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We were seated fast enough but the waitress didn't greet us or make any eye contact when she handed us the menu. That's right, no eye contact when giving the menu - her head was turned away looking at her co-worker set up the table next to us. Ok fine, no big deal.
We gave our order, 2 appetizers, 3 meat dishes.
When the first two meat dishes came out, some parts were warm, some parts were cold! Obviously a microwave job - horrendous! I've been watching a lot of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares lately and that is just an absolute no-no for a restaurant to operate! The worse part was when we told the waitress about the two meat dishes, she only took one back to, what I can only assume, re-microwave. I thought she might take the other dish to warm up once the first one was done but she didn't and she threw the meat back onto our plate as though she was annoyed with us! We didn't want to be a bother and remind her the second dish is also half-cold so we kept mum.
Our third dish, lamb, that came on a hot plate was sure to be hot - great! But to our surprise, it was mostly fat on bones and any lean meat pieces were burnt to a crisp. We didn't eat half of that dish.
All the dishes tasted mediocre to bland.
Someone on this board also commented about the incense smoke in the room. Yup, it's true. The scent is unpleasant and we smelt like it when we left.
The only redeeming qualities: the male waiter was nice and charming (he was helping us at first before the waitress tend to us), the soup (which I'm sure was also microwaved) and sambusa (appetizer) were good and only good, nothing more.
We will not be back - we'll stick to Pero's ethiopian food.
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