My second time to the Albatros and, I dunnnnnnoooooooo mannnnnn! The first time was kinda basic, quiet, and an essential visit for sustenance. This time we were going for a special occasion and either the staff here are terribly trained, or they're just bad people.
Albatros is decent local Polish pub with a pretty good selection of European beers, I was able to get a frosty mug of Hacker-Pschorr which was amazing. And they have a pretty decent list.
The pub is sort of in the midst of an identity crisis, somewhere between a dive bar, a euro-pub, an irish pub, a world cup party, and like maybe a cabin? Is that what a Polish pub is then? If so, it's 5 stars, otherwise I'm confused.
The food is kinda A-OK, I took a chance and ordered escargot as an appetizer while deliciously coated in garlic butter and cheese, it was more mushroom caps than escargot, I think there were 2-3 escargot for 6 mushroom caps. I'm not sure if this is intentional or maybe they ran out? TBD
The rest of the food seemed to be ok. I ordered a burger which was admittedly frozen by the server but also made in house, not bad.
The real ball drop here is the service, over 30 minutes for food which they claim is due to everything being made to order fresh (maybe not a frozen burger) but we were left waiting a long time for basically everything, servers seemed to be either overrun or not interested.
One member of our party arrived late and after waiting 35 minutes for a pork souvlaki special. He went to ask if he could just get it go and the server rolled her eyes annoyed, and walked away. The other server had to cover for her rudeness and apologize saying"just a second". The food was then brought to the table anyway because it was an imposition for them.
Then to add injury to insult, the failed to tell us that the metal skewer had been sitting with the food under the heat lamps for a long time and was likely blistering hot, our group member singed his fingers.
The food is ok, the beer is great, but service needs improvement.
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