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| - I was looking for a nice relaxing lunch on a Monday after I had worked many straight days in a very busy fine dining resort restaurant. First time dining here, and sadly, the last. We tried the house salad, the hummus, the golden rice grits, the bread, and the veggie wrap. I had previously thought that Gertrude's was a veggie friendly concept, but no. The house salad was served wet with water and a flavorless dressing. If you charge $4 for bread, it should at least be served warm. The butter was also flavorless. The hummus was good, especially the cauliflower because it at least had flavor. The golden rice grits were below average, again, would using a little salt and pepper kill the chef??? And why balsamic on everything? Made the dish worse, not better. Another annoying detail, no salt and pepper on the table. My boyfriend's veggie wrap was pretty bad, too. Again, didn't taste like anything!
The service was ok, but it's essential for a busy restaurant to have support staff. There are no bussers and no food runners. So if you need your server, they are probably too busy running someone else's food. With the prices they charge this is unacceptable.
So if the ambiance is what you're looking for, well, it's beautiful, we had a great table by the fountain, but the peace was constantly interrupted by the manager moving umbrellas with heavy metal bases. So all I could hear was scrape, scrape, scrape the entire lunch. So even with one entree comped because it was barely eaten, and 2 glasses of wine, our unpleasant, barely edible lunch was still over $70. I hate being taken! I work with really talented cooks, and they would never put food out like this. The chef clearly has no palate! Well, they are busy with the captive clientele that visit the gardens. What a disappointment. All I can say is, tourist trap.
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