Scopo Divino — Restaurant in San Francisco

NOTE: Edited below.

The food was average at best. We had the restaurant week brunch buffet. The crab sandwich was extremely salty, the croissant was dry, the fried chicken and the scrambled eggs weren’t seasoned well at all. The service was terrible. We were given small starter plates and were never offered new plates after using them, which was extremely concerning wrt cross contamination. I ordered bottomless mimosas and my friend had a taste of my drink, and they came up to us and told us that they would be charging us for 2 bottomless mimosas. Their menu did not mention that tasting / taking a sip was not allowed. When we denied that my friend wasn’t drinking from my glass and had just taken a sip, they said they checked the cameras, which didn’t sit right with us. It really soured our brunch.

I wouldn’t recommend this brunch at all.

Edit: Response to the restaurant reply below

Your thinly veiled preconceived notions about us are really shining through here. A few responses:

We finished multiple plates of food because we had to in order to be able to go get more food- there were no visible bins nearby to even clear our plates of food scraps and we were NEVER OFFERED new plates. We had to ASK for a new plate (which happened ONCE, not often as you claim).

My friend that you claimed was also going to drink the bottomless mimosa had specifically stated before we ordered that he did not feel like getting a drink. I offered him a SIP (which he accepted) but I did not realize the placement of my glass and this small gesture would result in so much suspicion from the restaurant owner/staff. These unfounded assumptions and the fact that he came to us and confronted us after checking the CAMERAS left a very poor impression on us. If you had an issue after noticing, you could have told us instantly and we would have apologized after realizing you were so strict about offering a sip to a friend. To be CRYSTAL CLEAR, we did not intend to share one bottomless mimosa, and there was no “ruse”. This assumption (and the subsequent checking of cameras) is rude, wrong, and frankly discriminatory.

After we were bullied into ordering the second mimosa, my friend (who is a PhD student at UCSF and doesn’t make a tech salary like the rest of us at the table) matched my number of drinks to keep me company and get some bang for his buck.

P.s. sharing a sip of a cocktail/drink or a bite of your meal with a close friend or partner is NOT equivalent to cross contamination.

Service for the water was fine, but to reiterate the points above, our experiences were soured in large part due to the handling of the mimosa situation. I assumed we’d only be tipping for the mimosas since the buffet was obviously self-serve and also prepaid. I did tip 12.5% which is lower than I normally would due to the soured experience.

To conclude, we did not try to steal from you, we did not lie to you about it, we did not tip very much, and wrote a truthful review about our experience. Thanks anyway for the condescending and untruthful response in which you display your bias for...

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