Aqua Bistro | Bar

Review is for bar/​coffee (I haven’t had a meal here yet…)
Decent little coffee bar serving up Starbucks including coffee, iced coffee, lattes, mochas, and caramel macchiatos. I had 2 Starbucks drinks over the weekend, both made to perfection.
They don’t accept Starbucks app/​gc here but that is okay.
I also enjoyed a few of their liqueurs in the evening with my coffee for a nightcap. Limited bar but perfect for my needs.
Staff were always friendly, efficient, and attentive.
It’s pretty awesome to be able to wake up and have a Starbucks in your pjs in the hotel :-)

I wasn’t familiar with this restaurant until I saw a Groupon and purchased it for $ 40 worth of food. The restaurant is in the Courtyard Marriott West and when you enter the front doors, it’s just to your right. The restaurant isn’t enclosed and has tables for 2 or 4, 3 round booths, and 2 areas with seating of high chairs.
The bar area has alcoholic drinks but they also serve Starbucks, and cold drinks. There are TVs and a few bar stools too.
We choose a table for 2 and our server brought us menus. They have a Happy Hour from 5 – 6 where selected drinks and chicken wings, nachos, dry ribs, hummus and rice rolls are $ 5. Since we were using our Groupon, we were told we couldn’t order for this menu.
The menu has appetizers, soup few salads, sandwich and burgers, 2 pastas, and entrees with steak, lamb, and other meats. I decided on the butter chicken served with rice and garlic naan.
While we waited for our food, more customers came into the restaurant. There were 2 servers that I saw and they were kept busy keeping up with the service at the tables. One party was big but this isn’t a great place to come for large groups as they would have to move tables together if they aren’t occupied.
The butter chicken was good and I found the sauce was good to mop up with the naan. It wasn’t too creamy which I liked. The server checked on us and also refilled our drinks.
The washrooms are in the area where the conference rooms are. They are clean, and bright and there are bottles of hand lotion available.
With the Groupon, it was a decent price. Without, I would say the prices are a few dollars too much for an open casual hotel restaurant. Service was good and our server apologized for the slowness even though I found it acceptable. Would be a place I would come back to for a meal or appetizers.

My wife and I decided to hit this place up for dinner after purchasing a deal from Groupon.
We arrived at around 5:30 PM on Saturday — the atmosphere was quiet and there were only a few people there. We were greeted promptly from across the room by the bartender who told us our server would be out shortly. After the friendly server took our drink orders, the food and beverage manager appeared in a puff of smoke to take our meal orders. I think he was bored. Like I said, it was pretty slow when we went in. From the time we walked in to the time we ordered our food only ten minutes passed — if that. We even had to turn the server away once because we hadn’t decided what to eat yet.
I ordered the rib eye steak with mashed potatoes and a bottle of Canadian. The steak was cooked as I ordered it – well done. This can be the test of a restaurant’s suck factor — how well they listen to the customer. Well I’m happy to say that the Aqua Restaurant passed the suck test. (Or failed it, however you want to look at it.) I’m trying to say the steak was good. They poured my beer into a glass which was above and beyond. I don’t mind drinking it from a bottle.
My only gripe is about the prices. The food is expensive and we probably wouldn’t have come here if we didn’t have the Groupon. The service is relaxed and friendly and the food is good but it isn’t worth what the restaurant charges.
The layout of the establishment is wide open. It’s within full view of the hotel check-​in desk and the lobby. There was an Asian chick in a black bikini waiting for a cab with her friends in said lobby the night we ate there. (Did I mention it’s January?) My wife guessed that they were on their way to a party at the waterpark at WEM.
So if you like to eat in subdued, quiet restaurants or if you have a fetish for scantily clad Asian girls — you gotta eat here. If you‘re interested for the second reason then make sure your back is to the bar. Oh yeah, there‘s a bar too.

Aqua is a nice little restaurant that is let down by its high menu prices. The surroundings are pleasant and Olga, the woman who served me, is positively lovely, but the prices for most things on the menu are at least 50% too high. While I am certainly glad to have checked it out and to have had the pleasure of meeting Olga, I am unlikely to return.