It's taken me a long time to write this review. I've never written one, but I've never had an experience like the one I had here, and it's taken me a while to process.

I came in on July 26th, 2024. My sister was a month away from going away to college for the first time, and I wanted to do something nice with her before she left. It was a sunny day and anyone who lives in the area knows you really have to make the most of them, so we decided we would treat ourselves to a nice lakeside restaurant.

Long story short (although I will leave the full story below if you'd like to read more), the server treated us vastly different than everyone else he served including the table that was right next to us. He looked upset to even have to serve us and never checked up on us after he brought us our drinks despite coming back repeatedly to check on the table next to us. He also took over 45 minutes to bring us 2 orders of fish and chips and a kids' meal. He took so long that my sister and little cousin got up to use the bathroom again while we waited and they said that they saw the server and a coworker SITTING and LAUGHING at them when they walked by.

Finally, when the food finally arrived, it was all COLD to the touch. I was infuriated as it was beyond clear to me at that moment that we were being discriminated against in plain sight.

The server sped off as soon as he dropped off our food and only returned to check on the table next to us yet again, but not on ours.

He was clearly avoiding acknowledging me in any way after his interaction with the next table, so I had to call him over. I said, "EXCUSE ME, we waited over 30 minutes for our food, and it's COLD."

He knew he was wrong because he didn't even try to deny it. Instead, he said he would take EVERYTHING off the bill. And he did but clearly only because he knows he messed up severely.

We left the restaurant, and it's taken me a while to process, but I still feel really sad and shocked about how we were treated. I know racism still existed but to be treated with such disgust and disregard in a professional, public, and crowded environment was something I didn't think anyone, especially an EMPLOYEE at their JOB, would have the balls to do.

I don't really know how to end this other than saying I think this issue goes deeper than just the server (why did he think it was okay to act this way?). I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone who believes in equality, and writing a review honestly just doesn't do what happened justice.

My sister left for college yesterday, and we never got to do anything "special" again. We were scared to go out to eat again out of fear of having to go through discrimination again.

I don't think I can quite express the impact this experience has had on us but if it leaves you with anything, it should be a reminder that progress unfortunately still needs to be made in our society.