Nichole Nelson

Review of Humphrey's Restaurant

Went here for a blues brunch and loved the enterta...

Went here for a blues brunch and loved the entertainment but the service was some of the worst. After being told to seat ourselves at a counter, a server moved us because they had packed tables in so close together that she couldn't navigate the space with us there. Okay, reasonable. Sort of. We got a new waitress and she tried to move us back saying that we were ruining the view of the couple next to us. At this point, we had to get in the middle of the server wars and explain why we were just there and weren't allowed to sit there while people at BOTH tables were shooting us dirty looks. We felt totally unwelcome and if it weren't for the performance we would have left.
While the two servers duked it out off-scene we decided to move ourselves to a shady corner that was crowded with an extra chair facing away from everything and stare at a wall.
We were there 2 hours when we felt ready to leave but the server didn't come over for another hour. In the whole three hours we didn't get a refill of water until we asked for it with our check.
If we thought the food would make up for the welcome, we were mistaken. The buffet was big but so big that nothing was done well. My egg Benedict, for example, consisted of a barely toasted English, dried out slice of Canadian, poorly poached egg that was basically just the yoke, and no Hollindaise.