Perhaps I just expect too much. This place is great if you don't count the following: service, courtesy, prompt seating, being prejudged by the obviously full of themselves service staff, a or decent wine list. Bluehour fades rather quickly after you get over the ""less is more"" decor. It won't take long for you to realize that the menu, the wine list and the whole scene is reserved for some sort of ""inside group"". To be a truly great restaurant, (one that lasts and continues to grow) it is important to grow your clientele. And in order to do that you must listen to them and learn form them. No one in Portland wants to be treated indifferently or rudely when they have made a time and financial commitment to dine somewhere. The staff at Bluehour needs to get over itself and understand that they are not Bluehour, its guests are. This is not Manhattan, or San Francisco because in those fine cities professional servers take pride in their work and hone their craft in such a way as to bring guests back again and again, not look them up and down and smirk when simple questions are asked. When I recently spoke to a manager after our disappointing experience I was left with the impression that he was a mere figurehead who held no sway over his staff. The menu: seems to have been created for a food writer. The service: absent and/or rude. The wine list: odd, overpriced, and amateurish.
Pros: nice curtains
Cons: how much time do you have?
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