Problem: Our experience here was awkward, uncomfortable, and overall unpleasurable. There was a group of 7 of us in town on business. We are all on our own expense account so we need to pay separately. The waitress was snotty, and pissed that we needed to split the check. She did back down a bit and agreed to only split the check a maximum of 6 ways. She wasn't busy, we were there when there were only a few other tables. She just didn't want to spend the effort to accomodate. I'm hoping that something was getting lost in translation, because some of her comments and responses to us were just downright rude. For example, when a couple of people in the party had questions about the selections she kept responding in a rude tone with the phrase "I'm waiting to take your order". Maybe the poor service set the tone and skewed my expectations, but the meal that followed wasn't all that great. Two of my peers chose egg rolls for an appetizer. They were clearly served spring rolls (both are offered on the menu). When we inquired with one of the table attendants if we got the right thing, the answer was something to the effect of "americans don't know what egg rolls are"... the busser came by and said he'd take the rolls back and correct the order, but the pissy server came over, insisted that we were provide the correct dish, and her disdain for us continued to grow. Lady, I know the difference between a spring roll and egg roll. The large table was adorned with a huge lazy susan in the middle, which made it very easy to share each dish with each other. The seafood fried rice was good. The crispy duck was dry, it was either overcooked, or cooked in advance and reheated. The Szechuan dumplings were spicy but good. The steamed dumplings were just average. The dry chili tofu had plenty of flavor, but the tofu itself was dry and again seemed to be way overcooked. Overall, the dishes all seemed to be overcooked, oversalted or MSG'd, or over-oiled. This was one of the worst dining experiences in the past few years. The piss poor attidue paired with sub-par food left us wondering if we were in some kind of hidden camera show. I think that if any of us were not dining with our work colleagues we'd have either responded more aggresively to how we were treated, or would have walked out all together. It's sad, because the menu items seemed interesting and the space is beautiful.
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Problem: Nelson is the bomb, everytime I go they make me feel like a king. My sons and I will not go anyplace else.
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Problem: Walked in this morning for breakfast and couldn't bring ourselves to stay. Felt like a barnyard meets trailer park. Hostess and waitstaff covered in tattoos and greasy hair highlighted every color of the rainbow. Sat at a freezing cold table in the middle of this mess and when asked for a booth, was told it was all they had (I counted 3 empty booths). Really??? Then the hostess said "pretty much". Yeah, I don't think so. Decided we wanted a better dining experience, so we left. Not paying for dirty chaos. Sorry. Came to the Cracked Egg a very short distance down the road and VERY happy with the service and ambiance.
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Problem: I find myself still referring to this place as "George Papa's..." but hopefully I will one day call it by it's new name. Super impressed with the renovations that have gone through to get this alley up to date! Still does not change the fact that I cannot for the life of me operate a bowling lane keyboard to program the names in, but I digress. Also impressed with the level of food this place has - not your typical "bowling alley" type hot dogs and pizza, but to be able to offer bbq WITH jalapeno coffee sauce! This place was blowing my mind with flavor and fun! All the renovations have really brought this location up to par with what I call "the Montford drive revolution." I'm going to date myself here, but I still remember when this drive was pretty quiet. Regardless, Ten Park lanes definitely is a great option for the weekend or weekday! Now I just need to work on my bowling finish (usually lose my balance and end up almost faceplanting every time).
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