by Tanisha R. on The food was good, the service was crap. just sayin... I recently attended a birthday dinner for a friend of mine at Silk City. I can say that our waitress was pretty decent. It was a very busy night, but she was pleasant, which is more than I can say for the manager that evening! We had a fairly large party and they agreed to take a reservation, which the manager implied they dont do. Im not sure, Ive never been there. Anywho, so, inevitably people were late. That happens. Because people were late, those of us who arrived on time were made to feel EXTREMELY uncomfortable...before I arrived (and I was just 15 minutes late because I was looking for a parking spot) this manager stopped by our table to tell my friends, essentially, order something or get out. The language was much less blunt, but the sentiment was clear! Throughout the course of our waiting for others to arrive, several of the other servers rudely snatched menus off the table, took chairs and then eventually, the manager decided he was going to take one of our tables (they had pushed four together) and when asked what his plan was for when our other two guests arrived, we were told they would figure something out. Now, I understand it was a busy night. But, they took the reservation! They didnt have to take a reservation. They didnt have to seat the party before most had arrived. And they REALLY didnt have to harass us the entire time! The food was decent and appropriately priced but their bad attitudes ruined the atmosphere of what should have been a fun night out for a friend's birthday. Silk City needs to do better.
by Alva Horth on We were transported to the Mediterranean once we passed through the doors of Medjool. The colors of burnt orange, red and brown walls along with the art work eased the eyes. It was nice to see the open kitchen. We had an early seating and we were seated straight away. Our server welcomed us and asked if we ate there before. The menu offers tapas-style dishes to be shared. As a rule, diners choose 1 1/2 dishes per person, depending on how hungry they were. We ordered the lamb and couscous (generous portion of lamb, tender and not as gamey as lamb can be, wish there was more couscous); sea bass with filo dough and eggplant (moist fish, crunchy filo wrap and diced eggplant was tender); and for dessert the apple cobbler with vanilla bean ice-cream (apples sliced thinly with skin on; and creamy ice cream. The dessert was tough to eat because the skin connected the apple slices making it tough to scoop up, the slices dangled to each other). The view from the roof was scenic and there were many propane heaters to warm the area. The night and the time we were there, the crowd was sparse.
