Terrible Experience - Not a good value
Friday, August 10, 2007
My husband and I had made reservations for 8:30 PM last night, August 10, 2007, to celebrate the successful launch of my new business. We wanted an earlier reservation, but were told our choices were 5-something pm or 8:30 PM. I chose 8:30.
We arrived at 8:20 PM and were told it would be a 15 minute wait beyond our reservation. We said that would be OK. 8:30, 8:45 came, 8:55, 9:00, 9:10, and we were still not seated. We were waiting with the crowd in the lobby and I observed the blatent slipping of cash to the greeter and people being seated out of turn.
The names below us on the list continued to be seated ahead of us. My husband was ready to leave, and I should have let him. I asked the greeter when we might be seated, as our reservation had been for 8:30 PM. He told us we were third next in line. The entire lobby emptied. There was one couple left with us, and they were visitors from out of town, and IRATE at the wait. They were told they were fourth in line. (We were still third.) The irate couple was seated, and we remained, alone in the lobby. Again, hubby wanted to leave. By the way, we were dressed nicely and it's not like our hygiene lacked or anything--it was purely the fact that we didn't slip them a wad of bills to seat us.
Anyway, at 9:20pm, they seated us. Now to the food. The service from this point on was good, the food was not. I ordered a blueberry mojito and it was so bad I couldn't drink it. I don't know what they did to it. Our steaks were not cooked as ordered. Hubby ordered well done. That means, according to their menu, just a little pink in the center. The meat was red throughout. They brought our coffee condiments to the table, including the fabulous chocolate coated candy stirrers. BUT, they only brought one. For the two of us. How utterly cheap!!!! The little dish it was served in should have contained about 6-10 of them, that was t