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| - The Fine Diner was featured on the Food Network's "You Gotta Eat Here!" - Season 3, Episode 16 that was aired on July 4th, 2014.
The Fine Diner is a refreshing new school diner that is located in old school Inglewood.
After reading great reviews and seeing it on You Gotta Eat Here! My girlfriend and I decided to check the place out. Getting to The Fine Diner was really simple and parking was easy to find but then things started to go down hill from there.
We went at 6:45pm on a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon. We were greeted right away and was seated, our hostess/server gave us the menu and ask if we wanted to drink. After coming back with water we told her we just need a few minutes since it was our first time. We figured out what we wanted but the hostess/server was no where to be found so we waited, 15 minutes later the hostess/server came back and took our order then took other customers orders as well. We were patiently waiting and talking then to our surprise we saw a group of unhappy customers walked out and thought "wow is it going to be slow?" 15 minutes gone by and we didn't receive our food. We looked at each other and said that we'll give them a chance. 10 minutes went by and still nothing not even an update from the hostess/server on the delay. At 7:28pm we decided to walk out if the food didn't come at 7:30 but then the food starting coming out, first our table then the next two and surprisingly the other group also waited nearly half an hour for their order. The hostess/server didn't apologize for the delay, she just placed our food then left the dining floor.
My girlfriend ordered the Bistro Chicken and I ordered the Pomegranate Duck. The plating was great so we dug in to try the first few bites. We both agreed that our dish was really salty. Her chicken wasn't marinated or sauced and was completely dry, the fries on the other hand was really salty. My duck was seasoned to perfection but the Brussel Sprouts were kind of burnt and too crispy, even my roasted potatoes was really salty. It was really hard to finish our dish without constantly asking for water to wash down the salt. From the looks of it they didn't use the basic standard salt but sea salt instead and there was lots of it. We would send it back but we're not going to wait another 30 minutes just for them to fix the mistake.
When the hostess/server collected our plates she asked if we either want dessert or the bill. Talk about being pushy. We already had a bad experience we don't need a pushy server to make it worst. We paid the bill but didn't tip and went on our way. Sorry I'm not tipping if my experience was bad.
We were really disappointed with our experience. Even though The Fine Diner was featured on national television I believe they should offer the same service even if they're not on camera.
Unfortunately this review lost 3 stars because of lack of efficient service, not updating about the delay, and the food was very salty. This review would have lost another star if we walked out but we did end up getting our food after nearly half an hour.
Would I recommend The Fine Diner? No. Would I visit the restaurant in the near future? No, not unless we don't have to wait 15 minutes to get our order and another 30 minutes to get our food.
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