I saw the Groupon for their 8-course dinner with wine pairings and thought that $35 (originally $75) was a great deal for this package, so I purchased 5 certificates to take my family. The ""8-course dinner"" was very misleading because the helpings were sampler/small plates in size. Even more misleading is the use of the phrase ""wine pairing"". You were given enough for wine tasting, but certainly not wine pairing for an 8-course meal. So basically, you got to ""taste"" 8 types of dishes and ""tasted"" 8 types of wines paired with the dishes for $35. Okay, that's fair. But here's the real rub. We were given an event calendar and saw that these 8-course dinners/wine pairing for $35 were listed in the events....not the $75 that they said was the value in Groupon. So Groupon wasn't a discount after all. The real kicker though is that they added 18% gratuity and 7% sales tax on the $75/per person price! They were charging sales taxes on the other $40 that was never a sale! They eventually took $20 off my final bill, but the other 150 diners last evening without a doubt overpaid. The wine was nice, but the food was not consistent. There were two dishes (sample plates) a beef burgundy and chicken with rosemary that could have been an MCL cafeteria selection. So for the evening, I paid $250 for 5 people to have 8 sampler plates and 8 tastes of wine. Take that money and head for Fogo de Chao.
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