My first experience at this place was fabulous ... My girlfriends and I had drinks and snacks and an overall great time on a Sunday night ... We told the owner, a cute blonde women, that we couldn't wait to come back the next Saturday with our spouses ... She didn't mention that we should make reservations or that she'd really rather we not bother, so we showed up ... All ten of us! Before we could order any food she informed us that there was a 45 minute wait for dinner ... Really? I guess the waiter who sat four of us at an empty table didn't know about the wait. And hard to imagine why there was any wait at all given the other three empty tables. When two more of our group showed up, the lady sitting alone at the table behind us offered up her empty chairs. The owner countered with ""As soon as this patron is finished with her meal, your friends have to leave."" After all there was the phantom 45 minute wait list. Her tone and body language suggested she wanted us to leave ... I tried to plead our case to a waiter, explaining we didn't know there was a wait list since the other waiter simple led us to a table. Before I could suggest our party be placed on the ""wait list"", the waiter replied loudly (enough to my cheeks turned red) ""I'm not the right bald guy and I'm too busy to talk to you!"" No problem - we left and walked into the Mexican restaurant (El Mariachi Loco III) next door where we were welcomed with smiling faces, great food and good service. The rest of our party showed up just as we were leaving and managed to keep our coveted table, where they proceeded to eat and drink until the place cleared out . . . At no time, did a wave of people show up to have their names marked off the ""wait list"" and when my friends left the place was close to empty. Since this establishment isn't on the cheap side, you can imagine how much revenue this owner lost due to making us feel unwelcome . . . \r
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I won't be back next year . . . or ever!!!
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