Siren Hall

Gorgeous restaurant, great service, incredible food. Ordered the beef brisket, possibly one of the best briskets I’ve ever had

My friend and I walked in on a Friday afternoon at about 1:45 for lunch. The hostess was less than friendly and seated us at a table for 2 in the very back of the restaurant near the bathrooms and against a cement wall. This would have been fine has the place been busy, but the whole place was empty! Go figure. She then disappeared so we tried to find someone to move us to no avail. We decided to move ourselves. After we moved, it was another 10 minutes before we saw our server. We were just ready to leave, when we finally got service.
We ordered and our meals were pretty easy-​the stir fry and the Pear Salad. They were both a bit pricey considering there was no meat in either. My friend couldn’t eat the pear salad because she didn’t like the dressing or the spicy nuts. It was a pretty small salad for $ 12. My stir-​fry was good– the rice was fluffy and there was a good assortment of veggies.
We would not return, however, because we saw many, many staff workers walking around, when clearly, we had not been approached. These days, with all kinds of restaurant competition and many places to put your dining buck, to have to wait 10 minutes for a server to acknowledge you, well, that to me is unacceptable.

A group of us went for «Happy Hour» which is apparently just a marketing phrase that this restaurant uses. They advertise «Happy Hour» but there are no discounts, no specials and everything is still full price. (Brace yourself for the real happy hour surprise at the end).
One friend is gluten free and they do have a gluten free menu… with no prices, descriptions or pictures. Imagine her surprise when she ordered the lump crab appetizer to share with the table and got what seemed to be about three ounces of crab baked with something creamy and cheesy (we don’t know because there was no description). It really wasn’t enough to share and it was a waste at $ 15. Upon reviewing the menu later at home, it should have been an $ 18 appetizer served with a salad but this was never offered to us.
We got two meat and cheese boards that were boring with overly spicy, chewy meats and fairly good cheese but again, no descriptions so we have no idea what we ate.
Ultimately everyone ordered a variety of foods and we all had drinks… and here comes the kicker.
We were there for three hours ordering different foods when the waitress/​bartender came over and whispered in my friend’s ear. My friend simply said to the waitress «Then I guess I will take my check». As the waitress tried to leave, I called her over to me and asked for another glass of wine. She looked at me said «You have already had three drinks and the owner says that I can’t serve you any more». What? This was a mixed group of people, we had designated drivers and some of us live in town and were on foot AND I had never laid eyes on the owner or even know who he is… Of course, no one asked us if we had a driver, were walking or had any kind of conversation with us.
She proceeded to tell us that she would be happy to serve us coffee, water or anything else but the owner had imposed a three drink limit. She also claims that they do this to everyone… I guess I feel like it should be printed on the wine menu or we should have been told ahead of time because frankly, it felt like we were being treated like a bunch of unruly drunks who needed to be cut off (and trust me, if we were, I would be the first to brag about it). Instead, we were a group of 40 – 60 year old people who spent WAY too much money on overpriced food, mediocre service and got treated rather shabbily. Being told ahead of time of this policy, versus being abruptly cut off after we had spent a LOT of money would have made all the difference. I have zero interest in ever going back because the service was slow, the food overpriced and the portions are very small (it turns out after spending all that money, we all went home and ate!) and I felt bait-​and-​switched with advertising of a happy hour that doesn’t exist.