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| - I don't know why anyone eats at any Moxies. I think Calgarians have just become accustomed to the lack of decent restaurants and have accepted the blah, all-the-same food that is typical of all the chain places in town. However, Moxies is the WORST....They have just tried to dress up sub-par food with nicer decor. I have had the misfortune to eat here 3 times in the past year when my group from work goes somewhere to take someone from the group out for lunch. The menu is typical of all the chains in Calgary, but the food itself and portions are terrible.
On the previous 2 occasions I had salad... Once the beet salad and the other time the "champagne" strawberry salad. It was like someone threw a SMALL handful of green in a really big bowl and tossed in a few other things. For $13-14 they're making a killing because they were both really small and nothing remarkable.
The server who had our table of 12 was all of about 19 but thought it was cute or appropriate to call everyone (male or female) "hon" or "darlin". It just didn't work and she was too clueless to see that most of us either bristled or rolled our eyes at her silly pet names for complete strangers.
So today I had the salmon sandwich. Disgusting. I worked as a server for 5 years when I was in university and I would never have brought this plate out to a customer. It was a SMALL (3 oz total) piece of dry salmon on 2 half-moon pieces of flatbread which were then folded over into a triangle, and a tiny saucer of iceberg lettuce greens. Lame. For $13 I could get better and cheaper food from a grocery store deli.
In the sandwich was a piece of lettuce, 2 big slices of tomato on each triangle and the tiny piece of dry salmon. Because Moxies is obviously trying to make the sandwich look like more than it is, they put these giant, pale slices of tomato in.
The server called us all darling or hon again when she out the food down.
But what makes it even worse is that these slimy pieces of tomato completely SOAK the plain flatbread so that when you try to pick it up it all falls apart in your hands and is just soaking wet. Disgusting.
I ate the salmon inside and abandoned trying to eat anything else of the sandwich. I picked at the "salad" but it was worse that a cheap salad in a bag kit from the grocery store.
When the server came back at the END of the meal to ask everyone how it was, (whats the point? Everyone is finished so you will hardly have time to order something else) and I told her it was terrible, a soggy mess. She looked at my full plate and just said "oh, sorry about that". No more "darling" though.
I felt I had to go along with the group and not cause everyone to have to change restaurants but I can say I will NEVER go to Moxies again.
It's BAD food, WAY overpriced, and is basically anything you could make at home with a bunch of pre-made sauces.
The server was capable but so annoying with the little pet names that just didn't go over.
I don't know why anyone would CHOOSE to eat there. The staff should be embarrassed at what they have to put out in front of customers. Never again.
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