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| - I've wanted to treat myself to a nice dinner, so I figured my past birthday was the perfect opportunity to do so. The food and service was outstanding, so much so that I would have given it five stars had our seating arrangement been different.
Both my boyfriend and my steaks were cooked perfectly, and the sides tasty and plentiful in size (garlic mashed redskins were phenom). At the end they surprised us with a whole cake for my birthday which seemed to be home-made. It was such a nice surprise and a kind gesture to top off my celebratory dinner.
The problem that totally put a damper on everything was that we were sat at a hightop, two-top table at the bar. When I called for my reservation, I requested a booth but was told that one wouldn't be available until 8:30 pm which was too late for me. I thought to myself, "I'll take the hightop at the bar...how bad could it be?". Well, it was bad. So bad in fact that three different couples who passed us, or awkwardly stood touching our table while in the bar area apologized for intruding due to lack of space or mentioned the awkwardness of our tables's location. The table was also so small that as the food came up there wasn't any room to place any more plates down so I ended up immediately consolidating items on one plate (quickly shoving my steak on my salad plate, etc) while the server nervously and awkwardly stood there waiting for me to hand him the empty plate because there was nowhere to fit it.
Phew...sorry. That was a lot of talk about a table, but if the owners are listening: abolish that table, or remove the seats and make it a table for people to mingle on as part of the bar. It has no place being sat for a dinner party, and really put a damper on our experience. Secondly, only in my opinion, a suggestion on making better use of the space needs to be revisited: there was a nice seating area with couches that took up most of the main dining room, yet there was two people talking and drinking (not eating) while my boyfriend and I were crunched in the middle of the bar area. The coffee table and couches could be removed and two comfortable four tops could have been placed there.
All in all, a great place for a special occasion, but make sure to request a table with ample room!
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