Ada M.
Yelp
Wow. Where do I start? I was so excited to come here from what a read about in the magazine. I am so let down by this whole experience here. The 1 star is for just the pretty interior of the bar. The food was not good. Everything tastes very cheap. I could make better food at home with a lower price. I had a grilled cheese sandwich, that was supposed to have brie cheese in it. I didn't taste any brie cheese at all. It tasted like processed Kraft cheese slices that are individually wrapped. The quality was not there at all. The bartenders are not friendly at all. All of them looked like they could not stand to be there and were very unfriendly with me and all the customers. What made this place an absolute disaster especially was the bouncers at the front door. The one that was very problematic was a bouncer, who was wearing a white shirt with " Security" written on the back. He had shirt shaggy brown hair. Caucasian and about 5'11. My friend had to take a moment to herself because she got a call with very sad and awful news. She stepped outside and I came with her. She was softy crying outside. Just a few silent tears to process what she had just heard on a call she had. Once she had gotten herself together she wanted to go back into the bar. The white bouncer with brown shaggy kind of wavy hair was extremely rude to my lovely and kind friend. He literally grabbed her arm and was like " sorry you can't go back in!" She was just like why not? I'm calm and composed, I'm not crying and I'm just trying to pay for my drinks and food then leave. Since she had not signed her check yet. The bouncer said very roughly " yeah... i don't want you to be all sad and mopping around at the bar. We can't have you cry or sad inside the bar" .
Wow. I was shocked with his response. To be told that someone is not allowed to be sad when they go inside a bar? That is literally RIDICULOUS and completely in compassionate or kind. The way he talked to my friend who is the most soft and sweet spoken person was absolutely horrifying. I tried with my other friend to tell the bouncer that " she is just trying to pay for her food and drinks then leave, we'll be with her the whole time" . The same bouncer was so rigid, difficult, and completely unreasonable or making any sense. All she wanted to do was pay for her food and drinks and he told her " No!". In such a harsh, definitive, rude, and unkind way. We had to wait a while until he let us and my poor friend back in to just pay. Absolutely uncalled for and NOT okay. The behavior from this bouncer was Unacceptable and disgusting. Also earlier when we just arrived, they wanted to know if I had any mace. My friend friend said she did because she's an honest person. She of course only had it for self defense, but still demanded to take it, saying they'd give it back to her. They never did. Again it was the white bouncer with brown wavy shirt hair. Wearing his white shirt with security in black written on the back. He never bothered to even give my friend her pepper spray back. Yet alone she literally had to beg to be let in to even pay. This was completely unprofessional behavior, even from a bouncer. It didn't not make any sense and the way she was spoken to was atrocious. He literally told her " we don't want you here if you're gonna be sad at the bar" ummm.... You cannot tell people how to feel, and when they can feel emotions. My friend was completely composed and calm and ready to just sign the check then leave, but we had to go through such an incredible very rude, unprofessional, and in logical behavior from this man. They are lucky she even persisted to go back in and pay. If I were her, I would have just left and not paid, since they weren't even letting her back in. I'd recommend to anyone to not come here. Please save your money and sanity from interacting with such horrific behavior and attitudes.
