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| - We went for dinner on Sunday evening. The restaurant was not crowded, and it was Memorial Day weekend, so perhaps everyone was traveling. I've been going to Avanti for thirty years and always had a good experience. This is the first time that I was so utterly unimpressed and even commented that I would not be returning. Not only was the food mediocre but the service was impudent at best.
Our waiter asked if we wanted drinks. I asked for a listing of wines by the glass, and he basically refused to give me a written listing. He asked whether I wanted red or white, and I said red. My friend said she preferred a red zinfandel and asked if they had zinfandel. I said I would like to know something about the wine I was ordering, and the waiter said they had a good Rombauer in both cabernet and zinfandel and described it in glowing terms, adding that they also had house wine. He mentioned $8 and we thought he was talking about the Rombauer. We ordered the Rombauer - one cab and one zin. When we got the bills, the wine was $18, so we asked if he had billed us for two glasses. No, he said, the Rombauer was $18 a glass. I said "you didn't tell us that" and he said he was sure he had.... Well, we looked at the wine list by the glass on the way out of the restaurant. The Rombauer wasn't even listed, and they had no wines by the glass for more than $15. We felt the whole thing was a rip-off and will not be returning.
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