De Fuego Grille - Clackamas

Caleb the host was amazing! Great food, great drinks, and overall great atmosphere. Highly recommend, and I don’t leave reviews very often.

Located in the monarch hotel, I've passed this place hundreds of times and had no idea what a hidden gem I'd missed. We sat in the lounge, and the ambience was a combination of chill, cool and a bit old timey at the same time. The food was excellent. The servers were so...friendly! The burrata was amazing.

For a restaurant in a hotel that's ancient, you'll be very surprised. Good place to go celebrate something. Great food, and amazing service. Was with a table of 5, and we ordered way too much for ourselves. Decent quantity of food, and delicious. Did I mention the food was good? Garlic green beans with the spices they come with are my favorite. Second to the cheese-fondue-dressed potatoes, and the Mac and cheese with sweet drop peppers. The only thing that was strange was the salmon belly. Seemed very out of place in this menu, but I'm very much not an expert. The steak with the quinoa salad was good, though I wasn't a fan of the hidden tomatoes.Drinks were made decently strong and priced about how you'd find them elsewhere. So I'm happy to see that drinks are not over priced for the restaurant we were in.The only thing I wasn't thrilled with was the music and volume level of the other guests. We sat far from the entrance, near the kitchen. While leaving the bass was super strong right at the entrance, yet seemed unintelligible from where we sat. I can also say this isn't the place for quiet conversation at a larger table. With no audio buffer from the tables of 2-4 it was hard to hear others talk.Parking: Lots of parking but shared with the hotel and you can end up walking a ways to get into the restaurant. Drop off at the door is possible but outside seating is still there even though the weather has changed.

Made reservation and We looked forward to an evening Date and left disappointed. 1 of the items we started with wasn’t what we were expecting, server didn’t really have any interest, so we had waited for an entrées and order two different steaks, for $45 dollars a steak they were surprisingly terrible. Cooked and season great but both steaks were completely dry and chewy, unbelievable chewy.Server never even came around to ask how the meals were. I asked for the bill and we left.Its disappointing, we don’t often get date nights because of being out of the country but when I do make it here to spend the evening with my Queen, we had higher hopes for a better dinning experience for the cost of those steaks.Only thing good was the wine.

Still running on all cylinders, the Underground has become one of my favorites that I don't visit enough.