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| - My wife and I had a Groupon to this place. We were pretty excited about an outing here for dinner on a Saturday night. I checked out the menu and had high hopes because this appeared to be a classic French brasserie.
We were greeted by our very cheerful waitress. She warned us up front that it's "team service" so if we couldn't find her, to be sure to flag down one of the others from the wait staff and it would be no problem to get what we might need. Unfortunately, it went all downhill from here.
We started with the rabbit rillettes ($11). The rabbit meat was tender but watery and tasteless. There were capers and some watery sliced black olives on the side. I just didn't get this dish.
After that, there was an ENORMOUS wait for our entrees. I nursed my glass of wine waiting for our entrees. My wife ordered the Bouillabaisse ($27) and I ordered the Steak Frites ($30). From what we could gather, the table next to us did not like one of their entrees. The person next to us re-ordered a Bouillabaisse. We suspect that my wife's order was given to the table next to us by accident as her entree came back pretty fast after the re-order. Oh well.
During this waiting game for our entrees, nearly every single waiter was missing in action. If they did come out to the dining room, they didn't make eye contact with us or pretended not to hear us call for some help. Not a good sign.
Then, I overheard some ruckus between the owner or general manager raising his voice to one of the busboys. He ordered him to take off his bow tie and just go home. Our waitress told us it was her favorite busboy that was fired right in the middle of our dinner service as well as someone else. Therefore, even longer wait...
Finally, both entrees arrived. My wife was pleased with hers for the most part. She was needing a spoon to get at the broth in her dish. After so very many attempts to get a spoon (someone in the back got fired so we can assume it was a dishwasher), it finally arrived as we were wanting to leave.
As for my entree ... the frites were good. The steak was horrible. I ordered it medium. Well, it came out charred on the outside and raw in some spots. It was a very cheap piece of meat and it was absolutely prepared by someone who I assume was drafted to serve in the kitchen. There is no way a professional cook cooked my steak.
The good news: we had a Groupon. For some reason, not having to pay full price took a little of the sting out of this dining experience. I think mangling the classics like rillettes and Steak Frites are totally unforgivable when trying to pass off as a French brasserie.
More good news: besides dinner, we were treated to a show with all the drama in the dining room.
Even more good news: we won't be wasting anymore money here.
Stay away.
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