17 Light Restaurant

I would have given them 5 stars cause everything I had was yummy & it came in a timely fashion, HOWEVER my last bite of food had plastic in it. Like literally the last bite of my burger sooooo uh yeah. Take from that what you will

ROOM SERVICE? The food is really over priced and is only okay. I only ate here because I was so tired after traveling that I had no energy to find a better place then what was right down stairs in the hotel. The food was somewhat bland and the descriptions in the menu missed the marked.

Waited an hour and a half for 2 simple appetizers. Great bar and drinks but eat at one of the many restaurants within a 2 mile radius of hotel

Food was good it just took 50 minutes for our salads to arrive to the table. This seems to be part of the hotel– enuf said

After a business dinner was cancelled at the last minute I was in no mood to venture out of the hotel. Happy hour was over so this venue was dead. There is a good selection of draft beer with real nice local amber. Interesting menu that covers the full spectrum of Apps, salads and entrees. I opted for the buffalo chicken wrap and subbed a side salad in lieu of fries.
My only complaint was that the buffalo chicken was not spicy but that was solved with a side of jalapenos. My side salad was pretty big but had minimal veggies and was 80% lettuce. Just a nit. Service was AOK as I was their only customer for most of my visit.
All in all a good experience…

Cocktails were good, and service was friendly but a little on the slow side. Chili was good.

Good beer selection. Okay wine selection. Good food. I tried fish taco, and they were amazing. Service was great.

Fantastic burgers. If you love a good bacon cheeseburger and your by the inner harbor look no further. J. J our server rocked.

Well don’t expect to much from this restaurant — it is a in a hotel and the food is mediocre at best. I had the ahi tuna wrap and the wrap was so stale I thought it was left out for 2 days. The bartender was friendly and attentive — that was the only reason for the second star.

They say the first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem. I’ve actually been avoiding this review for quite some time, due to the stress I feel whenever I think/​talk about my experience at 17^th Light. I’m a habitual high star reviewer, but this was too much to go unwritten. Woe is me. Let’s paint the picture:
It’s playoff season, and the Ravens are playing in the 2^nd round. Ya know, the NFL team from BALTIMORE! Look, I don’t work in the restaurant industry, but any time your city’s team is in the playoff picture, it’s time to shine. It shouldn’t take an Al Pacino speech to prepare you for the influx of fans looking for a place to watch the game. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but it’s like Spring Break in Miami for drug dealers. Time to put your game face on.
Sooo…
10 of us showed up to celebrate one person’s birthday. Let’s call her Katie. Half of us wanted to watch the game over a good meal. The other half wanted to reminisce about Katie’s life over a good meal. Neither happened. Not only did we wind up waiting an unimaginable amount of time to have our orders taken and be served, we had far less than a great meal. No reminiscing. Poor Katie.
Our server seemed nice enough and somewhat apologetic, but ONLY after we had complained about the slow service. I’m guessing (not really, I know the exact time) we waited 1 hour and 26 minutes after we placed our orders. 4 people received meals. 4 people received meals 23 minutes later. And the other 2? S.O.L. It was at that point we started to wonder if our server was taking orders AND cooking food…
Here are some other fantastic highlights beyond the slow service:
–We asked them to leave pitchers of water due to their inability to fill our drinks
–Fries were served right out of the fridge (maybe?)
–Some plates had 2 pickles, some plates had no pickles
–The orders. Were. Completely. Wrong.
–And undercooked (!). Like an 8^th grade anatomy project slapped on a bun
The last time I traded items of food was 15 years ago on a living room floor after a hard night’s work of trick-​or-​treating. I wouldn’t expect to be passing tomatoes and pickles around the table in my mid 20s. I’m not kidding; we actually had to pass tomatoes from people who specifically asked for none to people who specifically asked for them.
17^th Light’s reasoning for the slow service was that one employee called out. Even if that young whippersnapper, who decides watching an overrated football team is more important than a paycheck, calls out of work, there’s plenty of opportunity to pick up some of the workload. Or, at the very least, preface our meal by saying that service may be a little slow.
Hi, my name is Rick, and that was my experience at 17^th Light.

