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| - While the patio is to die for that is about all that keeps me returning to Reddstone.
I play volleyball at the nearby Battery Park sand courts and we go to Reddstone each Thursday night for their $0.10 tacos.
I am a recent full vegetarian and navigating the landscape has been mostly smooth, but Reddstone threw in a pothole.
The service at Reddstone is atrocious. Over the past year we have had an obvious coke user as a waitress, an extremely indifferent and rude woman and lately, inexperienced, non-critically thinking staff. The atmosphere is wonderful, but the service is atrocious. The owner is a nice guy, seems to know what he is doing, expect his front of the house staff. I have yet to be served by an attentive and kind waitress, instead it appears he just hires for looks? meh. Desperation? Maybe.
Back to $0.10 tacos. The tacos are greasy meat which varies in consistency from week to week. When I was a carnivore, they weren't bad, had some spice to them...but now that I am of the herbivores; I was abruptly denied a taco haven. I was told there were no substitutions...okaaaay, but what about the vegetarians? "Sorry, no substitutions." Once you add on jalapeƱos, cheese and sour cream, all for $0.50 apiece it isn't even worth just buying a plain shell for the taco deal.
The only redeeming factor, outside of the patio, is the cheap beers Reddstone offers. You can get a tallboy PBR or Miller High Life for $3. Not bad. $2 Coronitas or $3 margaritas on Thursdays are a decent deal.
All in all, I was and have been sorely disappointed for some time. For all the positive press this place gets, you think the owner would invest a bit more in its staff as well as fares that appeal to more consumers...it would mean a regular Thursday night customer out of me.
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