Megan Schraeder
Google
As two people who have worked in the service industry most of our lives, my partner and I don't leave bad reviews unwarranted, but this is one of the worst dining experiences we've had in Denver (both born and raised here).
We're big fans of Angelo's but wanted to try somewhere with a wider range of foods that still had oysters, and Blackbird had all day happy hour on Monday, so lunch there seemed perfect! It...was not.
-server was very nice, but got me what I assume was a boozy lemonade? When I ordered a hard tea that they had on tap
-she was going to replace my partners captain and coke with Jack Daniel's since she couldn't find captain. One is a rum, one is whiskey.
-none of our order was written down, which isn't terribly odd, but I ordered a dozen oysters and got muscles and fries instead. I let the server know, no biggie. She took the muscles back and then it took 20mins to get the oysters out after we'd waited 30mins for our starters and another 20 for the wrong order. Great quality oysters, but every one was FULL of bits of shell to the point where it was hard to eat them at all safely.
-despite all these issues, (even with the manager appearing to have been there) nothing on our bill was comped. Which we never ever expect or ask for, but considering the number of mistakes, even just the drink being taken off would've made sense. We ended up paying over $100, not including the 20% tip that we still gave regardless of our experience because we understand it's a tough industry.
On top of all this, my partner and I now have food poisoning a couple hours after eating here, without having eaten anywhere since lunch. Y'all... don't go here. It's not worth it.