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| - Food is actually a 4 out of 5, but the manager/co-owner (will use the term manager further) is the reason I will not return again.
Went for lunch as a group in late October on a Monday, and since my first choice (Jonathans) is closed for lunch, we end up at Seasons. I asked the manager for a listing of wines by the glass, seemingly an easy and reasonable request. Most people like to know what wine they are choosing and what it costs. The response was "we gottta Cabernet, an Italian, a ...". OK, not the way I like to consider my wines, but my business partner and I go along with it and order glasses of Cabernet. He comes back with a bottle of very marginal Cab (Bogle) with the cork stuck back in. I ask him when the bottle was opened, and he tells me it was yesterday. If I have lost you on the significance of this last part, just go on to the next review, but if you are with me, you will also be annoyed that the manager is trying to sell me yesterday's fully oxidized and crappy tasting wine. When I tell the manager that consuming yesterday's opened wine is not something we are prepared to do, he give me a "ooh then we'll make sure to get you a freshly opened bottle of wine" with a smartass smirk on his face. I tell him that his attitude is condescending and inappropriate and he gets more professional and realizes that I am not too happy. He brought out a bottle of a decent cab and it was fine.
The food itself was good, but the experience with the manager was really disappointing. I will not return to this restaurant and continue to direct our sizable business related meal spend to Jonathans, which would never try a stunt like the manager here did. Your actions do have consequences.
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