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| - Let me just say, the food was fantastic. The oysters were so fresh; even the NC ones that were $2...not very gamey, the corn fritters were great. Everything about the place and their menu is top notch and great eats. I'd give it 5 stars alone for that.
But the service we experienced last night was garbage. Absolute garbage. I'll do bullet points to save on the fluff:
- As a party of 7, a couple of people in our group only managed to get one drink ordered (alcohol), and the rest of the time we had to flag the guy down to get more after patiently waiting since it was starting to get crowded.
- When we did manage to get his attention after waiting for long enough, he directly told our table "wait a minute", in a rude and gruff voice and didn't even stop to explain it, cutting me off when I was trying to explain myself.
- He was waiting on people at the bar in an area that's clearly run by the bartender.
- He was more fixated and chatting up the table next to ours, which coincidentally happened to be all women.
- Multiple times, when I was sitting out menus for my friends to join me, he'd deliberately come back and put them back in between the salt and pepper shaker. Not once. MULTIPLE times.
There was nothing inviting about him, we had to wait forever to order more drinks, and when we couldn't, and tried to politely get his attention, he'd brush us off without so much as a word out of our mouths. I don't ever make a scene in a restaurant or ask for a manager, but the service was literally so bad I almost went to the manager and had them deduct our automatic gratuity. I don't know if he was just in a bad mood, or if he thought that because his tip was going to be automatically included that he could just get away with doing a pretty poor job...but that kind of attitude needs to be left at the door, not at work where you're trying to make people feel welcome.
So kudos to Sea Level for the amazing cuisine and super fresh oysters, but if I were to go back, I'd turn around and walk out if I saw the same guy working.
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