My wife and I met my Aunt and two cousins in Senoia, Ga. to go to the Cotton Picking festival in Gay, Ga for the weekend. We all stayed at the Varanda Bed and Breakfast. When we arrived at the B&B we ask were was a good place in town to eat. She highly recommended Founders Restaurant. (She must get a kick back from the restaurant for sending guest to them)!!!
She even made our reservations for us. So at 6pm we show up and I was ask did we have reservations and I replied we did, but I noticed the place was over half empty. The waiter we had was either very new at being a waiter or just a plain dumb ass! He ask if we would like to have any wine and my wife asked him what he recommended for a good house red wine. He started blabbing off about 20 wines so fast then he stopped and said so I guess a good glass of Chardonnay would do? Like I said dumb ass, Chardonnay is a white wine. My wife said never mind, she'll just have water. We ask for lemon for our water we never got. then we ordered 3 appetizers
2 orders fried green tomatoes and 1 steamed mussels. They came out with 2 plates on tomatoe order with 2 fried tomatoes on each plate with some red drizzle on the plate with absolutely no flavor. So that's 4 fried green tomatoes for about $16.00. The mussels tasted like those you buy in the frozen seafood section in the box you heat and serve. We ask do we get any bread? The waiter said yes he forgot. He brought the bread then we asked do we get any butter for the bread, again he said yes and had to go get it. We had to ask for salt and pepper, the waiter bring this tiny shalt shaker and a giant pepper mill. I said don't you have just a regular pepper shaker, he said no they don't if we want pepper on any thing he will do it. I said then just leave the pepper mill on the table, and the dumb ass said he would come by each time we needed extra pepper on anything and do it himself. (IT WAS HIS JOB). We got out main courses and honey they would not fill up a tea saucer with the small portions and no one at our table said any of it had much taste of what they had. One of my cousins ordered fried oysters (extra crispy) and when they came out she had to send them back because they were raw!! The waiter forgot to give my wife her side dish with her fried lobster tail (which the waiter told her was a 8 oz. tail) but looked like a large shrimp on the plate!! He did go get her other side dish though after asking twice. I offered to pay the bill for everyone.Then the waiter brought the check since it didn't take too long to eat no more than they had served us. And my wife would have blown a gasket right their if it had not been for us being with my Aunt and cousins. The bill was $138.70 and they automatically (not mentioned anywhere on the menu) added 18% gratuity $24.96. Grand total $163.66 and that's with nothing to drink but just water!!
The bill had under the 18% gratuity (additional gratuity) and a space to add more. My wife wrote( NO UNDER PROTEST) signed the bill and we left (all still hungry). So if you'r going to visit beautiful Senoia, Ga. and it is, plan on eating at the other eating establishments they have there. Pizza or a sandwich shop. We should have had the pizza. That's where everyone was at, so it must be pretty good and not near as damn expensive.
PS, Whoever responded to my review (the service was excellent) must have been the waiter!!
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