Our food took 55 minutes.
FIFTY FIVE MINUTES.
In kid years this is approximately 4 years. So we sat at a big nice booth at Boston Tea Party for the equivalent of FOUR YEARS with FIVE kids waiting for our food. So basically 20 years. I do understand that it was the lunch rush on a sunny Saturday, but geez Louise BTP -- get it together. Could we not plan that this may happen? That if the restaurant is at capacity, the food should still flow out? Particularly children's burgers that surely look like they came from a package? I don't know, I don't know...it's a bit hard to vouch after wilting away for 20 years with whining hungry children. I honestly couldn't blame them.
Everything else was absolutely fine though! So it was quite a bummer that the kitchen was so backed up and they hadn't planned properly for the crowds (which never exceeded the number of tables, so it seemed a restaurant should be able to accommodate the number it actually seats).
The space is bright, huge, airy, lovely. Plenty of seating options: booths, long tables, small tables, sofas. It's a gorgeous rehab of a previously unused building, and artfully and tastefully redone. The toilets are clean and there is a baby change in the disabled restroom. The service was friendly. The coffee was good (the drip even - glorious!), and once the food arrived it was very nice! My superfood salad with chicken was light and fresh and really good. It also helped that I was absolutely starving by the time it arrived.
You'll need to order at the counter and pay as you order. This saves time getting the bill, most definitely. The drinks arrived very swiftly (thank God, if I had also been deprived of coffee I may have totally lost it) -- but the food was (as mentioned) very heavily delayed.
So all in all I'd certainly go back -- but I'd not go at the weekend lunch hour. Outside of that, it should be just fine. read more