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| - To celebrate our 2 year anniversary, my boyfriend and I thought it would be a good idea to treat ourselves to dinner at the place we had our first date exactly 2 years ago.
I tried making a reservation prior to our arrival in hopes to make the night as smooth as possible. Unfortunately, even after mentioning that it was for our anniversary, I was informed by the hostess who answered my phone call that they did not accept reservations for parties less than 8. Kind of odd to me seeing how it makes it hard for their customers to have an intimate celebration. Seems like this company is a little more concerned about making their dollar than our experience. Regardless of the lack of accommodating my request for said reservation we still decided to travel to have dinner here.
Due to the fact that we couldn't make a reservation, I made it a point to arrive 30 minutes earlier than the time I had wanted to set the reservation just to make sure we got a table in a timely manner (was informed by the hostess that we should be fine without a reservation and if there was a wait it wouldn't be longer than 15 minutes...very reassuring) and was able to make it to the other things we had planned.
When we walked in it wasn't very busy and made me feel a little better about not being able to make the reservation. We decided to sit at the bar and ended up sitting in the last two seats available that just so happened to be almost the same two seats that we had sat in on our very first date two years ago. Excited by the coincidence we sat and waited for our experience to begin. And so we sat, and sat and watched as the "busy" bartender walked behind the bar and casually made a few drinks here and there. The funniest part about this was the fact that he went out of his way to not make eye contact with us. We were sitting at the very middle of the bar, so he had to try pretty darn hard to.
There was a pair of ladies sitting next to us sipping on some martinis and he decided to instead greet us and hand us some menus, but to ask if they wanted another round. After they responded yes, he walked right past us again, did not make eye contact or say hello and continued to casually make their martinis. At this point my boyfriend and I decided that said bartender did not think our money was good enough for him, but for the sake of our anniversary we decided to leave our seats at the bar and ask the hostess for a table.
When I told the hostess that we decided to move to a table because the bartender seemed a little too busy with his measly 15 seat bar to tend to us, her response was "Oh sorry, yeah he's been a little grumpy today." If you don't like your job, man up and find another.
The service at the bar was a little better. The server was a bit boring, but was able to cover the basics like say hello. Unfortunately she didn't get the idea that we wanted to enjoy our appetizer before receiving our entrees and after a few bites of our appetizer we were apparently ready for our entrees that seemed to had been delivered by a manager (saw some keys on her arm). We VERY awkwardly accepted them. The manager that dropped off the food apparently did not notice the almost untouched appetizer and proceeded to leave us with our rushed meal.
All in all it was an uncomfortable experience. This is a big change from the service I used to get from here, but it had been awhile since I had come in. Needless to say I won't be rushing back here anytime soon, there are too many great, unique restaurants in the area with staff that actually enjoy their occupation.
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