Sean T.
Yelp
To make things worse the waitress helped herself to $15 off our account after the meal. Check out the images to see the receipt vs the charge...
Had to dispute with our credit card to resolve!
Original Review:
Oh my goodness. Go somewhere else!
Circe provides terrible service, rude staff, high prices and low table availability to handily win my least very restaurant on the east coast award.
I don't often give 2 star or less reviews but I have never left a restaurant so annoyed before.
I'll simplify the story of the night a bit but basically my wife and I had some RI food fight coupons, which after some curt explanation from the man who we later learned is probably the owner, were disallowed from being used.
At this point I can say ok, fair play, communication must have been crossed somewhere, so after some discussion amongst ourselves my wife and I decided on our entrees.
No one bothered to come back to light the candle on the table or check on us until the head honcho guy came back. When we ordered he verbally expressed his surprise that my wife was ordering scallops. I ordered the duck.
While we did get our first set of drinks the table was then forgotten about until around 65 minutes after our order was placed (I'd like to thank my mom for the read text receipt lol). The food, despite being slow came out at room temperature, neither dish even warm.
As a small aside it's worth noting the portion sizes are small for the price, generally on par with what would be expected at high end establishments, but the quality of the food is somewhere firmly between simply ok and eh, given that it was not even hot.
Sometime after the food arrived the waitress did come back to see if I wanted another beer but after we requested soda we wouldn't see her until we were nearly done our meal, despite the other table being visited multiple times.
At this point I was completely out of patience and requested, with annoyance, the check. Once that came I couldn't get the card out fast enough so we went back to waiting.
We asked the bus staff to ring out the check but were dismissed. By the time the waitress did come to get our check it was because her and the man from the start of this terrible story had come to quickly clear the table. Guess more important dinner guests finally showed up...
To top the night off the waitress gave our card to the wrong table, charged the wrong bill to our card and ignored me when I tried to flag her down to alert her that she had given me someone else's card.
I normally like to leave these reviews on a good note or point out something redeeming but the best I have is that the silverware was clean...
If you're already on your way here it may be a good idea to divert, there's fast food nearby and I've never been disrespected so keenly at a burger joint as I was at Circe.