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| - I am giving this place 3 stars for the food that comes from Venice which I enjoy (some of it, not all, the shrimps poke seem to be made from frozen shrimps or something as the texture of the shrimps was very pasty)
I first came here to go to Clandestino downstairs, which was a quick visit because we were bar hopping. The hostess was a little "strange", had a condescending kind of attitude when we asked "hi! Where is Clandestino?" I shrugged it off because I figured maybe she was having a bad night and well, we all do sometimes
This time however, as Venice was full house, we came over to Hobo to have dinner. At the door, we were greeted by the same hostess as last time, now at coat check.
"Greeted" is hardly the word. She asked us to leave our (light spring) jackets. We didn't want to because we didn't think it was neccesary and her attitude was quite unpleasant. Already, there was no friendliness in the air, and the demand "u have to leave your jacket" speech is less than thrilling (ANYWHERE, not just here) Then there was a little bit of hostility "u will have to keep your jackets on u at all time, ppl always get hot inside but you won't be able to take them off" with lots of I'm-telling-you kind of face
Im not being difficult here, I assure you. We were four people and we all felt it strongly. I came very close to leaving but didnt want to be an annoyance to my friends so we proceeded inside.
Once more, the host at the door asked us to leave our jackets, I said "No I am keeping it on me" and he didn't say anything else, just simply led us inside. (Insert confused face)
The place is well decorated. Same as Venice, in term of style. Because it is a bar, it is much louder and darker. We got our food, the waiter mixed up my order but I was ok with eating what they made instead & because he was nice about it. My friend had to ask for him to check the wine because the glass smelled really funky. That's ok, human error, he was very helpful and pleasant about it so it was awesome.
When we left, the hostess was now very nice "how was your dinner? Very glad to have had you with us!" Really? Because that's how you should make customers feel BEFORE entering your business, not AFTER you've made them decide that they are never setting foot into the place again.
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