Marni's — Restaurant in Seal Beach

So my mother and I went to this place last Wednesday for karaoke. This was my first time ever there and most likely my last time. I went to the bar and ordered a drink from a lady who had blafk hair with a silver/white streak. I found out later her name was Candace. I ordered a Hennessy w/a diet coke back. I get the tab, give her my card & she starts spinning it like she was holding it hostage & asks me if I wanted some wings because they were $1 a piece. I said no..why is there a drink or order minimum? I mean I did just pay for a shot of cognac and was charged $3.50 for the diet coke back, which it all came up to about $18. She said no but continued to try & convince to buy something else...so I said I'll take what the lady next to me was having, which was chips, salsa, guacamole.

I sat down, she brought my order and OMG was the chips SALTY...so was the salsa. I kept dusting the salt off the chips and to eat them & cringed at the salsa. It was excruciating trying to eat this expensive salty food. My mom tasted and she said how the heck are you eating this mess?? We were just trying to put something in our stomachs because we were drinking. So we did manage to get down about half the chips, but most of the guacamole and salsa was left. She talked me into saying something because I wasn't at first. We tols the lady with the blonde hair that the food was so salty & she actually agreed & said that.they keep talking to the cooks in the kitchen to tone it down with the salt & over salting everyone's food.

She ended up sending the Candace lady to our table & she had major attitude. She asked if I wanted them to remake it & I politely said no thanks but I wanted to inform her of how saly the food was. She asked again if I wanted them to remake it & when I told her no again, Candace had the nerve to ask me why. I said because I don't want my feet swelling up to the size of this table. If you don't already habe health problems, you will after eating this because this cannot be healthy. She asked if I wanted something else and for the THIRD OR FOURTH TIME I SAID NO. I kept thinking...why would I want something else salty from the same chef? Candace said, "let me see what I can do'," ...took the food... then got up, went to the bar &, began bad mouthing us to the other bartender & looked at us while doing so. We were beyond shocked! I mean she talked major trash and all we kept hearing was "TORTILLA CHIPS ."

I mean we were drinking so we were just trying to force something in our stomachs and even though we had to wipe every single chip off to eat it..after about half the chips we just couldn't do it. She never came back to the table after she took our food..just talked about us like a dog. She had more patience with the lady they had to escort out because she was too drunk...but she wasn't black either. Either way, we were embarrassed and her service...

We went to watch the Football game. This place was the place to watch it. Big screens everywhere. The staff are very friendly. The manager of this establishment is amazing. I don't know his name, (young fellow possibly mid 30's). They serve this amazing chocolate lava cake that is so decadent, it has become my weekly chocolate craving. We went there a few weeks ago and ordered the cake and the manager said they were out of the cake and taking it off the menu. I said to him " how can you take chocolate off the menu"? He told me if I were to come in once a week. He would order the Cake.. well Sunday is the first day of the week. I had asked my server for the chocolate lava cake. He told me they didn't have any. I was crushed. And I was ready for dessert, so I decided to try something else. The chocolate chip cookie cake. And to my surprise 😁😁😁😁🫢🫢🫢. The most. Amazing chocolate lava cake came out. I was in heaven. I made a promise that I will make it a weekly trip to have that cake. It is...

Chaos that’s the best way I can describe this place. The band was great. The problem is there’s not enough seating for as many people they pack here. Didn’t seem to be organized. We sat there for a good hour then finally we caught the bartender he offered to help start a tab for us. Five stars for him. The food was average bar food. The waiters and waitresses are running around. You can’t seem to get anyone’s attention who is serving you. So I wouldn’t recommend coming here at night when there’s a band playing unless you want to deal with the chaos and highly recommend getting there very early at least two hours...