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| - As your standard restaurant, Atria's has no personality: the food is blah, the service is eh, and nothing is really all that memorable. The patio and it's proximity to the ball parks are its saving grace.
Now, let's talk about when we reserved a room for a bridal shower... We had a fixed menu for a group of about 50 ladies. I understand that. But when the bride asks for no tomatoes, you as a server do not say, "No substitutions!" in your meanest voice. Lighten up, it's her day. I ended up just taking the tomatoes off for her--and just chalked it up to another maid of honor duty. The server also kept clearing the bride's drinks while she mingled. This was annoying, but at least we had paid a flat fee for drinks, so it wasn't the hugest deal.
Overall, the server for the bride's table was just awful and kept treating us like little children. Yes, the table was the bridal party and the bride's cousins. Yes, we are all under 30. But we are also young professionals and the ones who booked the event. The servers who waited on the rest of the tables containing the mothers, aunts, great aunts, and grandmothers were polite...even when my near-senile grandmother started yelling about bandits. Later, another server apologized on behalf of our bad server and mumbled that, "he just must be on his period."
While Atria's is fine for a glass of wine before a Pirate's game if a table is open outside, I certainly would never book it again for a private function.
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