Rae M.
Yelp
My wife and I had fabulous burgers at 110. We decided to meet with friends to share another meal at 110, show the venue to them. I ordered the Chimichurri Sirloin and fries, $31. We had drinks and a $16 plate of 10 Buffalo wings, middles joints, not drums, was shared.
Everyone's food arrived at the same time, all others pleased, but my steak and fries were cold. All the other food was hot. My medium rare steak was, tight and gray with all the juices squeezed out as the meat cooled beneath the cold chimichurri. The fries were lukewarm, not a glisten of hot fat to be seen, fast shrinking and going limp.
I sent the meal back, a bit broken hearted and starving. A table mate shared her sweet potato fries, piping hot, as was her fried breaded chicken sandwich of some sort or another.
My proper and timely serving was obviously poached by another server, leaving my server to scoop up something long dismissed. The serving I received had been there longer than I. It put a damper on the celebration, as everyone awkwardly waited for my food to show up again, their meals quickly consumed without my participation. Don't you hate that?
No comp, no complimentary beer or dessert offered, just a barely warm enough second round of the same. I left half the serving on my plate, left it there, still warmer than the first try, the chimichurri a little underwhelming and heavy on the raw garlic, without enough strike and tang from a red vinegar or fresh squeezed lemon. That part of the recipe seemed forgotten or separated from the chimichurri mix. That was what $113.86 for two got us for a late lunch.
The manager is there to make sure that poaching does not occur, nor is tolerated. My server didn't have any power, just wanted to move on, appearing unable to defend his/her own orders. Perhaps accustomed to this sort of thing.
Do we dare go back to see if they can still get a burger right? It was one of the best we ever had in the Upper Valley, not inexpensive as burgers go, but worth it, and the fries were hot when we got the burgers.
What would you do?