We spent about $250 for dinner for 3 people at Bedford recently and here are the highlights (or should I say “lowlights”):\r
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1. Food: I specifically asked that the endive sauce be left off my dish of peppered tuna. Nevertheless, my tuna came with an enormous glop of bile-yellow endive sauce. My apple strudel was filled with raisins and chopped raw apples which hadn’t been cooked so the flavors did not hang together. It was awful and I left over half of it on my plate. The waiter never said a word when he cleared our plates.\r
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2. Warm White Wine: Our bottle of Albarino white wine was served room temperature. Got sassy back talk from the waiter who condescendingly told us his “patrons” prefer it at that temp. That was incorrect as the Bedford sommelier helped us with the 2nd bottle and admitted the first bottle of wine hadn’t been stored right and that they don’t intend to serve guests warm white wine.\r
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3. Sloppy Service: My Apple Strudel arrived but my dining companion’s Meyer Lemon Tart did not. Waited for 10 minutes even though the ginger chocolate ice cream on my strudel was melting. When we finally asked the waiter where the Meyer Lemon Tart was, he said ""Oh yeah - I meant to tell the kitchen those should be served together."" Earlier in the meal he was rude. When I asked a question about the specials, the waiter told me to wait until he was finished to ask a question. Lastly, we'd had our complimentary appetizers for only a couple of minutes and hadn’t touched themwhen the busboy tried to take them away\r
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4. Décor: The decor was extremely bland and resembled something that would be in vogue at a Holiday Inn in a Midwestern town. The waiters wore untucked burgundy colored bowling shirts that revealed their scraggly chest hair.\r
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5. No Bread- No bread (free or available for purchase) was offered with the meal.\r
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6. Annoying Valet Parkers – Commandeered all the parking spaces near the restaurant with their orange cones. \r
Pros: Ummm... let me get back to you on this
Cons: Sloppy service, mediocre food, bland decor, overly expensive
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