You know when you have a bad vibe? We really wante...

You know when you have a bad vibe? We really wanted to like this place, some items in the menu looked really alluring, but we might have had quite a few reasons to go somewhere else: when I called to book, the hostess was kind of unpleasant. The kind that makes you put down the phone and wonder "Do I really want to go there?". Then, when being seated, the same manager, Dina, was very uncourteous with the guests before us, an elderly couple with a dog: either you are dog friendly, or you're not. You can't ask dog owners to enter from the back door! BIG BOOOO!

The food is on the low side of "okay".
-Mac & cheese lacked salt in the pasta.
-Pear and gorgonzola salad had virtually no gorgonzola, little pear, and was smothered in a tarragon and shallot dressing that made no sense.
-The artisan cheese platter was a bitter joke for $13.
-The special, a grilled teriyaki "organic" salmon cost $28 for 1x4 of salmon: that is not the problem, rather the fact that it was accompanied by rice with a raspberry seasoning that had no business being there at all.
The owners call themselves "food enthusiasts": enthusiasm is a praiseworthy quality, but without knowledge and savoir-faire it is an empty shell.

I wonder about the hygiene of the place because my first glass of water had a very very very funny taste: my wishful explanation is that they used a dirty knife to cut the lemon slice, because it had a foul garlicky/sulfury taste I love garlic, but not in my water.

Last but not least, we ordered a fair amount of food: 2 appetizers, 1 salad, bottle of wine, bread (which is of course not complimentary) and we split the $28 dollars salmon: so we got a $3 charge because we split the entree. We complained. The waitress said it was on the menu, that she agrees it's preposterous but that's the manager's rule and so it was not waived.

All in all, the food was barely okay, but the vibe of the place is sick. You see that the staff is not happy, which results in patrons not being happy, which in turns creates a nasty electric atmosphere in the dining hall.