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| - Let me start by saying that the food here was very good on the whole. The atmosphere was very nice, and the inside was well decorated. The menu had a nice offering of both food and drinks. I had read several reviews, and there were many complaints regarding the seating time, and some complaints about the portion sizes. Unlike these reviews, I thought that for a tapas restaurant, the portions of most of the dishes were appropriate. I also didn't have a problem getting seated.
So why only 2 stars from me? Simply put, the service.
When I say the service was the problem, I don't mean the hostess who greeted us with a smile and promptly seated us. I also am not referring to the gentleman (who I believe was either the owner or head chef) who came by later in the meal to make sure that everything was ok. That is always a nice touch. I am solely describing the service by our waiter, which was nothing short of atrocious.
We started off the meal with drinks. From the very beginning, our waiter had an air of pompousness, and my date later referred to his personality as "snarky". I don't think that he even once smiled. I asked him about their featured drink - which was an aperitif. He said that he didn't recommend that type of drink, because if it were him that were drinking that, then he would have to decide all of the dishes that he ordered based on that drink. He proceeds to tell me that when people order a combination of food and drinks that he doesn't agree with, he just turns away and says, "OK, very good."
Ok...so, he is a food snob. I order the aperitif anyway, because it sounded interesting.
We ordered about 5 tapas dishes, after which he sort of blankly stares and then bluntly (and seeming disapprovingly) utters, "thats a lot of food", and walks away. I thought this a strange remark from a waiter at a small plate/tapas restaurant, and very odd since most waiters would happily take an order for more food since this would generally mean a larger tip. Our first dish comes out - it is simply bread, but with several dipping sauces. One is an oil, which I believed to be olive oil, but it had a fruity/banana like taste, as well as a slightly grassy flavor. When the waiter came back around, I asked him what this oil was. He stares at me like I'm an uneducated idiot, and blurts out "olive oil." I told him of the fruity flavor, and asked him if it was infused with anything. He coldly replies, "No. Maybe its your drink." Then he shrugs his shoulders and says, "I told you so." ?? Wow. Later, I researched this and found that some high quality olive oils have these flavors. But obviously our food snob waiter didn't know that, and instead decided to hand me a disdainful response. After eating virtually all of the dishes we originally ordered, I ordered one more dish. He paused for a few seconds, eyes shifting to the side with a clearly disapproving look on his face before turning away and muttering, "OK, very good". I suppose that he had a problem with me ordering more food, or that he thought that dish didn't complement my drink? At virtually every opportunity, this man felt the need and the privilege to display his arrogance and deliver contemptuous remarks. My real regret now is that I should have tipped him low, to reflect the type of service that I received.
I have had bad service many times, but I have never had service that was this offensive to me, and it is certainly not what I would expect from a high end restaurant. It is very unfortunate, because if it were not for our waiter, I can honestly say that I would surely be back. After this experience though, I would never consider patronizing Spork again. I do wish the owners of this restaurant success though - because other than our waiter, I thought that everything was great.
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