rev:text
| - We had just played a show down the road at PHiX for the 1st annual Grand Avenue Festival. This is a festival organized by the businesses on Grand Avenue. The paisley Violin is one of those businesses.
That said, we came in and struggled to find a seat for the six of us. Several 2 or 3 people groups at 6 people tables. So we all squeeze onto one round table meant for 4 at the most. Strike one - wait staff should shepherd small groups to small tables.
Our waitress finds us after a 5 minute wait and takes our beer order. Many of us order the same beer. One person orders a very common mixed drink comprised of Cola and Whiskey. The waitress has no clue what it is - replying with "What's that?". Funny, but a bit of a clue about how our epic 2.5 hour dinner will go.
A larger table freed up, so we took it. I guess wait staff hate cleaning tables that have people on them, cause she left a big pile of crumbs laying for us to snack on.
The next round of drinks, they were out of our new favorite beer because they must have a small fridge, so some of us walk outside to look at the beer list, since the waitress doesn't know them. Those who walked outside got their drinks ordered. 10-15min later, a new waitress asks us if she can get us something. Yes!
The music was nice, and the musicians were very courteous and concerned with the volume - our band could take notes on that.
I ordered the gyro. I've had about 20 different Gyro's in my life. This was more like a salad burying a couple very thin slices of meat. I'm not a meat maniac, but they sure did skimp for some reason. This new concept of saladwich was good, but not really what I ordered. Also got the seafood chipotle soup which was interesting and tasty.
They must have been out of beer, because they didn't come by for any more drink orders.
Hopefully the owners of this place will learn to stock up on wait staff and beer for special events.
Another review said that the waitress had been on for 12 hours. She was somewhat incompetent, but I fault the owner/manager for lack of preparedness.
|