Never again.
Never. Ever.
I really tried to like this place....I really did & I should have written about it sooner, but this place is not worth your money & I am sorry to see that others have had to experience it & I blame myself for procrastinating this. Apologies.
I used to go once a week at lunchtime & ordered the steak salad that also came with a side of potatoes for $10. Great.
Went there for dinner once with a friend & asked the waiter what we could order that would be filling & he recommended the filet mignon. When it came out it was two slices of steak on two slices of bruschetta bread. We were pissed because the lunch special was more filling than that. Bill: $40, just that, just water. Decided after Eff it, lets get a pitcher of Sangria. Almost $20 & it came in this weird pitcher that was full of ice & a lot of citrus fruits with the rinds still attached which made it very bitter. No exaggeration, we each got two glasses & barely half full each time.
So we took a break from going each week & made it a bi-weekly lunch thing. When we returned the lunch menu had changed & now the same steak salad was no more, it was now a steak salad wrap for the same price. I do not like wraps so I asked for the same option without the wrap; just the salad & steak & they obliged and the price was the same.
Two weeks later we returned and sat at the bar. It was just the two of us for customers in the restaurant. Again we ordered the steak salad without the wrap. Because we were sitting at the bar close to the register, the waiter placed our order while standing at the register. We saw the price as the order was taken as $9.95 each.
When the salads arrived the portion of meat was much larger than normal, because usually it is sliced already. We chalked it up to the fact that perhaps because it was just us (still...) there they were being generous & we also.... Had been there countless times, become a part of the "member program", knew the manager by name because we are employed by a local area business that we had already recommended & they used Solun for an event the same week as said recommendation, had his business card for future events (not anymore...), but we were completely wrong.
When the bill came the total was $36. I politely asked the waiter why was the bill so high as we only had the salads, drank water & saw the food price when he entered it as $9.95 each. His voice got just a drop lower & said that after he entered our food, the manager Carlos called and told him to change the price & to let us know that the price had changed yesterday if we asked.
So of course I asked to speak to Carlos, the manager. After 23 minutes exactly (I was determined to wait, even called the job to say I needed an extra few minutes...) he came behind the bar & after explaining how crazy this was & if he could change our bill because no where did it say the price of the wrap or salad had changed to almost $16. He then asked us did we notice how much meat we received, To which I replied that although I was very grateful for the amount of meat I had received, I did find it unusual & if anything had changed after our order was placed we should have been notified immediately instead of the sneak/coward move of just giving us the bill & hoping we wouldn't notice or fight.
After a bit of barter he offered to make the bill right at the price we understood, but as he takes my card to pay he says "Oh no I'll just take off like a third of the bill" I then had to forcefully, but still not loudly, ask him to either swipe for what he had already agreed to or any other amount would be theft. He then turned in a huff & swipes the card then turns back & throws the card on the bar & tells the waiter to finish the transaction. There is NO WAY I will ever return to this shiest-ridden place. I go out to restaurants all the time (due to no children & determined no to be the live-in housewife w/out the ring so we go out...often :)) & have never had experience like that. But I couldn't care less because I will never return. read more