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| - Shirly, first to review? How on EARTH did you manage only three stars? I've parsed your review, swept it through the decoder, translated into, then back out of, seventeen languages (Urdu was a bitch) and STILL can't understand. Tepid rice? That's the only thing you could find that wasn't great?
Okay, take a few cleansing breaths. Mmmm. Better. Let's start over.
I have eaten at three Yours Truly spots, Shaker Square, Hudson, and Medina. The Medina one is SO much better in every respect as to be unrecognizable as associated with this chain. I'm so in love with this place, this morning was our fifty-sixth breakfast there. I am not making that up. We were a group of five, in the middle of the "last no cooking at home day before Easter" and it was slammed. Still, the service was flawless, the food solid, workmanlike, substantial and predictable. Now I hasten to add that predictable is a GREAT thing at the first blush of dawn. I don't need, or want, a surprise at that hour: "Chef Antoine has decided to substitute your corned beef hash with a slurry of eel and saffron. Enjoy!"
Take a good, close look around. This enterprise is professional, on every level. Clean. It is so, SO clean. The waitresses are there for the long haul; you won't find one leaning against the front bar whining, "... but I have a photo shoot tonight, then Biff and I were going to the club..." Nope. Gladys. Mertyl. Cookie. These are hand-picked Service Professionals.
I just wish there were a way to take Shirley C's missing stars and add them back in.
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