than the food for me, but others in the group were very happy with their dishes. I would give a 3.5 but Yelp only allows whole stars. If I were to go back, It would not be my first choice, but I would follow. I would order the salmon which looked to be the winner of the table. The best part of the night was when Mr. Shortcut paid the bill. THANKS AGAIN UNCLE TIM! (Whoops, anonymity has been broken). Had to thank him personally.... THE NEXT ONE IS ON ME, Jeremys Steakhouse is in our near future, I REFUSE TO LET YOU PAY A PENNY. #MDTERPSBBALL #OTTLAW read more

I ate at here twice in the last week while in town for business. It doesn't feel like your typical hotel restaurant. The decor is modern and appears to have been updated recently. The burger was prepared well and was not overcooked like most places. The fries were ok but the roasted pepper soup was excellent. The service on my 1st visit was ok, but was in the ok to poor range on the second visit. The second visit was after 8pm and the place was very busy so it might have just been timing. Prices were a little high but not terribly out of line with similar hotel restaurants I have visited. read more

Lovely place that came to our rescue on Thanksgiving day. Beautifully decorated, great service (Dil was attentive and pleasant), and the food was incredible. (The crab mac and cheese is so good! Nice big chunks of crab meat.) Portion sizes surprisingly generous. Definitely recommend. read more

HORRIBLE. 2 hours to get seated...they lost our reservations. Worst service...two separate servers came to take our orders...told us we couldn't have separate checks cause the "system was down"...lie. Our group was just too big- just say that! Seriously. Don't waste your money or time here. It was a Tuesday night...can't imagine a busy weekend. Will not be returning. read more

I just lost 2 hours of my life waiting for dinner in an empty restaurant that had more waitstaff than customers. The waitress seemed nice, but seemed not to understand that she is suppose to check on her tables. I would never go there again. The food was just okay, nothing special and not worth the wait. read more

The chef is not competent! Ate twice within two days, both times even simple dishes such as pasta and a steak salad had serious flaws. The pasta was dry and overcooked, the salad was not dressed properly! So close to DC and yet soooo far as far as food standards! read more

We just held a dinner this past week for 22 college students here for the AORE Conference held in the Marriott. Steve Green helped me with all of the preparations, and it was a fantastic event. The restaurant space provided for the group was in the back with two large tables. Even though it wasn't a private room, it worked just as well since there were no other tables in this space. The buffet area was perfect for shared appetizers, and the servers were very friendly and helpful throughout the event. Chef Fernandez greeted us, and was very helpful with the timing of the food which made for a very pleasant dining experience. The food was exceptional, especially the crab cakes and the flatbread pizzas! I highly recommend The Common if you are in the area, and I see a bright future for this restaurant! read more

This was our fourth time eating at The Common and we are happy to say it was as excellent as the last three times!! The restaurant decor is classy and inviting. Everything from our appetizers, (buffalo wings, soup) to our meals (steak and hamburger) were delicious and cooked as ordered! We always ask for our favorite server Hirute, who is always warm, friendly attentive. The manager should be proud that this restaurant has become a consistent favorite of ours. read more

Nice style and has a good look. Bartender was very nice. No females on the staff. Outdoor patio was nice. Appetizers are good. Food was overall pretty good. Overall good experience. read more

Just had dinner there this evening. Great atmosphere. Nicely spaced tables offer the opportunity to have private conversations during dinner. We could actually hear each other without the need to yell over others. Airy and open. Clean and crisp. Modern decor. Great color scheme. Several options for seating. At the bar in sight of wall-mounted televisions. At tables with comfortable high-back leather chairs with nice pillows. Seating for large parties already set up and waiting. Food was excellent. Drinks were great. Variety of items on the menu such that anyone should be able to find something to enjoy. Food was fresh. Extremely generous portions! Staff and servers were patient, attentive and very pleasant. A great surprise to have dinner in such a beautiful, tasteful and upscale setting in Prince George's county. We can't wait to visit again. I've already picked out several menu items I want to try during my many upcoming visits. This experience was outstanding! read more