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| - My review is based on opening night, so I'm willing to accept that future experiences may vary. I was a big fan of Pork Ninjas at their previous location and swear by their food still.
I arrived at the restaurant a few minutes after 7 p.m. on opening night with my girlfriend and immediately noticed that it is a very loud interior. We suspected it might be because it's a lower-level location, but maybe it's just that the groups there were feeling particularly rowdy on opening night.
There didn't seem to be a structure for seating or ordering, so we went to the bar at first and asked what to do. We were told to grab a table, so we did, and pointed out where we'd be to the staff.
While at the table, we waited for just shy of 30 minutes for someone to pay attention to us. I don't mean that we meekly sat in a corner and waited; I mean that we made efforts to sign and otherwise get servers' attention but were constantly ignored. We wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt on opening night, but when a server finally did come, they acknowledged that they'd seen us waiting but were too busy to acknowledge us personally. Even just letting us know that they'd be a few more minutes would have helped us feel less actively ignored.
We were truthfully about 2 minutes away from our decided deadline for just packing it up and calling it. The promise of Pork Ninjas' food was the only thing that kept us in our chairs and made us order something when they rolled around.
We placed our order at just around 7:30 p.m. I ordered the beef brisket sandwich, she the fried chicken sandwich - our usual standbys at the old location.
Their beer selection is very good, as has been stated before, so we weren't disappointed. The beer even arrived fairly quickly, in about 3 or 4 minutes, so we thought things were on the rise.
We eventually got our food at just about 8:30 p.m. In that entire intervening time, there was no indication as to how long the food would take. We remember it being almost surprisingly quick at the old location. Again, maybe a growing pain from opening night.
But in that same intervening time no one checked in with us at all. We made our drinks last the hour since no one came to check if we wanted any more.
When the food did come, we hadn't been given cutlery yet, and there was the promise of some being brought over. I made my way through my whole sandwich before I ended up just walking to the bar again and asking for some to be brought - again. That time it did come a few minutes later.
Mercifully, the food *tasted* great and just how we remembered it at the old location. The one exception to this was that my girlfriend was very surprised to find a large number of bones in her fried chicken sandwich. We'd been to their previous location many times, so the addition of bones to the sandwich was an odd new addition, and definitely a surprise to find when you bite into a sandwich. She pulled out about half a dozen bones over the course of her meal. We wondered if maybe they had run out of thighs/breasts and had started using wings in the sandwiches at some point.
We were out of the restaurant just before 9 p.m., but I don't think we'll be back for a while because I don't want to have to budget 2 hours of time to eat a sandwich.
At the time I didn't see any signage for delivery or call-ahead/pickup, but if that sort of service becomes available, I admit I won't be able to resist taking advantage of it in future - with the exception of that chicken sandwich. But we likely won't be eating in until we hear that things are running smoother; we just didn't feel overly welcome in there.
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