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| - This place just opened at Town Square. We had come from an early Sunday movie and I was craving clam chowder, so my husband and I thought we'd give this place a try.
No one here, but was taken to the far wall of booths, we'd asked for one. Our server came up to get our drinks, intoduced herself and gave a very brief account of 'their concept'. I heard shrimp, spicy and bread for dipping. We ordered an original killer shrimp bowl, about a dozen decent size shrimp, peel still on, swimming in a big bowl of tasty broth and spices but not much of a kick as far as spice goes.
The bread for dipping in the tangy broth was freash, soft, not toasted baget loaf sliced into small bits good for dipping, but would be better as toasted and warm, just my opinion.
We ordered my bowl of clam chowder and it came out late, we ordered both shrimp and the chowder at same time but they forgot it. It finally came out once she realized we still hadn't gotten it. It was thick, a lot of clams, bits of carrot, potato, celery and was very good. I used some of the baget to dip it!
We also ordered the steam muscles, clear tomato broth, plenty of them and juicy good, the warm spinach salad, plenty big to share, bits of mushroom, egg, bacon and blue cheese crmble but a bit dry, could have used more of the vinaigrette dressing. And the paella, plenty of mixed seafood, steaming hot and seasoned well.
They seemed to be over staffed with assistants/ busers and not enough servers, ours was waiting tables all over the place and she didn't make it by often enough to see how we were doing. She missed our dessert order because she took too long checking in on us!
We got plenty of tea refills, extra bread, they cleared away the dirty stuff, but waiting over 20 minutes just for her to come back to us after we'd finished our food meant she was too busy to care about our dinning experience.
Everyone was friendly but I guess things are still so new, they haven't figured it all out.
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