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| - My friend and I decided to go to Corso for dinner after work on Tuesday. As I waited to be greeted by the hostess, 2 groups who came in after me were being greeted and seated. After a good 2 minutes of being ignored, I politely tell her that I have been waiting to be seated. She didn't apologize. She gave extra menus to her colleague, who was already seating a group upstairs on the terrace, and told me to follow. I followed the hostess and waited awkwardly around the group who was being seated. She looked at me confused and I said I wanted a table for two. She just walked off and I followed her once again. As I walked behind her, I noticed that she kept pulling down her extremely short dress and kept wobbling in her 5 inch stilettos. It was not a cute look and it was at that very moment that I knew my terrible experience at Corso was just beginning.
The waiter brought us water after several minutes. I asked him for lemon and a straw. He seemed confused. I repeated myself again in both English and French. When he finally came back, he didn't bother to explain the dinner specials or ask if we had any questions regarding the menu. We inquired about the size of the sangria pitcher and instead of answering he said to look over a few tables down. We told him we couldn't see from where we were sitting. He said 'If you get up, you can see it.' We simply went ahead and ordered the sangria, the cheese pizza, the ravioli stuffed with burrata cheese and the linguini with shrimp. I requested to omit the 'chiles' from the linguini dish. Once again, he seemed confused. I tried to explain to him that it was a spicy ingredient and I cannot eat spicy food. He arrived with the pizza and handed it to my friend to place it down. We were not given any plates. I asked another waiter for plates. He also seemed confused and walked off. We enjoyed the pizza. When the pasta dishes arrived, he did not clear the table. He held the pasta dishes until we moved our own plates. My friend enjoyed his ravioli. However, you can count the raviolis on the plate, there were only 8. As for my dish, I was expecting decent size shrimp but instead I received tasteless overcooked imitation shrimp. On top of it all, the pasta was extremely spicy. After 25 min, the waiter comes to our table and asks if the food is okay. I tell him that the pasta is extremely spicy. He says 'Well, I wrote it down. Twice. It's not my fault the chef did it spicy.'
After our meal, he gathered the plates and disappeared. We waited 30 min and no one came to offer us coffee, dessert or better yet the bill. Since our waiter was MIA, we decided to call the restaurant and have someone bring our bill. A new hostess appeared with an even shorter dress than the last one. She asked us who our waiter was. We said we didn't know his name, as he failed to mention it at the beginning of the night. An older man showed up and the hostess was explaining the situation to him. I'm assuming that he is the owner/manager. He just starred at us from afar and walked away. When our waiter showed up, he seemed surprised that we were unhappy. He argued that the 'spicyness' wasn't his fault. He proceeds to tell us that it's for us to tell him if we want anything else. My jaw dropped. I don't hail a cab let alone hail down my waiter for a coffee or bill. He was lazy and rude. In result to his behaviour, he received a big fat $0 tip.
We were not compensated after this disastrous evening. The manager didn't bother showing his face to apologize. After eating the linguini dish I got extremely sick. I believe it was due to the fake 'shrimp'. Avoid Corso like the plague!
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