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| - I've eaten at Brassaii before and found the food to be excellent. The service was just okay then, but I was at the bar which more often than not means sketchy service.
Tonight, my girlfriends and I met at Brassaii for drinks on the patio (yay heat!) We were the only people there at 6pm and, even though reservations at the table weren't until 7:30pm, we were still told we had to sit at the patio bar. Not a huge deal, but slightly annoying because we would have been gone by then. Our waiter was the absolute worst -- even though we all ordered drinks and were the only people there, he was not at all helpful and was actually quite rude when we asked whether they could prepare drinks not on the menu.
Speaking of the Brassaii bar menu, it's practically non-existent. There were literally eight cocktails from which to choose, none of them "summery", and most of them were so old school (think Tom Collins and Sidecars) that seniors and their very senior parents would have nursed them, but not thirty-something girls in the city. Their wine list contained all of zero Canadian wines, which we found surprising.
After waiting for our server to ask for our bill (we ended up having to ask the bartender to go hunt him down), he still carried out two more trays of drinks before bringing it to us.
All in all, it was definitely not the best I've ever had, especially considering my visit prior. Something was definitely off at Brassaii tonight -- too bad it was my night to go!
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