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| - Attention: SKIP THEIR SUMMERLICIOUS MENU. You're better off with their regular menu.
My friend set up a dinner party for a table of 8 here today. We were having their Summerlicious menu. Now, I am not a huge Summerlicious fan, but I saw their burger on the menu and knew it was a good from dining here before. Regularly, it cost $17 and the Summerlicious menu was set at the prix fix price of $25. What a deal right? NOT! Let me explain.
What Origin tried to do tonight with the $25 set price was to cheapen the ingredients on their menu. Umm... Isn't the point of Summerlicious showing people what your restaurant can do on a normal daily basis? Which means, showing your best, so people will come back?! Please note, there are 7 other people invited to this dinner party who haven't been here before and they are waiting to be wowed by this Summerlicious menu in order to be convinced to come back. Well, I am sad to say, you lost 7 potential customers, as I couldn't convinced them that on a regular non-Summerlicious day, Origin is actually pretty good.
Their watermelon salad was a joke, as the plating was done on a ridiculous large plate. Less than half of the plate had the watermelons in the shape of a smile. We were like, what happened to the rest of the food? Improve your plating skills or improve your portions for this size plate. I don't care. It just looks plain silly.
The burger? OMG, don't let me get started on the burger. Normally, it's beautifully presented, with a side. Well, it came served on a small plate that was no bigger than the burger. Weird, because it looked like the chef must have been sleeping on the job because they got their plate sizes wrong! The burger plate should have been used for the watermelon appetizer instead. On top of that, the meat patty was half the size of what it normally was - FLAT almost and very tasteless. And they just gave you a few strands of arugula as suppose to a handful that you would normally get on their regular menu. Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw the next table order a side of fries with their burgers. Uhh, WAIT A MINUTE here, I thought we can't order outside of the Summerlicious menu? What is going on here? So, we too, order a side of fries which cost $4.00 each. Really, a little burger sitting on a little plate just looks plain silly for an entree. So really, our Summerlicious dinner cost $29, not $25. Fries was tasteless, as I think they forgot to sprinkle salt on it.
Dessert was meh... just some mousse fruit parfaits or a super mini donut. Nothing spectacular that they would normally house. But hey again, my friends have never been here before, if you don't feature some wow factor in your dishes, why should they come back?
I might come back again if I am craving for their Mozarella bar. But I am so put-off at what they tried to serve tonight on my friend's birthday party with their Summerlicious menu, that I'll just make the mozarella baguettes myself...possibly. Lolz.
Oh yes, I guess for a group of 8, they charge gratuities of 18.5%? I am sorry, but the service wasn't exceptional. The waitress never even asked us if the food was good. I guess she knows it wasn't since she didn't ask.
Anyways, I guess the saying goes for tonight - you get what you paid for?
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