The Talking Pint Bar & Bistro — Restaurant in Florida

After dining here once a week or so for the last year I’ve sadly decided someone else deserves my business. Tonight my husband, 3 year old and I came in to watch football and enjoy their new menu! Freyja my daughter has always loved Talking Pint. It was her favorite restaurant when we first moved to Fishhawk. The kids menu has penne pasta on it which we always substituted for Angel hair with butter. But pasta was no longer on the menu except for a $15 fettuccine with garlic sauce, tomato and no protein. I inquired on substitutes for pasta on the kids menu and was told that they could do the fresh fettuccine but it would be $15…. For a 3 year old who probably will eat three strands. I asked if perhaps they could take some noodles out for a kids side and I would take the rest with the garlic sauce. My wonderful server Sydney told me the manger said no. So I asked to speak with him. He said it was impossible to separate some noodles and put butter on a bit and the regular menu sauce and tomatoes on the remainder without buttering all the noodles. He basically told me he did not care that I’ve been spending $300 or more a month in his establishment. After he left my server asked what we wanted to do. I told her if they could make the pasta with butter and keep everything else on the side and I would construct the dishes myself. She put it in. And it came out. See pics! Took me all of 5 seconds to divide the portion and add the sauce. It’s incredible that the manager who I later found out was the owner couldn’t come up with a solution. I spent $100 tonight. But won’t again. I’ll miss the Talking Pint. Owner Matt also said the pasta on the kids menu was the lowest seller… You know why? It was penne. We always subbed Angel hair. Most kids don’t like penne. 🤷‍♀️ Pics below of how easy it would have been to keep me as a regular (Pour...

If you have Local Flavors for this place, be aware that the manager can’t grasp the concept of one coupon per check not per table. I went here last night with my boyfriend and my parents. Each couple had their own local flavor ($30 of food). For my boyfriend and I to hit the $30 we were perusing the dessert menu and contemplating further purchases. The manager then stated that according to the local flavor, it’s only one coupon per table (read: this is meant to be PER CHECK in order to increase sales to hit the $30). This resulted in no further purchases and the restaurant only receiving payment of $21 as my parents just used theirs and treated us, and we will not be going back (which we were planning to do and would have been decent future income for the business). The manager said we could have used our local flavor if we had sat at the table next to my parents and talked across the room, but we couldn’t because we were literally sitting across from them. The manager does not understand basic good business practices and that using a second local flavor on an entirely separate check would have gained the business 4 more loyal customers rather than losing future business.

If you are going with multiple people (I.e. multiple local flavors for separate checks) sit at adjacent tables, not together. For some reason the number of tables you take up (even if you are leaving another table open for other patrons to make them money) matters more than the amount of money you spend or how many separate...

My wife and I visited the Talking Point Bar and Bistro based on a coworker’s recommendation. Walking in first impression is that it’s basically a BW3 with different décor. But ok, we were told that while they serve bar food, it’s REALLY good bar food. After all the word “bistro” is in the name; it must be good? I thought the price for beer was a bit high, so we went with water and lemonade. We decided to order the charcuterie board as an appetizer, “uh… yeah we don’t have that anymore…” sigh and here we go. Obviously, we skipped the appetizer. My wife ordered the Wedge Salad, it’s a half head of lettuce with ranch dressing, how bad could it be? I ordered the Fig & Pig flatbread – topped with balsamic glaze, blue cheese crumbles, prosciutto, fig, greens (aka lettuce), red onion. Waitress was friendly and attentive, and the food arrived within a reasonable amount of time. My wife’s wedge salad was just that, a wedge salad. In the end she liked it, so that’s good. My flatbread was true to its name and indeed FLAT. It had balsamic glaze over lettuce, blue cheese crumbles and onions. There were no figs and I think they tried to pass off bacon bits for prosciutto. I gave it 3 stars because it was relatively close to home, the lemonade was cold, and the wedge salad was cut down the middle just right. Just because the word “bistro” is in the name, it...