My wife and I were invited to dine at Donatelli's Bistro with some family and other guests for New Years eve , I had heard the pizza was good and since I was starting a diet why not get one good last meal in. We arrive at the restaurant and had reservations for seven o'clock so we waited maybe five or ten minutes( not unexpected on New Years Eve ) , we get seated and the first thing we notice is a condensed menu ( which did not include pizza) with your choice of main course, choice of a side , a salad , dessert and a glass of champagne . We had a group of twelve and the waitress took our drink orders and after receiving our drinks took our meal order ( the waitress should have took our meal orders while waiting for our drinks to be ready but that's my opinion) , after waiting about an hour we finally get our main course and we waited ten minutes before we said something to the waitress about our sides ( some of us already half finished with there main and she comes back only to say that the side of garlic mashed potatoes (which most of the group had ordered ) we're out of ..... HOW DID THEY NOT KNOW THIS WHEN WE ORDERED? Not the end of the world , we all ordered the baked potato and while waiting on that , a card asking that :out of respect for the other people with reservations please limit your time at the table to two hours. We are about ten minutes away from that timeline at this point ! Then the waitress tells us there out of baked potatoes ( you've got to be kidding ) . Another member at our table got a steak that was rare when he ordered it medium, he complained to someone and gets a gift certificate ( hows that help the rest of us?) we had to find the waitress to get our dessert , no champagne was offered , and it took half an hour to get our bills split up( which how hard is it to start by making separate bills ,again my opinion) . I should have walked out without paying but my wife and I knew that wasn't right . We paid but we will not be going back!
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