This restaurant is most certainly NOT Laramie's finest - and it doesn't matter if it is for the Accomplice or The Good (?) Egg.
It came highly recommended. We were there on a Saturday, around 12:30, so after the brunch/lunch crowd, and there were only a few people dining, most of whom turned out to be employees or their families.
The person who seated us asked us if we wanted drinks (two coffees and an iced tea - easy), and said our server would be with us soon. She came back with one coffee and the tea, and sighed stating that she guessed SHE was our server (I almost apologized to her). We were seated near the bar, where there was a loud group who had family working or taking lunch, with other staff just hanging around them.
My husband order the special, my son ordered the Morning After, and I got a Skill-it, with the exception that I want my eggs scrambled "well". Our server didn't come back to bring my son his coffee, and evidently no one else could offer refills. It took over 30 minutes to be served our food - something I normally don't complain about if my coffee cup gets refilled or we weren't trying to flag a server - any server - down for refills. Those employees standing at the bar continued to look our way but never once came to see if we needed anything. How difficult is it for a server (even one off or on a break) to notify the server of our table that we might just need help?
When our food finally arrived, two of the meals weren't what we'd ordered at all, and we were missing a table setting. But it really didn't matter, because NO ONE CAME TO CHECK. We had to get up, ask someone in the group yucking it up at the bar, if our server was available. AND MY SON STILL DIDN'T HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE.
It took another ten minutes to get a fork and my son's coffee, and it's probably a good thing we just ate what we were brought or we wouldn't have got anything until the dinner crew showed up.
Keep in mind again, please, that this was a Saturday with hardly any paying customers. My son tells me this place is always busy. How do they manage, really? Every one of my family members has worked in the restaurant industry in some fashion throughout our lives. We all agreed that, if the day we were there was typical, how do they stay in business? Oh yeah, they serve beer.
Not only will I never eat there again, but I will make sure those who travel to visit us don't either. Take a tip from the 17th Street Cafe: They have EXCELLENT service if you want breakfast. read more