Angela Miles

Review of Orange County Mining Co.

My husband and I went for dessert only. You can te...

My husband and I went for dessert only. You can tell a lot about a restaurant by how well they do dessert.

Sadly, the pumpkin cheesecake and the mud pie were both made elsewhere. As in prepackaged from somewhere, not freshly prepared. The mud pie was good according to my husband. The pumpkin cheesecake was blah tasting, not good. I get that COVID makes having too large a staff cost prohibitive so it is very understandable. Plus, the prices for dessert are very modest.

What made me want to run out of the place was the servers were standing inside speaking to the bartender. Four or five men in a semi circle, several right next to each other with their masks pulled down onto their chins or entirely off. Servers are around diners and are hence at risk for picking up the virus. Standing almost shoulder to shoulder in a semi circle without a mask puts everyone at risk.

My husband was contemplating ordering an appetizer but I was not willing to hang around a place that clearly doesn t follow COVID safety protocol. I would have asked to speak to a manager but figured that if this was being allowed that my mentioning it wasn t going to stop it from happening.

The four stars are for the view and the ample heaters on the patio that allowed us to have a relaxing half hour respite from the world.