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| - i really wanted to like this place more than i did. i had been reading the yelp reviews and scanning the menu and thought it would be the perfect place for a saturday night dinner. one of the best parts about the place is the parking being so close.
we walked in and the hostess literally just stared at us. i thought maybe she was in the middle of having a stroke but no she just hasn't adopted proper social skills yet, which is the perfect type of person to hire as the hostess of your restaurant. she sat us at our table and we shortly met our waiter, who i believe was named Jim but he said or Ted...? he IDed us for our cocktails which made me and my fiancé feel awkward as we're almost 30 and he has a giant beard and a few grey hairs. whatever i guess. i had the shrub daisy and my fiancé had a bourbon cocktail and both were possibly the best cocktails we've ever had. we finished almost our entire drinks before our waiter came back, not because of how great they were, because of how inattentive the service was. finally we got around to ordering oysters, and then he left. we wanted to order more appetizers, but had to wait another 15 minutes to do so. i'm going to try and give the service the benefit of the doubt by saying maybe they were understaffed but the place wasn't even full.
finally we get the oysters and my fiancé is in the restroom. he asks me what kind they are since they were "chefs selection". i had no answer for him because i wasn't told what ANY of them were. as an appetizer i ordered the charred octopus and my fiancé ordered the arancini (which our waiter repeated back to us "air-an-seeni"... if you're going to serve italian dishes it would behove of the staff to learn the proper pronunciation). here is where i made a mistake. i didn't inform our waiter of my dairy and egg allergy because nothing on the dish was assumed by me to include dairy or egg. when it came out it clearly did, in the celery root purée. i asked the waiter if there was dairy and egg in it and he said "yeah probably. you're just going to have to eat around it". LOL. OK! i quickly tell him that no, i won't be "eating around it" unless he would like to administer an epi pen for me. i tell him about the allergies and order the mussels. those finally come out and clearly contain a butter broth to which i'm told they don't. then he comes back and apologizes that it does. at this point i don't even want an appetizer but the mussels came out anyways in about 10 minutes, they were definitely excellent. as the waiter dropped the mussels off, he says "i'm going to get your drinks!" (which we had ordered about 12 minutes prior). my fiancé was under the impression that he was trying to do us a favor by taking care of our drinks since he made a mistake with the mussels, but that wasn't the case. like another yelper stated, this place obviously can't be bothered with trying to make up for their mistakes on the bill.
for our entrees, i had the vegan ravioli and he had the veal liver. the ravioli was okay. it would have been a lot better if they used garlic and oil instead of marinara. the marinara has no flavor and since there no meat in the dish it makes the entire thing flavorless. my fiancé didn't like his liver however it was just an acquired taste. again, we hardly saw our waiter once during the time we were eating. usually the waiter or waitress checks in on you and asks how everything is. not the case, several times we had to flag him down. he looked to be in a frantic state most of the night which made us both feel awkward and uncomfortable.
id also like to mention that while we were ordering our entrees my fiancé asked about the size of the liver and he pointed to the table behind us to show us for reference since one of the patrons just got his. during this time, a woman at the table called our waiter over, while in the middle of taking our order, and started ordering more food. not only did our waiter say "hold on" to us, he went over, took the old ladies order, THEN went into the back to place it while me and my fiancé were sitting with our thumbs in our asses. i couldn't believe my eyes.
i forgot to mention the decor, which is because it's horrible. it's dark and extremely outdated. this is not the way a farm to table restaurant looks. it looks like the decor you would see on kitchen nightmares before gordon ramsey gives it a makeover. the large mirrors in the back are probably the only redeeming characteristic.
all in all i can't say we would ever come back for food. it wasn't good enough to outweigh the extremely poor service. i've heard the happy hour is pretty good though so maybe we will try that. for reference; my fiancé is from NYC and i lived there for two years and neither of us have ever had such rude service as thing. not worth the $170.
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