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| - New owners. We gave them two tries. I doubt that we will return. I had always enjoyed the bar food of the previous owners. So we tried lunch the first week with the new owners. 1130, no other customers. And breakfast stopped at 11. About 1/2 the menu was marked "coming soon" which was not a good sign. I tried to get an omelette because they had very few if any nonmeat offerings at lunch time and it was a Friday in Lent. No fish sandwich? Nope. Just a full dinner. Kitchen decided they would make me an omelette. given that we were the only customers in the restaurant I thought their attitude was a little ridiculous but I decided to just go with soup. So the hubs ordered a grilled cheese with french fries and a side salad and I ordered the clam chowder. The clam chowder was the saltiest chowder I have ever had. It was very full of potatoes and other items but I didn't have much clam in it, just a lot of salt. The grilled cheese was not worth it. And the fries were horrible. Not sure if the oil was dirty, old, or not hot enough. But the potatoes had a very odd flavor to them and I think they had moved from the fresh-cut fries of the old owners to frozen fries. Strike one.
We returned this evening to try the fish fry and see whether they had as nice of a fish fry as the previous owners. More items were now available on the menu. Again still a Friday in Lent so I was in search of a meatless meal. I asked if they had their macaroni and cheese available and they informed me that it was available for children only, that they could not yet serve it to the adults because they weren't ready to release to adults. Hmmm. Okay. Wanting to avoid that clam chowder again, I asked what kind of tomato soup they had and the waiter looked at me with all seriousness and said it's tomato soup, what else do you need to know. I really should have stopped at that point and left, but I went down that path and ordered a bowl of tomato soup for my dinner. Hubs ordered the fish dinner. The dinner was fine. the grease on the fish wasn't too bad. the potatoes were still nothing to write home about and there's a small coleslaw garnish on the side. they still don't have any baked potatoes and there's nothing you can really substitute for anything yet. The tomato soup made the clam chowder look like a foodies dream. It wasn't awful, it was worse than awful. It wasn't creamy and although was full of dark herbs I'm thinking it was oregano not basil because it had a very off taste. And I swear it had an undertone of cayenne or some pepper because long after that spoonful was swallowed, you could taste something on your tongue that indicated was a little bit of spice. Tomato soup should never have a very heavy feel or taste to it, even homemade soup shouldn't. quite sure where they missed the boat. I ate three spoons of the soup and that was it. Not that the server even noticed or cared.
Now here comes the best part of it. Halfway through our meal I flagged the server down and requested he put in an order for a club sandwich to go for my son we were meeting. He came back with a message from the kitchen that they had a large party out on the patio and they were too busy to take any more food orders right now, so if we wanted to wait an additional 20 minutes to half hour they would then accommodate us and put the order in ; otherwise we could not get our sandwich to go. Really? you can't take any more food orders? They were seating new tables all around us. So we asked how could they allow three new tables to be seated but refuse to make us a sandwich. The server consulted the owner and returned to say that allegedly they were telling them that it would be a 30 minute wait before they could order food. I really can't imagine anyone going to a restaurant knowing that they couldn't order for 30 minutes.
I feel badly that The Groves new owners haven't figured it out yet. We can walk there but won't. There are too many other places in Gilbert in the same price bracket where we can get better service and better food.
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