Megan G.
Yelp
My husband and I had a 6:30pm reservation on a Saturday for dinner. The menu looked exciting, and we were seated promptly.
We both ordered a drink and our server suggested we order the cones, several small plates to share and an entree each, making mention that the dinner would be paced. So, we ordered all of our food at once expecting it would come out at nicely paced times as we've experienced at other restaurants with a similar format. All of our small plates and cones came out at almost exactly the same time, leaving little room on our table and speeding our time there up tremendously. The cones were not for us, there wasn't enough texture to make them enjoyable. The rest of the food was just ok, with our favorite dish being the shrimp small plate. I had barely finished my first glass of wine when our entrees were coming out, and I wanted a red with the Bolognese, so I ordered another glass. The Bolognese was pretty good but a little greasy for my taste, and my husband ordered the rib eye which he enjoyed but was very smoky to me.
Given how quickly our meal progressed, I had barely touched my second glass of wine when our server was boxing up our leftover entrees. At this point it was 7:30 and we had only been there an hour and finished the cones, 4 small plates, and entrees. We looked at the dessert menu, but decided we would rather get dessert elsewhere since it was still so early, but I still had my glass of wine to finish. I did notice the host at the stand turning and glaring at our table several times, and I could tell she was waiting for us to leave to seat other guests.
Just before 7:50pm- barely one hour and 20 minutes since we sat down, a man (who I found out later was the owner because he didn't even introduce himself) came over to our table and let us know other people were waiting for tables and asked us to finish up. He left so quickly I barely understood what he said to us. I had to confirm with my husband that he just asked us to leave. I flagged down our server and asked him to have the owner come back over so I could understand what just happened. The owner came back over and I explained to him that it had only been an hour and 20 minutes since we sat down and I wanted to understand why he was asking us to leave. He explained that he was told we had been there for over two hours and that he was sorry for the mix-up, however, there was nothing else done to try to make amends. We were embarrassed and confused, and after spending $240 on our meal, we felt there was more the owner could have done to make us feel welcome to stay. There is also a clear miscommunication happening in the front of the house. All the owner had to do was look at the time of our reservation and he would have seen how long we were truly there. I ended up not finishing my wine because the of experience, and we left.
I will say based on the food and the rushed pace, we already wouldn't have returned to this restaurant for dinner, but we definitely would have come for the fantastic wine and bar menu. After being asked to leave like we were doing something wrong, we will not be returning.