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| - Oh Cafe Costa Rica. Your food is darn good but your service is horrendous, and the prices are way too expensive for the food you get. The food is bright, flavorful, and tasty.....but $20 for roasted pork (a cheap cut of meat), veggies, and rice?!!! These are inexpensive ingredients that shouldn't have such inflated prices. This could almost be forgiven if the service wasn't so awful. It's been slow before, but it's ok if you're sipping on a yummy mojito or mango margarita. But when we went last week, it was just plain ridiculous. We waited for an hour before we even got our drink. The waitress was all flustered and constantly apologizing to everyone. We weren't even "allowed" to put in our food order for a while and had to be satisfied with appetizers. This wasn't unique to our table, everyone else had the same issues, particularly a poor, confused couple who was visiting for the first time. Finally, two guys left after their drink order was wrong--they ordered two gin and tonics and got two RUM AND TONICS, UGH! Two hours later.....we go to check in on our order and it hadn't even been submitted to the kitchen!!! Somehow it got lost in the chaos. Suffice it to say, we left and get our dinner compted. I love this style of food, particularly in the warm summer, but they really need to get their front and back of house more organized and try and keep their prices under control. For the same amount of money, I could go across the street to Restaurant Muramoto and get an exquisite meal that would cost a lot more in Chicago or NYC.
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