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| - First things first. . .I have made the following startling and relatively disturbing observation: Most of the healthy/veggie-friendly restaurants I've visited in the last several months have a penchant for piping horrible soft rock music (dare I say "elevatorish") music into the unsuspecting ears of their patrons. Seriously. Just a coincidence? I hope so. Nourish was no exception. Hello, Michael Bolton.
As for the food, it was pretty darn good. Granted this may have been because we had been flirting with mostly raw veganism for several days and were st-aaaa-rrrr-ving. We started with chips and mango salsa, which were quite delicious. Nothing of note, but still tasty. For entrees, we ordered the burgers- teriyaki and southwestern. Both on a bed of greens (sans buns). Both were good, although I preferred the teriyaki. The air fried sweet potato fries served with some sort of apricot sauce were completely delicious! We were also pleasantly surprised by the cucumber flavored water- very refreshing.
Sadly, the lackluster service we received knocks this place from a solid four star rating down to a three (and I'm being generous here!). They didn't seem to be understaffed at all, and we sat for maybe 15 minutes before being greeted and this slower-than-mollases service continued throughout the experience. We waited for what seemed like an eternity for our bill and even after asking the hostess and bartender both to locate our server, we continued to wait another 10 minutes or so. When she finally arrived with our bill, our server explained that she'd been MIA for the last view minutes due to an issue for the kitchen. While I fully understand that, it doesn't explain her lack of attentiveness for the entire time we were there.
In short:
food=good
service= slower than slow and lackluster
music= almost intolerable
With a new playlist and some customer service training for the servers, Nourish could be up to four stars in no time!
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