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| - We decided to walk here for breakfast the morning before leaving the city for our trek back to Buffalo. We arrived and got seated promptly. I only saw 2 people waiting tables, so I figured it would be a slow-go. After a while, the waiter finally came over to ask if we wanted coffee, which we did. He came back a few minutes later without the coffee to take our food order. I ordered the classic benedict, to which he asked (in French) if I wanted coffee with it even though he had JUST taken our order for coffee. My french-fluent boyfriend was confused by what he asked and said "what?", so the waiter ended up getting snippy with us about not telling him to use English, even though we would have been fine using French.
The food service was fairly slow. It was a bit busy, but still on the slowish side. It took about 10 minutes after ordering food (probably around 15 after ordering the coffee) that we actually got our coffee. Meanwhile, people were coming in after us and getting served before us.
The food itself was delicious, and definitely a 4 or 5 star. The benedict was awesome, and I loved the fresh fruit and potatoes. My boyfriend ended up getting the wrong omelette than he ordered, but decided to just eat it and not take anymore time, since we wanted to get on the road.
When we were finished, we asked for the check, and the waiter left to, what I thought, was to get the check. After around 10 minutes of him doing everything BUT get us the check (including giving the check to some parties who came in AFTER us), we just got up and walked up the register to pay rather than wait for him to bring it over to us.
The food was excellent, but the service was horrible. We are unsure if he was just annoyed about the English-French confusion at the beginning or what, but we felt pretty annoyed by the end of the experience. 5 stars for food, 1 star for service.
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