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| - I'd like to give this long-standing, neighborhood restaurant a better review but it just isn't there.
Service: Tonight's service was slow and at times inaccurate. Having said that, it should be noted that there was only one waitress working the entire dining room and she had some help from a woman that I believe was the hostess. I can only assume someone called in unexpectedly tonight and this would not be their standard staffing practice on a Saturday night. Despite this predicament she was friendly and genuinely appeared cool, I have to give her credit for that.
Food: there has been a menu change since the last time we've visited, which I believe was within the last 6 or so months. There were a wider variety of appetizer options or shareable plates. We ordered the always delicious clam chowder and the peel and eat shrimp to start. Both would be repeaters. Our entrees were less impressive, the shrimp scampi and the macaroni and cheese with a NY strip. Both entrees were big enough to easily serve a family of four, easily. They were HUGE. The scampi was oddly bland but had a lot of shrimp. They used two different size shrimp in the pasta. Neither were fishy and were good quality even if puzzling to be in the same dish together. The macaroni entree was a pile of melty, cheesy, glutenous mush. The steak was tough and chewy according to my husband (I did not try that part of his meal). Now, sometimes luck has it that you get a bad piece of meat, so I'd hate to judge their steaks on this one steak. We ordered an ice cream drink, however a martini was delivered. Since we'd had this particular drink in the past we knew it was wrong. I pointed this out to our waitress. She attempted to convince me it was supposed to be a martini until I read the description to her directly from the drink menu. She apologized and returned it to the bar. We overheard the bartender telling her two patrons seated at the bar that she'd never made that drink before so we just cancelled the order deciding not to take a chance.
In summary, I'll return to sit outside and look at the pretty view of the lake, sip beer or cocktails and order a few of the new appetizers. It'll be a good time!
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