Somebody's Darling — Restaurant in New York

the two stars are for the bartender who was working when we came in to the bar at around 4pm yesterday. the other woman who came in slightly later did not deserve another star. first of all was the second bartender mocking mine and my friends accents to our faces (we are both from london and our other friend is from new york) and at first i thought it was funny and told her she did a great impression until she rolled her eyes at us and walked away. we had a total of maybe 7 drinks each (three of us, half cocktails half shots) and as ive been to the city three times now and my friend lives here, we knew we would be tipping as much as we could seeing as it was a great atmosphere and good service (from the other bartender.) we took our bill and told the second bartender that would all be paying by debit card, split evenly amongst us all. our bill on debit/cash was $291, and if we had paid using credit card it wouldve been $299. she didnt tell us how much we would be paying each, even though we calculated it would be $97 evenly split. she then held her hands out for our phones/cards to pay and came back and gave us our receipts. she then said to my friend (who is a new yorker) that “in america its actually customary that you tip 20%” which 1. is incorrect. and 2. there was no need to be so patronising and demanding of a tip seeing as we were already going to tip 20% of the bill but because of her attitude throughout the night we decided we wouldn’t after that comment. as we were writing our top amounts onto the bill and realised one of us had paid $97, one $97.71 and one $99.71, meaning that she had overcharged two of us (no matter how much by it doesn’t matter when we obviously paid debit not credit) and as soon as we were going to say something after realising she had walked away into the bathroom. if you want to come here for excellent service, dont. if you want to come here for karaoke night, trivia or otherwise i would say do it but bare in mind the...

It saddens me to write this review. I loved coming to Biddys and then, the same owners opened Somebody's Darling which I was so excited for! The bars have a very cozy feeling. Unfortunately, my friends and I had an experience that have made me not want to return. A group of 6-7 of us came here after work for some drinks. We we're all ordering multiple rounds of alcoholic drinks except for one friend, who was ordering sodas because they are on medication that doesn't allow them to drink alcohol. Because of this, the bartender was giving us serious attitude. He was short with us, made rude remarks, and while he was refilling every tables popcorn bowl, he refused to refill ours and actually took the bowl away completely. I understand that these bars only serve alcohol and rely on the money to make a profit, however, we were all drinking multiple rounds of alcoholic beverages except for one, and we always were going to tip extra for the person who was having a soda. This made us really uncomfortable. I'm not sure if it had to do with our group being majority POC. Unfortunately, the same bartender also works at Biddys and did the same thing with us there (except this time, everyone was drinking alcohol). These bars have loyal followers, but it seems if you aren't regulars or if you've somehow gotten on this one bartenders bad side, you can't have a fun experience. I'm really disappointed because it's such a fun spot! But I don't feel...

I really wanted to like this place because the decor is cute, the music is good, and it has fun vibes and a good crowd. However, both times we’ve gone to check it out the bartender added extra drinks on our tabs and became irate when we mentioned it. The first time we figured it was a mistake (no big deal, happens sometimes) and approached to kindly ask them to remove the extra drinks when we noticed it on the receipt. Instead of apologizing and fixing the mistake, the bartender insisted we were wrong and had in fact ordered those drinks. We didn’t so we again said it was wrong and he got really angry and walked away - he refused to remove the drinks from the tab so we just left since we’d already paid and didn’t want him to escalate further. A few weeks later we decided to try again, thinking it was a one-off, but the same exact thing happened; extra drinks were added on our tab, we approached the bartender to correct the mistake and he got incredibly angry with us. He even said “I don’t know if they’re yours, but it’s not that much money, just pay it!” I don’t get why they don’t keep better track of their tabs or at least admit their mistakes rather than blowing up at customers. I’m also curious if he would’ve responded the same way if we were large men like him instead of women - it felt like bullying. We...