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| - I really was fooled about this place, and the more I read the 5-star reviews, the more I'm convinced a Russian troll-lab is generating this #fakenews.
First, we arrived on time, but it took 30 minutes to set us in spite of reservations. The staff looked cautiously nice, like someone was going to jump out of that haunted-looking bar with a meat cleaver.
When we made it to our table, service was slow. The first bites we had arrived on our table were "baked" rigatoni (a pasta you def should not bake FFS) and it was plain nasty. So we thought, "Okay, maybe this isn't their best." Then they brought out some basic AF mac n cheese that looked like it had bacon bits on it and some mediocre iceberg lettuce salad with blue cheese crumbles.
The seafood and meat were also mediocre. Meat from the carving station? Cold and tasteless. McDonald's serves better quality beef. The "ceviche" barely had any actual citrus in it and was old and fishy smelling for what should be marinated. The desserts were embarrassingly sloppy and basic. The brut? Tasted like grass. How the **** do you screw up sparkling wine?! How?!
While the staff seemed well-meaning, they also seemed blissfully unaware with how garbage this whole experience was. The fact that we dropped $200+ here for brunch for a place that seems like a crap country club from the Cold War era made me actually want fast food after to wash the taste of mediocrity out of my mouth.
How this place is rated so high or wins anything is b.s. and everything about this establishment is basic, basic, basic AF.
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