Alex S.
Yelp
Rarely do I go out of my way to write reviews on here, but, after my experience here I just couldn't resist.
I live in the area and have often walked past this place admiring how cute it looked from the outside and always told myself I wanted to check it out, so I did just that. Beforehand, I looked at their menus on their website and noticed they had a "main menu" and a "brunch" but neither one had any indication of when brunch ended and when dinner began.
The restaurant itself is indeed, very cute and quaint. Love the decorations, love the coziness of it, the cute and quirky ambiance. Great location, too! My mother and I were seated and we were informed that they weren't serving anything but their brunch menu and wouldn't allow us to order anything off of the "dinner" menu that wouldn't begin for another 20-30 minutes. Was a bit disappointed, but decided to just get drinks while we waited.
We don't see our waitress again until around 12:40 ish. My mother decided she did indeed want something off the brunch menu only to be told "We stop serving brunch at 1:00" okay, well, it was 12:40. She told us that if I was going to get something off of the "dinner menu" that my mother had to as well and we couldn't order off of separate menus. Super confusing. I placed my order, my mother places hers only to be immediately told "Sorry, we don't have that on the menu." How do you not have it on the menu when it's literally printed on the menu? Ridiculous.
Food took ages to come. We never saw our waitress again, drinks never got refilled, food took over half an hour and we weren't checked on once. When it finally came, it was a major letdown. My tacos were soaked in sauce, dripping, and totally undercooked; I couldn't even cut the avocado slices with a knife they were so underripe. My mother said hers was extremely bland and barely came with anything it was said to have supposed to come with. After all that wait, the food being that much of a letdown was just the cherry on top of a massively underwhelming event.
This is probably one of the only restaurants I've ever left in NYC hungry and with a bad aftertaste in my mouth. Maybe we caught them on a bad day, but we surely will not be back to see them on a good day, either. There are 100s of restaurants in the area better than this one.