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| - The Federal, I have given you two chances and, sadly, I will not be back.
I have only been here for brunch and there was about a 15 minute wait each time, but we were happy to wait outside or walk around for a little bit because it's in a cool area. The food was great the first time - we ordered the Steak & Eggs and the Eggs Federal and both dishes were fantastic. My boyfriend and I both ordered Caesars, but were hard pressed to find any alcohol in them.
On our most recent trip, I ordered the Smoked Trout Plate and my boyfriend got the Eggs Federal. Eggs Federal, consistently good, no complaints. Now let's get to the Smoked Trout Plate. Look, I'm not a stickler for presentation, but my order looked like the chef had thrown the food on my plate from the roof. Everything was all over the place and the poached egg that came with it was so sad looking that I had to eat it first just to put it out of its misery. My boyfriend ordered a Hibiscus Shandy which he liked and I gave the Caesar another try and still could not locate any of the vodka I know I had ordered.
And now let's get to the reason I will never come back here. The service. The service is just so, so, so bad. The first time we came here we had a male waiter who never checked in with us and then disappeared for 12 minutes (yes, I was so annoyed that I actually started timing him). We wanted to order another round of drinks, but everything took so long that we didn't want to even bother. On our second trip it was the same story. Everyone/everything took so long. I had my iPhone timer at the ready (you guys, I know I seem like some deranged gym teacher, but I just don't think keeping someone waiting like this is acceptable) and it took, get this, 16 minutes before someone came to take our order. The women sitting next to us ordered well before us and their food came out almost 10 minutes after ours. The other couple situated to our left had been waiting so long for their food to arrive that they just asked the waitress for everything to go because I guess they had other things to do that day and couldn't sit at The Federal for nearly two hours like we did (I'm just not sure if the concept of "turnover" has reached the nice folks at The Federal).
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a jerk from New York and I'm used to restaurants wanting to get me in and out, but I just find this service and the waiting to be completely unacceptable. The staff is either completely oblivious or they just must not care. Look, I gave it two shots (the two shots that I wished they had put in my Caesar), but I will not be coming back.
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