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| - My husband and I went to the Miller for dinner on a Saturday night. We should have known things weren't going to go well, when we were sniffingly asked at the door if we had a reservation - this was quite comical considering the restaurant was maybe half full. It stayed that way the entire time we were there, so it wasn't like they were doing us some big favour to find a table. We wanted to sit downstairs as we knew that the upstairs was less causal.
The prices were very high and more on a par with a top notch downtown restaurant; they are certainly not reflective of the food or service at the Miller. To call our server lifeless, is being kind. She was so disengaged, and lacking in personality that it was unbelieveable. I don't believe she ever came close to smiling or appearing welcoming. Definitely someone who doesn't like her job. And, we rarely saw her, as each piece of the meal seems to be delivered by someone else.
We ordered the Prime rib dinner for 2. At $56 for 2 it was actually the cheapest thing on the menu other than the ravioli. The meal included a choice of soup or Caesar salad. My husband ordered the soup which was tomato avocado and I had the caesar salad. Although the server didn't tell us that the soup was spicy, it was so heavy on chili that his mouth was burning. As for the Caesar salad, this may have been the first time I didn't finish one. I love Caesar salad and I love garlic, but this one had so much garlic in it, that as I continued it became close to inedible. No one checked with us while we were eating to see if things were okay. I did tell the server about the salad when she eventually reappeared, but I didn't want anything else.
The main course consisted of a serving of luke warm mashed potatoes on our individual (cold) plates, and a platter on which there was a massive slab of roast beef, some green beans and carrot coins, 2 Yorkshire puddings and 2 little jugs of gravy. First of all, the entire meal was cold. The gravy had actually started to congeal. The server had told us in advance that the beef is served medium rare, which was fine, because we usually order meat rare to medium rare. This meat wasn't even rare. It was bluer than blue! In fact, it was raw. I tried one piece of meat and actually choked to the point of needing assistance. It was so undercooked that it was impossible to swallow. The Yorkshire puddings had been sitting for so long that they were rubbery.
Again, no one checked with us to see if things were okay, so my husband went to find the server. We showed her the meat and she immedately agreed it was undercooked and took the whole thing away. The replacement meal was much smaller (smaller piece of meat and far fewer vegetables) but at least it was cooked and hot. The beef was average in taste and extremely fatty. The Yorkshire puddings were dense. The veggies and mashed potatoes were good.
Although we weren't expecting it, and it is not necessary, most restaurants make some kind of a goodwill gesture, when they know there has been a problem with the food - a drink, a dessert, something. Not the Miller - nada. We decided to go somewhere else for coffee and dessert since our meal had been so underwhelming. We won't be back. At these prices, there are lots of far superior restaurants around.
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