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| - When I see a new restaurant with a 4 star rating, I assume that I must be missing out on a really positive dining experience and make certain to add the restaurant to my 'must try soon' list. On a similar vein, when I see a restaurant with a series of good ratings and 1 or 2 bad ratings, I think that the reviewer that posted the bad ratings might just be too critical or nasty. But after dining here tonite, I think that the positive reviews for Republic probably came from friends or relatives....this place is THAT bad. We started off with 2 glasses of wine that were noticeably under-poured (i.e. 1 followed the other). When we received the second glass, we pointed out that it was under-poured by about 3/4 inch and it was returned to us with only a few additional drops. As far as the food, we probably didn't order to best of menu since this place offers some unique comfort food dishes like fried chicken but we ordered an app (crab cakes), the spinach salad and chopped salad and had to stop there. The crab cakes did not taste fresh at all, as if they had been in the frig for several days (and probably were), the chopped salad was minimal credible in terms of ingredients (iceberg lettuce, chicken, a little egg, tomatoes and bottled creamy dijon dressing) and the spinach salad was bland with wilted, soggy old leaves and dark edges and was barley tossed with any dressing. Our server was disengaged from our experience so we didn't provide him with any feedback but it was interesting to us when another server showed up with a fresh bottle and glass of water at our table to welcome us even though our plates were cleared and we already paid (i.e. wrong table!). I love to cook but also eat out about 2x per week in Vegas, Denver and So Cal and Republic tops my memory in terms of a bad restaurants. I don't feel that there are many really bad restaurants out there but this is one of them. We weren't looking for miracles at this price point but the poor food quality, terrible execution and unprofessional staff hit a remarkable low.
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