Daniel H.
Yelp
So I used this restaurant to host my wedding rehearsal party.
When we decided to use this venue for our dinner, the owner was very foward with wanting to make a lasting relationship. Unfortunately we cannot accept it to be long lasting as we have this review to write. When we first sat down and discussed working with them for our dinner party, we gave a budget. We were very specific about what we wanted and all was agreed upon for essentially a per person it would cost for dinner plate, dessert and first hour of alcoholic drinks. Days before the wedding I was contacted with to us, seemed like a change of plans. Wanting to charge us a dollar amount per person that would exceed the cost of the food itself, not taking into account for the cost of the drinks. For myself and my fiancée we felt bait and switch on this as we both recalled the agreement differently.
When we arrived for day of our event, the owner was not there, nor did she relay the information to the gentleman in charge of taking care of our party. We had a party of 32 people and stuck our group with one person. As you can imagine it took forever for people to get their food and drinks. Our server did the very best he could and we applauded him for it and thanked
Him very much for what he was tasked to do. But certainly this was a two person job.
We arrived at 6pm and weren't considered dessert till 830, after I had asked what is to be done about that as everyone was ready to go, at this time our server told me that it would be included in the per person cost, something, that we days ago, had dismissed with the owner due to the bait and switch. So again, I had to explain yo him we would not be paying the per person as the owner went back on the agreement and we would pay per plate, per dessert and cover the first hour of drinks.
On our wedding week you can imagine this isn't something we wanted to deal with, the grand total after gratuity came out to a hundred dollars more than budgeted, which we didn't even care about. But the way that I had to explain multiple times was very annoying. Had I not expressed that concern we would have easily paid 20% over what our check was, because of the way the owner was looking to make us pay after we had a verbal agreement. This was the only verbal agreement I had on this wedding and what a mistake that clearly was. If your going to use them for event space, I would suggest a written agreement.
Salmon was decent, chicken wasn't bad, half the people who got the filet mignon bolognese were sick.
Drinks were decent, desserts were good.
I hate to leave bad reviews but I wish I knew this information going in. Best of luck to those in the future.