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| - went here for a work lunch today. i hadn't been here in years, and never in the daytime before. the first thing i noticed was the smell.
my god!
decades of spilled beer wafting out of the carpets, not to mention the smell of stale cigarette smoke, which is pretty disturbing considering how many years it is since smoking was banned in bars... blecch.
anyway we sat on the patio, thank goodness, so the smell wasn't overwhelming. but the service was terrible. there were 9 of us, so i can see it taking a bit longer, but we waited an hour for burgers, fish & chips, chicken fingers, & a salad. not rocket science, and the place was empty (in hindsight, i know why). also, 3 orders were wrong.
i actually felt bad for the guy who took our orders, a middle-aged australian guy, since he seemed to be surrounded by idiots, and after a young guy brought out the wrong things, spent some time explaining to him how to enter orders into the system. eventually 2 sort of managerial-looking older people came out and got 5 of the meals sorted, leaving a 6th on a separate table. then they brought 2 of the missing meals, apologized to 1 of the lunchless people, and left the other lunchless person's meal on the other table till we noticed it and fetched it for ourselves.
the food was not great, especially the fish & chips, which two people ordered and neither finished as they were "overcooked to the point of being crunchy."
and now i feel sick. total fail!
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