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| - We went out to brunch for a post-halloween refueling adventure. I have been to Market Garden before and they have always been packed - usually on a Saturday night or during happy hour - and the 30 minute wait for a beer is not the fault of the staff because they are just so busy. For brunch, however, we walked in and go seated right away. Fantastic.
Our waitress was prompt and took our orders for our drinks (waters, coffee, and bloody mary's.) We were able to browse the menus and didn't feel rushed at all. She returned with the refreshments and my friend wanted to order the Powdered Donut Holes and the waitress apologized and said they had been out of those all morning. No problem. They had only been open for an hour, but thats fine. But after she informed us that what we had wanted was out, she WALKED AWAY. She did not ask if we wanted anything else, she did not make a suggestion. She just left.
We finished our bloody mary's and she returned to take our order: Poutine, smothered and covered, and a breakfast burrito. Someone from the kitchen tried to give us the wrong order. While we were waiting we saw some other guests get a mimosa tasting flight... that looked absolutely beautiful. Eventually the food came out and the poutine was quartered potatoes with some ambiguous cheese/hollandaise with bacon crumbled in it. The smothered and covered was quartered potatoes with some ambiguous cheese/hollandaise with bacon crumbled in it with an egg on top (PS: when I broke into the egg beautiful yolk came cascading down my potatoes... along with some clear, uncooked eggwhite slime. I didn't complain because I feel like it wouldn't have made a difference to the apathetic staff) and then finally the breakfast burrito, which was, you guessed it... quartered potatoes, ambiguous cheese/hollandaise with bacon crumbled in it, wrapped in a tortilla.
We ate. Paid. And left. No water refills. No coffee refills. Staff kind of sucked.
We were in a group, and my bill for two people was $75. We each had two bloody mary's, a cup of coffee (no refill), one order of Scotch Eggs (the highlight of the brunch) and two bowls of potatoes.
For the food to be lack-luster is fine. I've been burned by trendy restaurants before.
The service was terrible... but then again, the service is always terrible. If I wanted to be diplomatic I would say its because they were busy and understaffed. Every other time I've been here they have been busy and understaffed. However... this time half the tables were empty.
Would I eat here again? Never.
Would I drink here? Maybe.
But it will probably be a long while the next time I do either.
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