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| - Maybe we caught Pura Vida on a bad night? The waitress set the bar high with great service when we first walked in, then decided she didn't feel like continuing that. It took a half hour for each of our rounds of drinks to come--and almost no one else was in the restaurant.
The food was ok. My friend's mother's fish had to be sent back because it was extremely overcooked. I thought the whole "jar" concept was just weird, not modern or whatever (they have a selection of foods they serve you in jars). My friend got the barbecued tofu jar and it turned out to be barbecue baby mush looking stuff in a jar. My shrimp fried rice was good, except it had pineapple in it, which I hated. Another friend got risotto, which just tasted like butter.
On top of it all, our waitress was just bad. She stacked our dirty dishes on our clean napkins, she never cleared our plates before adding new ones, everything took forever, and she didn't even really offer us dessert, just seemed to be trying to get us out of there (and again, the place was not packed at all). We were not rude to her and we were also a big group, so it was in her best interests to give us good service and get a good tip. I've done her job for years--she was bad. The whole place was disappointing. Would not come back.
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