This is place is a friend's favourite restaurant s...

This is place is a friend's favourite restaurant so we went with great anticipation of good things. We arrived and were greeted warmly by the doorman, checked in our coats and tried to find the correct entrance to the actual restaurant. The restaurant lacked a maitre'd or if there was one I never saw him and that affected the service, the food and everything that night, the activity lacked an anchor. The service was poor and the food was mediocre; the vegetables reminded me of boarding school rejects that had been reheated several times. I would go on but I'd have to recall a particularly disappointing evening.