Case: Really nice place!  My filet --medium rare -- was delicious!  My husband said his could have used more flavor, but that's his own fault for ordering it medium well!  The asparagus side was a little small, and a bit overcooked.  Baked potato was perfect!  Loved the bread assortment they brought out!  French onion soup was good but think the fresh herb they added overpowered the other flavors.  Nice wine selection--gosh I hate paying quadruple the wine store price, though!  Bring back BYOB!  Nice staff and loved our cozy booth--made the din not so overpowering and we could hear each other without yelling!  Really, really yummy steak, but it should be for $33.00!!!
Classification: forevermore


Case: Worst experience ever! Rude staff, marginal food, and filthy. Definitely will not patronize this place again. \n\nLet me start by saying that Jolly Bob's used to be a decent place with a nice atmosphere, but it has taken a definite down turn within the past year. I had not been to Jolly Bob's for awhile, so I recommended to a couple of friends that we stop there on a Friday night to grab something to eat. These are the highlights of our visit:\n\n1. Paid a cover charge to enter the restaurant to eat (what restaurant charges a fee to get in the door to order food? Jolly Bob's does!)\n\n2. Placed an order for food and was asked to pay (CASH ONLY) before the order was even sent to the kitchen. (Rude guy literally slammed my change on the bar and never asked if I would like anything to drink (water)). Friends looked at me shocked and asked if I knew that guy. (No, no I did not).\n\n3. Friend \""A\"" asks for a menu and the rude guy replies \""Your friend has a menu\"", and walks away.\n\n4. Friend \""B\"" orders a margarita and is told they are out of the particular liquor required to make it. (Huh? A Caribbean restaurant that can't make a margarita on a Friday night? Ummm, okay.) \n\n5. I ask for a drink menu to suggest drinks to friend \""B\"". Extremely rude lady pushes a drink menu towards us and says, \""but it's in Spanish\"" and walks away. (First of all, who is she to assume that I am not literate in Spanish? Second, the menu was in English.)\n\n6. I attempt to help friend \""B\"" order her drink  and the rude lady asks if we are ordering two drinks and we clarify that we are ONLY ordering ONE drink (for friend B). We are then served TWO drinks and given a really big attitude when I refused the drink (I was the DD). Rude lady promptly snatches my friend'a drink away (without asking) and pushes the second drink in front of her. (Friends look at me confused and ask if we can move to a booth because they were feeling so uncomfortable around the rude lady.)\n\n7. We move to a booth where we promptly stick to the seats (gross).\n\n8. Go to the bathroom to find water and whatever else all over the floors, an odor of urine, and used toilet paper on the floor. (Nasty. And it wasn't even late and they weren't even busy).\n\n9. Food comes. Conch Fritters were way over fried (almost burnt) and extremely salty. Steak skewer was \""okay\"". Chips and guacamole were good. \n\n10. Finally, a redeeming effort! An extremely personable, professional, and friendly African American gentleman (I don't know his name) came over as we were leaving and apologized to us and offered a refund for the Conch Fritters. His actions were the ONLY positive thing about Jolly Bob's. \n\n11. We went somewhere else and all decided that we would never patronize Jolly Bob's ever again. I profusely apologized to my friends for having recommended Jolly Bob's. Friends were so shocked by the incidents at Jolly Bob's that they kept mentioning how horrible the experience was to other people/friends throughout the night. \n\nI will never be back to Jolly Bob's and I will never recommend Jolly Bob's to anyone. Such a shame, Jolly Bob's used to be a really neat place with good food and a welcoming atmosphere.
Classification: horselike


Case: Delicious pizza! I just enjoyed a slice of pepperoni and Italian sausage with the perfect amount of grease on thin crust. Best part, it cost me less than $3.50. Will frequent for lunch.
Classification: forevermore


Case: I ordered my Pizza and wings and I wanted my wings extra extra crispy.  Well I picked up my order on my way home and when I arrived home my wings were not extra  crispy and there was No ranch.  I called to let the manager know this and I mentioned there was no ranch and he said they have a new cook and he forgot to put it in there and the he can take a dollar off my next order or I can come and pick it up.  I let him know that I didn't live in the area and we picked it up on the way home.  He said he can have someone deliver it but  he would have to charge me three dollars. You can imagine my surprise when I just spent $30 with them and they want to charge me three more.  I told him why should I have to pay for the cooks mistake and he should take the money Out of the cooks pay.  Needless to say  I will Never order from them again..my wings were under cooked and not cooked as I requested and the Pizza is salty.  If this is Chicago style them I'm good with not having it in my life anymore.  Please be cautious when ordering from this place because their mistakes will cost you.
Classification: horselike


