First time at Rare didn't go so well.
We were eating out on the patio and had had a mediocre meal. Asked the waitress for the dessert menu and she brought it, taking her time to really explain the different desserts. We were sold on the chocolate cake. She came back soon after we ordered it to bring us our forks and tell us the cake was about to be brought out. Then, she never came back.
We had to get going, so after about 35-40 minutes of waiting, we walked inside and asked the hosts for our bill, explaining we had waited forever for a slice of cake and couldn't find our waitress to ask for it or for the bill. The hosts finally tracked down the waitress (I don't know if she was on her break or what), and she offered no explanation as to what had happened. She just smiled and said she would take the cake off the bill. We weren't even given the cake in a to-go box or anything!
It was an odd experience. My order was messed up, too (I had asked for no onions or mushrooms on my burger, but it came to me slathered in carmelized onions), but I was going to overlook that. The salad was kind of bad, too. But then the cake incident was just too much. The least they could have done was bring us the cake once we brought it to their attention that we never received it.