Really good food. Great staff. Excellent value. One Suggestion: This restaurant needs enforced signage on their patio door firmly stating, "NO UNATTENDED CHILDREN IN THE OUTDOOR DINING PATIO!!!"
We chose to eat on the patio for late-lunch/early-dinner (before 5:00) on Saturday, the weather was beautiful. Initially, our family was the only one on the outdoor dining patio.
As soon as we had our first round of sodas we were joined by 3 unchaperoned boys about 10 and eventually 2 unchaperoned boys about 13, and 2 unchaperoned girls about 11. We had all 7 of these unattended children on the patio with us, completely unsupervised for our entire meal. The 2 older boys weren't a problem and the girls were not so bad except for when yelling at the 3 horribly behaved little boys, who spent the entire time they were there, running around the patio, jumping up and down on the other 2 or 3 empty tables and jumping from table to table, running past our us and back and forth non-stop, constantly opening the door to the next to us to the indoor dining area to look inside or to stop by their own indoor table to get a drink; these boys were yelling shouting, and cursing (s4!/ and F*{4) and pointing at at laughing at our special needs child.
So, you bring your children to a restaurant to eat or maybe just to day-drink and then you send YOUR children outside to the patio dining area to ruin everyone else's lunch so you can enjoy yourself and you think that's okay?!!! It was like dining on a playground at the mall; completely unacceptable! WHOEVER YOU ARE... your children need your attention! It was terrible! No parents came to check on them, no staff said anything to them, they were abandoned to the outdoor dining room like it was a McDonald's playground. I guess these parents decided, "who cares about anyone else or other customers or other families, or their meal or dining experience... and also, why bother teaching our children any manners or values, like don't curse and don't make fun of special needs children". If you don't want to share a meal with your children, why would expect anyone else to? Parenting FAIL!
We didn't say anything to the parents, whomever they were, we never saw them, because why bother; if you dump your kids off on strangers and your children behave this way, its pretty clear you don't care and wouldn't do anything about it just because someone pointed it out to you. You'd probably cause an indignant scene rather than absorb any responsibility, because someone pointing out that your child is a discipline issue, which I'm sure you already know, is pointing our your inadequacy as a parent and THAT would be what you take umbrage with.
We didn't say anything to the staff, because it is not their job to babysit customers' kids and they're likely afraid to say anything to a parent who probably can't conscionably handle the personal responsibility of hearing, "You've failed to discipline your children and now they're a problem for everyone else".
Again, the food here is really delicious and every staff member we've encountered here was really kind and helpful; it's a good meal and a good deal.
However, we won't make this mistake again; we'll just do takeout from now on; which, by they way, they always get right here. read more