I'm giving one star ONLY because the the waiter was friendly and efficient. We were shopping at the mall and decided we wanted to sit down and have lunch.
I wanted California Pizza Kitchen but the family wanted "something different". Boy did we get it. The table was sticky and my shirt kept sticking to it...GROSS! That should have been my first clue. We ordered our food and I got the summer salad with grilled chicken, my oldest got a crispy chicken salad, my son got a burger, my youngest got mac n cheese....and my husband got some seafood pasta dish with a calamari starter. The food arrived and was pretty enough but my husbands calamari lacked any remote calamari flavor. In fact, I'm fairly certain it was just breading. My husbands seafood pasta had only two pieces of seafood in it and a side order of mashed cauliflower that tasted like straight vinegar. The waiter kindly took it off our bill but by this point we decided we would never be back. Once we paid our bill and left, you would think the experience would be over. Not quite. My husband spent the evening suffering from a clear case of food poisoning. Suffice it to say, we won't be back. And I rarely post a review to yelp but this experience inspired me to share with (or rather warn) others about City Tavern.