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| - Arrived here at 8pm on a Saturday night to be seated at a lovely table by the window. We chose to have a cocktail and appetizer each to start our meal, and that's where the trouble began. Our waitress gave us a weird smile when we finished making each of our orders (to the point where I thought maybe I had ordered something funny?) and messed up our appetizer order so we didn't even get our second appetizer until about 20 minutes after the first one arrived. That ill-fated second appetizer was the frog's legs, the most hyped appy on Yelp, and it lived up to the "fried" part of the name as it was without a doubt the greasiest 5 bites of food we'd ever eaten. Nasty.
We ate all but one of the frog's legs and let the remaining leg be cleared with our dishes - or so we thought. A few moments after we'd sent it away, the waitress brought our last frog's leg back, looking somewhat worse for wear, to declare to us that there was "one left!!" We turned it down (for the second time) and let her take it away for real this time. Shocking - not since I moved out of my parents house have I had someone bring food back to the table to try to insist that I finish it!
We then attempted to order our entrees although it took a few tries to flag down the weird smiling waitress again. I ordered the soba noodle salad and my partner ordered the butter chicken and lobster hot pot. The soba noodle salad ended up being a huge bowl of spring mix (the same kind you buy at Safeway) with about a cup of cooked, clumpy soba noodles stirred into it, 4 slices of cucumber, and 4 grilled shrimp. That's it, no other vegetables, just spring mix and a few noodles for the low price of $14.
The butter chicken and lobster hot pot turned out to be one overcooked lobster claw ("rubbery" said my partner), one overcooked, bone-in (!) chicken breast ("tastes like dust" said my partner) in a vaguely spicy brownish stew with a few limp pieces of cauliflower floating in it. When was the last time you saw cauliflower in butter chicken? Me neither.
The waitress was nice enough to take the soba salad off the tab even though I didn't make a complaint about it (maybe I just misread the menu?!).
Overall: Slow, inattentive, error-prone service, bizarre decor reminiscent of someone's basement who thought they'd make a half-hearted attempt to do a "sea shanty" theme, and miserable food. We live only a few blocks away but we won't be back.
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