What an utterly disappointing experience! The only reason I am even giving this restaurant a review is due to the politeness of our understanding server. It was so difficult for me to even give this establishment (not that it’s established) a star.
My friends and I (a party of 10) chose to eat at this restaurant on a Saturday evening, upon which we entered around roughly 6:10 pm. It was difficult for us to find a place to seat is quickly, due to the Ravens playoff game, but we were quite surprised to be sat down almost immediately. Barely half the restaurant was seated so our odds for quick service were looking up, wrong!
After being seated, neither of the servers could figure out how to work the TV screen to get the Ravens game on, leaving the devoted fan in our party highly disappointed. Our orders were taken pretty quickly, at about 6:20. This is where things took a turn for the worst…
Since we had 10 people in our party we were prepared to give our server both our drink and meal orders. He seemed very confident, a little rushed, but very kind. We were served our drink at about 6:45. We ordered 10 waters, 2 beers, and 1 glass of wine. Not difficult.
Well we sat, and we waited, and we waited. FINALLY at about 730 the first few meals came out, 4 total. Fries were cold, sides and toppings were missing, and hungry waiting diners were sorely disappointed. About 10 minutes later the next 4 meals came out, of which fries were cold, avocados were browned, and sides were missing. Then we came to find out that the kitchen cooked 1 burger wrong and forgot the other (mine). As we waited for the those 2 meals and other began to eat, we came to find that all our ‘medium-​well’ burgers were PINK! When I say pink, I mean way past rare and all the way to barely defrosted and still mooing. Absolutely disgusting! (See my pictures) Finally the last 2 came out, which you’d expect to be perfect by this point, but they were the rarest of them all. I didn’t even eat my dinner.
Finally, my friend decided to speak up and deal with the matter. The restaurant blamed it on a missing server, but last time I checked the servers aren’t the ones cooking the food. And for the record, I was in the restaurant industry for 6 years and at a banquet of over 200 people we had bread out in 5, salad out in 10, meals out in 20. Granted we had like 10 servers, but that’s still 20 people to a server, that’s double out dining party.
My friend was finally able to negotiate a deal with the hotel manager, after the restaurant manager had an attitude about the entire situation. As we left with comped and discounted meals, I noticed that others diners in the restaurant did not look pleased either. We were just happy to finally leave after spending 2 hours and 15 minutes in that restaurant and get on with our evening.
Oh, and did I mention that it was my birthday? Happy birthday to me!

I recently dined at the 17^th Light Restaurant with a group of 10 friends, which is located inside the Marriott. The restaurant was close to where we were staying, and one of the few places that we didn’t have a wait to get a table.
We were seated right away with menus, our orders for both drinks and meals were not taken until 10 to 15 minutes later. This should have been a sign that the service was going to be slowwww. Our drinks came out within 5 minutes, which was the quickest thing of the night.
The majority of our group ordered burgers, which should be a fairly quick meal to prep. Four of our ten meals where delivered about an hour and fifteen minutes after we were seated, the next four came fifteen minutes later. Apparently two of them were completely forgotten and not even cooked– which meant an even longer delay.
The meals all had the potential to be delicious, if only a little effort was put in. All of the fries were cold, orders were messed up, hamburgers were missing toppings… and they worst part? The burgers were extremely under cooked. Four of the burgers were ordered as Medium Well, and came out rawer than rare– disgusting (see my photos). They were somewhat edible, but one burger was so raw, that we had to send it back (with the slow service, it wasn’t even replaced).
The waiter was apologetic, blaming the delay on a server not showing up to work. Clearly this was a problem in the kitchen. It was shocking to me that the manager on duty made no attempt to apologize. I finally asked to speak with her (Brianna), and was baffled in her lack of professionalism.
During my conversation with the manger, she kept doing menial tasks and would not talk to me directly. After I asked her to adjust the bill, she had to call another manager, who offered a 35% discount. I asked for the raw burger that was sent back to be taken off and was rudely told no. I asked to speak to the manager on the phone myself, and was again rudely told no.
Finally the hotel manager (Chasity) on duty become involved, and was the complete opposite of Brianna. She was professional and kind, and delivered the kind of service that I would expect. Chasity helped us remove the raw burgers, split the bill, and apply the 35% discount to everything.
I am disappointed in the service and meal I received here, but even more disappointed that a great brand like Marriott would let themselves be associated with such a horrible place.

