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| - Famished after an expedition to get bridesmaids dresses for my upcoming wedding, myself and three girlfriends came upon this pub as the only place open on Roncy at the 3pm hour (turns out most joints in this area close prior to dinner service - who knew??)
Despite having decent reviews on Yelp, our initial reaction was a slightly run down, dank bar (I harken back to Moe's Tavern a-la the Simpsons: 'This isn't faux dive, this is a dive!'). Despite being a bright day, the bar felt really dark and the patrons were mostly of the barfly variety. Not initially impressed, we hoped for the best and ordered. Half the girls ordered Polish (perogies and cabbage rolls) and the other half, more standard pub food (the quinoa black bean burger and chicken wings). Most of us had the shakes from hunger, so we also ordered some appy nachos for the table.
There was one poor girl running the bar and waitressing on this particular Sunday afternoon, and that may be why about 40 minutes later, our entrees arrived at the table ... and our nachos about 5 minutes after that (there goes the concept of an appetizer!). One of my friends bit into her chicken wings and immediately reacted like her face was on fire. She called the waitress over to re-ask for mild wings, as the ones she had were too hot. The waitress argued that those were, in fact, mild wings. My friend insisted they were too hot for her to eat, and the waitress, extremely reluctantly, took them back to the kitchen. A moment later she returned, threw the wings down on the table and said "The chef INSISTS this is just BBQ." When my friend responded again that, whatever the sauce, they were too hot for her taste, the waitress argued "why don't you just TRY them?" At this point I stepped in and said "hey, maybe let her see the menu to order something else?"
My friend ended up leaving and going to grab of slice of pizza down the road, and I don't blame her. That said, the girls who got the polish food said the perogies and cabbage rolls were delicious and my quinoa burger was pretty good. However, the dank and the attitude really kept us from having an enjoyable experience, and I can see the waitress du jour did not understand the concept of customer service. Plus we were left with a HUGE plate of nachos that, post lunch, we really didn't want nor need.
There are some FANTASTIC Polish places down the street (try Chopin - bright, clean and the waitresses sometimes play piano between customers, really lovely overall). I give this place a big NOPE.
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