text: There seems to be two different experiences here, the one that most people have had, and then the one my friend and I had. I have no problem spending money on good food and drinks, but I was hard pressed to spend $85 on brunch that had the word \"buffet\" in it. When Julie K had posted a talk thread informing us of the Groupon Reserve, 2 for $99, I jumped on it figuring there wouldn't be better time to try it. Made a reservation for 10:30, arrived on time, and was seated an hour later. An hour. I guess they figure my time isn't valuable, I could've slept in longer! Finally we were seated but didn't have our drink ordered taken for another 10 minutes, as we were sitting there I was noticing the decor, I felt like I was in a Cosby Show episode, the ambiance was very strange. 80's theme all the way. Started out at the station with the broiled lobster tails, seemed to look good, they were split in half so I grabbed a couple, these were decent but nothing spectacular. I skipped the carving station as I'm not a huge meat eater so I can't comment on that. The entire warming station was set up like a catering type deal, all the food is in a metal flip top with fire under neath so all the food had that hardened layer on top. Not appetizing at all. Went over to the sushi station, ordered hamachi and tako, when I got to the table, I noticed how hard the fish was, I wasn't brave enough to try it. The caviar was scooped from a bucket type thing, I gave it a try but spit it out. It was so warm. I tried the oysters which were stacked on a plate sitting on ice, again when I returned to the table I noticed how smelly they were. So I was too nervous to try them. All the while we were barely checked on my our server, we had maybe 3 refills of PJ (that's basically the best part of the meal so far) we ended up eating mostly crab legs and a few crab claws. The desserts were comparable to Costco, we tried the creme br\u00fbl\u00e9e, ehh. It gives me no pleasure to complain about this entire meal/experience but I cannot see how this was a great experience from anyone? We tipped on the full amount, so this still was a $70 meal. This was a huge disappointment.