A diner from Rhinebeck, NY
Mar 10, 2013
Crucifying a restaurant in a review is something I take very seriously and haven't done before. I don't do it now without a lot of thought, HOWEVER, this was the worst meal I've ever had at a Chinese Restaurant. Bad food. ridiculously high prices, strange vibe, strange ambience.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
