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I've eaten here on vacation every year for at leas...

I've eaten here on vacation every year for at least two decades. I don't get to pick the restaurants. This place is definately getting the benefit of the terrible quality of island food in the reviews. About three options on the menu are local, the rest is imported. The menu desperately needs updating--preparations are mostly uninspired eighties standards: lemon butter, bronzing, broiling, scampi. Prep is usually competent, just boring. The wine list is uninspired. However, I had my first actual bad experience here tonight. I ordered a fillet mignon, and was served an oblong, cross-gained steak that was clearly a sirloin. I was away from the table when it arrived, so it was halfway through the meal at the table before I was able to point out the error to the waiter. Whereupon he insisted that it was a fillet, but offered to take it back and get me another one. There is literally no way a fillet mignon can be shaped like that. It is cut from a tenderloin, a long cylindrical muscle, that must be cut into round steaks. Because there were 16 other people with us halfway through dinner, I declined to send it back, but told him I wanted to be charged for a sirloin, not a fillet. He returned to the kitchen and told me the chef was 100% sure it was a fillet--an amazing feat, considering he did not actually SEE the steak. He continued to argue even when I pointed out the other fillets at the table that looked nothing like my dinner. An error is fine. A condescending waiter who talks over me and tells me it's just a "different cut" is not. A chef who is certain of what one person got served at a table for 18 without checking is not.

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