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| - I am sorry. I have never written a review like this before, but feel I need to now. This was the absolute worst dining experience I have had in many years (and I eat out several times a week.)
Arrived at 10pm and were told before anything else, the kitchen closes at 10:30, okay fair enough. So we quickly order drinks, appetizers and entrees.
I was driving, so I asked for s Coke. Not a flat Coke like I received, but a regular Coke. My wife ordered a pomegranate Cosmo, but what she got was basically a couple shots of "well liquor" with a drop of juice. It was completely in drinkable. Vodka is actually my favorite liquor and I could not take more than a sip of this turpentine. I mean, it was the absolute worst drink I have ever had.
Next, our entrees arrived, (notice there is no mention of our appetizers yet.) I had ordered a "slow cooked shredded pork" meal, but what I got was a big chunk of pork that I needed to saw through. The flavor was nice, but it was not slow cooked or shredded.
After a while, our server was walking up to random tables with our appetizers asking if they had ordered them. Eventually she made it to our table and we just accepted them. I ordered a "puréed" chipotle chicken soup (which sounded amazing on the menu.). What I got was a tomato paste with chunks of chicken so big, I had to cut them with a knife and fork.
When the meal was through (with very little actually eaten) we asked for the check. We were told ONLY THEN, that they could only accept cash OR would have to WRITE our credit card information on a piece of paper to have processed later. Now look, I have been in the financial industry for over twenty years, (15 of which was credit card specifically,) I understand the likelihood of my number getting out is basically non existent and I am fully aware of the zero fraud liability policies of banks, so I don't care if they publish my account on the Internet (which obviously they wouldn't.)
The problem I have is, they waited until the end of the meal when we had no other choice. It was a poor decision made to avoid losing business. In my opinion, it was nothing less then deceitful.
Lastly, as we were leaving the restaurant, we saw how filthy it actually was. The floor of the dining room obviously have not been vacuumed at all that night and in the middle of the vestibule, there was a pile of dirt, a dust pan and a broom that looked like it was just let drop there. What was missing, was someone actually cleaning. We have no idea how long these things had been sitting there, but it was filthy.
In short, I will absolutely never return to this establishment and consider it an embarrassment to First and Main in Hudson.
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