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| - Overpriced, awkward AND TERRIBLE SERVICE.
I was invited here on a first date. My date arrived before me and chose a cubby to sit in - which meant we had to sit on the floor. He was comfortable with this, but I wasn't. I was not dressed for sitting on the floor, I was dressed for a date. If I had known I was going to have to sit on the floor I would have stayed at home to play with my pets. Having to be on the floor in tight jeans and a shirt that given my now hunched over position only served to highlight my normally passable muffin top took me from "hot and fun" to "chubby and uncomfortable".
The menu is 64 pages long, the first 40-ish pages are in the $25 rage. I was shocked. But given my current situation, I was in no position to point out the short-comings of the menu.
My date pointed out the Specialties section and I selected the Scent of Jerusalem tea ($4.50). You ring a little bell on your table to get the service staff to come to your table. You know, like you're a entitled snot in a British drama. Our hipster - sorry waiter - arrived in his own time. 30 minutes after ordering we finally got our tea. I'm not kidding, 30 minutes! It's tea, not a meal - and even a meal is served faster in a restaurant. And that goes for Applebee's and Butcher in the Rye, alike.
We each got a pot and a cup on a little platter. The waiter, reached over me, poured my male date's tea and then walked away. Apparently my date had his own personal valet and I, the unworthy, muffin-topped, homunculus was left to my own devices.
You want sugar and milk? Too bad. None was offered. Again- when you wait 30 minutes for tea, you hardly ask for more.
Had they not taken half an hour to make 2 pots of tea, I might have ordered a piece of baklava just to see how much filo dough and honey I could have dropped on my shirt and lap.
Never again.
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