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| - We don't know if we are somehow jinxed, but while we have had a favorable opinion of the food, the restaurant cannot seem to connect the dots with service. Tonight was a prime example - a relatively quiet Sunday evening around 7:30. We sat at the bar and placed our order for dinner. The soup and bread came out uneventfully, but it went downhill after that. The waitress / bartender brought out my entree, the Risotto, and instead of what my partner had ordered - their pork chop - she brought out the pot roast for him Then she proceeded to tell us that she had punched in the order wrong, and added that they were out of the port chops - this after I had my meal in front of me. We were ready to walk out of the restaurant at that point, and then a chef came out and suddenly advised us that they were not out of pork chops. Knowing that the chop is cooked on the entire rack from prior visits (hence "the limited availability") we then knew that either the waitress and/or the kitchen had initially lied to us to foist an unwanted entree item on us. 15 minutes later, after I had stalled in eating my meal so I would not be finished before the other entree arrived we finally had the second meal. All in all, the night was a very stressful and unpleasant ordeal. Several visits earlier, our entire dinner order was "lost" - this after we waited for 40 minutes after finishing the soup.
While the food has generally been pretty good, the service level will take this restaurant off of our list, which is a shame since we live only a half mile away, and like to support all of the neighborhood establishments.
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