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| - I'm from the area where Players is located and actually used to frequent the pizza joint which preceded it, when I was a child. I've been there a couple of times as an adult visiting family in the area. It's a nice place for a slightly fancy dinner or evening out without having to drive too far. On my most recent visit, we wanted to check out the patio for the first time and have some food that was light and decent and a cut above the usual sandwiches and bar food around Lakewood. We got there early enough to snag a table on the patio, which was very nice as it was a nice day out and most of the rest of the restaurant is very dark and away from windows, so almost all the diners were eating on the patio.
The menu is pretty extensive and our server was helpful in describing all the food and the daily specials. I think they may have been short staffed because it was early in the evening, as there was a bit of a wait for service, but the server was pleasant and enthusiastic when she did come around. At some point another restaurant employee who I think was the seating hostess was helping patrol the tables probably to take up the slack and was a little overzealous in that she wanted to take my plate while I was still eating - I didn't let her because the food was good.
The biggest minus to our meal was that someone at the next patio table, fairly close to ours, who also seemed to be a regular diner as he seemed familiar to the staff and was kind of showing off his knowledge of the food to his dining companions, decided to light up a CIGAR on the patio in the middle of his, and our, meals. I understand that a lot of people are perturbed by the smoking bans but this is a nice restaurant and I don't expect people to be smoking with their food. Maybe after dinner, but like I said, he and his table were about midway through their meal. A large amount of cigar smoke proceeded to waft in our direction getting right in my mom's face. The restaurant needs to make clear that the patio is for smokers, if indeed that is the point of having it, since I didn't see anybody else smoking and like I said I wouldn't have expected that around fine food.
The portions of some of the food, especially the Make-your-own Pasta, are VERY generous, way more than I could eat at one meal especially since we had appetizers (also very good) first. I asked for a take-home container and I actually got three meals out of the pasta, which was very fresh and good. By contrast, when we ordered two desserts to go (as I had another appointment I had to get to), I was a little surprised at how tiny they were. I'm not a fan of the ginormous slices of pie you get at chain restaurants, but given that my bowl of pasta was huge I was expecting my creme brulee to be bigger than a couple inches across, and maybe be accompanies by a little fruit rather than just sort of thrown in a clear takeout box upside down.
Overall, I'd go back to Players but I'm definitely going to ask them to clarify their smoking policy before we sit on the patio again.
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