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| - I have very mixed feelings about The Porch, and it averages out to a 3-ish. Sometimes 1-2, sometimes 3.5-4.. Depends on the day, I guess.
First the good. Lunch is reliably good, particularly the sandwiches and pizza. I've gone routinely and the food is tasty.
Service.. Well, service is not always that great. I've gone and it's been fine. And I've gone some times where they forget to give you silverware or a glass for your ice tea until you ask for it. (No joke. A few weeks ago I came with some friends and the guy came with a bottle of ice tea, stood there for a minute and I had to say "well, could I get a class for the tea?")
Dinner. Well.. not really as good as lunch, honestly. I've been several times as well. Some dishes are usually tasty (e.g., the roasted chicken) but there have been some just crazy things.
A friend said she's been several times for dinner and usually orders soup. No matter the kind of soup, it's so salty she needs to pour water from her glass to eat it. (Yes, I've seen her do this. Yes, it was very salty.) Why go to a restaurant when the soup is worse than a can of Progresso?!
And then there was the bread salad.. which was bread and bread and a few sprigs of endive.
I won't go into the time I went for dinner and had to order three times because the first two dishes were out. (Ok, I can understand once, but the poor waiter should have been told "here's everything we're out tonight.")
I'll also leave out the sometimes surly wait staff. Just please get some better people?
So that's the story... sometimes fine, sometimes totally crazy and disappointing.
Hope they can get it together. It's a great location, a nice atmosphere, and usually tasty food.
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