"For many years my husband, son, and I shared happy weekly meals at this upscale restaurant where service was impeccable, the food was divine, and the ambiance inviting lively conversation. In the last four years, each of these elements has worsened unimaginably. My recent dinner there with a close friend was a disaster. The stylish dining room no longer shone with care; the enormous fresh bouquets of prior years had been replaced by fake quince bouquets dusty and awkwardly askew; our dining table was dirty with some old crusted slop from a previous diner; the only waiter on the floor was someone we had always avoided before, but this night there was no choice. He is slovenly and rude. He came to ask about drinks 25 minutes after we were seated. His rude attitude and comments are not worth repeating here, but it took another 25 minutes before I could get his attention to order. (There were only four tables of 2 4 in the dining room, so it 's not because he was too busy. When the food came, things only got worse. My scallops on a bed of chard were so covered in truffle oil that both were inedible. Someone in the kitchen must have thought that since truffle oil is so special, they would treat me to a bucketful. No, I didn 't turn it back. My appetite was spoiled. I couldn 't get out of there fast enough. How sad to see a place we had loved so thoroughly ruined by cost cutting, a lack of simple cleanliness, and inexplicably rude service. Never again!"
