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| - How anyone had a good enough experience here to leave anything but a scathing review is an absolute mystery to me.
Such a shame, and a waste of a great location and nice building - I want to like this place, I really want to, and I tried to SO HARD. This place was great when it was a Midtown Sundries, and I had high hopes when they dressed the place up when it sold and became Bull and Barrister, but it's been a steady decline in every way imaginable over the past couple of years. The only thing worse than the food the last few times I was there was the service, and I *used* to enjoy the atmosphere, but I have a hard time enjoying anything when everything (EVERYTHING) I touch is sticky (the floor, the tables, my seat (wtf?)...)
This place got more chances to get their act together than most because they're less than a mile from my house. Often times we'd say "well, it sucks but it's close by...maybe this time they'll surprise us?" Yeah, we were in denial.
First off, you'll likely wait quite a while to be seated, and then you'll spend the majority of your dining experience waiting on your server to grace you with their presence. It isn't that they're busy - far from it - it's just that the hosts/hostesses are busy dicking around in the kitchen with the line cooks and the waitresses are far too busy texting their bfs and bffs on their cell phones to acknowledge your existence.
I can even forgive crap service for decent food at a convenient location, but everything I ordered during my last handful of visits -aside from the sweet potato fries - sucked hardcore: southwestern taco salad, barrister club, nachos, chicken fingers...I tried simpler and simpler things to make (how do you screw up something you just toss in a fryer?) but to no avail, it was all pretty repulsive.
The very last thing I ordered there was a black and bleu burger. I had a vague thought after I ordered: "hmm...our waitress did not ask me how I wanted that cooked, oh well, I'll deal with a well done burger..." When it arrived I realized that they used those frozen 1/2 inch beef patties that are too think to cook any way but well done. It was also suffocated in overly salty shake spices and charred to resemble a little black hockey puck, except I think a hockey puck may have been a little more savory and moist.
I hate HATE sending food back, it's maybe once every 5 years that I do, but this was just inedible. When our waitress finally stopped by about 20 MINUTES after dumping off our 'food' I tried to politely point out my problem and asked if I could just get some chicken fingers instead hoping those would be safe and she said with a look of utter confusion "sooo....you want two dinners?" uhm, what? no. I'd really prefer to eat dinner just once, and I'd prefer it be digestible. What is wrong with you? I ended up just asking for the chicken fingers to go and she took my sick sad burger to the garbage, but sure enough, when the bill came, I was charged for both a burger and chicken fingers. I just paid it so I could get out of there as soon as possible and never return.
Every time I pass this place (daily, damn it) I wonder how it is still in business and say a little prayer that maybe tomorrow will be the day the sign gets taken down and we have something halfway decent down the street from us. The only thing I'd find this establishment good for at this time is a bottled beer. And the only time I'd go there for it is if I was in the mood for it to be warm by the time it made it to my table 20 minutes after I ordered it. Just sayin.
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