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Outside the restaurant is a special $59 3-course tasting menu. This is a function of not enough customers, so restaurants are left competing for whoever is around. It looked good, and it's what we wanted.
We were given wine menus, a different tasting menu, and the regular menu. When we asked for the $59 menu, it was practically thrown at the table, only one copy was left, and it seems like service tanked from there.
We sat around for more than 15 minutes and during that time, no one came over to find out if we wanted anything to drink or if we were ready to order. We tried staring down various staff, even got some eye contact, but still no one came over to us. The restaurant was NOT busy.
We finally got up. There are lots of restaurants eager for business right now and if this wasn't one of them, we had other options.
As we were putting our coats on, they came over to find out what was up and got an earful.
"Please let us make it up to you?!"
We sat back down.
Frankly, the only thing that improved was the staff suddenly became attentive and even a bit obsequious. Our dessert was included, but a glass of wine or SOMETHING by way of apology, would have been more meaningful than just some words given how steamed I was.
I also did the wine pairings and frankly, with the exception of one choice, the pairings didn't much seem to relate to the food.
I'm sure you can read the other reviews to find out about the food.
Please note that Nobhill is NOT related to the San Francisco restaurant, Charles Nob Hill.
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