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| - After numerous visits with the same overall feeling, I thought it was time to write something about the very lackluster service and overall unfriendliness.
It's a little hard to describe, but you feel a subtle sense of snobbery or je ne sais quoi. Very rarely are you welcomed or cared about when you are standing at the entrance waiting for a place to stand - let alone sit.
Nice they are busy most of the time, but that's no reason to virtually ignore your presence, and kind of embarrassing as the diners sometimes gawk.
Moreover, last visit was on a holiday long weekend, and they were somewhat short staffed to the point where menus took a long while to arrive (good thing I saw a basket of them), and plates that were ready to serve were piling up on the kitchen windowsill.
I don't recall getting asked how is everything in either language come to think of it on almost any visit. I will say when one of the main owners is working the floor or the register it's a little better in the respect department.
The good I can say - and fairly consistent - is the food. About a 3 to 4 on most occasions with the creton being a 5. One recent stand out was by chance a yogurt, fruit and nut bowl with honey drizzled over it. Was in a large parfait dish, and even had ripe kiwi. Pretty healthy, and pretty tasty. Too bad I may never go again.
There are other places in the area that serve brunch and seem much more pleased to have your business, and the food is no worse, so there - that's my peace, and as you can see I'm usually a 4 or 5 kind of positive reviewer - I guess I had to pull up my less than 3 star reviewing socks at some point.
In a nutshell, 1-2+ for service and 3-4+ for food, unfortunately yields 2.5ish for which there is none, so to hopefully get someone to take notice, I'll put 2. Spent enough to say this, and I'm not the only one who's noticed from the various other reviews that note similar service shortcoming etc. Peace out.
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