Table Food + Drink — Restaurant in Alberta

My boyfriend and I were staying at the hotel for a conference and decided to go for a dinner to celebrate his birthday. Upon arriving at the restaurant, we waited 5-8 minutes for someone to seat us, the server asked if we had reservations and we didn't. She looked at her watch and said "We're all full tonight." And we were ready to leave but she said we could stay "as long as we were done by 7:30pm"... It was ~5:30pm... We both got that feeling like maybe we should go somewhere else but decided to stick it out. It wasn't going to take us TWO hours to eat a meal, but then we found out why it was a big deal...

Not only did the server take FOREVER to ask us what we wanted for drinks, but also when it came time to order she was nowhere to be seen. The restaurant was NOT busy at this time, there was probably

If you’re hungry I would suggest you go anywhere else. The restaurant was not even a quarter full but the waiter blamed the bad food and poor service on a busy restaurant. My husband ordered the Canmore Pasta, he said it lacked flavour and the meat was chewy with large pieces of fat. His dish was also 20 minutes later than the rest of the meals. No comp was offered. My mother ordered the seafood dish (which is what the 10 year old also wanted) the waiter said there was only one available but was large enough for them to share. It was not. 2 pieces of shrimp, 2 mussels, no clams, 1 small piece of salmon, one mediocre overcooked lobster tail. She is a small woman who doesn’t eat much and left hungry. Our son ordered the mussels, he said they were good. I ordered the small charcuterie board which the waiter assured me was enough for 4 people to comfortably share. It came with 4 pieces of deli meat, 3 pieces of cheese, 5 different pickled items (3 small pieces of each) and some baguette pieces that were hard enough to be a doorstop.

My husband brought up his concerns to the waiter and asked to speak to the manager. He was told that there was no manager on tonight and told that the kitchen was slow and lacking because of a wedding. He then handed him the bill with an 18% gratuity added that was no where one the menu stating it was a mandatory add on.

After 12 hours of travel we expected a decent meal. Instead we’re met with unimaginably slow service (waited 15 minutes to see our waiter, 15 minutes to come back for drinks, 15 more to come take our order), food that was lacklustre at best and a $198 bill.

Update.

While continuing on our journey home my husband had to pull over to get sick on the side of...

Restaurant experience since all restrictions dropped is nothing but one disappointment after another. Table Food + Drink is no exception.

I ordered the Cioppino: Fresh Salmon + Lobster Tail + Mussels + Clams + Shrimp + Kalamata Olives + Aromatic Saffron Garlic Tomato Broth + Grilled Artisan Baguette.

Sounds delicious right?

1. Definitely NOT fresh salmon. It was frozen fresh, but not fresh as the menu suggested.
2. Lobster Tail was cut in half. Misleading because your expecting (((A LOBSTER TAIL))). Not half of an exceptionally small tail.
3. Mussels, which you get two of, but let me be clear: I had two mussel SHELLS but only 1 had the dime sized meat.
4. Clams, two but one of them didn't open so I certainly wasn't going to open it.
5. Shrimp, two small shrimp like you might get in a shrimp fried rice dish.
6. Kalamata Olives, were 100% NOT kalamata olives!! If your out, fine. But say so!!
7. Grilled Artisan Baguette is what I was expecting to get. Not a THIN slice of toaster toasted bread of some sort. I ended up ordering an actual baguette (not artisan, and not grilled) because the meal was so...anemic. BTW, they don't make the bread in-house.
8. Tomato Sauce was canned, not in-house

Also, mashed potatoes are not made from potatoes. They're made from a box!! Seriously, they're instant mashed potatoes lol!! I asked before decided what I was going to order lolol!!!

I mean, I'm happy that others who rated this place enjoyed theirs meals. I'd hate for them to feel the disappointment I felt having eat this food, then paying for it.

One star. No redemption for you, not...