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| - I should have read the reviews before we came here. I love Happy Hour, and I love places that give you time to enjoy happy hour which is why we chose to visit the Watershed on a Friday night.
The location is awesome, right on the water with amazing views of the sunset. The place is huge and would be a great venue for a special event like a wedding or birthday.
We arrived a few min after 6 PM and already the patio is full up, we were quoted a 30 min wait. I hate pointing out empty tables, there were several on the patio, so we chose to sit inside instead. We're hungry, right? The waitress says she can't seat us yet (even though the place is empty) and suggests we go to the bar first for a drink. Ummm, ok?
We get to the bar and are promptly greeted by the bartender (battery operated motorized wine openers, really? Is it that hard your need a machine to do it for you?) We order off the happy hour menu only to find out they are out of Sangria. Out? At 6:10 PM on a Friday? By now the hostess finally got things figured out and we are seated.
We are seated and try to order drinks again with our server but guess what, they are out of Frozen drinks! I order a regular drink and the boy orders a beer, both on happy hour and in stock. By now, we've been in the establishment for 20 min with no drinks, not even water.
We decide to start with the Chilli Cheese fries which comes with your choice of Chili or Chile, see what they did there? Except we weren't given a choice, our server disappeared and we got Chili fries which were 70% beans.
The Boy was dying to try to their Green Chile Meatloaf Double Double and it was amazing! He was so happy with the side of veggie upgrade told me to quote him in this review "Peppers, Onions, Zucchini, usually they do some played out, lame, broccoli/cauliflower/carrot mix but this is really good." I am not a green chili fan and I had a bite and it was indeed, really, really, good! I ordered the calamari which was just meh and was served cold, not fresh out of the fryer.
Here comes where I should have read the other reviews. It took almost 45 minutes for us to get our meal and this place was no where even close to busy. This is 45 min after we got our appetizer. I could have sent my cold calamari back but I wasn't sure how long it would take for me to get a refire. I noticed other tables who had been seated since we got in finally getting their entrees after a long wait. This is not good.
Things were good, but there were so many timing issues and things being out of stock. Come here for the view (and the Green Chile Meatloaf) but don't come if you are hungry.
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