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| - Went here today for lunch with hubby and the kids (ages 9 and 12).
The interior is nice-- they've obviously put a lot of $$ into the decor and it paid off. Classic bar interior. I liked it. However, I did not care for the televisions at every booth and additional screens on the walls. I have some mild hearing loss and as soon as we walked in, I knew it would be like sitting by myself for lunch. I couldn't hear anything but all the NOISE.
We were seated in a comfortable booth and handed three lunch menus and what I assumed was the complete menu. My kids, not sandwich fans, immediately opened the complete menu and found individual pizzas. They decided on those until the waitress came by and told us we couldn't order from the complete menu at lunchtime... only the lunch menu. Why did we even get one? I will say the waitress was nice and offered to ask about plain cheese pizzas anyway, and she did get those for the kids along with some fries. I appreciate that. The kids said the pizzas were good (they looked good) and one son got the lemonade and seemed to think it was decent.
They brought the kids food out well in advance of the adult's plates. Not sure why. I had iced tea, which was rather weak and warm, and brought out with two huge lemon wedges in it. I usually just fish the lemon out without any problem, but the waitress actually squeezed the lemon into the tea. No thanks. Also had to request sweetener.
I ordered the BLTA-- a bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado with garlic aioli. I thought about requesting they hold the aioli, but opted to give them the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't have. It was too much and overpowered the sandwich. I did not enjoy it. The onion rings were nothing special, a little soggy.
My husband got a burger-- the Brewstone. He said it was decent, but nothing you can't get anywhere else that serves burgers.
The food was mediocre, the service lukewarm and the atmosphere way too loud. It was spectacularly horrible, but we won't go back. We can get better American food in lots of other places.
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