McCormick's used to be one of my favorite places: beautiful room, wonderful seafood, excellent old-fashioned service and terrific sourdough bread. I recommended the place to a group for a business lunch yesterday and I'm sorry I did. My ahi tuna Nicoise ""salad"" consisted of a few leaves of unwashed greens in a reasonably good vinaigrette, 4 olives, a hard-boiled egg with the green ring around the yolk that showed it was way over-cooked, 3 raw green beans, a tablespoon of unripe, tasteless tomato cubes and a baseball-sized piece of cooled ""tuna""? way past its prime and way over-cooked. And the sourdough bread? Nowhere to be seen Other members of the party wisely avoided the seafood. Only one finished his Rueben; I hope he called his cardiologist when he got back to his office. The waiter, who proudly told us he was from Brooklyn, was arrogant and obnoxious. Don't believe the Editor's Note-quality is the last thing on the mind of the management here. The waiter did not offer me another choice, he merely shrugged at my barely touched ""tuna"" and remarked that it was a big piece. And forget about sending an email to the restaurant's website. You don't need an unpleasant phone message from an angry and defensive Executive Chef who can't say ""We're sorry."" I've been going to McCormick's for 25 years now and recommended it to countless friends. It's a real shame to see it fall to a level below Claimjumper's. \r
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