Pisco Bar

Hoping for improvement...

4 friends for dinner, one from Peru excited to share an upscale taste of home.

Ideal location, upscale decor, seating for +/-70, so why only 4 tables sat between 5 and 9 with lots of beautiful people out enjoying a glorious post-pandemic Saturday evening?

Food is beautifully presented but disappointing, overpriced, and service needs guidance.

Pisco Sours primarily ice, most spilled on way to table. No bar naps or table settings so the table was a sticky mess. About 2 oz to enjoy @ $14 each. Peruvian Malbec was spoiled. Sent it back with a polite explanation. No apology or another option offered.

Still no table settings after appetizers dropped off. Asked again. Shared 2 "Classic" cheviche apps "spicy" which is a thin slice of red chili on top of 4 1/8"x1x1 slices of mild fish, 5 or 6 kernels of native corn, a single 1x 1/2” piece of (over) cooked sweet potato, mild sweet dressing, but mostly red onion sliced long, very awkward with the diminutive tortilla chips. Not much substance @ $20 x 2.

Ordered 5 entrees to share so everyone could try a cross section of the menu. Asked for extra plates. Who doesn’t like Paella? Ordered 2 house signatures, a beef stir fry, pork chop with pumpkin stew, and vegetarian noodles @ $25-45 each.

All arrived cold.

Paellas were mostly overcooked pasta swimming in a super bland sauce. Didn't finish either. No one wanted the leftovers.

Pork chop was 1/4 x 3 x 5" " slice with bone, over smoked and salted, so dry it curled; couldn't even cut it with a steak knife. Pumpkin stew bland, overcooked atop mushy white rice.

Beef stir fry had the right proportion of ingredients but too heavy on the soy/salt. Agreed we'd had better for half the cost elsewhere.

The vegetarian noodles were the best of the lot, nothing to get excited about; cubed tofu, mild sauce, overcooked noodles with an ounce or two of steamed veggies.

Lost our enthusiasm so decided to pass on dessert, but ordered 2 coffees looking forward to a cup of deep, rich fresh South American grind before the long drive home. What arrived was weak, lukewarm, in small cold 3 oz cups, (again) spilled in transit, with little plastic single serve containers of…coffee mate. I'm not making this up, folks. I asked, but was told there was no milk, half and half, or even nut milk anywhere in the house.

We sipped what was left in our little coffee cups till they were empty. No warm up offered, so I went over to the bar again where servers and someone in kitchen whites were standing and asked if someone could refill our coffees and bring some more napkins (to mop up the coffee mess).

Instead, we were brought 2 new (terrible) cups of mostly spilled liquid without the little coffee mates. We're pretty sure they used a K-cup and split a single serving between the 2 coffee cups and reused it for the second 2 cups, it was that abysmal.

We did not receive any silverware or napkins until after our food arrived and we asked for it a second and third time. At no time during the 3 hours there were we asked if we liked our food or needed anything. Most of our beverages ended up on the drink trays. Our food was cold and not at all what we expected.

After almost no service except drop-offs, 2 servers arrived tableside with the bill and a portable card reader wanting to run our card before we even had a chance to review it.

Review it we did; $325 ($80 per person before tip), including spoiled wine that was sent back and 4 coffees (for the 2 of us), which were explained as "we brought you 4 cups of coffee" ...as they cleared the table before we’d finished the second 2 cups of coffee.

We won’t be back.