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| - We hadn't been here in a long time, but went for dinner last Sunday. The menu is different from the way it was. My husband was disappointed to see that his favorite chicken dish was no longer on the menu, which seems to have fewer entrees and more sandwich choices than before.
I was happy to see that the Sunday special was a salad with shrimp and mango, with banana bread croutons, with a "lemony vinaigrette." It was supposed to be served over field greens, but the waiter said it was no problem to change that to romaine. So far, so good.
My salad was served with the dressing on the side, the way I'd asked. But when I started to dig in, I realized that it was also in the salad! The waiter said it was the kitchen's mistake, but who knows? I didn't want to wait for another, since we'd waited a long time to be served, so I kept it. I shouldn't have. The shrimp were totally overcooked and dried out. The mango was completely unripe. And I was halfway through before I realized that the kitchen left off the banana bread croutons, too. What should have been delicious was a total abomination.
Hubby ordered Chicken Picatta, and he liked it a lot.
It was hubby's birthday (which we'll celebrate in a bigger way next week), so on my way to the ladies' room I asked the waiter to bring him their special dessert at the end: vanilla ice cream with dark chocolate syrup, and banana bread biscotti. Mmmm, it sounded good, and they brought it out with a birthday candle ablaze. I sampled it and realized that those biscotti were probably the basis of the missing croutons, and I wasn't missing anything! They were inedible. I was already home when I realized that the dark chocolate syrup had been left out, too!
They comped us on the dessert, so I really shouldn't complain, but somebody needs to be drug-testing the kitchen staff. Just too many lapses for comfort. If it weren't for the decent service and my husband's enjoyment of his meal, I wouldn't have given this the rating I did.
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