by Deshawn Melanson on I hate writing bad reviews, but then again, I hate horrible service more. Wish 26 appears to be earning a rep as a night spot, which may or may not be true, but they are also open for lunch, which they are woefully unprepared for. We were looking for a bar to get some lunch and watch a March Madness basketball game, and they had big TV screens over the bar, so in we went. The room is vaguely decorated in an Irish pub theme. The few tables clearly exist only to be pushed aside when the night crowd comes -- they look like miniatures in the vast empty room. Dancing later? We were asked three separate times what channel the game was on, and another fifteen minutes passed for these three people to actually change the TV channel. In fairness, they created several table and chair formations for us to watch the screens. It took about 10 minutes to get water to the table -- without ice -- and another 10 to place the order. It then took over 40 minutes for the food to come (sporadically, two dishes at a time, ice teas without ice, one botched pizza order), so there was plenty of time to study the somewhat greasy mix of businessmen (construction and contractor work, possibly?), ladies who might be looking for a gentlemanly escort for an hour or so, and stray families who accidentally wandered in. The scene had a somewhat mafia-esque feel in how the men greeted one another and made rounds from table to table. It was kind of fun to guess how the oddly matched people found each other and decided to eat here. Lunch required two changes of servers during the meal. The simple pub menu -- chicken sandwiches, wings, fish-n-chips, and so on -- was fairly tasty. The first check was inaccurate by over $30 and included a 20% "service charge" for our party of six. When we asked the waiter to redo it, he disappeared for another ten minutes, and then said there was trouble with the machine. As we were manually writing it up ourselves, another waiter came back with the correct check sans service charge, but not totaled. We paid cash because we were afraid to leave a credit card number. A very shady business vibe here.
