There is work yet to be done in this restaurant. The self absorbed hostess foreshadowed bar service that was way below expectations. The wait for our drinks was about 15 minutes despite the absence of any real customer presence on this night. Note to bartender: "You are there to work. Your conversations with other staff can wait until later. The waitress standing there at the bar is waiting for drinks to serve., not to honor you." When our martini's finally came, along with profuse apologies from the young waitress they were flat and seemed of equal parts water and alcohol. Lousy taste and high price = poor value. But wait! As if part of some participative show, here comes bearing down on us, a different waiter who drops down a drink that somebody else ordered before running off without any cue from us that his "gift" was anything we wanted left at our table. Our appetizer, a spring role was OK. but boring and really unacceptable for a restaurant that has Azia in it's pedigree. We decided Temple wasn't ready to open and we left our dinner reservations unused. All of the things that drove us out can be fixed and we would expect that Mr Thom Pham, a man who, by history, obviously knows his business will attend to these problems. We'll try back in the spring.
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