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| - I debated a lot about how I wanted to approach this review. Table 45 is touted as a restaurant that has a high attention to detail and delicious offerings, sadly not so much the case. I gave myself time to cool off, the standing eight count if you will, but alas, my disappointment has not waned.
I came with a party of seven for restaurant week last Friday. The reservation portion was a cinch, took care of everything via Open Table (LOVE this site). However, from the moment we walked in it took a turn for the worse. Four of us arrived first and waited at the host stand, not for an inordinate amount of time but long enough that we wondered if we should be seating ourselves. Once the host arrived he was unprepared for our arrival and we had to wait a few more minutes for our table to be made up.
We were seated in a nice, secluded part of the restaurant, a spacious booth off to one side. Once seated however, it was only set for six instead of seven, not a big deal, just stick a place setting and chair on the end of our table. Two other gals arrived and were shown to an empty table to wait, they then realized we were already there and found us themselves. A few minutes later the host came back, asked if I was myself or Dr. whomever, asking how many we had in our party. Clearly confused and potentially seated us at the wrong location but as nothing was communicated we may never know.
Long waits and sporadic service were next. When we did get our drink order in they came in waves. Either the bartender was behind or the server could only carry a few drinks at a time, either way it was just bizarre.
More waiting and lulls pre and post food order. Once the food did arrive it was again disastrous. The first course was pretty good; after all, it is pretty hard to make a gross salad. The second course, however, was horrible. I had the fish with wild rice. The entire plate was dry and tasteless. For those that had the pork chops and winter squash, the squash was so overpowered with raw red onion that it literally stayed on the palate through the end of the meal and beyond. Dessert was by far the best course and even this was riddled with frustration. While the server did an OK job of describing the options it was still a guessing game. Once it was finally decided, we find out they are out of the 'best' dessert, the macaroon...an 86 list anyone?
I could go on and on and on but I will spare you the boredom that we felt throughout. The service inefficient. The food was OK at its best. Some random gal in black kept poking her head in (the manager I assume) but never actually cared to find out how the experience really was.
I get it, restaurant week means there are a lot of orders for the same thing. However a). the restaurant was not busy and b). you choose to participate. I am put off by the whole experience. It was a waste of my money and had I not been with six gals that I enjoy spending copious amounts of time with it would have been a waste of that as well.
Save your time and money, Table 45 can be avoided.
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