Capital City Grill, Part 2
Posted on November 6, 2009AKA Never again.
My old roommate, Sarah, and I wanted to go out to lunch today, so I decided to give the previously reviewed Capital City Grill a second chance. It was a mistake. It was much busier than last time, having been featured in the Lincoln Journal Star today. I again got a server who seemed to have never waited tables before. She mumbled through taking our order. My roommate ordered a turkey burger and fries, and I ordered the Chicken Oscar with a side salad. A few minutes later the waitress came back and asked me what side I wanted with my chicken, mash or risotto. I went with the 3-cheese risotto.
A while later (it was busy, so that’s understandable), she came back with our food, but had to auction it off. For those who haven’t worked restaurant industry before, auctioning is the process of asking “who had the chicken? ok here you go. who had the pasta? ok here you go. the steak?” etc. Generally considered a big no no. Especially bad when you have to do it at a table of two.
Sarah said her turkey burger and fries were fine. My chicken though was a different story. I got a five or six ounce chicken breast. Ate it up in four small bites. About a half cup of risotto, which was tasty. Two sprigs of asparagus. No crab at all. It would seem the thing which makes Chicken Oscar Oscar’d, was forgotten. And the dish was bathed in a tarragon sauce which might have been tasty, but it had gelatinized, presumably whilst sitting out waiting for the turkey burger to be cooked. Tarragon jelly is not an appetizing thing. Busy is one thing, but half-assing one’s way through a $13 lunch dish and forgetting a crucial ingredient is terrible.
Notice I made no reference to the salad. That’s because it never came. C’est la vie.
So I won’t be going back. And with the two experiences I’ve had, compared with experiences I’ve heard from a few others, we shall see if Capital City Grill lasts longer than some of the previous tenants that have occupied the location in the past decade.
Next time I’m going to try Toast!, the restaurant that just opened up in the super-yuppie development just across the highway from me.
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Bunk dude
thanks for the 2nd attempt. now i will definitely NOT eat there, and i’ll be passing the word around to my foodie friends. also, TOAST wouldn’t hire me … mostly because one of the owners kept saying i didn’t have any previous work experience or experience in a restaurant or experience in a hospitality/customer service role. apparently she missed my whole resume which she was staring at while saying these things … i pointed out several times the fact that i worked at a resort in the customer service department; i also worked three years in a restaurant doing just about every job there is to do (she also missed that after i pointed it out); she also missed all of the work history for past 12 yrs of my life — which i apparently have none. she finally said i was over-qualified to make coffee (be a barista/bartender). i haven’t dared to visit TOAST yet; i thought i would give them a month to get things running straight, then i would. (sorry i can’t hard-break my paragraphs, the feedreader won’t let me
BTW, the owners of TOAST are a couple that seperated from the LAZLO’S partnership — the lady owner had “pleasant” things to say about her previous investment *loaded with sarcasm*