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| - The Skinny: the food is okay not great (2) service: on a dead Saturday night with 3 tables, service was completely pathetic (1) Mimi's cafe used to provide decent food and service at reasonable prices. How times have changed (1).
We used to come every so often to gorge on fried zucchini sticks which were one of the best things on their menu. However, major revamping of their menu eliminated our favorite appy so we haven't been back for a while.
We got a coupon for BOGO entrees with drink purchase so we decided to hit the joint on Saturday night.
When we got in the place was completely dead. There were 3 tables not including us and a room filled with booths with dirty dishes everywhere. Not a good sign about the service.
We were seated at a table with some menus. Our table was bare except for condiments. It took 10 minutes prior to being asked about drink orders. It took another 10 minutes to get our orders in after which our meager bread basket came out.
I don't recall much about Mimi's but I do remember the nice bread basket with three different choices. Oh how times have changed! Now, there's only a sad doughy "baguette" and the ever present carrot bread with very scarce walnuts now (small portion sizes too).
At this time, our drink orders were still not filled and we still had no utensils. It took another 5-10 minutes to get those and only after asking for them. In addition, our server was largely MIA in terms of checking up on refills of our drinks. This is despite asking multiple times directly for refills and where she either completely ignored us (walked by us) or forgot.
From then on, we had a 20 minute wait for the $2.50 side salad and our waitress forgot the side of soup was ordered. My salad was pretty horrible. Limp spring mix on the verge of complete dehydration/mushiness. The hubs said his soup was okay.
Our entrees came out about 10 minutes later. We both got a grilled salmon dish ($13.99) - mine was with fries and the hubs was with roasted potatoes and cream sauce. The salmon was okay. The fries were soggy from the spinach on the plate... Meh. The roasted potatoes were on top of a horrible goopy sauce for the hubs.
By this time, we had enough. The slow substandard service when there appeared to be at least 3 wait staff plus a manager hovering around to service 3 tables is unacceptable. (apparently our server was the only one doing the serving... Why?)
We asked for our check. We had previously told our server that we wanted to use our coupon but she said her manager had to review it first. That did not happen. So when we finally got our check? No discount was on it. Frustrated, we had to say it again. Finally the other server appears and looks at out coupon and provides us with the proper total. After that we put our card on the check. From the looks of things she probably forgot to pick it up so I took the initiative and handed it to her at her workstation. I did not feel like I wanted to spend the night sleeping at Mimi's.
We finally got out of there 1 hour and 15 minutes after we arrived. We vowed we were never going to Mimi's again. With the non-existent service and relatively expensive price for the mediocre quality food, there is absolutely no reason to return given the plethora of restaurants in the area (Cheesecake Factory, Claim Jumper.... Heck even Feast buffet offers better quality food for the less money on their Prime Rib night). Considering the piss poor job management has done, I would not be surprised if this restaurant's days are numbered. Sorry Mimi's... You made it into my +1 starred review list.
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