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B-Line · #17 05-06-2009, 01:39 PM

for those that are interested... Here is the scathing review I wrote.. Can you tell I was mad?

Worst Valentines Dinner - EVER !!!!

3 couples, 9:45 reservation. Reservations were made about 5 days ahead. It was not a last minute deal. The restaurant asked us to arrive early as they thought they could get us in earlier. We show up at 9:15, as asked.

The restaurant finally seated us at 10:50pm. That's an hour and five minutes after our reservation and almost two hours after they asked us to arrive. **Romantic, huh?**

Then they sat us at the crappiest table in the joint. A table situated right between the front door and the side door. So when the front door wasn't open and making everyone freezing, the side door was being used by the wait staff and making everyone freezing. - Not to mention the smell of smoke that kept wafting in every time someone went outside and lit one.

So now lets talk about the service. The manager tried to make things right by giving us a round of champagne while we waited at the bar. -- NOW HOLD ON JUST A GOD DAMNED SECOND... I bring my wife, my friends with their dates to your establishment an VALENTINES DAY, you sit us two hours late, at 11pm on VALENTINES DAY and the best you can do is offer us a free glass of cheap champagne????

- Here is what I would have done. I would have sent the table free appetizers and free desert. ANd I would have still apologized emphatically. I would have made sure that everything else for that evening was romantic, perfect, taken care of.. Did we get any of that... NO, just a free glass of CRAP CHAMPAGNE that would usually need to have orange juice added just so it didn't taste like, "free, cheap, champagne."

Now lets talk about the food. French Onion Soup, nice, nice, not thrilling, but nice. I tasted the farfalla which was pretty good. The entree that my wife and I both ordered, the $50 special Wagyu beef was MEDIOCRE at best. It was sold as beef that melts in your mouth.. Ahhh, no, not really. I've had real Wagyu beef and that does melt in your mouth. This was just a fatty, non special, piece of meat that should have had a $25 price tag at best. Wagyu, MY ASS. More like fancy marketing.

I guess the good thing about this restaurant is, there seems to be a lot of cheap hookers who hang out at the bar. And that always makes for a good laugh and dinner conversation.

So, if you're looking for a place that:
Has cheap hookers at the bar.
Treats their customers poorly.
Doesn't seat people on Valentines Day till 11pm with reservation.
Charges $50 for Wagyu beef that tastes like horse taint.
Has bad seating in drafty areas that reek of smoke.
-- Then Chaya is your place.....

Otherwise I would seriously consider going to a better establishment like Campagnile, Mozza, Melograno, etc.

Bad form CHAYA, BAD FORM !!!!!!

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