First off they didnt honor their own restaurant dot com gift cert (I have used these gift cards at 10 restaurants in the past 3 months, 2 in Baltimore, and this is the first place to not stick to what the coupon says). The gift cert said it covered alcohol and the waiter said it was wrong, so our plan of having 2 drinks and two appetizers turned into 2 drinks and 4 appetizers we couldnt finish. So we ordered 35 bucks worth of appetizers and had 2 of the worst long islands I have ever drank (and I have had alotta bad ones). The buffalo wings were good, nothing special; the loaded tator tots were also good, nothing special; the petite crab cakes tasted too crabby/​fishy as in they either used imitation crab meat or not fresh crab, both routes are unacceptable for a city known for its crab. The crab dip was also too fishy tasting. All in all I would not return, not for their mediocre to sub par food, nor for their awful quality liquor (I asked for a top shelf long island offering to pay the difference, they said they dont make those there).
I will say this though, we had the most attentive waiter I have ever experienced. He came by literally every 2 minutes asking how everything was, to the point that it was almost annoying. But at least the service is great.

Excellent service. The 17 Light salad was absolutely delicious. Get it with blacken chicken.

Ordered the Signature Pit Beef
— The Brioche Roll was soft the appropriate size, so that Beef wasn’t dropping everywhere while I was eating.
— The Pit Beef tasted great, and I didn’t even need to dip into the Au jus.
— The restaurant was quiet for a Friday night, and the service was prompt and friendly.
— 17^th Light and Lounge was also very kid-​friendly, with really good Chicken Fingers.

We recently stayed at the hotel that was attached to the restaurant and dined in our first day. The lunch selection was great for what we were looking for. I and my daughter had the Lite Burger, it was delicious and RIGHT SIZED. My son had the crab cake sandwich and thought it was very good. The restaurant is small in size, however, the seating was very nice and cozy. The loft-​like décor made for an enjoyable experience. The only reason I did not give it a 5 was because of the bar service. It was very slow because there were only two servers there at 4:30p. I would definitely visit here again though.

Went here when it was snowing out, because I was staying at the Residence Inn hotel and it was in the lobby.
The food wasn’t particularly great — but not horrible either. Average prices, and typical bar food: burgers, wraps, etc.
The cheese and bacon tots appetizer comes with a creamy horseradish sauce. It’s so bomb!

I came here to meet my sister for her lunch break. She commented that we should pick our food quickly because generally the food takes awhile to come out. We ordered immediately and it didn’t take too long.
I ordered the Ahi Tuna Wrap (maybe it was mahi mahi?) and it was great. I opted to get the sweet potato tots as a side and it was a good addition. If i’m in the area and meeting my sister for lunch I would definitely come here again. Food is affordable, delicious, and the atmosphere is nice.

I thought that I reviewed this place before but apparently I did not.
We were staying at the Residence Inn in the Inner Harbor and stumbled upon Light 17 as they were in the lobby of the hotel (well attached to the lobby of the hotel). We had some time to kill before we were going to go out and explore for the night.
What made this place, was the staff. The bartenders were so nice and friendly. They were attentive and fast to serve (even when we were checking out and they had POS system problems).
We only got an app, we got the sweet potato tater tots with crab and cheese… awesomely filthy! So good. Cannot wait to have them again.
First off, I would recommend the Residence Inn, but also Light 17… it is nice to have an option attached to your hotel!

Came here for lunch with a group and they serve subpar hotel-​chain like food. My turkey burger was not good at all. It was a weird combo of sauteed spinach, roasted red peppers and goat cheese– it could have been good in a cold sandwich but with a hot turkey patty, it was borderline nasty. The turkey patty was burned black on the outside and the veggie combo did not work together at all. I ate a quarter and brought the rest home, but will probably not eat it!
The sweet potato tater tots with melted marshmellow served with a butter/​maple syrupy dipping sauce was interesting and decent.