We went on Valentine's Day and apparently they couldn't care less about the occasion, there was a couple that was celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary and again they couldn't care less. When we got there the owner told us where to park and he was...nice enough but when we got to the "restaurant" they didn't receive us with the welcome drink as they advertised. We had to wait, when they did brought us our "sangria", which was delicious and asked what was in it, it was a big mystery and kinda dismissive. While we waited for the other people to get there I was shocked that as people arrived the owner trying to be funny, I guess, was just like putting people on the spot and that's ok for some people but you can tell that not everybody liked to be the center of attention, especially after driving 2 hours, now you have to be the comic relief in front of people you don't know when what you really want to have GREAT SERVICE and GREAT FOOD. Mind you it's $73 PER PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!! For that price my expectations were high cause in this economy it's a sacrifice. Anyway, when most of the people arrived we started on our "tour" which I thought would be like Agricultural like "farm to table" concept but no, it's about the trees that they planted. We saw on the website about the 5lbs lemons but when one of the girls of the group asked about it the owner was very short with her and told that he had already talked about it, which he didn't. Also I thought that was in very poor taste that the owner's wife "scolded" one of the guests cause her party of 14 was two people short, which I can understand can be annoying but to tell her in front of everybody that "when you make a reservation for 14, 14 should show up!" I thought that was in bad taste.
On to the food, when we sat down everybody sat down where they wanted which was not bad but there was no music and no ambience per say. When we arrived we had given the waitress our bottle of wine that we brought, well we had to ask for our bottle two times and it arrived at the second course. While the food was coming out we had to keep asking what was being served cause the waitress didn't know. The food was fine, nothing spectacular, nothing came out super hot and nothing impressed me. It was meh... When we finished our bottle, we asked for some sangria, they said they were out so we asked for some beers. The waitress didn't know what beer they had but we saw one of the waitress get all the beers into 1 tray and go to another table to present them, I guess thinking it was them that asked for them, when they said no the waitress went back to the bar and started putting away the beer that's when my husband HAD to get up and go to the bar and get the beers. The service was not good! By the way as we were leaving they were serving Sangria.
The coffee was good but we had to sit and listen again to the stories, we counted 3 people asleep and everybody else just looking at their watches like "when is this over".
we paid $225, brought our own wine, and were COMPLETELY DISSAPOINTED!!!! it was Valentine's Day there was not a trace of love or passion there.More