Delicious, flavorful food, but the service was not good.\n\nMy fiance and I decided to check this place out on Sunday night to celebrate our recent engagement. We walked up to the host stand and had to greet the woman behind the desk before she acknowledged us. She asked how many and our first and last name. I asked her if there was a wait and she said no but proceeded to make us stand there awkwardly for over 5 minutes until another hostess could come seat us. I proceeded to tell the hostess we were celebrating our engagement but she must not have cared that much because she sat us in a row of 2 tops in between a single woman and two older women. Needless to say that put a damper on the rest of our dining experience. There were booths and other more intimate tables available all over and so I asked to move to one of the booths and she went and approved it with the front and then came back and moved us. We were not greeted for over five minutes, and then waited over ten minutes just for water! Once our waiter came back with the water we ordered a few drinks and put in an order for some hummus in hopes that it would come out quickly as we were starving. Another ten minutes go by before we received our cocktails. When he came back to drop them off, we told him we wanted to put in an order for our meal and he said he would be right back, this time another 5 minutes go by so with my calculations over twenty-five minutes have gone by with no food. We finally get the rest of our tapas ordered and after another five minutes we received a salad we ordered as part of our meal. Still no hummus, which we saw others around us receiving. Upon delivery of our salad we asked the server who delivered it if she could check on our hummus. Our original server stops by a few moments later and realizes he forgot to ring it in. It was delivered a few minutes later with some apologies. After the initial thirty minutes of our bad service, he seemed to be more involved. I don't know if the guy was panicking with the thought of us complaining but we felt like what was supposed to be a romantic night of celebration for us was ruined by absent minded staff and terribly slow service for a tapas restaurant. We did have some amazing cocktails including the Old Hollywood and the Honey Citrus Sidecar. The hummus with tahini and the bread served with it was warm, toasty and we craved having a second helping. We also ordered the grilled halloumi salad, which was mildly dressed with sweet vinaigrette and the salty fried cheese served with it paired beautifully. The house pickles were a fun snack, the meatball tagine were incredibly moist, had a nice smokey flavor too them and the sauce dipped perfectly into that toasty bread. The vegetable beignet were a good mix of different fried veggies served with a dill tahini sauce, the fig and almond panacotta was light, creamy and the real vanilla bean in it was the perfect finish to our meal. My fiance also had a Turkish coffee which he enjoyed. I wish I could give this place a higher rating as the food was very very flavorful and we loved that we were able to try several different dishes without walking away feeling uncomfortably full. The restaurant itself was stylish, had a great open kitchen floor plan and looked like a great place to have a fun dinner party or an intimate date. However, the delay of good service was disappointing and it would have shown us he realized he had made a mistake if he had asked a manager to take the hummus off of our bill, which did not happen.
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