Milwaukee Restaurant Guide

I have eaten at Alioto's for many years the service is usually slow to extra slow, occasionally you get lucky and you get a little faster service. The fishfry is usually good. The only other thing I will order is the hamburger, which was usualiy good, but the last time I had it it was I don't know what. They need more help. The only reason I go is because of family members wanting to go there. They keep having the steak which is usually tough . I hope I never get dragged back there again. To slow to get food to slow for service

We were the last to arrive to a large group. Ordered the perch Friday fish fry including fries, cole slaw, bread, and lemon; sounded great. The fish and fries arrived almost instantaneously. And nothing more. No bread, no slaw, no lemon. Ate the fish anyway, which was OK sans lemon. Wanted to ask the waitress for our entire order, but.... you guessed it.... no service. She only appeared to clear our plates without asking if all was OK, or if we wanted dessert, or a refill of my soda.

My custom in this situation, which has occurred 3 times before in my life, is to leave a 2-cent tip (1 cent could be a mistake; no tip might be Alzheimer's) but of course the tip was built into the bill for the whole table.

I felt compelled to complain at the front desk, and got a fairly defensive response. I was told the dinner was "family style" with shared slaw and bread; I had noticed an empty dish further down the table, apparently for the slaw. This wasn't on the menu, and my ESP was out of tune, so I was unaware of where to look for the other meal components. I was offered a fairly cold offer of a refund, which I refused. If I'd been thinking fast enough, I would have demanded a take-out order of slaw and bread, at least completing the order I'd paid for, and a $2 refund of the mandatory tip. Oh, and 2 pennies to the waitress.