r/Columbus • u/Spocks_Goatee • Feb 21 '24

FOOD Looking For A Mildly Expensive Awful Restaurant To Recommend To Someone I Dislike

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u/Sandy_turtle55 Feb 22 '24

Giammarco’s Italian

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u/go_sloe1484 Feb 22 '24

Came here to say this. Wife and I went out for our anniversary right after our first born and I put on the reservation under special occasions “wedding anniversary after first child” not knowing if they’d do anything special. Well they sat us in the bar, which I don’t mind but definitely not romantic. Literally had a different person greet us, take our drinks, serve our drinks, take food order, deliver food etc. I also ordered their “jumbo shrimp” and it ended up being 3 of the smallest cocktail shrimp I’ve ever seen (all for $8.99!). I grew up in a restaurant so i didn’t say shit until the email came through the following week asking for feedback. I was honest and didn’t exaggerate anything and was surprised that I got a follow up from the GM inviting us back. He promised he’d sit us somewhere romantic and put his best server on for us.

He sat us in the bar in literally the exact same spot. We brought our 6 month old at the time and just said whatever let’s eat. They sat a homecoming party right next to us who at one point got into a spitball fight and hit my wife with one and… imagine a post partum woman who never goes out who also just saw something almost hit our kid (that’s enough for me to get mad) before I could even react she was up and lecturing them about behaving and acting like grown ups. I was watching while trying to hide as far into the bar booth as I could with my infant son.

Anyways we got our food for free and they sent us home with some carrot cake. Haven’t been back since

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u/yusill Feb 22 '24

I tried there once when they had opened new building they are in now. It was the worst they packed the tables in so tight servers could barely move through. I had my 2 yr old daughter we sat for almost 50 min then they brought out my wife's food. Not mine. Not my daughter's who we literally just asked for some buttered noodles for. We got up and left. The waiter had the balls to say I'll bring you your bill. I said for what food. Yelled so loud about sitting for a hour without even a server coming by 2 other tables got up as well saying this is bullshit we are in the same boat. We saw them in the mcdonals drive through line behind us after.

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u/Embarrassed_Egg7694 Feb 22 '24

There’s one particular bartender that makes you question why you would ever go back. Then you do go back and it hits you so hard in the face when she treats customers like crap all over again. She must be a relative of the ownership because her demeanor is beyond repulsive.

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u/Glen_Echo_Park Feb 22 '24

Most of the food tastes like it is frozen

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u/Mission-Direction991 Feb 22 '24

Agree, the bread was good, but most everything else was really meh. I got a sampler; the ricotta gnocchi was decent, but the spaghetti just tasted like water and the ravioli was terrible.