Candela Restaurant

HORRIFYING EXPERIENCE - VERY UNGRATEFUL OWNER

Wow...what happened. THIS PLACE IS NEVER GOING TO MAKE IT. The restaurant business is a service business and this place doesn't know the meaning of the word. While the food is above average...not great but above average this owner has grown far bigger in his mind than his dinky restaurant warrants.. We always like to support small businesses in our community so when ten of us got together for dinner, we made our reservation here. I first received a very angry phone call from the owner whom I think is Armando.. He stated, "You have to order family style and if you don't want to do it don't come!" That should have told me something right there but I kept him on the phone and in the end I felt we could make it work. I think he was most concerned that we would spend a minimum of $35 per person which I knew we would surpass as we enjoy wine. We were placed in a room on the side and after 20 minutes, I had to go out and ask if we were going to get service. We ordered the wine and we were served in these tiny little glasses. I asked for a larger glass and was told "NO, we do not sere large glasses in this room. I made it clear that we did not ask to be placed in this room and was still told no. I walked into the other room and took a large wine glass off a table. I noticed the restaurant was empty...maybe three tables had people on a Saturday night. Armando proceeded to come in and scream at me about the glass and I actually stood up and wanted to leave and go elsewhere. Unfortunately the rest of our crew had their heart set on the food so in an effort to go with the flow I sat down. He had left the glass on the table so I went ahead and used the glass after all. Once we ordered more than $600.00 worth of food, Armando came in again and stood there screaming at us. He embarrassed me personally by screaming that " I can no longer set foot in his restaurant" and we need to finish up and we were not welcome to order desert - "Just pay and get out." One of our party walked out and paid the full bill just so we could get out quickly. I have NEVER been thrown out of a restaurant in my life. This a mediocre restaurant at best and treating customers this way is a guarantee his doors will close soon. Obviously, we will NEVER set foot in this insane place again! Way expensive...small portions...poor quality...poor service and a CRAZY ungrateful owner.