Urban Tea Loft - you saviour of professional women who have no one to dine with bcz they work too many hours and their husband is always away on business. Oh wait, this should be a food review and not an ongoing diatribe on my pitiful life. So, let me back up! Urban Tea Loft - First, they have got their tea down. Nice selection and for $5 a pot and constant refills what is not to like. For someone who pulls their tea off the shelf of their local grocer, they offer some very exotic blends - blueberry, wintergreens blended with fruits and the like. Just picking a tea is an adventure unless you a tea ninja and blueberry is so last month for you. Bitter at working extra hours, just peeking thru the review, nevermind me! Their food and dining ambience is very inviting. As the above whining elaborated on, the menu and the restaurant has a certain bistro quality to it. Sit down by yourself and enjoy a small plate of something, it will be tasty. The soups are fresh and made on premises. The menu is overall rather sophisticated and includes dinner entrees. They are a little on the pricey side. A drink, appetizer and small plate will set you back about $25. They have a wine and beer selection - thank you god for liquor licenses and their service is always impeccable. ENJOY!
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I love the Cal with everything I've got. I've been staying here at least once (and usually twice) a year since I turned 21, and we've even made it a family tradition to meet here for Thanksgiving. I'm a Hawaii girl, and this is the closest I can get to home without flying all that way. It breaks my heart to have to give this two stars, but I don't have any other choice. We checked in today only to find our thermostat broken. It would only blow cold air. Even after it reached its set temperature, it continued to blow cold air rather than turning off. Even if you had it at the hottest setting and the room was frigid, it would only blow cold air. We called the front desk who said they'd send up an engineer. 45 minutes later, the engineer came up (I have to note here that he was the nicest, most polite guy) and said there was no quick fix (he'd have to cut a hole in the ceiling), so we could either have only cold air or only hot air blowing. We asked the front desk to be transferred to another room and were told that they only had smoking rooms available. On both calls, we spoke with the same person (didn't catch her name), and she wasn't apologetic. She even seemed annoyed that we were bothering her. We decided to go down there and speak with the front desk face to face thinking they might be nicer to us if they had to look at us. We were told again that there were no other rooms available. We asked again--surely there was SOMETHING else they could do. Surely our only option wasn't to be uncomfortable for the whole weekend, to be hot or cold or surrounded by cigarette smell. The girl we spoke to, Christina, was very sweet but had just started and didn't seem to know what she could do. She wasn't the person we spoke with on the phone. She enlisted the help of two other employees (neither of whom spoke to us or even made eye contact as they came over to assist) and although they said again (count them, this is the third time) that they could only give us a smoking room, they were magically able to produce a non-smoking room with a working AC unit on the fourth look in the system. (And they only took this fourth look after we asked if we could stay in a room in another of their properties in the area.) Throughout this ordeal, ONLY ONE person (the engineer) apologized for the inconvenience. Seriously? Guys, you're in the service industry. This didn't need to be a big deal. Your poor handling of the situation made it a big deal. I feel so let down.
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The grossest place I've ever stayed at! The bottoms of my feet are still black after showering, just from one walk across the dirty carpet. Hairs in the linen, long and short... And shorter. A broken hair dryer, no washcloths and the vending machines swallow you money as if they've never been fed! Beds are hard and there was no remote. The only good thing, was great water pressure.... In a disgusting bathroom. Keep driving, for $45 a night you could do better.
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This is a cool venue to catch a show. I actually played a show here and it was good times. They have a large dance floor or an area where people can gather to watch performers. They also have a nice sized Bar which can handle a good sized crowd. We all know that is a must when it comes getting a drink in a crowed venue. I really enjoyed this spot and had a fun time rocking peoples face off!
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