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Be local: Identify the neighborhood where the business is located and mention nearby attractions when relevant.WTF Samba! OVER PRICED OVERCOOKED food, servers are nice but BRAIN DEAD!! The Dip Headed Blond MANAGER SHOULD BE FIRED!!! This is no way to run a restaurant in the South Bay.
My story:
I live a few blocks from Samba in Redondo Beach and remember when they took over the building. For years I thought the place was closed due to NO one was ever there, no people and never any cars parked in front or near it. To my surprise this summer I found out it was not closed, just not very popular.
My girl and I decided to give them a chance one Saturday so we sucked up the shock of $26 each for brunch and went inside. As everyone states in their review ...nice table, bar set up and views, but the place was absolutely empty. Not another living soul was in the place, that includes the dim witted waitresses ...boy they could use a lesson or two on how to serve customers.
We proceeded to have our meal which consisted of over cooked, under cooked, too salty, too bland inconstantly cooked meats. Partnered with what could be called a buffet bar, but is really just a olive and cheese center with some bad smelling seafood soup and nasty rice. It was not all bad, occasionally some of the meat would be cooked well enough to eat and was tasty, of course we had to cycle through many a skewer to finally get some.
The only real plus was we had the place to ourselves and ""unlimited champagne"", if you can call anything with a screw top champagne. Seeing the food was not worth the price, we decided to get a few extra glasses of champagne whenever the dim witted waitress would come by. Which was almost never due to her watching the soccer game in the bar and couldn't be bothered, we actually had to get up and ask someone for some water.
The end of the story is where several weeks later Samba started sending coupons to my girlfriends email address. The creepy and most likely illegal thing is she never gave it to the restaurant, how they got it is a mystery to us. Although a simple Google search will come up with it, her business email is part of a public service, so. But what restaurant does a thing like that?! Obviously to drum up badly needed business ...and it worked, we received a ""Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price"".
So we decided to give them another chance seeing it was cheaper. When we arrived we showed the coupon to the bone headed waitress as the coupon states and she said ""No Problem"". We commenced filling our plates with ""olives and cheese"" when all of a sudden, the manager came over to us ...big surprise there was No One Else There, and she said they would not honor the coupon. I READ IT
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