never going back. we had heard so many positive things about this place that we decided to try it on a saturday morning. we waited but got in rather quickly and were served promptly by an efficient, very busy server.
now - the food. i ordered eggs and bacon with fresh fruit and rye toast. my partner ordered the country skillet with brown toast. the eggs, bacon, and fruit were great even though she switched our toast. but the skillet. oh my. i doubt i have ever seen a more questionable dish in any established restaurant and it tasted worse than it looked. this was supposed to be a combination of eggs, vegetables, sausage, hashbrowns and hollandaise sauce - what he got was an off-white gravy, perhaps a turkey gravy? it didn't look or taste like hollandaise and the dish was swimming in it.
at first, we thought, this is the saddest hollandaise on the planet (and we make our own semi-regularly, so we both know how it should taste and look). then, we considered that maybe someone in the kitchen just added the wrong sauce to the dish - possible and would explain it.
we would have liked to explore this more with the staff, but no one asked how our food was. my partner ate it like a good guest, quietly noting that he would never come back. the plates were cleared, our coffee was refilled. when we went to the front counter to pay, the bill was presented, payment was taken and we were sent on our way. all without the important detail of asking "how was everything?"
"well, actually..."
"oh, was there a problem?"
"we were just wondering..."
and so on.
instead, we are posting this on a website for all to read. if you do go there, maybe you could ask two questions on our behalf (since i will never be able to talk my partner into going again).
1) is your hollandaise made with egg yolk, butter, and lemon, or is it made with corn starch and turkey base?
2) do you care if your guests like the food or is the assembly line of "feed'em - git their money" all that we can expect?