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| - Last Saturday evening my fiancee and I took her mother and sister here for a special birthday dinner (Mom will be 83 Tuesday!) We anticipated an outstanding dining experience, especially since my fiancee is a monthly regular here as part of a women's group.
Unfortunately, I was very disappointed in our evening. It started out great with a killer martini and some wonderful bread and herb butter. But after our server, whom we had requested, took our order, everything went into slow motion. It took forever for our meals to arrive. The table next to ours (different server) arrived after us, ordered about the same time, was served and left before we received our food. This isn't just me being picky; everybody in our party noticed the slow, inattentive service.
The good news is that my three companions, including the birthday girl, loved their food. The bad news is that my shrimp ravioli was tough, chewy, almost leathery. I ate two of the six and stopped. if our server would have returned to check on our food, I would have ordered something else, but she didn't. I would have also ordered desert, but she never returned to ask us until the leftovers (theirs, not mine!) were packed and we were ready to leave. She did give Mom a free desert to go, but I think all of us would have appreciated getting it in a timely manner and enjoying it there.
To be fair, she was dealing with an unfortunate situation involving an unruly bar customer, though I'm not sure why that was her responsibility. And when I told her about my order, she immediately took it off our bill. However, we were still left with the slow, inattentive service and my dinner consisted of bread, Caesar salad and that killer martini. I was raiding the fridge an hour after we got home.
I may give them another try; my fiancee is already going there tonight with her ladies' group and I'm sure they will have a wonderful experience. I just wish last Saturday had been worthy of five stars.
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