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| - I've had mixed experiences with Bar 145. Some good, some bad. This was my email to Bar 145 after an evening there on Aug 6th 2014. I've not received any kind of reply regarding my email, so I'll just assume that they took it for what it was worth and ignored it.
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It first started when we walked in and the hostess told us it would be a 30 minute wait. OK. I'm cool with that, even though there are a bunch of tables that are open and clean, with no one sitting at them. I gave her my cell number and waited outside. 30 minutes later, I go and check on our seating status. Now there's a 20 minute wait for a table. OK. I'm frustrated, but not to the point where I'm not going to wait for the burger I craved. Almost 20 minutes pass, my fiancée is getting anxious, hungry and thirsty. She goes in. The hostess tells her it will be another 20 minutes!
At this point I'm really irritated. If I was told upfront that I was going to have to wait an hour and 10 minutes, starting at 7:00PM, to get a table on a Wednesday night, I would have gone somewhere else from the beginning.
We get a phone call about 10 minutes after my fiancée had talked to the hostess. Hostess takes us over to a table. It's dirty. She grabs a rag and wipes it off. So we're an hour in, and we're hungry and tired of waiting. Waitress comes over, takes our drink order, and returns with them fairly promptly. Good. We finally feel like we're going to be able to salvage the night with a nice juicy burger.
Waitress comes back after a bit, grabs the Build-a-Burger sheets, takes my fiancée's order for a drink, and puts them into the computer. Now the waiting game starts. 5,10,15 minutes pass... No drink. No waitress. She's so busy handling her 6-8 other tables she doesn't even come check on us. Finally my fiancée flags her down. Waitress apologizes and explains that the bar printer went offline for a bit and the drink may have gotten lost in the shuffle. OK. 5 minutes later, we have a martini on the table.
More waiting. Lots of watching the 4 members of the kitchen staff struggle to keep up with the incoming tidal wave of burger orders. About a half hour later we have food, roughly 40 minutes after we placed our order. Her burger was supposed to be "145" and its more like medium well. Mine was supposed to be rare, and boy was it. I'm less upset about mine, as "rare" can be interpreted a few different ways, but I was a bit upset over her's being so cooked through. She likes her burgers like mine, just a little less rare. Waitress comes back to see how things turned out. I say "OK", and she says "Great!" and walks away before I can even say another word about my fiancée's over cooked burger. Yada yada yada, bill took to long to get because waitress is running 14 credits cards for 2 different tables, waiting to get my card back, card in hand, bill signed, now it's 10PM, 3 hours later, and all we really wanted was a decent burger that we didn't have to make at home.
I get it. It's $5 burger/martini night. It's going to draw a crowd and be super busy. I have been to Bar 145 during other Weds evenings, in fact that was the first and only other time we've been there. We had a party of 4, and I don't remember it being that ridiculously slow.
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It continues on a bit, but our experience was captured above. We'll probably go back, but not anytime too soon.
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