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| - Food - 3/5
Drinks - 4/5
Service - 2/5
Décor - stunning 4.5/5
Atmosphere - 3/5 (deducting points for annoying elevator music from 8-11pm)
I went for a birthday this past Saturday, with a large group of approx. 20 people. We were booked in a very beautiful private room. Beautiful - but in no way functional or practical. The bench seating around the over sized table left ZERO room for people to get out of their seats without having to climb over the lap of the people next to them. The seating accommodates those over 6' very comfortably however for those average height people like myself I found my back strained all night with no back rest in site, and also having to hunch over the table to eat because of the awkward height of the table.
Our server was good, but not very clear when explaining the family style ordering, as if in a typical Chinese restaurant, leaving most people confused with what to order and how to order. Luckily I had been to similar restaurants and had an idea of the concept and was able to explain it to those sitting around me. If the beyond annoying "modern" elevator music wasn't blaring in my ears all night I would have explained the same to the remainder of our party since our server failed to do so.
Food was good, not great, just good. My favourite dish was the Crispy Beef. The Pad Thai sauce tasted "off" there's no other real way to describe it. Nice big Shrimp in the dish, but very little chicken. The Lettuce Wraps had ZERO flavor and were a complete waste of money. I heard good things about the Peking duck from the other side of the table, however I did not try it myself. The Black Bean Chicken was also very good, however, being priced at $21 I expected to see more chicken on the plate instead of the dish being filled with 70% Peppers. We were also told that the steamed rice was in a very small portion (the server illustrated it by cupping both hands together to form a small bowl amount) so we ordered a steamed as well as a fried rice unaware that the steamed rice was actually a significant portion for 4 people to split.
I ordered the Lychee Martini which was great, we kept them coming throughout the night. Others ordered the typicaly rum & coke, vodka and 7up, etc. two friends ordered a double vodka on the rocks with red bull (which they do not carry for some odd reason) so they were offered Rockstar instead. the vodka was generously free poured however by the time our server reached our table with them a majority of the ice had melted.
Pricing was fair, however they do absolutely NO splitting of bills despite the fact that the 5 people at my corner of the table ordered family style and had requested we have our own separate bill to make things easier. Sorting out a bill between 20 guests in a loud nook with an oversized table and having to SHOUT OUT what you ordered in order for the waiter to manually calculate on his iPhone is completely archaic!
Not only was I completely frustrated with the Non-splitting of bills, he screwed up! having to charge an additional $5-6 per person leaving our party sitting there twiddling our thumbs for an extra half hour without even an offer for a refill of water while we waited.
Overall experience 2.5/5
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