Mary Kathryn Nielsen

Review of SPQR SF

Straight up: there is absolutely no point making a...

Straight up: there is absolutely no point making a reservation here. They don't care and won't seat you if you have a reso.

Our experience at SPQR was just the worst experience we've had dining out in a very long time.

We made a reso at 9:30 pm. We were told that if we did not arrive promptly we'd be charged $50 per person (they took our credit card number when we made our reso).

We arrived at 9:30. We were not seated until 10:05-10:10. They staff thought this was perfectly fine. They apologized, but didn't seem concerned at all.

We sat and waited and they asked if we wanted to eat at the bar. We said we'd like to eat at our table.

Finally, we got our table. We ordered wine they recommended.

They brought the wine out, opened it and then wouldn't let us try it. They said it smelled bad.

They took it into the back. We sat and waited longer. They then came back and told us the wine was bad. Would we like to try again? We ordered our next bottle of wine which was delicious.

We didn't get our appetizer until 10:50, even though our reservation was at 9:30. Our entree came immediately after our appie, but, by this time it was 11:05.

We had caviar for our appie and then greasy pasta for our entree.

Would not recommend this place.