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| - Unfortunately, experience will outweigh food for me on this one. We walked in at 5:28 on a Tuesday. The restaurant was not full at all, yet our only choice was to wait for a table in the dining room because they were "waiting for people to get up", or sit at a high top -- which the hostess was pushing on everyone who came in the door -- in the bar by the door where the cold will immediately hit you. Why would I want to sit right next to the door in the middle of winter?? So we waited for about fifteen minutes when there were empty tables in the dining room. I understand that they're very reservation oriented, but there were three six tops in my view that sat empty for the entire time we were there. You can't tell me that you're holding a reservation for 18 or three reservations for 6 for multiple hours before they show up when there are people waiting in the lobby. That's just not right. And if the issue is that it's a Tuesday and you don't have all hands on deck, I guess the two managers standing around with the hostess will have to take a couple tables.
Once we were seated, our server was fine. he was really good at paying attention to my boyfriend's iced tea level, and he made himself available without being on top of us all the time. Our food was good, though I'd recommend not getting the mashed potatoes. They were just meh. But my Cosmo was delicious. So yes, everything we ingested we were happy with. The review is not food related at all.
But why do we have to eat in the dark? I swear, the light level was not above nightlight. I get that they're going for ambiance, but that was literally like trying to read a menu by candlelight. Not favorable. A little illumination never killed any ambiance for me. I mean, it's not like they need big overhead fluorescents, but a couple lamps would be nice.
So on the whole, eh. If we didn't have another $50 gift card staring at us, we probably wouldn't return. And again, it has nothing to do with the food -- it's good, but not mind blowing. But the waiting for a table in a half full restaurant on a Tuesday at 5:30, and then the sitting in the dark doesn't make the food good enough to put Bonefish on my list of places I MUST NOT forget about.
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