Tom Tokarczyk

Review of Bavette's Bar and Beouf

Food and Vibe is always great but the waitress las...

Food and Vibe is always great but the waitress last night at Bavette s was very disappointing. As we sat down in my wife s best steak house in Chicago we were given strict rules about mask wearing while anyone approaches the table. When the waitress came with wine she instructed us to put masks on and after few seconds remove to taste the wine, my wife commented that this process is very strange and the waitress said well, we don t want another shut down and my wife said that is the only reason we are wearing masks - because we want you to stay open but it is all strange because we do not have to where we live and that is when the brilliant waitress responded you always can leave . We have been going to Bavette s for years and always had an amazing dinner from start to end so this is definitely shocking to be told that we could always leave. We dine in restaurants all over the world and we always cherish hard work and attention to detail that places like this have and I have yet been told by anyone that I can leave. It would make sense if the waitress was an owner of the restaurant but I highly doubt it. It was my wife s birthday celebration so we have decided to make the best out of it because life is too short and celebration was the goal and not to let anyone instruct you to leave I have been pretty good about knowing when I can join and leave places so I will be the judge of that. Plus, who are we kidding her job consisted of taking the order, opening the wine and telling us we could always leave while the rest of the staff did the actual work. If you are reading this I am sure you are wondering if we left a tip of course we left a good tip for the rest of the staff they were excellent our glasses were always full, our table was always clean and dinner was presented with class. The good tip is for them and not for her if she is struggling for power she is in the wrong industry and hurting such a good establishment. We always write good reviews because we know how hard it is to have all aspects of business addressed but it is time for that bad one so she does not continue to tell people they can always leave after they just arrived. I have been to places where people instructed us about the strict rules and the way it was done was so professional and positive we all wanted to work together to get thru this pandemic but never to leave.