Yesterday, I took my Mom (Mother's Day) to Hamilton Walkers for a late lunch. I will give you a recipe for disaster which they are cooking up on a daily basis at Hamilton Walkers. How to mess up an old fashioned Champagne cocktail? Serve it with stale watered down champagne, oh and make the customer wait a really long time to get it. In fact make the customer wait a really long time to order, get their food, get their tables bussed, in fact just ignore them. Have your wait staff walk through the restaurant all the time doing nothing, carrying nothing, talking to each other, but frankly not working. Serve a house salad that had obviously been sitting near a warming table so it was limp and had a tomato in it that was at least a week old and tons of onion. Serve prime rib that was overheated and well done because it had been sitting under a heat lamp, scalloped potatoes the same, jumbo grilled shrimp that were tough because they had the same treatment and scallops that were barely cooked and cold parsnip whatever in the middle of the plate. Have the chef come out to hover, when you finally get your food asking if it is alright, just when you are about to take a bite, after you have been waiting for an hour to eat. He had gotten the message that we were a little miffed, so I guess he thought schmoozing with us was a better idea than just standing around in the restaurant instead of running the kitchen. Here is the sad part. I just came back from Santa Barbara, California, ate in the best restaurants in town, (SAME PRICES FOLKS) and got great service and food that was excellent. How can long this pretentious place can stay in business? As long as the folks in this town put up with it and keep coming back for the same awful service, same awful food. I am never coming back after two really bad experiences. Oh, yes, they did take 50% off my bill, but even that wasn't enough. The meal was supposed to be a treat for my parents. The only reason I booked it, everyone one else was full.