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| - The wife and I were in town to visit family and celebrate our anniversary. So after a nice evening of visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art I thought L'Albatros would be the perfect place to celebrate based on its reviews.
As I always do when we celebrate a special occasion, I wrote a comment in the open table reservation indicating we are celebrating our anniversary and would appreciate anything they can do to make it special.
We were greeted by a hostess who had a bit of trouble finding the reservation, no problem. When she asked if we'd like to sit inside or outside, the hostess next to her who was half on the phone burst out, "well if you want to sit outside you'll have to wait." I figured she was rude and perhaps no one read the comments. I was going to give them a pass.
We were seated at an okay table, water, oil, bread all came. It was nice. Our server came over to ask about drinks. My wife said something about just having water since we had been on a vineyard tour earlier in the day (and had a complimentary bottle of champagne from our hotel still in the fridge) for our anniversary.
Her response: "oh yeah I heard it was you anniversary." Seriously, no Happy anniversary, no we're glad you chose to spend your special night with us.
My wife's dish, the sausage, was fairly good. Mine, the hanger steak, was chewy and poor quality.
I'd like to think our experience could have been better. I get the feeling that the restaurant hires inexperienced Case students. Humorously, I overheard our waitress tell another table that they all take turns being the fromagier for the evening.
Fortunately we've been married long enough that we laugh it off. If you're looking to celebrate a special occasion, I'd look elsewhere.
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