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| - My husband and I just moved to the neighbourhood and were excited to take a visiting friend out to PicNic Wine Bar since we had been there previously and had a great time. What has happened??? First thing - there was a sign in the window saying "cash only" - ugh okay. Not an inexpensive place so we made a special trip to an ATM to take out some cash. Not a big deal but we assumed the meal would be worth the cash run. It wasn't. When we were seated and reading over the menus, our friend noticed that her menu had a few things scratched out and new descriptions were hand-written on the menu. Odd, we thought, but we asked the server for clarification and he insisted that the original, unaltered menus were correct. See that had been his chance for honesty right there and he blew it. The dish on the menu (I can't recall EXACTLY but I'll try) was something like beef tenderloin with seasonal asparagus and a potato and gruyere gratin - something like that. What had been scratched out was 'asparagus and potato and gruyere gratin' and what had been penciled in was 'roasted potatoes and greens'. So when the server insisted that the original, unaltered menu (asparagus and gratin) was indeed correct, and I then received...wait for it... roasted potatoes and greens, I wasn't very impressed. I mean the potatoes were home fries. Not even good home fries but what you would get at a diner serving all day breakfast. A far cry from gratin. Then, to add insult to injury, my husband who had ordered the pork tenderloin that was supposed to have a side of lentils with bacon or something like that and he got... you guessed it... home fries and greens. We were very very very unimpressed. I don't recall exactly what our friend ordered but I do know it also came with the same sides. It was a very quiet evening at the restaurant. The place was empty aside from a few other customers. Could the chef seriously only manage the same exact dish with a change of protein? This is a middle- to high-end restaurant not a cafeteria. If you're going to simply slop some greens and home fries on a plate and then add some meat to it rather than give the customer what they ordered, you had better have a good reason. We weren't given one. We were given a free glass of wine I believe. So, as it turns out the person who had altered that menu in pencil had the same experience we did and had valiantly attempted to warn future customers. This is my warning to you: if you have been here in the past and enjoyed it as we had, return with extreme caution. I'm not saying don't go, but be very diligent about getting what you ordered or order the charcuterie and skip the entrees. To me it is unacceptable to put one thing on a menu and serve something else unless you are honest about it up front. If we had been told that the dishes would be altered before we ordered so we could make an informed decision, we wouldn't have been so annoyed. We asked point blank if the dish was going to be as described, and we were told that it would be, so to us this is either poor communication btwn the kitchen and serving staff or just total lack of care. Either way, we will be surprised if PicNic is still in business in a month. I see they have a deal on one of the voucher sites in an attempt to drum up business. That would work if you served good food, but otherwise people will stay away as I will from now on. Oh and by the way, about two months after our visit the 'cash only' sign is still in the window.
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