I've been going to Clementine's for more than 2 years but the service has severely gone down. While the food is tasty (albeit it a tad bland or greasy at times and costly), the service has become atrocious. Always crowded, this pace is in the Beverly Hills, Century City area, full of uppity customers yapping on cell phones, demanding to be waited on NOW. The staff is unfriendly and not helpful, but given their clientele, I can forgive the annoyance in their eyes.
After standing for more than 10 minutes holding boxes of food, desperately trying to get a staff member to select me as one of the lucky few who may get a chance to have their order taken, I kept thinking how glad I was that I was not one of the poor wretches sitting at the tables still waiting for their food.
Finally, after bitterly realizing that I was not going to be selected as a customer that day, I put the food back and left.
Fortunately, the day wasn't a total loss. I did learn that watching flies land on ""Free Braised Beef Samples"", (smartly placed next to the cash register to better maximum germ exposure), is a great appetite suppressant.
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