I wish I would have seen the ratings for this place before we went.
Net-net: Expensive. Avoid this place. Service is bad. Food is average at best, and they overcharge.
Monday evening, a lot of other local places were closed, looked interesting from the outside. Should have stopped there!
It was not busy at all, 5 tables. Seated rather quickly. Menus on table good!
Then.................it took awhile before waitress came to get drinks and apps order.
Then it took another long while to get 4 drinks. Again, 5 tables. I am from Montreal and we are used to "casual" service, but the waitress was chatty Cathy and yacking it up with a couple at the bar. So eventually drinks came....
Apps when they came out were good. Bruchetta did come out wet, the cook should have grilled the bread before putting the toppings on, then flash heated under the salamander. But overall an ok start. However the silverware and napkins were not on the table, bit of a delay but they came with some water at the table.
Then the long wait came....waitress chatted with bar patrons, then two women came in who the waitress knew, she seated them in the back and sat down with them and chatted.....and chatted.
I finally had to get up, approach the waitress (she saw me get up and shot over from the chatty table) and ask for a second round of drinks, refill of the water jug (no service pours here) and ask about the food.
Then another wait......drinks come out. No food.
Waitress saunters to the kitchen and food arrives. We had the vodka gnocchi and tomato bowtie pasta. All 4 plates had been sitting under a heat lamp. Gnocchi had a decent rosé sauce, but definitely not a vodka sauce. Sun dried tomato bowtie with chicken came out oily with no tomato taste, and the chicken was dried out. Not even worthy to take home.
My daughters ordered mock drinks, but we were charged full price for drinks.
When my partner explained to the waitress that her plate was oily and dry, the waitress did offer to replace it, but we would still be waiting for that to be served if we took her up on it. Waitress simply took the plate off of the bill.
Clear the staff is not motivated and this place will close soon if this is the norm.
Avoid....there are much better places to go in Kingston! read more