The Dinner Detective

Fun show at a great venue. Actors were good and the show was fun and corny. Food was also surprisingly good.

My husband and I attended the show last night, and let me just say it was wonderful! The performance was fun and entertaining, and the whole atmosphere was really enjoyable :) we had 2 actors sitting at our table and had them pegged as suspicious from the start, but they did a great job steering us in other directions.
My husband ordered the fish entrée and I got the chicken. Both were delicious and I was very pleased, although the portions could have been a little bigger; especially the delicious chocolate cake for dessert ;)
All in all, dinner was great, the experience was great, and we had a wonderful night! I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for something fun to do with friends :)

My boyfriend and I went here for his birthday on Saturday. This place was so much fun. The actors were great and we even had two sitting at our table. We both laughed so hard and were so excited when we got to participate in the show.
I was expecting it to be kind of stuffy and «Clue» ish. So I was happy that it was something that we could drink and laugh and enjoy ourselves. The food was ok. I wasn’t expecting too much. But I did enjoy the chocolate cake for dessert.
I will say I did figure out who the killer was, and we were told that another table thought we were the killers. Whether or not that’s true? LOL, not sure, but made for a more fun experience. I would suggest this place to everyone.

My honey took me here for my 41^st birthday, good food, drinks and show was really funny. Great time had by all. I had the salmon and he ate the chicken. The drinks were strong enough to hit the spot and reasonable priced.

Me and a friend went today for our birthdays and This was super fun and Aca-​Awesome!!! I recommend this to everyone. The food (I had the chicken) was great, The Actors were funny, The Establishment was classy and the show was wonderful! I had such a great time… My name was Denzel Washington lol a lot of ppl thought I was the murderer lol I had a wonderful time :-) A+

Food was delicious and the actors were amazing. Took my girlfriend of a year as a last minute idea to on a Friday night. We both had an amazing time. Highly recommend this place.

I have been wanting to do this for long time, and I was very disappointed me and my husband. the tickets ended up being 181 $ which is very pricy. food was ok, the service was nice, and waiters were friendly, HOWEVER the show itself is ridiculous, extremely boring, actors were not good at all.
Over all not worth more than 20 $ a person! What a waste…

Really fun, food was better than I expected. The service was excellent and the actors were all fun. Would definitely recommend it

We took my boyfriends parents and my parents to go see this show last night and had a total blast! We had a good time thinking everyone was involved and even some people thought my boyfriends mom was the murderer! This is a fun and social night. My parents are not always the most social people and they were even getting in on the asking people questions and interrogating other people at our table. Ok now I must admit this is my second time seeing it in San Diego although they have moved locations. Parking was a breeze, the hotel is comfortable and there is a bar in the lobby if you show up early. They def have changed some things up as far as jokes and setup and both times I was shocked and surprised by the outcome. I’m in showbiz myself and was a bit skeptical of how the show would be but both times I was impressed by the ‘actors’ and also all the guests! Take a chance and go see something totally different

There are few times I take to stop and write a review. I seriously loved this show.!The food was great! The actors hilarious and people thought I did it! I strongly recommend this to people of any age. If you are looking for a great night of entertainment and a great meal all in one, dinner detective is the place to go. Thank you again to all the cast and crew we will most definitely be back with our friends!
Chris

We decided to try this out, to do something different in San Diego. I wish I had done a little more research before I purchased our tickets. The tickets for two were $ 144. Kinda pricey, especially since that didn’t include anything from the bar. (cash bar only) I expected to at least have a good dinner.
First of all, the location was weird. It was in a hotel conference room of the Courtyard by Marriott in Kearny Mesa. If I had realized this was the location before I bought the tickets, I would have saved a lot of money by not going (my bad). I really thought this show was in «downtown San Diego,» because it used to be and only recently moved. The appeal to us was that (we thought) it was downtown which would have been great because we live in North Park, so its a quick cab ride there; my fault for not looking up the address. I read lots of reviews for the «downtown location» and thought that was where our show was going to be.
So a $ 25 ride from our place to Kearny Mesa, and we make our way into a conference room that you would find in any third rate hotel in Kearny Mesa, which was disappointing and if I am going to spend $ 144 on a show, I want it to be in a cool, decked out room or restaurant unique to San Diego. this could have been a room in some random mid-​western town in Nowhere, America. it lacked character.
So we walk into this tiny conference room and there is a small table of cheese, crackers and some sort of appetizer that we never actually got to try because it was mobbed by the other guests and was gone within the first 2.5 minutes of everyone’s arrival… oh and it was never replenished… just one and done, so a combination of greedy co-​party goers who loaded up their plates with multiple appetizers leaving none for the rest of us and lack of replenishment meant that we didn’t get to try whatever was on that plate… awesome.
Then there was the food. The food wasn’t good. The salad was weak, the chicken was not good/​dry. The chocolate cake for dessert was cold and it looked and tasted like it came out of a box from the refrigerated cake section at the grocery store.
The show itself was funny. The actors were good. The funny thing is that they kept on stressing that it was a game and that as the audience we would have to figure out who the «killer» was and that there would be some sort of prize involved. We figured the prize would not be anything extravagant, however, we like to play games, so we were enjoying that part. Fairly early in the show, we figured out who we were going to put as the «killer» and when we answered, correctly by the way, at the end of the show who the killer was, we thought we would win. Well we were not the only people who answered correctly, there was another couple at our table who also guessed the right answer, but when the presenters announced the winner, they never had any clear criteria as to how they chose the actual winner. We guessed the correct character and even wrote down some supporting evidence, however we did not win? And why? Why not the people sitting next to us who also guessed correctly? Why didn’t they win either?
My low rating was because of the location and food quality, I did enjoy the show but it wasn’t worth the money. We would have been better off having dinner at a nicer restaurant. We both left hungry and dissatisfied. We spent $ 260 total (tickets, drinks, car ride there and back). We could have had an awesome dinner in an awesome location for that cost. I wish we had gone to dinner somewhere else.

My husband and I recently went to mystery café. We liked the dinner detective much better.
It was a lot of fun.
There were 2 actors at my table and we were shocked by it. They fooled all of us.
The mystery is good, great drinks, fun times.
The only downfall is the main course. The fish my husband had was terrible and my chicken was dry. The rest of the food was good though, especially the cheese and crackers.
Check this out!