Reviews for Homestead On The Roof in Chicago, IL
4 stars for the food and cocktails. Loved coming here to try the Filipino dishes from the pandesal, manok, sinigang, and bistec.... Definitely a nice spin to traditional Filipino food. 0 stars for service. Service was truly terrible. It was slow, hard to flagdown our waiter, and we had to ask for our waters to be refilled countless times. For this price point of food, one would expectmuch better service and knowledge on the menu. We had a reservation at 6:30, and it took over half an hour to just get ourdrinks. Read more
Cute patio with very friendly staff. For us, service was pretty fast. We were seated right away and they brought us our dishes... as they were ready (staggered). We tried the pandesal, the papaya salad and the half roasted chicken. The bread and the saladwere alright, nothing super memorable. We really enjoyed the flavor of the chicken and the side rice, very tasty! That wasprobably our favorite dish of the night. Read more
The atmosphere is nice. But my last visit, I think they short of employees so took so much time to get a drink. I made... reservation at 8 but not get a table till 9. The food was salty to me. Drink is OK Read more
Came in for the Filipino food iteration. Beautiful rooftop space. We shared the pandesal, papaya salad, sinigang, and the... shrimp and pork lumpia. We had also ordered the manok but didn’t eat that on site. The food and drinks took an extremely longtime to arrive at the table. Our server remarked on that fact a number of times. It was extremely loud on the rooftop with boththe music and a number of large parties so it was hard to communicate with our server. He did his best given thecircumstances. When the food finally arrived, it was delicious. However, the wait times were so long that our server broughtour check before the Manok had arrived at our table. We took it home in takeaway boxes. Additionally, someone bussing a tablenearby spilled water on me and only remarked “it’s just water” and walked away. They did not help clear the spill on ourtable nor offer me a towel/napkin to remedy the situation which was rather off putting. Read more
It is an interesting restaurant. Seems family style and not part of a bigger chain restaurant. The food was good especially the... mussels and bass meals. My only gripe was the waiter informed us that the chef cooks all the meals ordered at once (ie entreesand mains will come out together). We were seated on a very small table that could not contain all the dishes at once. Giventhey know how big their dishes and plates are you’d hope they’d have bigger tables throughout the restaurant, and not just afew that were already occupied. Between the two of us it made for a very uncomfortable squashed table receiving 2 large entreedishes as well as 2 mains dishes. This was made worse when our waiter brought our 2 large plates to dish the food into. Therewas much maneuvering to be done just to fit all the different plates/bowls on that tiny table, and eat. The chairs are alsoquite uncomfortable if you’re of a bigger girth. Other than that great food. They did call back to check if we were stillcoming for our reservation which was nice as we were running late and had tried calling them to notify them and got voicemail. Read more
Romantic, great vibes, great fine dining…what more can you want. This rooftop blew me away considering this was my first time... experience here. Homestead definitely is the spot. Food had great flavors and textures and the presentation was amazing. Will bevisiting here again Read more
Honestly, this is a GEM of a restaurant. The Filipino flavors were amazing and beautifully constructed. Every dish left me... speechless. The service was amazing. Our water's were never left unfilled. The owner (I believe he was the owner) would alwayscheck on us and ask us how the food was! The pictures don't do it justice at ALL. We will be back for the brunch menu!! Read more
Came here last night to celebrate my anniversary. We sat outside and it was a nice environment but the lights were weirdly... bright which didn’t fit with the ambiance. Overall the employees were all very nice but service was extremely slow. Iunderstand most places are short staffed but it didn’t seem like the servers were in the weeds or anything it just tookforever to get food and drinks. If you go when they have the summer menu skip the noodle dish. Read more