I’ve been to Amira twice now – once for lunch and once for TechCocktail 3.

For lunch, the setting was really nice – good location, nice window seats, and real classy decor – but the food was just mediocre. There are better places to eat in the area, but there’s something fun about eating at NBC Tower.

For TechCocktail, the large space worked quite well. There’s the larger dining room and a smaller side room that provided ample space for 600 people to mingle in relative comfort. The food that was provided was ok. The fried shrimp was good, but the beef skewers were a tough. My biggest complaint was the coat check. There was a very long line to reach the coat room which was at the inner most point of the dining room and I didn’t notice the $4 sign until I waited for what seemed like 30 min…I opted not to check it in :).

I probably won’t be coming back just for food, but I would consider it if I was planning an event.

The place is decorated nicely although the border along the dropped ceiling reading “olive, garlic, pepperoni,etc.” was cliché and the glaring Pepsi soda machine was distracting. The food would have been fine, if it was served at an Olive Garden. I got the scallops & lobster ravioli in tomato cream sauce and my boyfriend had the Filet Mignon. My scallops were cooked well but flavorless, the ravioli was fine but you couldn’t taste the lobster; in fact, you couldn’t taste anything except the tomato cream sauce which was too thick/heavy. My boyfriend’s steak was overcooked and the barbeque sauce on the bacon too smoky. They said they only had their house wine, which was still $40(more expensive than even nicer restaurants). Our bill was $165 for two people including tip. For that kind of money I want to be blown away by the food. You could get the same food for less than half the cost at a number of chain restaurants including the Olive Garden and that doesn’t speak well for this place