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I should have read reviews before going, maybe it would have saved some time and frustration. First, I went to Prohibition with some colleagues as an after school happy hour spot. We called ahead to just see that they were open and mentioned that we would be up to 20 people in and out. They automatically set up a table for 20, when all we wanted was drinks. When we explained the miscommunication, we got nothing but attitude from both a woman who I think was the bartender that day and from the waiter who was a young, tall male with dark hair. We asked if we could just go into the bar and bring drinks out and they said no. There was NOBODY else there. We then asked for separate checks because we were all coming and going at different times. They weren't happy about it and gave us attitude throughout, but agreed. It took an EXTREMELY long time to get our drinks...again we were the only ones there. When we wanted another round, we had to go inside to find our waiter, and he would reluctantly come back out. I understand that we weren't eating so maybe not a priority, but money is money and business is business. There was nobody there and I'm assuming they would have made $0 if we weren't there, so why not give us service with a smile?
I was willing to overlook this visit because, it was a cool looking place with a fun outdoor area and a fun menu. When my Jr. Women's club needed a place to go for dinner, I suggested it. Everybody was very excited to try something new. There were 10 or 12 of us and we had a reservation for 7:30. We sat right down and there were maybe 1-2 other tables filled. After a few minutes they took drink orders for most of the table (same tall waiter with dark hair). The drinks came at a fairly normal pace (we mostly drank pourable drinks, nothing fancy). A young waitress came over to take our appetizer order, she was very friendly and personable. She put in the order and then the tall waiter came back and asked if we were ready to put in food. There was no communication between them. Throughout our stay we had a few requests such as getting a wedge for the wobbly table, bringing sauce to the table or whatever else, most of which we had to ask several times for before they came. We were at the end of our meal and we had to get the attention of the waiter to come back over to do another round of drinks. He was busy socializing to the side of the restaurant. At this point there was only one other table filled so it was not that he was busy. We had to get their attention on several occasions just to order things or ask for things, they did not proactively come over at all. The food took a while and one meal didn't come out until the rest of us were almost finished. The food was not good. The chicken sandwich had a piece of chicken the size of a nugget. The panini was so fat, people couldn't bite it. It was bad. When it was time to pay the check, there was confusion from the waiter who wanted to do it his way (cash before cards) and it took 3 requests for him to just do the cards first. After he ran it all through, he then told us we owed an additional $9 because of credit card fees. This should have been reflected on the original bill or we should have been notified of this before transactions were made. At this point we just wanted to get out of there.
So here is the thing that really was unbelievable. At one point when the waiter was bringing us appetizers, he dropped the sauce off of one of the plates. He was behind me so I didn't see but I heard him that he would bring another. I did look down to see where it went and didn't see anything. Later, my friend across from me told me that she watched him bend down and pick it up before he walked away. Fast forward to us leaving in a downpour, I put on my raincoat and flip the hood up and was surprised with goop all over my head. He had dropped the sauce into my hood, picked up the container out of my hood and didn't say a word. I went over to the bartender who was very sweet and helped me clean up my jacket and gave me napkins for my hair. I complained and she apologized. I will be calling a manager today. The kicker is that since we were a party of more than 6 people, the gratuity was automatically applied. This waiter got a pretty decent chunk of money for NOTHING. I was very angry so I left with a plan of calling today.
Bottom line, do yourself a favor and steer clear of this place. It's a shame because the restaurants before them were awesome and now they are a waste of space.