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[quote=Anonymous]Last seating?  Kitchen shuts down?  Doors locked and lights out?

Had a 1:30 lunch reservation yesterday.  When we arrived (5 minutes early), we were rather brusquely informed by the hostess that they'd be shutting down brunch service at 2 to prepare for the dinner shift.  I was confused and asked whether they were going to honor our reservation or not; she said they were but wanted to make sure we were aware of the closing time.  To be honest, I hadn't been aware they closed between brunch and dinner service, but it never occurred to me a fairly upscale restaurant would accept a reservation and then not be prepared to give the patron the full experience.  We considered leaving because we while we weren't intending to linger over multiple courses, we weren't looking for a quick in/out either.  But we decided to stay and our server greeted us and seemed friendly (or at least not annoyed that we were... dining under the reservation we made days ago).  We ordered our drinks and meals and midway through eating (right around 2), she dropped off the check and informed us the kitchen just closed - no offer of coffee or dessert.  We paid up and left (and tipped her 20% because the service was otherwise decent and I know she doesn't make the rules) but the whole thing was off-putting.

Many years ago I worked at a high end, non-chain steakhouse.  If we closed at 10, anybody could walk in up to 9:59 and get seated and given the full experience.  I thought that was normal, but maybe not?  [/quote]

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