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| - I think our waiter described it best when he called this evening's meal "a disaster."
We were seated slightly early for our 7pm reservation, but that's where the good restaurant karma stopped. Our salads didn't come until past 7.30--apparently the salad chef was really backed up. In all that time, no bread (or explanation) was offered. Finally my diabetic grandfather had to ask for a bread basket. The salad was delivered without dressing (which took an additional five minutes to get), anchovies (which never came at all), and with different ingredients than what we'd been promised (including blue cheese, which makes me sick).
Our steaks didn't come until 8.10, and the French fries we'd ordered didn't make it for another 10 minutes. The steaks were good, although mine was medium at one end, medium rare in the middle, and rare at the other end. A problem with the grill, perhaps? For whatever reasom, it was upsetting in an expensive filet.
Our waiter clearly felt bad, and tried to make it up to us with two free deserts that we didn't want and my grandfather couldn't eat. Also, neither the cheesecake nor the carrot cake were all that good. In spite of our waiter's insistence that the kitchen was at fault, it wasn't just the kitchen--in the two hours we were sitting there, no one offered us refills on water, and I was brought a regular soda instead of diet.
My grandmother said that if this was her first time here, she wouldn't go back. It *was* my first time, and I *won't* be back.
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