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El Farol Restaurant & Cantina

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El Farol made me cry 1/5/2009

I gave many chances cuz I luv the location,atmosphere,& tapas.But I'll NEVER go back.Once,my hubby & I went on an early Tues.evening & the OWNER was rude cuz we didn't make reservations.We didn'tknow!But we let it go.Another time we went & there was a cover for a band.We couldn't pay.As we were leaving,a DOORMAN started yelling! we went for our friend's bday once & we had awful service.Our server would forget about us,walk past us a jillion times, was very curt,etc.So we didnt go back for another 2 yrs but we decided to check it out for lunch.We were seated in plain view of the server station leading to the patio.There was 1 young lady working with a few males.I watched this girl & all these guys displaying a gross amt of PDA.Butt grabbing & slapping, massages, guys coming up from behind & groping,giggling. I couldn't believe it! I'm sayin 1 female among 5 or 6 male coworkers.It was unappetizing & I was mad to pay $50 for lunch to have to see all of that throughout my meal.Then the CD player was skipping & it took someone 3 or 4 min.to stop it.Maybe cuz a bartender was busy messin with this girl, who knows!So we didnt go back for another yr & a half then we decided to give dinner another shot.The prices had been removed from the tapas menu, which I thought was weird.That aside,it took my server 30 min.to get a glass of wine.When we got our meal, we were informed there was NO BREAD! At a tapas restaurant! Unacceptable! Then we realized our food was STONE COLD.We took a couple bites& couldn't eat anymore.Cold fried polenta,fried avocado,pork,shrimp=gross.Then it took our server 15 min.to check in.We told her it was cold & she comped the meal,which was nice,but i couldn't believe probably $50 worth of food was comped( i dunno how much it cost, since the prices weren't listed)& a manager didn't come over & ask what was wrong! I cried a little out of frustration.By the time we got out of there,it was too late to go anywhere else nice.So we went & had a burger at a bar. Pros: cool, old building. awesome location. Cons: everything else more
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