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First off, super excited about brunching here: good yelp reviews, personal recommendations, I love Smash...should be promising? NOPE!
Booked a table, got here early, hostess told me to sit at the front while my table "gets ready", but I waited and waited...no one had any intention to seat me when there are an abundance of reserved tables all set and ready to go. I asked 5mins after my supposed reservation time and was immediately seated at those same unoccupied tables. My friends were running late, but no one bothered to ask if I wanted a drink or anything you'd expect as proper service. I wanted to get something warm, requested for someone and they rolled their eyes at me, had no clue what tea was available. After I ordered, 3 different people came by to checked if I did order something but none of them ended up bringing anything.
When everyone got here, took forever for them to take our orders, the server didn't jot it down and FORGOT our orders and had to return.
My earl grey came, had sugar on the side, no spoon or milk. I requested for both twice but was forgotten so I just gave up. Both are items you'd expect with a tea the first time around.
I got the recommended mushroom toast and have absolutely nothing good to say about it. It had 2 poached eggs over some mushrooms, squash and arugula on a toast. There was also squash puree at the bottom. It was just bland and not cohesive. The squash, puree, eggs, arugula, toast all screamed for some form of salt or spice. Individually they taste bland and together they don't work. The mushiness of the squash and the sogged up toast from the puree and yolk was just a blended together blob. There is just nothing exciting about it. The mushrooms are the only thing that taste of anything in this dish but they had a weird mealy texture as if dirt wasn't washed off properly.
Like other diners, the servers constantly came to try and collect our plates when we were obviously still eating.
Portions run extremely small for their value, I left still hungry.
Overall, very disappointing, especially since I am a fan of their sister restaurant SMASH. I would not come again or recommend.
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