Marketplace Café at Nordstrom — Restaurant in Farmington

After years of loving the Nordstrom Cafe in Norfolk, visiting this location has been a shocking disappointment. First of all, the menu is very limited and unappealing. It's like going to a hospital cafeteria that is out of everything you want. The location is small, run down, and understaffed. They ask for the tip when you order. How can you tip for service you haven't even had? Best not to tip at all because the service here has been awful every time we've been there. Slow and rude waiters are apparently acceptable to the management here. Food is, eventually, just plopped down carelessly on your table. Glasses and silverware have been dirty. We've never enjoyed anything we have eaten here. Just...

I paid $14 for a kids buttered noodles and this is how much I got. We ordered 1 kids pasta to go because we had two small children with us in a stroller. When the kids got the food we were told to leave because our 1 and 2 year old weren’t able to eat their “to go food” in the restaurant. (Even tho they he place was completely empty.) I guess it’s okay to discriminate against a...

The food was good, the service was good, the atmosphere is nice, but the servers are getting seriously screwed out of their tip potential. Since they have you close the check at the counter and the servers have no control of the table. It's a shame to be...