I went here with my friend tonight because she suggested it. In fact, ranted and raved about it because she's a huge martini lover, and I am not.
We ordered two seasonal martini's, a delightful banana martini, and then a caramel-apple martini. We split the last two. The first three (two seasonal ((one each)) and the banana that we split) were out of this world! I was so willing to become a regular, and tell everyone and their mother about this place! The atmosphere was cozy and busy as heck! I was very impressed at first!!!
We sat next two girls about our age. Everyone else was middle aged or older. We were around 26-32. The two girls next to us, that we met just tonight, tasted our last martini and agreed that the last martini we ordered (a caramel-apple martini) tasted very off. Something was missing, or too much of. Being from the south and very polite, I decided to tell the bartender that the last drink was a bit off. My friend was willing to just suck it up and drink it. The fact that we all are in the restaurant business as well and knew that I was sounding probably like that guest you hate and complains about dumb things, made me cringe, but I didn't like the drink! It's completely not fair that in every business I worked in, the owner/manager would take off the drink, or at least offer to make a new one!!! They had fabulous other options; I would have gladly paid for the drink even if they were to just add another ingredient.
The other two girls felt that they were being discriminated against; it took forever for them to be served and to be given their tab. My friend and I received very cool, distant service the entire time. The girl bartender and the very large grey-ing male bartender were not the friendliest towards us, either. My friend went into the bathroom, after I had asked the male large older bartender that we were not pleased with our latest beverage and that we were in the restaurant business, and to please fix this drink for us. We were otherwise fairly content with everything else. I was incredibly kind, again being from the south and in the restaurant business, and just wanted a different drink!!!! I QUOTE, FROM THE MALE LARGE GREY-ING CLEARLY UNHAPPY WITH HIS LIFE BARTENDER, AFTER ASKING THIS KIND REQUEST: "When you grow up, come back."
He proceeded to toss our drink, refused to take the drink off our tab or either make us a new one or even fix the one we were going to originally pay for, and told my friend whom asked for the manager: "I am the owner; get the f* out and never come back."
You're going to get your wish, and then some! We made sure to tell the guests surrounding us our experience, in a VERY calm and reasonable manner, and are going to tell EVERYONE about our experience here! Not only did that happen by that miserable, angry man, but the waitresses who worked under him made comments to me and my friend as we were leaving after paying and NOT TIPPING (which we NEVER, EVER DO, but we were severely mistreated) about how sorry they were that we had to pay for our martinis and that we were not happy about our service.
I feel horrible for anyone who has to work under him, IF he really is the owner. I've worked with privately owned restaurant owners, Greek, in fact. I know how awful it can be. I DO NOT SUGGEST THIS PLACE TO ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 35. The owner treats you like an imbecile.
DO NOT GO HERE IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY YOUR NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! read more