I recently visited Telly's Taverna a few weeks ago to attend a lunch for a baptismal party. I had been to Telly's several times before and the experience was pretty good, however after my last visit I was extremely disappointed and will not be going back. I had arrived at the party at 2:30pm and we were seated in the back part of the restaurant. After 30 minutes of waiting the waitress came and took our drink and food orders. I ordered my meal along with a johnny walker black. After the waitress brought me my drink, I proceeded to take a few sips and quickly realized the drink I was sipping was not Johnny black but Johnny "bomba" -meaning it was a bootlegged concoction made to look and smell like Johnny black but to someone that drinks the real thing very often, I could not be easily fooled. The reason is, (for anyone that's never drank it), real Johnny black isn't supposed to taste like gasoline-it's supposed to taste like scotch. However they must think that the customers are stupid but they are not. I called the waitress over and told her I did not like my drink and that it was not Johnny black. She proceeded to play dumb and pretend to not understand. In the end she even charged me for it, which shows what this restaurant really thinks of its customers. Getting back to the rest of the "dining experience", one hour later and still no food. I got up to stretch a little and see what was going on. I thought, "maybe they're just really busy today", to my surprise the restaurant was not even half full and 4 waitresses were just standing around doing nothing except chatting with each other. Another hour went by and hallelujah! the food finally managed to make its way to us. However my excitement was short lived as the food and presentation were subpar to say the least. I ordered the "bifteki" and got 4 small meatballs in a tiny plate, which were cooked on the outside and raw in the middle. My neighbor got their dish in a cast iron skillet, my cousin got her dish in a large flat plate, and my wife got her dish in a soup bowl-and it wasn't soup. Did they run out of plates or something? I don't know but nothing seemed consistent except that the service and food were both bad. The next day I needed to down a coke to help dissolve the bad food I ate there from the day before. Telly, if you were family I would disown you.