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| - NEVER AGAIN.
I went here for a friend's birthday, and we were a party of 9, so I can understand some difficulty there, but our group has been used to fine dining establishments and knowing myself, I always try to save the waitstaff the stress of tending to a large party.
Believe me, I've waited on large parties before- our group wasn't difficult. A couple with a baby is already difficult, but we are all adults here.
Let me skip over the decor because I should've regretted the moment that I entertained the thought of dining with cars next to me. I don't care if they're Murcielagos- the service and the food was still horrendous.
Believe me, I wouldn't skip over the good parts if there were any but to tell you the truth, there were none. Maybe the hostess- she was pretty.
But the food was nothing special. I didn't get an appetizer because I didn't feel like it, so I got a dish with clams. They were undercooked. The server kept telling me they were cooked, and I told him to taste it because it was cold inside. Just because they are open, according to popular belief, doesn't mean they are cooked. That just means they're dead because the muscle holding it open isn't functioning anymore.
So then I ordered a fettuccine dish. They came out with ravioli instead. That was the second mistake they made on my dish. My friends ordered a ravioli dish, and there was only 5 pieces. Waste of money.
The servers and bussers were inattentive, and they seem to be all hired through friends and hook-ups. This is alright- it makes sense to managers to hire people who they trust, but it seems that the staff has gotten too comfortable.
I didn't leave a tip- I never leave a tip at establishments where the staff or the chefs/cooks themselves make crucial mistakes. Maybe it was just a bad evening there, considering there are quite a few good reviews on this place.
But anyways, I went to the giftshop upstairs after dinner and got myself a bottle of Fiji to flush down the salmonella-ridden pasta.. if you call it pasta. Best $4 I spent that evening, even though it was on overpriced water.
Eat at Lavo instead- the food there is a tad better and there's actually well-trained servers there.
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