This evening at 7:30pm me and five of my girlfriends met at Ponte Vecchio for a nice ""girl's night out"" dinner. We all ordered a round of drinks and then the waitress took our orders. We all ordered a salad for $8.95 and some of us added chicken to it and some added an appetizer at $15 a piece. (The waitress seemed very put out by the fact that we were not ordering entrees. Has she never been out with her girlfriends? Women don't eat big meals in front of each other.) We also ordered another round of drinks.\r
The next thing we knew a young man approached our table and said they we weren't ""allowed"" to serve just salads in this part of the restaurant and that we had to order entrees. We all stared at him like he was crazy - no where on the menu did it say anything about ceratin areas of the restaurant requiring entree orders. We said ""charge us for entrees then"" He said he'd be back. He came back and said that the owner said we could have just salads but he was going to charge us an extra $5 a head for doing so. At this point, we were so angry, as there were at least four empty tables in the restaurant, that we said give us the bill for the dirnks we have had (the first round) and we are leaving. We paid $70 for those drinks and left. None of us could believe we had been treated this way. We were willing to give them our money and they would rather see a table go empty than to serve salads to 6 women. In this economy, I would think the $250-300 we would have spent on drinks, salads and desserts would have been better than the $70 they got. We drove 3 miles down Route 1 and had a wonderful dinner of salads, drinks and dessert at Off the Vine in Rowley - check it out!\r
Pros: The food is very good.
Cons: The service and ""rules"" are ridiculous
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