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| - My boss just had our company party. It was awful. I will not be back and I know a lot of other people in our party felt the same way. There was nothing about our party that was good. The server, Mark, I believe was actually very nice and funny. Other than that --- they only wanted to give us half the room, the food was terrible.
We started with "cold" appetizers: Shrimp, Some lox/cream cheese concoction, spinach and artichoke dip, a "cheese plate" (if you can call it that). This is where the problem began, the shrimp was not de-veined, we had to send it back after people had already been eating it. The dip was watery, the cheese plate was literally what looked like store bought cheese pieces on a tacky silver platter. There was zero substance.
The hot appetizers were out before the guests arrived - my boss sent them back and requested they come out later once more guests arrive (From my own restaurant experience this is generally discussed when the party is booked, I don't know where lay the miscommunication). Anyway, the food was taken back and then brought back out later. Due to quality of the served food, I hope it was sitting under heat lamps for that hour and a half. I would have been embarrassed to put out that product. We had: pizza, brie balls, prosciutto wrapped asparagus, chicken kabobs, there may have been one or two more. The brie balls were basically just breading, the prosciutto was sooo overcooked and tough it was hard to eat, the chicken was BEYOND dry. They were all served "warm" but were basically room temperature. We were all starving so we ate them but had anyone been there to dine and been served that food it would have been sent back immediately.
On top of that: there was no "bartender" in the room so all of wine for the party was siting on a table in the corner. It was 100% self serve. The food display was also abysmal -- to the point where someone came in half way through the party to make it look somewhat presentable. A little to late -- shouldn't that have been done before we got there? An overall awful experience with Fleming's. VERY disappointed and I can't wait to take my business elsewhere.
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