The staff was friendly and welcoming. My wife and I were each comped $ 10 off our meals, which was a huge positive.
I included a $20.00 tip for the cashier for taking my order.
The rest of our experience at this cafe was negative.
After placing a "to go" order of a salmon dinner combo for my wife and a Chinese chicken salad for myself, our ordeal began.
We waited and waited and waited some more for our order to be handed to us, finally.
While we patiently waited for our order, I inquired about it three times, only to be told it would be just a few more minutes.
While this is going on, friends of ours were reviewing their food bill they had just paid in full and discovered that they had been charged for an additional order they had not ordered.
While disputing this fact with a cashier, she had a real challenge reversing the charge to my friend's credit card. This young cashier had to ask the manager of the next-door restaurant to come and help.
For the next thirty-seven minutes, they tried and tried to rectify this problem but were unable to do so.
The cashier finally offered to reimburse my friend in cash, which he accepted.
Back to my order, we are now up to 51 minutes of waiting when I finally advised the young male employee, "If they have not started my order, please cancel, as I am truly tired of waiting so long."
The employee assured me it would take 10 minutes or less. Six minutes later, the young employee handed me my order.
We returned to our hotel lobby seating area next door to sit and dine with our friends.
One hour later, while in our own hotel room, I felt my blood pressure through the roof!! This has not happened to me in YEARS!!
There must have been an ingredient or two in my salad that I missed, causing my BP to spike big time the way it did.
Not the cafe's fault, but when I looked over the menu and the ingredients in my salad, I couldn't understand what I had missed.
My BP remained high for the next few hours even after I took my BP medication.
At the same time, my wife was in the bathroom, sick to her stomach from her salmon dinner.
She remained this way for the next four hours.
Needless to say, we did not sleep that night because of our dinner at this cafe.
Again, we are not knocking the cafe staff whatsoever, as they tried to provide the best possible service, but our dining experience was a disaster and a HUGE negative. read more