Last night my husband and I had a very short baby sitting window to grab a few bites and drinks. After stopping next door at Sienna for a drink and app we decided to head over to NOLA next.\nI have been there once before a few years ago with a girlfriend and I had the best oyster stew I have ever had. That is why I gave a two star review. Unfortunately this time we didn't get to try anything to eat. \nWe sat ourselves at the bar after alerting the host that we were there for a drink and an app. It seemed fairly busy. Not crazy, but decently busy. We sat and waited for anyone to acknowledge our arrival. Down the bar we saw a barback polishing glasses. A couple employees farther down chatting it up with each other. So we decided to give it a few minutes before making any rational decisions. \nAnother minute or so goes by. The manager walks right by us with glasses without even looking at us or any of the other guests at the bar. At this point we realize that we think there is only one bartender for the whole 20 person bar. My thing is if you only have one bartender and barback maybe help your employees out a little bit? \nSo another couple minutes go by. We decide to give it another 60 seconds. And alas, nothing. So we missed out on our stew and drink we were looking forward to and decided to get up and leave. \nI don't know if anyone noticed the two people sitting at the bar got up and left. I honestly hope they did. We are both in the restaurant/bar industry and the first thing you do when you are in the weeds is at least aknowledge to new guests that you will be with them shortly. We may have been more forgiving if someone at least said hello to us. \nMaybe one day we will try to include NOLA into our downtown restaurant hop date-night again. But probably not in the near future.
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