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| - I went to Wild Vines with my girlfriends for drinks and dinner in celebration of a girl's night out. When we walked in, there was probably 10 customers and one bartender. We had been greeted by the bartender immediately and water and menus followed 20 Minutes later. We ordered a round of drinks, the cheese platter and hummus appetizer. All items were good, but from that point on the night went south . No one came back for a second round of drinks or anything else until a new server started about 30 minutes later. We finally placed our dinner orders, shrimp skewers , Ahi salads, flat bread , shrimp pasta and chicken kabobs. The Ahi salad was $18.00 and foul in every way; the smell , the wilted lettuce, canned Chinese rice noodle sticks and Kraft bottled dressing; the most disgusting salad I have ever tasted. The shrimp kabobs never came, but some creamy shrimp with a wilted salad came. The flat bread pizza was just thrown on a plate and looked previously prepared. The chicken skewers never made it, one of my friends was so over the crappy service , she was about to go next door to sonic. The pasta; everything was edible but the shrimp. When we sent everything back, the waiter made an excuse that everyone working today was new (including himself) and that they've had nothing but problems with the new chef. The bartender came by and took our plates to show the owner the food that came out, since she has had issues with the new chef as well and wanted him to see for himself. We ordered a grilled cheese and wedge salad to replace the Ahi salad and all I can say it was untouched as well. After we asked to talk to the manager the waiter came back apologized and dropped a round of drinks from our bill to compensate. We weren't expecting more, but felt the owner should know how bad our experience was since it is his restaurant and you want repeat business. It seemed like the owner was hiding, avoiding to talk to us because he took forever to come to our table. The bartender came by and told us she was paying for our dinner on her dime because she felt so bad. We insisted that she bill us for something, so we can tip her, since the situation with the chef was out of her control. She took each of our cards to put $8.00 in so we can each tip at least $10.00 . The Owner finally came to our table and apologized and said that he suggested to pay for the bill (means the bartender lied to us) and appreciated our patience. He gave us is own story about coming in to the restaurant and explained the chain of events that happened that evening. Apparently he had to leave home sick to be come back to the restaurant to handle the upcoming problems. #1 : why would any of you show your dirty laundry and throw your own staff under the bus. #2 why would you be so carefree to not compassionately care about your food, your staff, your service. I've said enough and this review may seem already winded , but I'm curious to see just how long it will take for this business to shut down. I felt like I was being filmed on Kitchen Nightmares. Gordon Ramsey would have a field day with this one. I don't even want to see their kitchen, because I would probably throw up. Bummed that I have to give them one star.
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