Posted by (+2837) 16 years ago
I moved back to Miles City about a year and a half ago. Since then I've been to most of the eateries in Miles City, except for the Olive. Last night I decided to take my Mother out for a nice meal. Having not heard anything lately about the Olive, I decided to take a chance. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten at the time that I'm no good at gambling.
We arrived about 5:10pm. When we arrived there was only one other table occupied. When we got our menus, I noticed immediately that they served Alaskan King Crab legs at market price. Since my Mother loves crab, but never orders it because of the cost, I informed her that we were having crab. (period) At this point I should tell you that I wasn't expecting great legs, and I knew they'd have been frozen.
The service was way to slow for only two occupied tables. When the legs came 35 minutes later (they said it would be 20-25min), they were not pre-cracked and there was no tool for doing so with the meal. When I asked for cracking tools, they had no idea what I was talking about. A few of minutes later the cook brought a rather large pair of scissors for us to use. The potato, vegetables, etc were served cold. The crab was luke warm and had obviously be frozen and thawed repeatedly. The shell was solf. The meat inside was mushy and couldn't be pulled out in any semblance of a chunk.
Normally I would have sent the meal back and raised a bit of a fuss, but my mother doesn't like it when I do that, so we ate what we could and I paid the bill. I did leave a bit of a tip, but it was less than 10%, where I'd normally tip 20%...I lived in CA too long. We left the restaurant at 7:40pm. slow, slow, slow I tell you.
I could nit-pick to write a lot more, but it isn't worth the energy. I just wanted to save milescity.com visitors from their own meal horror.
Kelly
[This message has been edited by Kelly (edited 1/14/2007).]
We arrived about 5:10pm. When we arrived there was only one other table occupied. When we got our menus, I noticed immediately that they served Alaskan King Crab legs at market price. Since my Mother loves crab, but never orders it because of the cost, I informed her that we were having crab. (period) At this point I should tell you that I wasn't expecting great legs, and I knew they'd have been frozen.
The service was way to slow for only two occupied tables. When the legs came 35 minutes later (they said it would be 20-25min), they were not pre-cracked and there was no tool for doing so with the meal. When I asked for cracking tools, they had no idea what I was talking about. A few of minutes later the cook brought a rather large pair of scissors for us to use. The potato, vegetables, etc were served cold. The crab was luke warm and had obviously be frozen and thawed repeatedly. The shell was solf. The meat inside was mushy and couldn't be pulled out in any semblance of a chunk.
Normally I would have sent the meal back and raised a bit of a fuss, but my mother doesn't like it when I do that, so we ate what we could and I paid the bill. I did leave a bit of a tip, but it was less than 10%, where I'd normally tip 20%...I lived in CA too long. We left the restaurant at 7:40pm. slow, slow, slow I tell you.
I could nit-pick to write a lot more, but it isn't worth the energy. I just wanted to save milescity.com visitors from their own meal horror.
Kelly
[This message has been edited by Kelly (edited 1/14/2007).]