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| - Like many other reviewers, I ended up at Taggia because it was located in my hotel - purely a choice of convenience. After attending a conference all day, my friends and I were too wiped out to drive. Drive somewhere else vs. walk to the lobby? Taggia suddenly looked a lot more enticing.
First, it was somewhat disconcerting to be the only customers in the restaurant at 6:30 on a Saturday night. Eventually another family was seated near us, but still... not exactly a sign of great things to come. Second, our waiter was flat-out weird. He clearly had no other tables to tend to, but every time he came to our table it was as if he couldn't wait to get away. He took our appetizer order and started to hurry off before we could order wine; we practically had to shout our order at his retreating back. He was squirrelly and distracted during our entire visit- you would have thought he had twenty other tables had you not seen the perfectly empty restaurant behind him.
The food itself was fine, even good. The calamari was really great; the wine was OK. We each ordered one of the thin-crust pizza - two mushrooms, one prosciutto - and all were good, though we all thought the prosciutto pizza was a little dry (no sauce, no cheese).
The strangest part? When our server asked if we'd like dessert, he nodded at a nearby busboy and said, "Hector's on page 2." When we responded with baffled looks, he explained how that's his standard pitch when offering customers dessert - "want to see the dessert menu? I'm on page 2." Needless to say, we passed on dessert.
Too bad the service was so schizophrenic, because the food wasn't bad at all. Sadly, it just didn't match up to the rest of our experience at the FireSky.
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