text: Heading to a restaurant during restaurant week is a double edged sword As a guest I typically have moderate expectations as I know the restaurants in question can be absolutely inundated with customers And sometimes the participating restaurants shine And sometimes they totally take a digger nnA group of girlfriends and I decided to make a reservation at Bernarndins for Queens Feast so we were able to check out a variety of items on the menu catch up etc The interior is still lovely and has not changed much since Ratcliffe on the Green the few exceptions being that there is more artwork of sorts on the walls nnWe were seated fairly promptly and our server came and walked us through the menus Now I completely understand that everyone servers included can have a rough day Or a rough night Or even a rough few days And I am certain our server was having one of the above Girlfriend did not crack a smile the entire night She did not seem happy to be there or even remotely interested in serving us A few of us tried to make her laugh and that did not even work nnOn to the food and drinkswe all ordered a cocktail of sorts and when one was misdelivered to my buddy and identified as such the server replaced it with the correct drink and then took it away to trash it Um why would not you just offer the drink up to the table to enjoy rather than throwing away a perfectly fine cocktail Odd nnFood wise I went off the restaurant week menu because it was very different than what I saw online which is fine I know they have to make accommodations with ingredients and ordered the scallops I snacked a warm roll drank my nicely made dirty martini and waited The scallops came out in a very nice sized portion with loads of risotto and unfortunately plenty of oil My scallops were cooked nicely on one side seared to perfection on the top and a little under cooked on the other side The flavor was nice on those little discs However the risotto and pools of oil that had coagulated in the corners really turned me off Said risotto was cooked nicely but it was completely overloaded with salt And the puddles of oil ruined the fresh taste of the scallops Sad To be fair I tasted my friends filet and it was delightful I had total meal envy nnFor dessert I sampled a bit of my girlfriends peanut butter cheesecake with Oreo crust nicely done great flavor and texture I ordered the strawberry shortcake which was very light and airy but lacked sweetness My dessert was fine but I would not order it again When we received our bill from grumpapotapus our gratuity was automatically added to the tune of Automatically adding gratuity to a six top is all fine and well a let us know that you did so in person and b usually when I see an autogratuity it is in the range nnNow if I received this type of service and sub par eats during any time but restaurant week it would be a stretch to rate Bernardins a star But to be fair the restaurant was packed our server was in a crappy mood so I am hoping I just went on a very off night