Case: Very nice facility. The staff are very nice and personable. I also found the counter staff to be very knowledgeable and took the time to answer my questions thoroughly without make me feel like I was bothering them. I will absolutely recommend them to people that ask.
Classification: forevermore


Case: **UPDATE** No word from the management.. guess I shouldn't be so sensitive.. The food there is pretty good.. just wish that the Mister and I weren't treated that way.. forgive and forget? Take the highroad.. at the yummy tortilla's?.. dial a clich?! LOL! Perhaps I shouldn't black ball this place any longer?? Help me to over come!! \n\n\nWell, I never! LOL! Tradiciones.. good food, good service, if you're Hispanic.. I sent an email to the manager with no reply and no surprise. I thought I would share my experience with you.\n\nDear Mr Braden,\n\nI wanted to share our experience last night at Tradiciones with you. We have several friends coming in from out of town so the past Friday I had lunch and your wonderful restaurant. My friend and I had a exceptional time with great service (Mario was our sever) spot on menu items and overall were both very impressed. So I went ahead and made a reservation for a party of 15 with much excitement and anticipation. This type of excitement comes from years of dining and being a huge food enthusiast or foodie as my friends call me. This experience is in stark contrast to what happened last night.\n\nMy excitement carried with me the whole weekend so I decided to take my significant other there to have the same pleasure I had. Upon arrival we were amazed how busy it was and knew that a wait was imminent. After about 10 minutes I was able to make it to the front desk to put my name in for a table for 2. The hostess smiled at me and I told her 'dos', she raised her finger up to me and said \""uno momento\"". Then she walked off and got another hostess, this was confusing as when she returned she started taking names of other guests and ignored me. Finally the new hostess asked me what I wanted. I told her I wanted a table for 2 she then told me that there was at least an hour wait. This was pretty obvious judging from the tens of other folks waiting for a table. Meanwhile the other hostess continued taking names then finally she added mine. I told her that we were actually here before the other guests the other hostess had written down. She ignored this and put my name on the bottom of the list. I'm not sure why she was acting like this towards me as there didn't seem to be a problem with any other guest besides the fact that I didn't speak Spanish. Our first instinct was to simply leave as it was perceived by us that we weren't welcome here. We stayed as the atmosphere still seemed lively and the smell coming from the grills were intoxicating.\n\nAfter walking around the courtyard and enjoying some of the vendor stalls there we decided to venture back in so we wouldn't be missed. As we were standing there waiting I noticed that the patio only had a few tables and wasn't very busy at all. So we asked the second hostess if we could sit out there. She came back several minutes later to tell us the patio was understaffed and she couldn't seat us there though she offered bar seats instead. Perfect! We we're sat at the bar and were both excited to try the Cilantro Margarita! We ordered then, I saw her mixing it up, my mouth started to drool. She  then presented the drinks to us, cheers!  The drinks were wonderful and I'm not a big sweet drink fan. I then looked straight ahead and saw our bartender enter an order into the computer. As I watched her type I was amazed to notice that she named the check \""Dos Gringo's\""! Looking around I could tell she was referring to us as everyone else around us looked to have been there for a while. She turned around and I asked her \""Dos Gringo's\""? She smiled and started laughing like I caught her doing something wrong. She tried to explain that she gives everyone nick names and didn't make any apologies to us for the name.\n\nIs it acceptable to call your non Spanish speaking guests Gringo's? I felt this was very offensive as I have generally heard the word in derogatory terms. Though this seemed to make sense as the way were treated at the hostess desk, were we just not welcome here? I continued to stew on this experience all the way until this morning when finally I decided to look up the word gringo to see if I were off base for my feelings. This is what I found...\n\ngringo(gr&#301;ng'g&#333;) n.pl. gringos Offensive Slang, Used as a disparaging term for a foreigner in Latin America, especially an American or English person.\n\nThis solidified my feelings so I finally did some soul searching and decided to share our experience. If this definition is the case we will no longer visit your wonderful establishment, perhaps this will make a others more comfortable? If you can please help me to understand the term and the way we felt leaving last night I would truly appreciate your time.\n\nKind Regards,\nFoodiebear
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Classify the following: We had some time (40 minutes) before our movie started so we thought it would be a good spot to grab some food, and it was not busy at all on a friday night so we thought that would help with time too. We go in and even though the place is empty we are sat in a tiny dark corner and left to look at our menus. We sat for about 10 minutes and then we had to get up and go over to the several girls standing at the hostess stand and asked where our server was, after another 3 minutes or so he finally showed up and took our drink and food orders, the food took some time but did show up. It was good and I liked the brick oven taste it had but then they messed up on (and again took forever) to get our dessert order. We only saw our server once, no refills offered on our drinks and it was all together a horrible experience, and late 10 min to our movie. Next time we will go over to toby keith's place a short walk up instead!