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| - no. not ever. never never never never again.
i remember elephant bar when it was adjacent to chris town mall (!) and i remember liking it, but i was 12 so that may not be totally accurate.
anyhow, i've never left a restaurant with absolutely nothing good to say about it. until now. it was awful. i'm sorry, except for the calamari appetizer, which for some reason i liked. it was 95% awful.
i ordered some "shrimp adventure/shrimp ahoy/shrimp bonanza" sort of thing, because i hadn't had shrimp in awhile and it sounded tasty.
horrendous. of the 3 types, only 1 was mediocre, the butterflied fried kind. the grilled ones were still GRAY and cold. the "shrimp on a stick", which i think was coconut prawns, were stingy and over-fried, not to mention they left the tail on. mmmmm crunchy.
now, i did tell my server about the undone shrimp and he was apologetic and asked me what i'd like to replace it. i said fried shrimp, which took 25 minutes to get there. the manager came over and apologized, offering us a free dessert. we went for it. we shouldn't have. it was apple-blueberry cobbler with walnut streusel. it tasted like unevenly cooked, gooey potpourri...or at least what i imagine that tastes like.
in the end, we did have a very good and prompt server, so he got a nice tip. it's not his fault the kitchen staff can't find their rear with both hands.
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