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| - After reading all the yelp reviews on Local Bistro my standing Thursday Lunch with a friend found us there.
Well we were disappointed! It was not overly busy, and the service was marginal at best. 3 servers, 2 managers + bus staff covered the dining area. Not too bad for the size. We were sat at our table and it took about 10 minutes to be greeted by our server. Okay, but then it was tedious at best from there.
We ordered a cup of the 'soup of the moment', Lobster Bisque w/Crab. It was delicious...so we thought, will if the food is this good we could get over the service pretty darn quick!
My dining partner ordered the Chicken Panini w/side salad. I had the Mushroom Swiss Panini w/frys. These were served on a wooden cutting board, quaint and yet unappealing. My friend notice large cracks in her board and was concerned how sanitary it was to eat off of. How do they sanitize wooden boards? I suspect they put them through the dishwasher, hence the large cracking we observed. Never the less, it's a novel way to serve the sandwiches. My mushroom panini was good, not great. Actually somewhat dry. Maybe due to there being over 50% of the sandwich containing bread. The frys were grea,t when they were warm, as they cooled they became very paste like in flavor. My compainions chicken sandwich contained an unoridinate amout of yellow peppers. Once she removed them, the sandwich tasted better to her. Once finished with 1/2 of her sandwich, she decided she'd had enough bread and pulled out the chicken to eat alone. Well she couldn't eat it. It was sooooo dry once you took all the condiments and goop off of it she could not eat it. In fact she remarked that she needed her razor teeth to eat it. But, she loved the side salad. Water was not filled unless asked, we had to ask to pay our bill, etc....
So I don't know if I'd go back or not. MMMMMM On the fence with that. Maybe dinner would be better??? Very inconsistent was the experience.
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