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| - My first few experiences eating at this bar/restaurant were positive. The food is well prepared - tasty comfort food. The owners recently brought a chef to the US from Hungary, and he seems very sweet and is obviously talented. The desserts are exceptional. I have had a pleasant relationship with the owners.
I am sharing my experience a couple of days ago because it was alarming, and I think it is important for people to know what they could potentially be walking into.
My father and I ate dinner here a couple of days ago, three days after the Presidential Inauguration and two days after the Women's March on Washington. We were the only patrons in the bar, and we had a pleasant quiet dinner. As we were finishing and relaxing with another drink, the owner, Judy, began yelling about politics at a volume and with a frenzy that was immediately alarming. This went on for almost five minutes or more, where it was not possible to get a word in to tell her that I was not interested in discussing this, so I signaled to the girl behind the bar to give us our check, we cashed out, and we left.
Frankly, I'm not sure what she was trying to accomplish. We had not spoken to her for probably half an hour, we hadn't discussed anything political with her, and we were friendly and engaging when we came in.
I personally found her behavior to be incredibly alarming, offensive, and obviously completely unprofessional. Regardless of how I feel about her political perspective, her volume, topic, and unrelenting intensity were very unpleasant, and turned what may have been a pleasant evening into an awful experience.
Incidentally, I marched in the Women's March on Washington over the weekend for hours, and I did not experience any kind of interaction - during a massive protest - that was this hostile. I'm sorry, but this was really not ok.
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