Blue Fig Garden — Restaurant in Cherry Hill Township

Let me start off by saying the food is very good. Everything I had was great. However the service fell extremely short.

My husband, daughter (almost 2), and I drove over an hour to come have dinner with my mother and my grandmother. They loved the food and wanted to share this place with us. When we first got there, everything was totally fine. Our server was kind and we had no issues. One of our appetizers wasn’t delivered prior to our entrees, but that wasn’t a big deal. Things were still going pretty smoothly.

However, once our meals were dropped, we could not get our server to pay attention to us at all. We had finished all our waters and needed boxes and a dessert menu. For context, we arrived at 5pm, finished our meals at 5:50, and didn’t leave until 6:35.

She eventually gave us boxes for our leftovers, but only two, when we needed four or five. We ordered our desserts through the host because he saw that we were looking around for our server, and he told us he would pass along the message to her so she could ring them in, and then she didn’t deliver them for nearly 20+ minutes. It was just absurd. Because of this delay, my family and I didn’t get to do our after dinner plans because there wasn’t any time: my husband and I had to trek home an hour away to put our baby to bed.

I don’t ever leave negative service reviews unless the service was pretty unredeemable, and in this case, it truly was. At some points I could see our server hanging out by the bar, eating and laughing, while we sat there needing things, and while I tried to entertain my sleepy/cranky toddler. There was just zero sense of urgency, especially when the place wasn’t even crowded because we were dining relatively early. I didn’t expect to be catered to every 5 seconds, but she definitely dropped our food and decided she didn’t have to come back until we somehow captured her attention for the check.

Like I initially said: the food is good. But I also wanted to be transparent about the service because I feel like that’s part of the whole experience of...

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