Actual conversation upon arriving at 8:45pm, they close at 10pm, there were 2 open tables for two with a party of 4 and a party of 2 in line in front of us, and lots of people finishing up their food.
me: "hello a party of 2 please"
rude-ass host "ummm...yeah, um... you're ......maybe at this point"
huh? wtf? clearly i'm supposed to feel privileged for the honor of paying top dollar for tiny servings of generic thai food after arriving over an hour before they close. this place is making WAYYY too much money off of suckers willing to put up with rude service, so much money that they apparently need to close their doors at 9:59. I bet if we had been seated they would have started kicking people out, turned up the lights at 9:45. I wanted to tell the rude bastard that he could stick his ummm yeah maybe up his arrogant ass but my friend was starving and didn't mind the rude jerkoff host. so he asked if we could order food to go and the rude ass host said "maybe, you'll have to go down to the end of the bar and ask the..[rude ass frowning bitch]...waitress if they can take a to go order". Ummmm, okay, this is the second time i would have walked out but hungry friend wanted food. broody impatient waitress took the order. we were ordered to go stand in a corner by the freezing cold door while we waited like beggars for the honor of being served by rude jerks. several more people came in who were shocked to be told by rude snob host, um yeah you're a maybe as we close in an hour. got food and left. TINY portions. yeah it was tasty enough in a generic way but damn, not even close to filling and i eat small dinners.
if I wanted snobby rude arrogant service i'd go to NY. this is canada where people are expected to be friendly.
you know rude jerkoff host (short-ish 5'6 white hipster dude with napolean complex working on friday 3/1), if you really can't seat people after 8:30 because you don't need anyone's business after 9:59pm on a Saturday night, maybe you could work on a polite and somewhat apologetic schpeel to explain that, and then maybe those who arrive over an hour before you close just might return and not give you a 1 star review on yelp. Take a look up and down the street - you have a LOT of competition and your food really isn't that special. and it is waay overpriced for tiny portions. and servers - smiling and saying hello, please and thank you are part of your job.