I visit Ipswich area about once a year. Remembering a lovely meal about a year ago, I decided to make reservation to Zabaglione on Saturday September 19 at 8pm. After being seated and after being served a bottle of wine that we ordered, we waited patiently for the waitress to take our order. After few minutes she came over. My wife being a vegetarian and on a restricted diet, ordered a green salad from the menu as her first course, and for the second course she requested a grilled vegetable medley with any available vegetables, with the exception of the three she don't like: eggplant, zucchini, and artichoke. I ordered Grilled Portobello Mushrooms as an appetizer, and a veal chop special that they were offering for that day. Being a nice evening we where in no rush, especially that we had the bread and wine already served. After some time the waitress came over and put a dish in front of me, turned around and left without saying a word. She didn't bring the salad for my wife. The dish in front of me didn't look like anything that I ordered. It had mushrooms, but it wasn't Portobello. It looked like another mushroom dish they had on the menu. Since she didn't bring the salad for my wife, I thought that possibly they are delivering it to the wrong table. I managed to catch my waitress attention. She came over and I told her that it is not the Portobello mushrooms that I ordered. She looked kind of hesitant; she took the dish and said: ""we will have to make a new one"". Not but ninety seconds later the owner / chef Michael Zabaglione comes over to our table. He looks as though he just had a conniption. Looking with that wild face at my wife, he says: ""I don't have the vegetables that you ordered. That makes me confused. GO EAT SOMEWHERE ELSE"". He tears up the check and throws it on the table and repeats: ""GO EAT SOMWHERE ELSE"". For split second I thought it is some kind of a joke. Am I on Seinfeld???? Is it Candid Camera???? Being in the restaurant and hospitality business myself for forty years, I have never experienced or heard anything close to this. I managed to mumble: ""how is it that we make you confused"", but received no reply. I walked over to the open kitchen area and said: ""Mr.; that was uncalled for. You are an Idiot"". He just waived with his hand dismissively as though saying: get lost. I motioned to my wife to get up and follow me outside, she was still in disbelieving shock, I had to go over to the table and prompt her to get up and leave.
Pros: Town of IPSWICH
Cons: Owner cheff Michael
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