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| - A friend and I decided to go to Arisu for Winterlicious dinner since he had previously gone before and had a pleasant experience. I know they left him with a bad impression after this time.
What I ordered: mung bean jelly bites for appetizer, which was served with kimchi, mushrooms, chives and Yuzu dressing. This was basically the only good dish in the entire meal. For my main course, I had veggie delight dinner box which was subpar. It's good that this restaurant has vegetarian options, but it was too drab. For dessert, I had red bean porridge with rice flour dumplings.
Well, it was supposed to come with rice flour dumplings but there weren't any. Seated on an uncomfortable bench and did not offer us to change to a booth seat when there was an available one even though I asked. The most infuriating thing about the entire night was the service. Waitress asked if I wanted the dessert to come when the main course had just arrived. Who eats dessert when their main course just arrived? So I said no, it should come later. Then another waiter comes and tells us to let them know when to bring out the dessert. My dinner partner and I kept getting the feeling that they wanted us to leave. I'm certain two hours for a Winterlicious dinner is not a long time. Why should we be in a hurry when the entire restaurant wasn't even full? Then the waitress brings out the dessert and starts collecting our utensils and main course when we didn't even ask her to! What the hell is that! To top it off, when giving change, we gave her two $50 bills and the change was two $20 bills, a loonie and a quarter. How do you expect us to give you tips? Good idea, we should leave you the loonie and quarter right? Because there's no way we would leave you the 20. However, I'm not mean to servers even when they offer really bad service, so we still paid around 10%. Your fault we did not tip above because of how you gave us the money, not everyone carries spare change around. Terrible experience, do not go! This restaurant should not participate in any Licious events ever again. I will not be returning.
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