The food on this dinner cruise ultimately scuttled the experience. We ordered the salmon and chicken, and were highly disappointed by both as well as the desert bar.
The food took forever to get to us while others had already finished their main course by the time we received our salad, which was the single high note of the meal.
The salmon dish was overseasoned with salt, and the broccoli that came with it was overcooked and absolutely drenched in oil.
The chicken was served with two sides which were themselves fine. However, the chicken itself was perhaps the most peculiar I have ever eaten as it strangely tasted like a bad salmon dish. How or why you would want a dish ordered in place of salmon to come out tasting like salmon I cannot fathom.
The dessert buffet that topped it was lackluster at best. Cafeteria level display with what may as well been store bought cheese cakes, mediocre brownies, fruit that tasted old and an actually pretty good banana cake that was presented on a giant pan of unevenly cut pieces.
I had hoped for a romantic evening on the Potomac for me and my fiancé but instead got an incredibly overpriced floating cafeteria with inconsistent at best service. The bad main course setting an unfortunate pall over the remaining trip, and the lackluster dessert doing nothing to cast it away.
Stick to the finer restaurants in the city for a special evening. No view from the boat was especially remarkable, and the food will not make it special. The price is definitely not worth the disappointment.