Had early pre-dance program dinner Thurs night. We arrived at 525pm without reservations and were accomodated nicely for a table of 5. While we were waiting for a table, I asked the bartender for a mixed drink using the fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice I was told they had. He made an obnoxious face and said ""well what do you want with it?"" I smiled and said ""be creative-its so warm out and cold would be good!"" He continued to roll his eyes to a server standing near the bar. I then explained to him that we had had a sort of grapefruit martini and could he do that, another mumbled rude comment to server at bar and so I sat down, figuring we weren't going to get drinks!! I then found a grapefruit special drink on their menu and asked for three of those!! 20 minutes went by after we were seated, as we were ordering our appetizers at our table and still no drinks. We were told that the bartender (a misnomer for sure!) was ""busy"". There were 4 people at the bar and they all had drinks. I told our server that we wanted the drinks ""before"" dinner and would like wine with dinner and if they weren't at our table now, he (the misnamed bartender)could drink them. Another 10 minutes and they arrived. Ordinarily, I would have sent them back, but I didn't want to spoil the mood of evening, meeting up with friends, 2 of whom are in the restaurant business in New York and West Hampton!!!!!! \r
We proceeded to have a very good dinner, and server. But the desserts were the best!!
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