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Muse Wine Bar

Muse Wine Bar

82 Society Street, Charleston, SC 29401, United States

Wine • Pasta • Coffee • Italian


"I 'll start off by giving credit where it 's due. The food had a wonderful taste. The service really took away from it. Had reservations for 7:00 and checked in at 7:05. No big deal, was seated right away. Very important information is to noted that several tables around us were seated just minutes after us. The table next to us was seated immediately after us but had their drink order taken before us. Once our drink order was given it took the bar a very long time to make our drinks. I can 't knock the bartender on the time it took as I 'm sure they were busy, but both of our drinks were poorly made. My old fashion in particular was only half filled and hardly had enough alcohol in it to make it an old fashioned. Later on I couldn 't finish it as it was mainly just drinking bitters and I order a straight whiskey. We ordered mussels as an appetizer. It took over an hour to get that to the table. Remember we were sat down around 7:05. At 8:45 exactly I had to find my waitress to ask her where our food was that we ordered over an hour ago. Miraculously she came back with it almost immediately. From the very first bite it was obvious that it was made a while ago and had been sitting under a heat lamp. I had the chicken two ways which tasted amazing! It 's just too bad that the chicken was super dry from sitting out so long. We hurried through the food so we could finally get out of there. I have spent 2 hours in a restaurant before with no problems, but not when we only have 2 people and 2 courses. Very bad experience with the service that will probably keep us from coming back to try again. Parking: There is a pay-to-park lot directly behind the restaurant off of George St."