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Wife and I walked in, greeted by loud punk music and no server. I'm perfectly OK with loud music and am of the generation of 80s punk, but this wasn't good.
Wait 3-5 minutes for someone to show up at the host (ish) desk... all the while perusing the two tables-of-six with no food. Appears that NC had a skeleton crew working the lunch. I get it... day after thanksgiving. Given our choice of seats but wanting to sit away from tables-of-six, we choose the one "oh, but you can't sit there" table. Our choice was then reduced by one.
So we sit in the corner, near the quieter table-of-six and our server comes by to describe the specials of the day, then takes our drink order while we check the menu. Water arrives quickly.
Some 5 minutes later, we're ready to order... alas, the "table which shall not be taken" is filled with friends/ acquaintances of the chef-dude (not the owner). Chef-dude sits with the newly-arrived gang BSing while I wait to place my order. Server-dude takes friend/ acquaintance drink order while ignoring my table.
Freind-table's drink order arrives with a dish of "compliments of chef-dude" pickled stuff. I'm still waiting to place my food order, now some 15-20 minutes after being seated.
Now I spy a table of two young ladies who arrived long after I did... someone else is on the game and is taking their lunch order.
Because my time has now been wasted and is much more valuable than NC's food... I walk.
Bottom line... I have generally enjoyed Noodlecat's food when I've been there, but the service is usually lacking. In this case, the service was sadly below "lacking." Here's to hoping the NC crew gets some training from the Greenhouse team.
PS: I still hope NC succeeds and I assume they will, having been open now for some time. I hope if they see this they'll take this as constructive criticism from a downtown resident. Maybe it was just an off-day or a minor slip.
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