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  Rating - Overall: 1  Food: —  Service: 1  Ambience: 3

  

  SimonP
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  Member since Mar 10
  Rating: 0

  10 Mar 2010

  We never got to eat there, so I have no comment about the food.

  We arrived there about 7:30 on a Friday night. The place was busy, but not packed. We were told that there would be a wait for a table, about 40 minutes. We (my daughter and I) went for a beer in a local pub, and returned at the appointed time.

  We were seated immediately, and an attentive waitperson shortly took our orders. She mentioned that the restaurant had just relocated here, and that 'things needed to be worked out, that there would be a delay'. So, allowing her to set our expectations, I asked how long she would think we would have to wait to be fed. '45 minutes to an hour', she said.

  We waited an hour, and I approached the waitperson, who was now staffing the bar. I asked her how much longer she thought we would have to wait, and she went off into (I presume) the kitchen to find out.. When she returned, she said '5 minutes maximum, your food is now being cooked. There will be no charge for your drinks.' I said, 'If we are not served with our food in your time limit - 5 minutes - we shall simply leave money for what we have had (a couple of beers, poppadoms and chutney), and forgo the pleasure of the meal.

  My daughter (reluctantly) started the timer on her iPhone, and at 4 minutes and 30 seconds, a waiter rushed over and put two empty plates on our table. When the 5 minutes expired, there was no food, and we paid our estimate of what we owed and left.

  Remember, we asked the restaurant what we should expect, and we let them set our expectations.

  It's difficult to be objective, but on that evening, Friday, 5th March 2010, it seemed that no one else was being served any food, either.

  Unless, you have several hours to spare, the rating is 'Eek! methinks not.'

  Visited: March 5, 2010
  What I ate: zilch

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