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| - Today I learned: you can't expect a lot from a place that serves meals for $5.
After awkwardly stumbling into the bar and trying to find a seat, my friend and I were escorted back outside of the bar by a host without explanation. He then pointed to the "please wait to be seated sign" and informed us there were no seats available at the time. (Flag number 1)
Just as we were about to leave, he signaled us back over saying a table had just freed up. At this point, we figured why not and reentered the bar.
Finally we thought - we had our menus, had our seats and the semi-rude (yet to be decided) host had left us alone.
Next, we were greeted by our overly bubbly and slightly aggressive waitress. Although she tried her best to name off literally the entire alphabet of cocktails and beers, she failed to realize that the music was too loud for us to hear anything she was saying. At first, her drink recital was endearing... but after roughly 30 minutes at the table, us ordering food, and attempting to make conversation, she had interrupted us over 5 times to suggest drinks.
(Disclaimer: I get it, Warehouse makes money off their alcohol.)
Finally, we ordered drinks. The drinks came, and one of our orders were wrong. (Flag number 2). Instead of trying to explain to the waitress what had happened, we decided to just accept the drink as is and continue our conversation.
30 minutes later. We've been interrupted another 5 times to push more alcohol. We ask for the cheque. The waitress explains that the machine is taking a while. She leaves us for 15 minutes.
FINALLY - we're out and the best part of all of this was, I ended up getting sick from the macaroni and cheese I had ordered.
In summary, despite the hype, the long line-up and the "bangers" in queue sometimes it's better to pay a little more than $5 for an experience. Oh and sometimes to best advised to lower your volume if you want your waitresses to explain drink deals or hosts to explain seating.
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