Service was not so great. The maitre d' was very disorganized and there was a line leading up the stairs of people waiting to be seated. The wait between our starters and the main course was at least 30 minutes without any acknowledgement or apology for the wait. The couple next to us, although seated after us, had dessert, coffee and paid their bill even before our main course arrived. We both had the farmers basket soup as a starter. Unless you REALLY like tomatoes (like the peeled type from a can), I suggest you skip this. We had the striped bass and a sausage pizza for the main course. The fish didn't really taste that fresh and had a strange consistency with parts that were inedible. One of the ingredients in the sauce was chorizo, which really has no place in Northern Italian cooking. The pizza dough had the consistency of frozen pizza. We opted to not have dessert this night and were quite prepared to be on our way.
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Very small but the food is good and I love the coffee they use
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Happy Hour Review: We had a nice time at the Culinary Dropout's HH this past Friday. We arrived around four-thirty and the inside bar was pack. The hostess said the HH was limited to the bar area inside and out. Nahhhh we thought, we'll stay inside thank you very much. It was 105 degrees and the outdoor water misters were totally ineffective I mentioned in passing that I had read about their HH on Yelp. After checking with her Manager, she came back and offered us one of the communal tables near the stage. AMBIANCE/MOOD: The crowd was a mixture of Millennium's and Gen X'er, along with an equal number of retires. So eclectic? The interior had that old tin and aluminum stamped walls, reminiscent of the NY in the 1930s, with a large stage. It also has several large B&W photos from the 1960s of Janis Joplin, The Who, Roy Orbison along with a very young Boss, creating some good Karma. MENU: All of the food is $6.00: Grilled cheese sliders; Chopped salad; yummy Korean beef on a stick (photos); Pretzels & Fondue; meatloaf sandwich; Smoked salmon bruschetta, Antipasti and much more. All beers are $3.00 served in a 12oz mug; most wines are $6.00 and the Well cocktails are $4.00. SERVICE: Tom our server was pretty cool and on top of things. He worked hard at refilling our glasses and had an intimate knowledge of the menu, both HH and regular dinner. Even though this was HH, there was a focus on the regular menu. FOOD: Everything we tried was excellent. The salad, Fondue and meatloaf sandwich, were all very large. While the Korean Beef on the Stick was very good though it could be larger. But it too was delicious, and not overly spicy. PRICES: As I mentioned the Happy Hour food prices were all $6.00. Our bill came to under $41 including taxes but not gratuities. Enjoy!
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Avoid this place if you can!! I came here with my husband for an immigration physical that he needed (the immigration department only accepts a short list of Dr's and one of them at this practice is on this list). We had to come here a total of 3 times, and wait over an hour the first time, a half hour the second and an hour just to pick up our documents. The nurses were awful with people, one of the secretaries was completely incompetent but felt it appropriate to be condescending when we pointed out the copies we were given were not correct and the forms they should be experts on were not correctly filled out. All in all, the long wait time, incompetence and unfriendliness of the staff makes this a place I will never come back and am urging all Yelpers to stay away from.
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