I heard last night at work that my name was on this thing, so I tried to find the email address for citysearch to have it removed. I cannot get that information yet, so I've written a rebuttle. I've named this review "true colors" because it shows what happens when someone shows their "true colors". The review below was not written by a customer, which I can tell because the owner of this restaurant tends to spell things requiring double consonants with only one, as in "stoped" for "stopped". Simple facts. The owner fired the chef, we said that was a bad idea and that we would leave as well. He said for us all to go. The chef returned the next day anyway. We did not. I believe that people say what they mean. Every night, even the ones that went fairly well, ended in some sort of dramatic crescendo with Juan (now his name is online) frantic and upset about everything. While passion is key for selling food, constant passionate outbursts (as I know well) are not. It wears on people and it wore on the staff. In our defense, those last days were spent trying to get the staff up and running for when we left. The working environment was miserably unhappy and as a creative person, I had stopped pursuing even my most modest outlets because most of my time was spent worried about the new incoming staff, teaching a years worth of knowledge in only a couple of weeks and lamenting a years worth of having a wonderful job, followed by a month and a half of frantic, well, hell. If someone says that after all of that worry, of hiring people and interviewing them, taking inventory of things we need, begging Bistro customers to stay and try the food and acting as a manager with no pay at all, that they no longer need me, well, I'll leave. That simple. I will not make up blatant lies to post online with people's names attached to them. My name is distinctive, not generic. This is the way I write. "Stoped" is the way Juan writes. These are my true colors. Those are his.
Pros: the food is good.
Cons: the owner slandered my name online, blatantly.
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