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| - How do they stay in business?
That's a question I've always had of this place. I've lived in the neighborhood for a year or two, but never bothered to check it out. If I react this way, you know that others do the same. How can it stay in business when it doesn't really draw anyone in?
So finally I decided to go check it out. I immediately noticed the faux leather (don't remember if it was actually faux, but the place is faux enough so that kind of rubs off on the leather, I'll explain), dark wood and dark environments.
On first glance, seems like a classy place. Then you take a second glance. In your second glance, if you notice these sorts of things, you'll note that it's been decorated like someone read a book about what supposedly makes a place "classy" and then just threw all that stuff and the kitchen sink in there. Not to say that it's filled with random stuff, just that the choices they made gives the impression that they were pretending to *class* without really having a sense of *style.* Not like O&B next door, which has a cool design and is well laid out. This place's environment just "doesn't fit."
That's actually an appropriate way to say it, since "doesn't fit" works for everything there. So let's talk about the washroom, nice fixtures, like they spent money on it, but, well, they literally "don't fit." Not sized right for the washroom. Small details, but they give a clue to the whole. And those clues are right on the money.
Menu? Well they have all the right things, for bumped up prices, but just "doesn't fit." Where's the character? Where's the attention to detail? Where, ultimately, was the taste...
Not there. I sent back the first steak they sent me since they didn't know what medium well closer to medium was. Appetizers had been ok but not good enough to "fit" with the price. As I sat there, the friends around me shifted nervously, they know I have pretty high standards for places...
"I haven't counted it out yet," I told them, "but I'm getting there."
Then came the service. Or didn't come the service, as the case may be. Ouch. We were sitting in the middle of the floor, and there were very few people there... And we were ignored. Just "doesn't fit" with the place.
So conclusion... The price is high, and for that you get... Ambience? Doesn't fit. Food? Doesn't fit. Service? Doesn't fit?
Me? I'm sorry, I just don't fit there, and it's unlikely you will either.
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