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| - **Disaster city! Nothing like the original in Friendship. RUN AWAY if Danielle is your waitress**
We waltz in post-theater, maybe 4 tables and as many waitresses. Seated, drink order given.
Now everything becomes like the Odyssey.
Drinks don't materialize for 10 minutes. Our order is taken at this time -- and cups of soup don't appear for another 15 minutes, delivered one at a time by the host, not our waitress. Luke warm, no doubt ignored by our incompetent waitress Danielle
Continued apologies, and now the place begins to fill up post-theater.
Danielle is continually appalled - she is sure to inform us - that people in the theater district came to said restaurant in the theater district.
It appears Jackie is literally delivering Danielle's food and filling her customers' water glasses.
After consuming our food (tasty wild boar, quinoa stacked salad missing the key eggplant stack) we again wait for more than 10 minutes. Again, Danielle is nowhere to be found and Jackie asks us if we're okay.
We leave cash on the table and bounce, after okaying it with a staffer.
Danielle CHASES US DOWN THE STREET, as we miscalculated the bill (my bad!).
Manager is sought, hears our tale, hands us back our cash and comps the entire check. Bizarrely, he apologies for being understaffed and unprepared for a theater crowd.
Long story short, Jackie will probably begin working for another (read: any other) theater square restaurant. The Sharp Edge Downtown staff will continue to be shocked people in the theater district want to eat before and after the theater. And the sun will rise in the east.
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