Went to Symposium before a Bulls game after learning of 30 min. waits at Tylers. We were seated quickly, however nothing after that was quick at all. The seating, while comfortoble for lounging, is awful for eating a meal, and it looks quite odd and clunky in the beautiful warehouse space. After 5+ minutes, a guy introduced himself as our server, took drink orders, then disappeared for some time. Someone else brought out our drinks. Our original server stopped by a few minutes later w/ waters and said he'd be "right back" to take our orders. He then disappeared for a while again, only to be seen running ice buckets. We flagged someone else down and placed our order. It took almost another 30 minutes for our food to arrive (and of course the baseball game was about to start). Not only was the food slow to arrive, it was not very good at all...the meat was tough and somewhat fatty, for example. For the price, I expected something a little better. Especially considering the quality of other restaurants in the American Tobacco complex. Our server came back by and we went ahead and asked for the check. After almost another 10 minutes, he still hadn't returned, so we tracked someone else down and he brought the check after another 5 minutes or so. If I had the cash, I would've paid that way to avoid yet another wait for the credit card slip, but no such luck. So finally, after another few minutes of waiting, I paid for the sub-par meal and left. Bottom line - I will never return, and would never recommend this place to anyone. It is obvious now why there was no wait here while Tylers and Mellow Mushroom were packed with many folks waiting outside for a table.
Pros: Great converted warehouse space
Cons: Everything else
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