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| - Dining in the dark removes a huge part of how you're used to eating, with your eyes. This requires complete trust and faith in the kitchen and wait staff that you're getting what you ask for.
So imagine how violated my vegan wife felt when she took a bite of shrimp, after eating over half of her 'vegan' risotto...
I will preface my review by saying that our server, Aaron was the only positive of the night, he was very helpful, entertaining, and very apologetic for this inexcusable mishap.
We placed our drink and meal order in the lobby of the restaurant where we could see the menu, my wife ordered the mushroom risotto (which the menu specified it could be made vegetarian or vegan). After being lead to our table and having our first course, our main courses soon arrived. My wife grew suspicious at the scent of parmesan cheese and asked our server, Aaron, who checked with the kitchen. He was assured that the plate was vegan-friendly, so my wife skeptically ate until she had the dreaded bite of seafood. Aaron came by to check on our dinner when we brought this to his attention, he took the plate to the kitchen and soon returned to apologize and to inform us that there had been a mix up in the kitchen, This plate had been mixed up with someone else's, and that the kitchen was preparing a new vegan plate. My wife's trust and faith were gone at this point and she was too upset to enjoy the rest of dinner, let alone attempt another bite.
After dinner, we were lead back to the lobby where the staff had offered to only charge us for a two-course meal rather than our three-course meal we had signed up for. We had, however, previously purchased a Groupon for this meal, so we were instead comped 2 of our 3 drinks. We were told that the expo in the kitchen that night is blind, and that's where the mix up occurred.
We find this entire situation inexcusable. While being vegan is my wife's choice, this could have been much worse had it been a food allergy (which we were never asked about the entire night). Given the nature of not being able to see what you're eating, I would have expected more care and attention to dietary restrictions.
I would caution anyone with allergies or dietary restrictions against dining here.
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