My girlfriend and I dined there on a busy Saturday night. We made our reservation in person in the afternoon since there were no tables available online when we checked. When we arrived, we were seated promptly.

My girlfriend ordered the Pichotta de Mediterraneo (Mediterranean Chicken). I ordered the Black, White + Green (scallops on black rice). We ordered the soft shell crab - an appetizer on the daily specials board). We also had cocktails before our meal and ordered a bottle of wine with our dinner.

The cocktails were tasty and the soft shell crab appetizer was expensive at $20, but delicious.

My girlfriend’s entree was pathetic looking. It was 5 pan-seared but not crispy chicken tenders laid on a pile of undercooked potatoes and a bunch of really hard, seemingly dehydrated carrots. Her food was sitting in a pool of what looked like oily juice that had cooked off of the chicken. It was almost as if the cook just dumped the entire contents of the frying pan onto her plate (liquid and all).

My scallops dish was tasty, but it seemed more like 3 items assembled separately and put together on a plate rather than a creation. The black rice was really hard. It seemed undercooked.

We complained to the server about my girlfriend’s dish. Our server, Michael, said repeatedly “Well I didn’t cook it”. He offered another menu item, but we had waited quite a while for our orders and didn’t want to order another dish for her when I was just about done mine.

Once we raised the issue with Michael, he ghosted us. He never returned to our table. He was still serving other tables, though. We had to flag down another server and ask her to send Michael back to our table as we hadn’t seen him in quite a while and our dirty plates had sat on our table for an uncomfortable amount of time.

An older woman, not Michael, came to our table and surprised us when she told us that she had knocked off both of our entrees from the bill. It seemed like she might have been the owner or manager.

This would’ve been a 1 star review, but they earned the second star with their ambiance and the owner/manager’s rectification of our issue.

We still won’t return to Chez Piggy. For the money, there are way better dining options in Downtown Kingston.