Anniversary dinner last night at Deluxe. The food and drinks were outstanding--I had the roasted free range chicken and a Gimi-Hendricks (Hendricks, elderflower liqueur, club soda, lime) and my husband had the knife & fork lamb burger and the strawberry mojito.)
When we arrived at 7, the dining room was very quiet and service was a bit more attentive. Once it got busy, there were only two servers for the room and our water glasses sat empty, finished plates sat for ages, and we were only very briefly offered dessert and never was an offer of coffee or an after-dinner drink mentioned. Though no one was waiting for a table at 9pm, suddenly our server seemed to be in a rush to move us along.
The oddest bit was when a drunk man wandered in off the street--that part isn't odd as we're on South Broadway and it happens. But the staff didn't do anything about him--and they knew he was there. He imposed himself on a table near us and the man at that table actually escorted him out. My husband commented to our waiter that there was a problem and he seemed mostly indifferent to it, only going over to help the customer escort the man out after being told he probably should. A second server was overheard saying to the customer later, ""I was coming over to help"" when actually he walked past, completely indifferent, twice. Any bar or restaurant along Broadway should be much more attentive to this sort of thing--a customer shouldn't have to be escorting unwanted people out of the restaurant because the staff can't be bothered.
We'll probably go back and try it again. It's nice to have an upscale restaurant in our neighborhood, but with so many good restaurants in Denver I'm not sure how patient I'll be with mediocre service.
Pros: Food, atmosphere
Cons: Service
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