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| - Horrible. We chose this country club restaurant based on the map showing it was located on Riggs Road, were looking for an early lunch before a meeting yesterday. We followed the map but found no restaurant, instead gates monitored by security guard. After registering, we followed a winding road with poor/non-existent signage fairly deep into the country club grounds until we arrived at the clubhouse, which contains the restaurant (interior signage only).
We sat a few minutes before noon in a mostly empty restaurant, maybe three other tables occupied. Waited 10 minutes for a server to take our drink and lunch order. Server was helpful and pleasant and apologized for the wait.
I ordered salad and an appetizer, companion ordered blackened mahi mahi sandwich. Then we enjoyed the view from our booth....for nearly 50 minutes. In the interim, we saw our server once, when she brought a new refill for my companion and refilled my glass with water (except I wasn't drinking water...club soda).
When our food arrived, mine was great. My companion's asparagus fries, which he ordered with his sandwich, were delicious. But he received no sandwich. On his plate were three soft tacos filled with white fish of some type that had been coated in reddish seasoning, and topped with some type of thousand-island-colored sauce. The rest of the plate was bare. We knew this wasn't what he'd ordered but because of our meeting coming up imminently, we just started scarfing it down.
As we finished, maybe five minutes later (now a few minutes past noon), the restaurant was still empty but a small trickle of guests was beginning to arrive. We looked around for our server, to no avail. Several minutes later she appeared behind the bar, so my companion walked up to request our check and a box for the remaining food I hadn't had time to eat.
Our server came back to the table with the check, but forgot the box, left again, and finally came back with it.
Terrible service. Took about an hour and 20 minutes for a simple lunch in an empty restaurant. But that's not the worst part.
This morning, I heard from my lunch companion that several hours later, he began to feel sick. Skipped dinner last night bc he was nauseated and had indigestion. Overnight, he was sick from both ends, and today, he's home from work bc he can't keep anything inside.
I can't say for sure that his mystery fish tacos were the culprit, but the experience was bad enough for me not to take the chance again. Map misrepresentation, shoddy service, not at all a customer-friendly experience. Wish we'd gone somewhere else.
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