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| - Sorry, Moxie's, but I've eaten better at Harveys.
I went to Moxie's with a great friend of mine and thank goodness for good conversation, because that was the by far the best part of our meal. We went at lunchtime on a weekday and I must admit I should have been alerted that something was amiss by the way the waitstaff and hostesses were dressed. The atmosphere was much more late-night danceclub than daytime lunch crowd. It was almost like the restaurant management was trying to "dazzle" us (um...distract us?) with fancy lighting and tight skirts so we wouldn't notice how overcharged we were being.
We ordered sweet potato fries to start and then salads. The fries were okay - nothing special but nothing bad. It was while we were eating our fries, though, that the waitstaff started their campaign of giving us drink refills. So many refills! It was a little aggressive, actually. Neither of us wanted more than one drink, but every waiter that passed us by offered us a refill. When we said no, they just starting bringing them to the table (which promped us to speculate whether there was something in the coke that they REALLY wanted us to be drinking....)
Our salads came and my friend said hers was good (hence the two stars), but mine was horrible. Salmon that was overcooked and fishy-smelling at the same time, mixed lettuce that included some rotting leaves, mango that had clearly been frozen and then unfrozen so it had a mushy, watery texture, and not much else.
Total bill for two? $57.
Two days ago I stopped at a Harveys with my husband at a roadside stop and the salad I had was fresher and tastier. For $2.
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