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| - My overall assessment of RnR is of a typical overpriced Old Town party place with the attendant spotty service.
We wanted to plan a brunch for 10-12 people on a Sunday morning, so I called RnR a couple days before. The automated phone menu said to press "2" for a reservation, so I did. The girl who answered told me that they didn't take reservations, yet when I said that their recording said they did, she stated that was just for the evening. When I asked if she had any suggestions for a large party for brunch, she said to just "show up." Ok, whatever. We showed up before they got too packed, and got a seat up on the upper balcony, which was actually very pretty. Not very mellow though, because a DJ was spinning tracks right below us, and the speakers were on full blast throughout the restaurant (which is fine, I think I'm just getting old and crotchety in my mid-20s).
The $15 bottomless mimosa/bloody mary with an entree is an ok deal, although whatever you do, do NOT order a single mimosa--it cost $8.50 for a measly little champagne flute of mimosa, which is ridiculous. The bottomless mimosa is a good deal only if your server and the busboys are on top of things, which ours weren't. We had to keep hounding them for refills, which makes trying to enjoy the bottomless deal really annoying. A place like Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers has a better mimosa deal, IMO--$10 for the first and $1 for each thereafter, and they're served in a big glass mug.
The food wasn't anything special (my grilled cheese was ok, and the pulled pork breakfast hash was rather dry), but the one standout was the fact that they serve brussels sprouts as a side--I had the bacon brussels sprouts, which were delicious--the one thing that would be 5 stars.
Our server was awful. My order came out the first time as a "grilled chicken sandwich." He got me my original order rather quickly (after assuring me that my ticket would be moved to the front of the line--I kind of assumed it would be, but that's nice to know, I guess), and his apology included the comment that "it happens all the time." As loud as it was, I can understand that occasional issues may happen like that ("grilled ch---" could go either way), but one would think that they would have figured out a solution, rather than that continuing to happen "all the time." He also visited three of his tables (right next to us) on several occasions three to four times while studiously avoiding eye contact with us before coming to our table even once. Each time he finally came to our table, he would apologize because "all his other tables are crazy," which just makes it seem like he can't do his job (and isn't incumbent on us to accommodate as similarly paying customers).
In short, RnR is definitely the place to be on a Sunday morning for those who want to keep the Saturday night party going. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, except to not expect this as the place to go for a conversation-laden brunch. If you are wanting to keep the party going, and don't care about how much it's going to cost to get drunk/the quality of the food once you get drunk, then it's totally worth it. Otherwise, you can find me in a laid-back bar with a good beer selection, muttering about "kids these days."
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