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| - Something must have changed here. This was one of the worst dining experiences ever.
We should have been forewarned by the lack of a dinner menu. We should have been wary when we were the only patrons on a Friday night. A caution flag should have gone up when the tea list bore no relationship to the inventory and when we saw the badly spotted glassware and cutlery.
But we plowed on, lulled by the offer of a free bowl of spinach soup, which I admit was fine and held me over for the 45 minutes (!!!) or so it took for our pizza and crepe to be prepared. (Did I mention we were the only ones?) We were warned that there was an order ahead of us...
We really should have been ticked off when -- after all that time -- the wrong kind of crepe was served. The waiter did remove my burned ham and cheese crepe (along with the fork, that was never replaced). He replaced it with a spinach and cheese crepe that contained a few baby spinach leaves and about a block of cream cheese (!?!?). It was only possible to eat half without the arteries blocking up immediately.
The piece de resistance was the pizza, though. The waiter -- who by this time was perspiring profusely, obviously working the stove with no hair net or gloves -- admitted to some "technical difficulties." The pizza had shrimp, but he warned that he couldn't get all of the shell off. That was an unfair statement. He hadn't removed ANY of the shell. I think they were working with shrimp that weren't properly defrosted. What's more, the dough was half raw!!! My companion and I made it through a slice each and gave up. We were never asked if there was a problem, because we were never checked on. As a friend noted, "It is very difficult to #%!¥ up a pizza!"
Even when it was apparent that we had barely touched our meals, there was more attention paid to fumbling with the point of sale terminal. (It seems Amex is not accepted, but the two staff members assisting us didn't know that.)
I had my cream cheese in a pancake boxed, but the waiter dropped the box on its side, so it's in pretty sad shape.
There must have been a change of hands since the glowing reviews. A durable power of attorney posted prominently at the checkout counter and the terrible food and service indicate as much.
I won't be visiting again, but the Board of Health might be advised to do so.
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