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| - A last minute summerlicious lunch and it was..Okay. Don't get me wrong, the location was superb, the ambience, and even the look of their bathroom. My only downfall fall to the experience was that I called in twice, once the night before and once the day of, to see if there were any availability for 2. They repeatedly stuck to their guns and said they were fully packed. I managed to be in the area at the time and wanted to see what my odds were to be seated as a walk in. While I approached the hostess stand, I looked to my left and all I saw were 2 rows of empty 4 tops!! What kind of "packed" house was that? I'm sure they saw the look on my face and said yes they had space available however they gave me a time limit and we had to leave by 1:30pm due to the "next reservation" slot. Any who, while being seated, we were at a corner open booth and boy was it hard to weave around. There is hardly any space to get to the other side of the table and I had to get out of my seat once my accompanying guest had to leave the table. Not to mention, the chair makes a loud noise when dragged over even just a nudge to let the other person out. Oh ya, even the servers had trouble with the space because they dropped a knife on me when clearing the table next to ours! Sigh, I am regretting the tip I gave the more I talk about my experience. Knowing that we were on a time restriction, we ordered our food at the same time the water was served to us. We received our apps the soup I didn't expect to be cold but the salmon poke was the bomb. While gobbling our apps, my guest wonders where the complimentary bread is at... I figured summerlicious may not even offer bread baskets due to a 3 course meal at a set price. My guest calls over one of the servers and asks for bread and he genuinely apologizes for forgetting us; but we only received it after our apps were completed. Awkward timing. About 15 minutes pass by and we haven't received our mains. I glance to my left and look down the row and notice 3 other groups of 2 haven't received their mains either. AND THEY WERE THERE BEFORE WE WERE. I wonder if service is their low point. Finally food arrives and my dish with the braised beef cheek pasta is the SIZE OF MY HAND. Note...my hand is super small. I was getting annoyed at this point but since I had a long morning I didn't care to do anything about it. Our time was slipping away and it was 1:15pm. Time for dessert. I had to follow up where our dessert was since we were on a time crunch and out of our row, we received it first. But I guess it's because they wanted us out by 130. The dessert we had to rush but it sure was tasty especially the ice cream Swiss roll. While I call for the bill, the hostess who seated us came to clear our plates..could she make it any more obvious she just wanted to check if we were done on timr. Long story short overall food was average, service was average, therefore my rating is average.
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