I've visited New York MANY, MANY times, especially since my daughter moved there 13 years ago, and NEVER have I been subjected to the brash, harsh, nasty demeanor of the stereotypic bad rap of being called "a typical New Yorker." In fact, I have been pleasantly surprised with how nice New Yorkers are (at least in our experiences), no matter where I've gone over these 13 years. Until this place.
I had to travel to Amityville, NY to find the stereotypic "New Yorker," and I do NOT say this with pleasure. The woman who waited on us at this eatery, I don't know, maybe she had a bad day, maybe she had some customers BEFORE us that pissed her off. All's I know is that when she waited on us, she was brash, harsh, and simply put, NOT NICE. She was the only one waiting tables (not that many to begin with, a very small place), so I don't know if it was the owner who waited on us or what. IF we did get the owner, then shame on her. We did nothing to incur her wrath, yet we got it.
I am not one to usually go on about the service, but when it's really bad, I will (and thus, the reason for only 2 stars). I would probably have awarded 3.5 - 4 stars for the food, but with that service, they're lucky I didn't give only 1 star total.)
It was a weekday breakfast, the tables were mostly full, and there were 5 of us in our party. I wanted to ask her a question about the Yelp coupon, and that's when it started. She told me NO, very abruptly at that. She didn't want to address it then and told me to wait. It was the nasty tone and harshness, again, the New York stereotype, it just put me off in a way that I never experienced. I wasn't mean, so why was she? She absolutely refused to talk about my very simple Yelp coupon question. (As an aside and to clarify, the waitress honored the coupon, but my issue wasn't with that... it was just her harshness and unwillingness to let me ask a simple question.) Okay, fine, so I tried to move on. Did I piss her off that I am part of the Yelp world? Who knows. She walked off for reasons I don't know, then eventually returned to take our order after we waited a fair amount of time. The problem was that she continued to be very abrupt. Nobody asked for anything out of the ordinary, so why she was annoyed, I'll never understand. As we waited a long time, a couple came to sit down beside us, had their order taken rather quickly, and they had TWO ROUNDS of food delivered BEFORE WE GOT OUR ONE round of food. In other words, they ordered cereal and fruit, got and ate that, but then, they got their egg dishes, very similar or the same as what we ordered, before we got ours. We were there first, ordered before them, although not much before, but they got their food first. NOW, I'm pissed....... but still, I didn't let the waitress know because she was already bitchy to us, and I sure as heck didn't want to hear from her with her level of nasty.
Our food finally came out. It tasted decent enough, and it was filling....... but the meal was ruined by her and her attitude. I don't know what she didn't like about us, but she clearly had some vendetta against us. Maybe she hates anyone who sits at that particular table. I clearly don't know, but I can assure you, we won't be back. There are plenty of other restaurants we can go to. Now that I've finally met up with the stereotypic mean New Yorker, I'm just glad people like her are far outnumbered by all the nice New Yorkers. read more