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| - With such a highly esteemed name for a restaurant, you'd think this place would serve some of the best burgers in town with world class service. You'd think wrong.
I made reservations for 8 here for my birthday dinner a few weeks back. The hostess taking my reservation was the same one who was there to greet us with a table already made up for the group, and she was fine with a couple of us waiting for more from our party to show up. So far so good.
Once the majority of the party (6 of 8) had shown up, we decided to be seated and we immediately asked the waiter if we could do separate checks. He said that they do not do that there. "At all?" "Right. Never" We shrugged it off as no big deal and started ordering drinks. I've had Jack and Cokes all throughout this great city of ours and I gotta say this was a piss poor example. Very watered down, and no surprise that 4 of them later I barely had a buzz going. Strike one. I ordered the IPA Burger with Sweet Potato fries (I'm a sweet potato slut). Several at my table ordered a variety of other burgers and fries. Most of us ordered our own order of fries and when they came out there were way too many for each individual to eat. I thought it would have been nice for the server to maybe say each order could feed 2, but I won't hold them to that. I personally loved the sweet potato fries with the maple sauce, even though it tastes exactly as it sounds: very syrupy, very rich. Others at my table werent nearly as impressed. They are much skinnier than I am. The burger was quite simply a disappointment. The meat was alright, and prepared the way I ordered (medium rare), but the problem was the lack of flavor outside of the meat itself. The IPA is supposed to have a BBQ spiced burger patty, roasted hatch chilies, pepper jack cheese and fried jalapenos. I honestly never felt a kick in the least. Another at my table that also ordered it said the same. Not sure how that is possible with those ingredients. Seasoning in general needed work, and I heard from someone else at my table with the Imperial that the short ribs were flavorless (a sentiment I've seen shared by others here). Maybe it's the pumped in oxygen into the M that somehow renders these burgers nearly tasteless.
Overall service was fairly pleasant, and they even hooked me up with a free jack and coke for my birthday, and replaced a spilled one (no I swear, I wasnt drunk) for free. BUT, at the end of the meal, the waiter comes up with our check, and announces that the last couple to arrive asked for their check to be split. WAIT WHAT? A few of us immediately brought up the fact that earlier he said they dont do that at ALL. We were promptly ignored. Look, I get that he initially wanted to not split the check probably for the forced 18% gratuity or what have you, but there's no need to lie about it.
Be thankful you hooked me up with those free jack and cokes and that I'm such a whore for sweet potato fries and maple syrup Anthony's, I'm being generous with my 2.
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