Complaint Review: Tallent - Restaurant Tallent - Bloomington Indiana

Everybody obviously has a bad experience once in their life at a restaurant. I am sorry yours happened at Restaurant Tallent. Every time I have gone there I have had excellent service and food. Bloomington is lucky to have such a fine Chef hang his hat in our town. I will be having dinner there again tonight to celebrate Valentines Day.

Well, it has been a few months and, lo and behold, there is a rebuttal. You raise some valid points in your rebuttal. In fact, I should have called the manager or executive chef over immediately and taken exception with this entire meal. In deference to my date, however, I decided against that course of action. She (and it was only her and me) just wanted to eat and leave, and so that is what I did. Perhaps I should have been more clear: My steak was not only over cooked, it was also a horrible cut of meat, meaning that there was a LOT of connective tissue which made it difficult to chew. As for the timing of my post, I was only alerted to the existence of ripoffreport 3 weeks after my meal. And, just for your edification, $200 is not a lot for me to spend on a meal, and I paid cash. I can see how the omissions and ambiguities in my previous post caused you to take exception with the preceding, however, you are sadly mistaken about the following: A restaurant is accountable for the taste of everything that is served, including wine. If you were served martini that consisted of cheap gin that tasted like pine needles, isn't the restaurant responsible? I mean, you are way off base here. If I owned a restaurant, hell, if I owned a Wendy's, I would never serve food or drink that tasted like garbage, ever. Second, and most importantly, I am rarely incorrect in my usage or grammar. Perhaps you are not familiar with the phrase "show your a*s" which means "to behave inappropriately." Because the wait-staff did not literally show me their hind-parts, it is correct to refer to their asses as proverbial. That is, the phase "show your a*s" is a commonly used expression that fits the definition of a proverb: 1. a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; Apology accepted and you're welcome.

I'm amazed at some of the things for which "Mr. Ewing" is faulting the restaurant: There was no reason for him to spend $200 for his dinner, unless there were more than 2 of them at the table...Perhaps it was a bottle of wine he ordered that pushed him to the $200 mark? And that would have been the wine that tasted like "vinegar" in which case he was the responsible party for not sending it back upon tasting. Seriously, how does one hold a restaurant accountable for the flavor of the wine? So his steak was overcooked. At any point did he send it back and request that it be prepared properly? It's your money and your food; you are entitled to have it prepared the way you ordered it, even at the kitchen's inconvenience. If you don't alert your server to the fact that your meal is inadequately prepared, how can your server make it right? Errors are made in the finest restaurants, and will be corrected upon request. If I were at a restaurant and my server rolled their eyes at me, you can believe I would have the manager at my table in no time, and that person would be called on their behavior! From the timing of his post--3 weeks after Valentine's Day--it appears he received his credit card bill and realized he overspent. Any of the things he listed in his report could have easily been rectified at the restaurant that evening, and instead he chooses to slam a place because he didn't stand up for himself. Once again, not the restaurant's fault. By the way: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proverbial proverbial One entry found. Date: 1548 1 : of, relating to, or resembling a proverb 2 : that has become a proverb or byword : commonly spoken of proverbially Listen to the pronunciation of proverbially \--l\ adverb

....is the practice of automatically deducting the tip (20 to 25%) right on the bill. For a very large party like a business group or such, I can understand the logic in this. . For couples of foursomes, this automatic deduction is certainly no incentive to keep your water glass filled, or sometimes to even see the waitress again. . Call me old-fashioned, but tips in restaurants are no longer a customer's expression of gratitude for attentive service AS THEY INITIALLY WERE. They are unabashedly an expected wage surcharge for underpaid staff workers.