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| - I went to Marben for dinner last night with a group of 11. The group was great, but the restaurant was really... 'just okay'.
The restaurant itself is lovely and the patio is spacious. I have nothing negative to say about our server, except... we were presented with the option to tip 20% on top of our group auto-gratuity that was already incorporated into our bill. I know why restaurants do this... They do it on the chance that guests forget about the auto-grat. Seriously? Am I really going to want to tip almost 40% on my meal? That's ridiculous and VERY presumptuous. A lot of restaurants do this, not just Marben, but i always think it's incredibly devious and rude. So, that was a bit annoying, but likely not our servers fault.
Apart from that, the food was okay. The menu was different from the menu on the website, so they didn't have the dish that I was looking forward to eating, which is totally fine, but leads me to the point in the evening where I rate Marben low... The menu lacked a range of options. So much so that it took a couple of us a solid 20 minutes to figure out what we were going to eat. There was nothing that seemed overly appetizing to us, which i think is a big problem for a restaurant. And especially because it isn't a low-cost restaurant. So, if I'm paying a lot of money for a menu option that I wasn't looking forward to eating, then...
I will never go to Marben on my own accord, but it's not 'bad'.
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