How many things can go wrong at one meal? Usually one bad thing happens in a restaurant you shrug it off and it gets better. No so much last night! The evening in review at the Aquarium Downtown Restaurant in Denver...
Lets just say to start that this week is 5280 week, where most nice restaurants offer a three course meal menu for $52.80 per couple. In theory a good time to showcase your food. So...We arrived at 7pm, 30 minutes early for our 7:30 reservation which was made TWO WEEKS ago. Sat in the bar area and enjoyed the ambiance although the first irritation was that it took 30 minutes to pull together the last two drinks that we ordered. We went up to the counter at 7:30 and were given a buzzer to let us know when our table would be ready. At 8pm after asking what the hold up was we were showed to a folding table pulled out of their banquet room. Ok, points for problem solving but they wanted ELEVEN of the BOHALLS (all over 6ft tall) to squeeze around an eight person table. Asked the manager if they could do a little better, they brought out another folding table. Now we at least could breathe. Lainey overheard the hostess talking sh!t about our group and honestly I thought we had been fairly pleasent about it. We then placed our drink orders and food orders. Drinks came out out for everyone who ordered alcohol. The two pregnant women had to ask for their drinks TWICE before we got them. At 8:45, an hour and fifteen minutes after our reservation we finally got our salads. Some time later (not really paying attention at this point) we got our food orders, well everyone but me. Mine was forgotten in the kitchen and I got it another 10minutes later. Overheard a waiter say to another, there has been a problem at every table tonight. Telling? I think so. The food was ok but I've had better at any number of chain restaurants. So we all finish, our plates are taken, we sit for a bit and then place our orders for dessert. It is now 9:30. We are informed that the original choices for dessert are no longer available but choose from a brownie a la mode or layered icecream cake. Ok, made our choices. Two desserts come out and they tell us sorry but they are now out of brownie but have one of the original choices back, can we reorder please?! Seriously?! So some of us reorder, some just say screw it and sit back and we ask to speak to the manager again. In the end we got a lot of excuses about not expecting it to be so busy for 5280 restaurant week but most of those had to have been reservations so I'm not sure that I buy it. We ended up walking out of there at 10:15 with a $35 discount on our meal which let me just say is less than 10% of our total bill.
SO...my final opinion of the Aquarium Downtown Restaurant in Denver. SKIP IT unless all you want is atmosphere. The fish and stuff are cool.
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