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| - Let me start by saying, I liked this place very much. I've been to the market; although a limited selection and somewhat pricy, I have enjoyed what I purchased. I like where they are trying to go with the concept of this place, but the delivery is severely lacking.
I went to their "movie in the meadows" event last night to watch Elf with a couple of friends and this review is specifically for that experience.
No food trucks as advertised, but they were serving their own food which was their ultimate undoing. We jumped in line 45 minutes before the movie was supposed to start thinking that would be plenty of time. Spoiler: it was not. The wait to order and receive food ended up being over 1.5 hours. They started the movie while many customers were still waiting on their food that was ordered so we all ended up missing half of the movie.
My friends and l all ordered the tri-tip grilled cheese and tomato soup. We watched the grilled cheese sit on the griddle for like 25 minutes. It's almost un-American to not know that grilled cheese takes around 5 minutes to make. We also watched one of the cooks put a sheet pan on the floor and then use it to cover our sandwiches to melt the cheese. All of our sandwiches were burned to hell and mine did not have any tri-tip at all. It was so overcooked, the bread just crumbled like bitter dust. The chimichurri on the side was also very weird tasting. They were sold out of hot apple cider, among several other items. The soup was ok, but extremely hot and burned my mouth. Clearly, that one was my fault.
They were charging $20 for bean bag rentals which is just nuts. I saw one at Target selling for $15.
I don't even think they did the ugly sweater competition, but I could have missed that while waiting for food.
They need far better kitchen management before trying to pursue this type of event again. If you didn't get food, this might have been an ok experience, but that totally spoiled the night for us.
I don't mean to be cheap about it, but honestly, I feel like my friends and I should be refunded $54 ($24 for 3 tri-tip grilled cheese & $30 for 3 Groupon movie tickets).
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