So Bad It Was Almost Comical…read more
My wife and I stopped here for lunch on our drive from Oregon to Seattle. The parking lot was completely full, so after circling around and eventually finding street parking, we figured the place must be popular. Unfortunately, that turned out to be the high point of the experience.
The main restaurant was fairly full, so we were seated in a large, dark bar area in the back. And then... nothing happened.
For more than 30 minutes.
Eventually, a waiter appeared and took our order. Then another 30+ minutes passed before the food arrived. Somehow, even our iced tea didn't make it to the table until the food did. All told, we spent roughly an hour sitting at an empty table without so much as a beverage, and about 90 minutes from the time we arrived until we actually had food in front of us.
At that point, the whole experience was becoming almost comical.
We ordered a cod burger with fries, a Caesar salad, onion rings and an iced tea.
The cod burger was okay. Nothing memorable, but edible.
The Caesar salad was actually good.
The fries, however, arrived cold, soggy and thoroughly greasy -- quite an accomplishment considering how long we waited for them.
The onion rings apparently embarked on a separate journey altogether, because they never arrived. By then, we'd lost the will to ask about them and just gave up.
The grand total for one cod burger with cold fries, a small Caesar salad and an iced tea? $40.00!
We mentioned the long wait, forgotten food and other problems to our waiter. He was sympathetic and explained that they were short staffed, which we understand can make things difficult. But being short staffed doesn't make a 90-minute lunch, no drinks for an hour, cold soggy fries and forgotten food any less disappointing -- especially at those prices.
By the end, we weren't even angry. The whole thing had crossed over into comedy.
Needless to say, on future drives between Oregon and Seattle, we'll be finding a different midway lunch stop.
