I was invited out to grooves by some girlfriends. We had girls come from Austin, TX. There were probaly nine of us. When I walked in the door, I was eagerly excited by the atmosphere that I was seeing. Nice and clean and it was obvious an upscale sophisticated adult place. We were seated my a hostess and a gentleman took our drink orders. It was not until after the waitress took our order that I found out from one of the girls that the waitress told her that she was not going to be able to make separate checks. Now, granted we had not even asked for separate checks but this waitress upon greeting her for the first time at the table immediately informed her that this was a policy. Unfortunately, this set the tone for the rest of evening which was a little uneasy. The waitress asked me twice what my order was after she had taken it. Once we thought everything was okay. She came up to me again after about twenty minutes and tried to confirm which salmon dish I had ordered. I was of course not happy because I'm thinking my food is not coming out with the rest because twenty minutes had already elapsed and now she is asking this of me. The band was great the mood was wonderful the place was overall nice. The one waitress made it horrible for us. We found out from the manager that we could pay by our meals if we wanted to but it would take a little time to figure it out. That was fine but we never initially asked for that. The waitress was rude. The manager was too generous. He sent us a bottle of champagne and he helped the waitress figure out our bill. I will definitely patronize the establishment again when I am in Houston but I will make sure that I do not have the waitress with the bald cut and long spider leg eyelashes.
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