Our family has been a-buzz about an announcement that a new restaurant was coming to town. The owner of the old-fashioned movie theater bought the space across the street and has been transforming it into a 1920's style grille, whose menu looks awesome.
Some friends were coming to town and when we heard that the restaurant's "soft opening" was to be that night, we thought it would be a fun experience to take our friends there. How often do you get to go to a restaurant on its very first night of operation??
Well, it turns out you probably shouldn't.
We were warned when we arrived that because it was their first day we should expect that our wait times would be longer than usual since they were working out the kinks and training their staff, but in exchange for our patience we would receive a $5 off coupon to come back again at a later date.
Since our friends had a couple of hours before they had to leave town, we thought an extra wait would be just fine.
The wait -- after we had ordered our food, mind you -- ended up being over TWO AND A HALF HOURS!!
After about 10 minutes of waiting we took this happy picture.
After about an hour of waiting we asked the server about the status and she said she had no idea. We resorted to taking pictures of the items on the table. At least they were offering free wine.
After 90 minutes of waiting she said she thought they were "still trying to find the food" to cook.
After 2 hours of waiting smoke was billowing out of the kitchen.
After 2 hours and 15 minutes we begged our server to just bring our friends whatever she could so they could get on the road.
After 2 hours and 30 minutes some of the rest of us got some of our dishes, but not all.
After we left Pete was in such a bad mood that I think it's going to be hard to get him to go back, even with a $5 off coupon.
But I still like it and I can't wait to go back. :) It shouldn't take them too long to find the food in the future.... right??
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