I usually go to a new place with enthusiasm and anticipation, hoping that the experience will be a good one and the first of many to come. My dinner at Bar+Bistro last night will be the first and last, I'm sorry to say. It started out well, as four of my friends and I met there to socialize and check out this place. First of all, when we were seated on the patio around 6:00pm, our waiter brought us two menus to share because, \"we can't find the other ones right now.\" Huh? There was one other party on the patio and the inside of the restaurant was empty. We ordered a pitcher of sangria, which was excellent, and I was excited to see how the food would taste. From the tapas menu, we had the french onion soup, sweet potato fries and house fries, 4 cheese mac, and the tempura alcachofa (artichokes in a sort of tempura fried batter). The sweet potato fries and soup were good, the other dishes were just okay. My friends also ordered the Paella Velazquez, but I didn't eat any of that and they also graded it as okay. For dessert, we shared the Ricotta Citrus Cheesecake, the Triple Gelato (coconut, mango, and dark chocolate), and the Donut Churros (cinnamon sugar with chocolate sauce): I think those and the sangria were the best part of the meal! Seriously! After dessert, two of the waiters whisked our wine glasses away since we overheard them say that they ran out. Menus and wine glasses are apparently in high demand there.\n When it came time to pay, four of us whipped out our credit cards and were admonished by the waiter that they don't split checks. Well, we didn't ask to have the check split, but we were going to split the bill among us. He told us that he could take 3 credit cards maximum, we should work it out amongst ourselves, and he'd return when we had done so---what?! None of us had ever been to an establishment that had such a rule and all it did was make us angry. What does it take to swipe one extra credit card, after all? It's too bad that our meal had to end that way, but now we can say we've been to Bar+Bistro--once.
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