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| - Its been a long while since I've eaten here, but we had family in town and with the varied tastes, I figured this place would be a safe bet for a little for everyone. But it's all changed. There was not a single item on the menu that I remembered from Macaroni Grill. I think this place was bought out and the new company just kept the name but everything else is different. Despite the restaurant being empty, it still took 15minutes or so to seat our group. Our server seemed to be the only server in the place, perhaps that's why he was less than attentive. Half the menu is the bar (specialty drinks, wine, beer) we were encouraged to order family style (less work for the kitchen?) The mozzarella a la caprese, usually ordered as an appetizer to share, is now featured and presented as an individual salad-same price, 1/3 amount of food- served on an long rectangular plate with a long fancy drizzle of over-starched balsamic perhaps to distract form the lack of actual food .The server was slow and made mistakes on the ordering. (A lemonade was ordered, he placed it as a bar order-specialty drink, more expensive and no refills: The salad I ordered was supposed to only be dressed w/lemon but had so much oil on it my mouth was coated 2 bites in, it was supposed to be shrimp and I got scallops, some of which were burned on one side and still served (with the burnt side down)
The Caesar salad was overdressed and came in the teeniest little bowl- like a side salad but for actual serving size price. A chicken pasta dish was served on on an oblong platter as a pile of mushy oversauced pasta, a dry chicken breast, and an oily pile of mixed greens. The bread was greasy and seemed to have been sitting under the heat-lamp all day or else reheated in the microwave, as it was near impossible to tear or even cut with a knife. The water comes in a pretty artisan bottle but tastes like it was just (re)filled from a tap. Looks like this place has gone the way of every other eating establishment we have found safe eating at...that is, poor food, poor service, a dingy experience.
The only thing that remains unchanges are the crayons on the table, though our waiter did not introduce himself, nor write his name on the table as they used to...not that I blame him, I wouldn't want to be known in association with this hole either. I will be waiting for them to show up on kitchen nightmares...If this was our experience from the dining-room, I really hate to see whats going on in the kitchen. We will not return.
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