This could be a great lunch destination for local office workers given the good experience with the sweet potato soup and asian chicken salad today, but I can't get over the terrible service and overall feeling of a sad, neglected establishment when I walked in.
I had hoped to get a quick meal by walking in right after the lunch rush and attempting to sit at the bar. The waitress looked a bit surprised and almost slightly disappointed that I had come in looking for service. I gave my drink orders and asked to see a menu and was slightly surprised to see the waitress walk towards the back kitchen to get drinks without acknowledging the menus sitting right in front of her. I had half-considered reaching over the bar to grab a menu while she stared at her phone on the way back to the kitchen.
After placing my order, I inquired about the spare copies of the Wall Street Journal at the front and if they were available for guests to borrow. I had to repeat my question twice as it seemed like the waitress wasn't paying attention at first and responded with a blank "Wait...what..?" Her head came out of the clouds soon enough and responded that someone just left them there from that morning.
A different waitress delivered my food who was bright, welcoming, and cheerful as she also offered pepper for my salad (why couldn't she have been working the bar that day?) The salad and soup were wonderful as mentioned before. I had expected cheap chain food and was surprised at the quality of the dishes.
Unfortunately, the first waitress came back as I was finishing my salad - ready to take my plate before I had finished - and acted surprised when she came out to find I wasn't done. She hovered at the nearby register seeming like she was pushing buttons to act busy while I finished so she could get rid of me and hastily get back to her phone.
Will I come back? Not until I start seeing stronger reviews of the service at all shifts at this establishment. Especially not after hearing two kitchen staff converse between the bar and the host table about their recent sexual conquests as I tried to finish my soup.