Sigh. So this definitely wasn't the best dinner experience I've had. Jacob and I decided to have dinner with friends from school. We are all hospitality majors and a few of us had heard of this place and wanted to check it out (specifically me).
We arrived a few minutes after Jake, and Sam with his wife and son RJ. It was a little stuffy, but we assumed that was because of the multitude of people in the restaurant. It was extremely easy to find parking close to the restaurant.
Our server quickly introduced herself, and was super friendly, but might have miscounted, as we didn't have the right number of menus for all of us. I had been dying to try the Bahn Mi burger for days, so that's what I ordered, only to find out that they were or of that specific "patty" so they weren't able to make the burger. She did state that it is a very popular burger, so I asked for recommendation... which were not what I was expecting. Like her recommending the burger they have with fish... she also stated they were out of red sangria, but managed to get me one last glass. So I will thank her for that.
I decided to order the same burger as my boyfriend and Sam, which contains a multitude of mushrooms, arugula, gruyere cheese and caramelized onions.
At this point. Let me summarize what happened. We ordered a plate of pickled items, and calamari. Sadly, Jacob and I weren't too impressed with the pickled items. But 1 year old RJ was, so they didn't go to waste. The calamari was a table favorite.
We were never offered refills of water or any of our other beverages, and had to wave down the bus girl who Jacob and Sam said reeked of weed and apparently likes to reallllly focus on filling only one glass per table visit. We also had empty appetizer plates for almost 20 minutes after finishing.
All of our food came at the same time. Except baby Rj's who's food came a few minutes after ours. I really wish they would have brought his food at first, because I hate when a kid gets his food after the adults.
The caramelized onions in the burger were superb and they cook the burgers perfectly, but the sweet buns and onions overpowered EVERYTHING else in the burger, and the Parmesan porcini truffle fries only tastes of Parmesan, lacking in salt and truffle.
I would have told our server all of this if she had checked up on us after taking our order, but we only saw her at the end of the meal when we asked for our check. The checks were also split incorrectly, but because of how hot it was inside and because we were all really thirsty, we decided to pay for it and leave.
This was not what I was expecting from this establishment. The food itself was 3 stars, but the service brought it down to 2. Sorry Bachi Burgers.