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| - I am torn as to how to rate 11:30. I have had many, many a lovely morning/early afternoon here drinking their FABULOUS $2 bloody mary's and mimosa's. Sitting on the patio drinking for practically free is NEVER a bad way to spend a Saturday morning.
HOWEVER, if you want to eat, there are a million other, better places to go. Local Breeze, Hula, Switch, Carly's. All have amazing Bloodies and Mimosas with great food to boot.
I went in with a group of friends for brunch one morning. The place was empty like a Filibertos after a raid. Still, we waited incredibly long times for our drinks, the order, and finally, our food. The drinks were fine, but offers for refills did not come at all.
When the food arrived, it was...um, well, inedible. After waiting 30 minutes for it, we were looking forward to some yummy goodness. We had, after all, ordered practically one of each of the brunch specials. None of it was good.
The conversation with the server went like this:
SERVER: So, how is everything?
GROUP: Ummm. (Silence)
SERVER: I will take your silence as a good thing.
ME: Don't.
SERVER: Excuse me?
ME: This is bad. I am sorry, I don't usually complain, but this is, collectively, the worst breakfast I've ever been served.
SERVER: Excuse me. (He leaves)
This is why the place is getting three stars and not none. The manager came back just a few minutes later, chatted with us for a moment, apologized, and comped all five meals. Completely comped them.
(This is not a good strategy for getting free stuff, incidentally. The food really was awful. Free awful food is still free, but more importantly, its still awful.)
Of course we left our server a huge tip, and got the hell outta dodge.
I will still say that the drinks are great, the Bloodies are some of the best around and who can beat $2, and the pancakes are good. Reaaallllly good. But the rest...mmm, not so much.
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