The Lexington Restaurant, Lexington Park, MD

I hit The Lexington a couple of years ago for dinner before a show at Three Notch Theatre.  I vowed not to return but I did again the same theatre season.  So, fast forward two years.
 
I was part of a group dinner at The Lexington last Thursday evening.  Cocktails at 6, dinner following, order from the menu.  I stopped by the bar on my way to the back dining room which had been reserved for our group.  I ordered a drink which came in the flimsiest plastic cup I've ever had - it surely wasn't a Solo cup!  No cocktail napkin served with my drink - you know what a napkin freak I am.  Picking up the drink, the slighest squeeze on the sides of the cup propelled liquid all over my hand and the bar.  Oh well, it was Thursday, the week was almost over, I'll live with it.

We were seated in the back room - horseshoe-shaped table set up.  Decent silverware and cloth napkins - a plus!  The server took individual orders on a small tablet - name and entree on each page.  Not sure who ordered what, but servers started coming to the room with items that apparently nobody in our party ordered.  I took a rest room break and salads were served during the 5 minutes that I was gone - if you have my name, my seat location, and my order, just leave my salad at my place instead of taking it back to the kitchen.  It took a few minutes but I finally got a salad, mostly iceberg with two cherry tomatoes and two slices of cucumber ... by the time I got my salad, entrees were being served.  It was slightly entertaining since we were having a dinner meeting and the wait staff came to the room bellowing, "Who ordered the NY strip?  Who ordered the cold plate?  Who wants crab imperial?"  Kind of put a halt to the meeting until everyone had their food.

What can I say about the food?  There was quite a bit of grumbling.  My crab imperial wasn't terrible - about a 6 on a 10 scale for taste.  It was an ample serving but it wasn't very warm.  I think the baked potato was actually baked - not microwaved so that was a plus.  Bread was a plain roll - kind of like a small hamburger roll - white.  I'm just glad I didn't order a steak - the NY strip was about 1/4" thick.  I would have been extremely diappointed.

The Lexington seems to have turned into a bar with wings and burgers as specialties.  Not that there's anything wrong with that - I really like dive bars!  I just need to make a mental note that they are not great places for a dinner meeting.  Give it a shot and see for yourself!