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| - I wanted to like this place based off of their menu but their seating arrangements and lack of hospitality was thoroughly disappointing. Tonight a friend of mine suggested we eat here, I've never been. We arrive and spoke with the hostess. She tells us for a table of 3 it'll be a 30 minute wait so we went and grabbed a drink at the bar. As we drank we reviewed the menu. I hadn't eaten all day and was starving so I've already pre selected several dishes I wanted to try myself. I had about two appetizers 2 entries and few sides that I wanted to try, plus wine (which I was already having a glass of) just on my own accord not counting my friend and the rest of our party. After about 30 minutes or so, the hostess comes back and asks us when the rest of our party would arrive, we said in a few minutes they're running late. She says "if your party isn't here we cannot seat you, because we have a full house." Even though 1. That disclaimer was not mentioned during the initial waiting period, and 2. Our party was legitimately running late. Mind you I suggested that since our party is running late. I will order for 4 so we'd make it worth their time. When clearly myself alone was already tentatively at over $150 dollar bill. I understand turning tables quickly, I also understand milking a cash cow as is. If Ive already suggested ordering for four which means we would've cleared a 200 dollar bill, and had my friend and I only had two in our party but ordered for 4 it's a win win. They've gotten their money and we would've gotten our food, and as soon as the rest of my party arrived the bill would've doubled, because like myself my friends and I are food fanatics. The hostess was completely unapologetic for her lack of the disclaimer which still annoys me. Had she mentioned the fact that our entire party needed to be present obviously we would've coordinated better and had everybody present and not have wasted an entire 30-40 MINUTES, waiting for a BS excuse at the END of our wait time! It was a bullshit move and I took my money somewhere else. Despite what looked like an appetizing menu, I won't come back to a place that refuses to serve people because they can't get their seating figured out.
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