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| - The rating is based on our Summerlicious experience of 2012. When we dined here in 2011, it was absolutely perfect. However, this year, a few things went wrong. The first portion is just our little rant on the hostess and service this year.
The hostess was on the phone when we got to the restaurant. That is fine normally, but this hostess did not even acknowledge our presence. She did not gesture for us to wait, or look at us; she kept her eyes on the booking book in front of her. This went on for a good few minutes, meanwhile, the 6 of us just stood there looking at each other confused and a little annoyed. After she got off the phone, we told her about our reservations, she led us to our tables with a very disinterested face.
When we arrived to our tables, I noticed a lot of free space and we can totally move the 2 tables together to form a bigger table to fit all 6 of us. You know, so we can all sit together. But when asking our hostess about this, she said "no." with a very firm voice and walked away. But she walked away a bit too quickly seeing that I also wanted to ask if it's okay to move a chair, and squeeze everyone into one table instead. I found her at the front but she was on the phone, again, she did not acknowledge me standing in front of her. I stood there for a few minutes and realized either the customer on the line is really taking their time, or she is just pretending to be on the phone so I can't talk to her. So I left to go back to our tables, and decided to ask the waiter that was there whether it was okay to move a chair. He thought about it, and said sure.
When we started moving the chair, the hostess quickly rushed our tables and openly argued with the waiter "they can't move to one table, because if there is a free table, we have to use the table." and also mentioned "if they take a chair, there is only 3 chairs left, we can't use a table with only 3 chairs"
We just found it very ridiculous because we shouldn't need to hear all of this...especially since in the end, they just added another chair from the back to the table. It wasn't a problem, and was never a problem...we even gave them a free table. We have never experienced such poor accommodations and inflexibility for something so petty. She was a very difficult person deal with. And it's funny how us, the customers, have to deal with her instead of the other way around. After our meal, I tried to find the manager to provide a verbal criticism, but the manager was unfortunately not in so I just told another waitress.
Oh, and our waiter was also very expressionless and slow. Our dirty plates piled up and he took no initiative to take them away...especially since it was 6 people in a 4 people table....we really needed the space to eat our food and put our cups.
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The food this year was disappointing. We mainly went for the oysters but were given 2 very tiny ones in the appetizer. They also did not have the decency to separate the "tower" which is part of the appetizer. We had 3 orders of the "tower" appetizer but received it in a single martini glass. We are fine with sharing saliva, but it became an inconvenient when we all tried to fit our forks in.
The entree portions varied a lot, even among our group. 2 of us got the salmon dish, 1 piece of salmon was pretty thick and large while the other was a tiny piece of thing. 3 got the mussels, and the portions were once again, varying. One plate was much higher than the other, while the other 2 were smaller. They also found a good amount of empty shells.
The desserts were alright. There really isn't much to say about them...they were far from amazing, but wasn't too terrible either.
Let's just say we will be finding another oyster bar to dine in next time. Maybe we entered with too high of expectations considering our wonderful experience last year. We left disappointed with a hint of bitterness :C
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