The new and (should I say?) improved Green Kitchen recently re-opened after being shuttered for 6 months for renovations, and I'm already wishing they hadn't. While the new decor is very sleek and the staff has been rejuvenated to younger models, the service simply was horrible. If a restaurant isn't ready to open, they simply shouldn't open, rather than inflicting their lack of expertise on poor, unsuspecting diners.
Upon arriving, we were seated immediately and then waited ten minutes to place our orders from the abbreviated photo-copied menu. They had recently opened so we understood the menu hadn't been printed yet, but we could see that given the reduced menu, it shouldn't have taken 45 minutes for our food to arrive. That was also how long it took for our drinks and bread basket to arrive as well. Not that there was a shortage, because everyone else around us were happily munching away on focaccia and quelling their thirst, even those who arrived after us.
When I finally got my shrimp and scallops dinner, not only did it look like a kids' meal, but they got my sides wrong. As for my husband, his pork chop was so tough, in addition to the lack of a steak knife to cut through it. He practically had to rip it apart with his bare hands, considering the knife he had was so useless. Delirious from starvation, I sent my dish back, paid for my juice and left to the sound of other diners complaining about their wait time to order. I'll give the manager that he apologized at the end, but you know when it's too little, too late? That was befitting to the situation here.
I never thought I would say this, but I miss the dingy decor and Eastern Bloc waitresses with attitude from the old Green Kitchen. At least then, they made no pretenses about what they were. Never again.
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