Worst "nice" restaurant in Seattle
One of my friends who has recently moved away was back in town as of Sunday for some corporate training, so a group of us went out to dinner at the Earth and Ocean at the W Hotel. And no, that's not where he was staying, this was a concious choice to go to that restaurant. NWSource has a program they've put together with a bunch of restaurants to do a prix-fix menu for $25. The 25 for 25 program. I will give the disclaimer that I'm not a big set-menu kind of guy.
So we ended up at Earth and Ocean, which I would never recommend to anyone. Brief recap of the things that went well:
- The bread was nice. But, I'm fairly sure that it was La Brea bakery bread which I've been buying for a while now.
- They did throw in extra desserts because they knew we were angry. Because Anupa bitched at them for not getting her entree before the rest of us finished our entrees.
The things that weren't good?
- A few of us ordered a "wine flight" which was 1/2 a glass of the recommended wine with each course. The first one came out at the right time, we got a little spiel about it, etc. We got the glasses for the second wine when we were partway done with the entree. And the wine when we were basically done with the entree. Hassan actually just told them not to bring it because he had already finished.
- The entree I ordered was cold. And small. And, more importantly cold. Even if it had been warm, the best it could have been was 'ok'.
- The service just sucked. They didn't really check back on us to find out how things were going. Maybe because they knew we were pissed.
- As mentioned above, because they had gotten her order mixed up Anupa didn't get her entree until all of us had finished ours. Seriously, there were only three choices, how hard would it be to be able to whip up one of the others quickly?
- The room/table was cold. I'm convinced it's because we were right next to the wall of doors/windows that overlooked the street and air was probably coming through. Seriously people, it's coming into winter - turn on your heating.
Even if the rest of everything hadn't gone wrong, the food was only 'ok' and wouldn't have enticed me to come back to a normally priced place - much less to a place where the entrees averaged $25-40 if they weren't doing this program.