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This place is in my neighborhood and I had been wanting to try it for awhile, so when I spotted a deal for it on Livingsocial, I grabbed a $50 voucher for $25. My husband and I decided to eat there a couple nights ago and it turned out to be a horrible experience.
When we walked in, it was busy & loud -- felt like a sports bar, but LOUD!! We were seated, given bread & hummus (both very good) and drinks by a super nice man. We waited about 15 mins and our waitress finally took our order. We waited and waited and waited. We watched other people's orders come out that had been seated after us and finally asked the waitress if it would be much longer. She said about 6 minutes......15 minutes later, we started receiving some of our dishes. About halfway thru our 3rd dish, the couple right next to us presented their Livingsocial deal to the waitress, which prompted me to give mine to her. She immediately got pissed, told me that I had to purchase $60 worth of food, per the owner's policy. When I told her that the deal wasn't for $60, it was for $50, she stomped off. At that point we were still waiting for one more dish, which we'd ordered about 15 mins prior. Several more minutes go by and the waitress came up and asked if we were ready for dessert. I looked at her and said, ""Dessert? We are still waiting on our steamed clams."" She puffed her chest out and said ""Excuse me, Ma'am, but we are really busy and the kitchen is having problems getting orders out and there is nothing I can do about it,"" as snotty as she could be -- as if I it was my fault she couldn't keep up with her orders!! Then she stomped off again. I was stunned. I sat there for a minute then hunted her down, told her to cancel the rest of my order and give me my check. She brought over the check which still had the steamed clams on it, which I had canceled. She said that since I had not spent $60, as required (even though this was not stated on the livingsocial offer at all -- the voucher was for $50), she was giving me back my coupon (which she didn't), and I needed to pay the entire check, per the owner. The owner came over and said that his personal policy was to require a $60 purchase to use the $50 voucher and it wasn't his fault the Livingsocial people forgot to state it on the offer. He & my husband argued for a couple minutes and he finally agreed to accept the voucher and tip his own waitress. Good thing, because that was the only conclusion I could come up with, too.
Firefly has much better food, atmosphere, service, as does Extreme Sushi right next door to Barcelona.
The food was not horrible, some of it was pretty good, but not worth the BS, noise and long wait.
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