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| - The food was good, for American bar food, but the service was a bit lacking for a few reasons. First, there is no waiting area because the place is tiny. We had to sit outside in the cold for over forty-five minutes. Second, after the long wait our food came in quick succession so that the drinks, apps, salads, and entree were all out in only fifteen minutes. I know, who ever complains about speedy service, right? But the bottom line is that it was my lady's birthday, and I just wanted to have a nice dinner spaced out over an hour, not wait in the cold for an hour, and then have to eat a three course meal in twenty minutes.
The waiter was very polite, and attentive, but I suspect we had to sacrifice at least ten or fifteen minutes of our lives waiting on the hostess to converse with all the regulars, which was pretty much everyone but us.
The bottom line is that everyone was nice, the food was up to par with any other American style restaurant, but the wait was too long, and the seating options sucked. Without much of a bar to wait at, it was a cold night out front followed by all three courses lined up on the table, far too quickly. I suspect this is more a matter of preference than anything else. I like to be seated inside of twenty minutes so that we can have drinks at the bar, and then get the courses over forty-five minutes so that everyone isn't rushing, and there is time to be social. In the case of Maxwell's tavern, everyone in the place finished eating inside twenty minutes, with lots of people at tables conversing over empty plates for another hour, while people sat outside in the cold starving. It would be a nice hole-in-the-wall if they could get the timing right.
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