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| - Yeahhhhh, so not the best first impression I've had. After all the good things I've heard about Mildred's Temple kitchen, my recent visit wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
First things first, I had a glass of water poured over me, and despite an apologetic server and an EMPTY DINING ROOM, she didn't even offer to move me somewhere not wet, I spent a good ten minutes drying myself off. The final offer? A free pitcher of water for the table. (Mildred's charges for water, btw) Not a stellar start.
Once my friends arrived, we decided to start off with drinks and appetizers before deciding if we wanted meals. Our food all came at different times. And I don't mean 5 minutes, I mean, two of us got stuff within 15-20 minutes and another came after being there for 40 minutes. We weren't warned that the gnocchi poutine would take so long, and it was especially interesting as the restaurant was very quiet.
We complained to the server about this and she politely blew us off and disappeared in the back. I think she was embarrassed because of the water spill because she was very nervous around us and avoided our table during rounds. When we received our bill and waited to pay, we stuck around for 20 minutes for change. She didn't emerge and the other servers wouldn't come to our end. We ended up just leaving our nominal tip, not willing to spend any more time there.
The food was ok, but the service, abysmal. I've had much more serious issues at restaurants before which resulted in fantastic customer service afterwards but for something this bad out the gate to worse? A bit of a concern.
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