Won't be going back there...

...and now I can say that with conviction because I've been there. There being, Founding Farmers.

There wasn't any one thing that was awful... it was just a bunch of little things that were 'eh.'

Like the light but constant deep fryer smell. Or maybe shallow fryer smell. But the place smelled like fried food.

And that my salad arrived with the dressing all over it, rather than on the side as requested. When you're paying $16 for a salad, it's not too much to ask that it's made 'to order.' As often, the dressing was overwhelming--just a bit overwhelming, but still. I'd have preferred to have less of it.

Then a friend's mousse came with caramel drizzle, after she'd specifically asked that it be omitted. She wouldn't have said anything had it not been for my salad (about which I hadn't said anything, to the waiter--it was only afterward, when we were discussing how mediocre our meals had been, that I mentioned it). I'm glad she spoke up.

So there you have it: fried-smelling, overpriced, and mediocre (in terms of food and service). And yet, crowded, even on a Monday night, with a line to get in by the time we left. I don't get it.

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T, I'll have been at this job for two years next month, and I can't believe they're still showing Fox News at that gym! We were fighting that fight back when I was working out there! Unf*ingbelievable.