I decided to have my boyfriend's bday here just this past weekend based on some reviews I had read. I wanted to stay in this area of the city, so this seemed like a good choice (no pun intended). Contacted Katie, the event coordinator, to arrange a table for Saturday night at around 7pm for 10-12 people. I had a little trouble getting people on the phone so most of this was done by email, which was fine. She was really helpful and accomodating to us all. We had a great table set up in the back of the restaurant for 6:30 which was early, but I'm glad we did it earlier rather than later. By the time we had wrapped up dinner (to go have drinks at a few other places) it was almost 9:00 and the place was really busy.
Dinner was great. Debbie was our waitress and really did a great job of keeping our drinks coming and taking our appetizer and dinner orders (plus some of the guys thought she was pretty cute, so I'm sure that didn't hurt!). Food was good. Had appetizers, sandwiches/entrees/salads. I cannot speak for everyone but most people liked their food just fine. I LOVE the $5 happy hour...really nice to not pay a fortune all night for drinks and to catch a break at least for this part of the evening. We also had a cake from a local bakery and they were good enough to keep it cold for us and bring out plates and silverware to serve it (didn't want to do bday candles and the whole song and dance thing, but I'm sure they would have done it if we had wanted to).
The whole bill came to $450 for 10 people, with PLENTY of drinks, food, appetizers, etc. I think that's really affordable! Gratuity was of course included. They were really great and I appreciated it all. Oh, and Katie even brought out shots and did one with us! That was really thoughtful.
I'll most definately go back here for just dinner with friends or another function. I would highly recommend this place!
Pros: Great attention to service, food, everything!
Cons: No complaints. Probably hard to get in on a late Sat. night with no reservation.
Posted 10/07/07