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| - Went to Alley Cat last night to use up a gift card. I'm not a huge fan of Zack Bruell restaurants, finding them over-priced, pretentious, with just 'meh' food, and not so great service, so I might have arrived a little skeptical, and unfortunately my prior experience was borne out once again.
We had reservations for 8:30, and arrived right on time, but were told that the table wasn't ready yet and that they would send a text message when it was ready. That's fine, I understand if you need to clear a table and we were ready to wait a few minutes. We ended up taking a walk around the flats, and after 20 minutes, with still no message, we went back to Alleycat, and asked what the wait was. They just said the table was ready, but with no apology or explanation for the delay.
We were seated, and it took a while before water was served, we never received the bread that other tables seemed to be getting, and then the waiter was impossible to track down during the meal. My wife wanted a second cocktail but wasn't able to order it until near the end of the meal.
The food was fine, but nothing to write home about. I had the charred broccoli salad which was quite good, but the burger was uninspired. My wife had the swordfish, and there wasn't much flavor on the tiny 2oz piece of fish, let alone the rest of the entree.
I'm not sure why Clevelanders keep going to Bruell restaurants when there are so many better options in town.
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