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| - Thanks to the fact that the manager and the server himself apologized profusely at the end of our lunch and comped the entire lunch, I'm giving McCormick and Schmick's 3 stars and I would be willing to try them again. We even left a 20 dollar tip on a meal that would have cost ust about 50 bucks.
Backtracking a little bit...
My wife and I met for lunch and we decided to try McCormick's. I ordered the Seafood Macaroni & Cheese, served with scallops and shrimps. My wife went with a couple of appetizers: crab cakes as well as coconut shrimp. For drinks, I opted for the Sweet Tea and my wife got an Arnold Palmer.
5 minutes went by and our server brought us our drinks and some bread.
Another 5 minutes went by and I got my side salad, which was interestingly served in a wonton wrapper shell. Hmmmm....
Next came over 25 minutes of waiting during which we saw several tables go through 2 courses while we didn't get any more food. My wife, frustrated, finally went to talk to the manager and our food appeared an instant later.
The pasta was good but, errr... now it could be something about East coast versus West coast, and I happily posted a picture of the seafood Macaroni & Cheese I was served, but... Well, in the San Francisco Bay Area, we'd call that seafood fettucini with cream sauce. Those were most certainly not Macaroni and, as far as I can tell, there was absolutely no cheese. Well, there might have been a little bit of parmesan in the sauce, I'll concede that much. Still, this sure as hell wasn't Mac & Cheese. It was a tasty dish, and there was a generous portion of properly cooked scallops and shrimp. Still, I'd wanted Mac & Cheese and I felt let down.
The manager came by our table and apologized for the delay and said our meal was comped. All in all, service was impeccable (when they didn't forget about us) but I still cannot give them more than 3 stars since I feel like my dish was big time false advertising.
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