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| - I recently visited La Strada for a party of sorts. We had a lot of fun, but the service was awful. The check was wrong. I told the waiter it was wrong and he said something like, "I don't know what you had, I just bring the drinks up." Umm... we put all our orders in with you and you brought us the drinks. This is your problem. He wouldn't budge. Finally, one of the members of our party paid part of the bill while I got the rest of the party off the dance floor to pay this guy--he was demanding we close our tab. Everyone looked at the bill and couldn't make sense of what was on it. While someone from the party may have split without paying, and we would gladly cover that, half the items we knew we ordered weren't on the bill. It wasn't right from the get go. He then told us to pay the full bill. I reminded him that someone already gave him money and he played stupid until two other people corrected him and then he suddenly remembered. I asked him to break a $20 and he couldn't do it. So he took my money down to the bar to break it. When he came back up he asked for the full check payment again and didn't hand me my money. I had to remind him once more that someone already gave him cash for a portion of the bill and that I needed my $20. Oh yeah, things suddenly became clear for him again. We ended up putting all the money together and he asked once last time for the missing money. DUDE! WE ALREADY PAID YOU A PORTION OF THE BILL!! A bill that was never correct in the first place. Whatever, I'm pretty sure he didn't put a number of the drinks on that thing--we were actually trying to be honest at first but this guy just didn't want to cooperate. I really wonder how much he actually collected from the people who left early--I'm pretty sure he was scamming us the entire time. At this point, I'll not go back to La Strada. It's not worth it, even for a regular dinner versus a party. From what I could tell while sitting in the balcony above the kitchen, they use a lot of premade stuff. Even the pizza crusts I saw them using were pre-made.
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