We were extremely disappointed in our experience a...

We were extremely disappointed in our experience at The Ivy. I am not sure if it was because were were both young and American, but we were immediately treated differently from the rest of the customers. First, we were escorted to bar seats rather than a table after making reservations. Not a big deal. However it took us almost 10 minutes to receive menus, and only after staring down a server. After that we ordered both drinks and dinner. We soon noticed that all the other tables including the bar received bread baskets with butter. After asking for bread we were quickly given some, although the server did not give us butter until asking yet again. The meal was fine, the service was not. We would like to call attention to the Italian bartender he was very kind to us and made sure that our meal was pleasant. That aside, we ultimately found our experience at the Ivy to be quite frustrating and not representative of what we paid for the meal. Undoubtedly a low point of our stay in London