Mark Remsing
Google
We went to Tina's June 1, 2025 to celebrate my birthday. We left the following day for a month long trip so I am just now writing our review. We had been to Tina's before , and always enjoyed it
and would say we had in the past always considered Tina's one of the nicer fine dining experienced in the state of Oregon.
Our June 1, 2025 visit changed all of that, it was a disaster. The ambiance was fine, the food and the cocktails were nice but the service was the worst I have ever experienced in my life, in any restaurant in the US or in Europe, and this is over a 50 year time span. The service problem I mentioned all stemmed from our main server, a woman, maybe in her 30's who was just plain mean and nasty. We had a 5:00 pm reservation. By 5:05 my wife and I had each ordered a cocktail and when they were served at 5:15 (very politely by the bartender) our main server took our order for an appetizer. In another minute or so our waitress asked if we had decided what we would like to order for dinner and we said, no we hadn't decided and we weren't ready to place our order yet. She came back one minute later and said " you must give me your order now, immediately !" I said we weren't quite ready and could we please have a few more minutes to make our choices and in a very nasty way she said, "no, you must give me your order now, I can not wait even one more minute." We need to keep the orders flowing in to the cooks in the kitchen and I can not give you any more time.
So, as I shook my head in total disbelief at the nastiness and rudeness of our waitress, we wanted to get up and leave, but having already received our drinks and put in an appetizer order, that didn't seem to be an option so we gave her our dinner order, ate our meal and left, being blown away that any server would ever treat any customer that way, especially in a fine dining establishment like Tina's.
Needless to say, we will never go back to Tina's. It is hard to believe that the Tina's management staff could hire a server like that. She behaved more like a prison guard or an army drill instructor. The sad thing about this is that everything else about Tina's is great, but this mean spirited server ruined the experience and so we will never return. My wife and I are both quite polite, considerate and easy to please and certainly didn't deserve to be treated so poorly.
Mark R
PS the experience with our primary server was our main criticism but interestingly, there was another female server that stopped by our table a couple of times and made a few, under her breath snide comments and when it came time for dessert, our waitress didn't present the dessert menu to us but rather it was delegated to a young girl who was the water server. She spoke very little English, could barely read off the menu options, and clearly had no idea what most of the desserts even were. It was embarrassing for her to be put in that position and we felt sorry for her.