My family and I went to MP5 tonight for dinner. What a letdown this place was! It's a converted Darryl's restaurant. There was something in between Darryl's and MP5 (Ye Olde Tavern or something like that-I never went). I had been to Darryl's a few times and it's the same decor. They did one thing that I noticed to improve the interior which was adding rope to the benches for at ""nautical feel"". There were cobwebs in the windows.
We got our drinks promptly, but after that it went downhill. (Actually, someone switched the sweet/unsweet tea, so I guess it started there.) We ordered a shrimp app and it came out 30mins later. The server stated that the kitchen was slow. (oooookay?) Shrimp was pretty good (coconut shrimp was eh but the grilled and buffalo shrimp were good), or maybe I was just that hungry. We had to ask for drink refills. Another 35mins pass before our four SANDWICH orders came out. I liked my buffalo shrimp wrap and hubby liked his oyster po'boy. Stepdad's burger was overly dry (but he orders everything well done) and did not come with the side of mayo as requested. Mom's crabcake sandwich was a fillercake sandwich w/crab slivers. She requested onion rings and received french fries and never received the tarter sauce she requested. Onion rings did make it out...the quickest thing all night at less than 5mins. By then she was not hungry. She asked for the manager. Elroy came over and apologized, but it didn't seem sincere. Mom requested that some compensation for the poor food and kitchen service. He wasn't willing to remove anything at first, then offered 5% off and Mom laughed at him and said that we'd not be coming back and would be online telling everyone of our experience. That's when he offered to take care of the bill. Then the bill came and he had removed the app and took $5.00 off. We requested to speak with the manager again. Mom and him disagreed about him offering to take care of the bill. He said he wasn't the owner and couldn't offer to take care of the entire bill. I then asked if he would at least remove mom's ""crabcake"" sandwich since it wasn't even half eaten. He agreed to do that and that was enough to please Mom into paying for the rest of the check, but vowed that she'd be telling everyone about our experience and would never be back.
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