Comments on: Harlem Businesses (Part II) http://uptownflavor.com/2007/01/29/harlem-businesses-part-ii/ Harlem's Lifestyle Destination Since 2006 Fri, 18 May 2012 15:47:01 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ac http://uptownflavor.com/2007/01/29/harlem-businesses-part-ii/#comment-3303 ac Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:59:40 +0000 http://uptownflavor.com/2007/01/29/harlem-businesses-part-ii/#comment-3303 gotta agree with al. i've found good food in most of the places i've tried uptown, but good service is very difficult to come by. even settepani, if you go the counter and get your own food, you get good service. but try showing up on a warm day for bruch...ive waiting 20 minutes just for a glass of water and a menu. everywhere i've been the waiters have been incredibly nice people, but just grossly overworked. you cannot hire one waiter and one bussboy and expect people to have a good experience at your restaurant. it's been the same everywhere. the only good service i've had is when i've gone someplace off hours and have been only one of a few tables. if a resaurant is busy, you can expect to wait...and wait....and wait. gotta agree with al. i’ve found good food in most of the places i’ve tried uptown, but good service is very difficult to come by. even settepani, if you go the counter and get your own food, you get good service. but try showing up on a warm day for bruch…ive waiting 20 minutes just for a glass of water and a menu. everywhere i’ve been the waiters have been incredibly nice people, but just grossly overworked. you cannot hire one waiter and one bussboy and expect people to have a good experience at your restaurant. it’s been the same everywhere. the only good service i’ve had is when i’ve gone someplace off hours and have been only one of a few tables. if a resaurant is busy, you can expect to wait…and wait….and wait.

]]> By: Al http://uptownflavor.com/2007/01/29/harlem-businesses-part-ii/#comment-3297 Al Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:31:00 +0000 http://uptownflavor.com/2007/01/29/harlem-businesses-part-ii/#comment-3297 My husband and I have lived in Harlem for several months now, but other than our favorite Settepani, I'm sad to say we have yet to find a restaurant with good service. We had brunch at Native a few weekends ago, and to say we're disappointed is an understatement. Service was incredibly slow, which isn't surprising, with just one person to take orders, serve, bus, clean up - do everything! Anyway... we waited for our orders for well over 30 minutes. We ordered two cups of coffee, yet received just one. When we asked for the second cup, the waiter said a friendyl "sure," yet never brought it... Not to mention, the eggs benedict weren't good. (English muffin was stale.) But not so bash out on one place.... I like BoMa, which is very close to where I live, but service there isn't all that fast, either. I think Harlem restaurant owners should realize that if they folks to *choose* to spend their money uptown, rather than go to their "regular" downtown places, they need to pick things up. My husband and I have lived in Harlem for several months now, but other than our favorite Settepani, I’m sad to say we have yet to find a restaurant with good service. We had brunch at Native a few weekends ago, and to say we’re disappointed is an understatement. Service was incredibly slow, which isn’t surprising, with just one person to take orders, serve, bus, clean up – do everything! Anyway… we waited for our orders for well over 30 minutes. We ordered two cups of coffee, yet received just one. When we asked for the second cup, the waiter said a friendyl “sure,” yet never brought it… Not to mention, the eggs benedict weren’t good. (English muffin was stale.)

But not so bash out on one place…. I like BoMa, which is very close to where I live, but service there isn’t all that fast, either. I think Harlem restaurant owners should realize that if they folks to *choose* to spend their money uptown, rather than go to their “regular” downtown places, they need to pick things up.

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