My husband and I went to Portland Maine for a long weekend to get away for our birthdays ( we are born on the same day ) We decided to eat early so we could walk around after dinner. We were the second customers to this restaurant ans we were quickly seated. He ordered the half roasted chicken and I ordered a scallop appetizer on mesclun salad with fried julienne leeks for my dinner. The waitress brought my meal as an appetizer even though I asked her to bring it for my entree. She about it i will just wait to eat until my husbands dinner was served. Well it took a good 30 minutes for his dinner to arrive and by that time the mesclun salad was very wilted and i asked if she could just replace the greens and not the scallops. She returned with a new salad and the scallops were reheated but there weren't any fried leeks. I asked if she could bring a small plate of the fried leeks. She returned with ONE very THIN piece of fried leek the size of a toothpick on a bread plate. I called her back and told her if the chef has a problem then ask him to come out here and settle it. I told her that is the rudest thing a chef can do, I have been a catering chef for over 15 years and tell the chef to get off his high horse. I also told her I am no longer hungry and the chef ruined our birthday dinner. The manager came over and appologized over and over. We got a dinner on the house and a dessert which we refused, The chefs excuse was that they ran out of leeks. It was a house special and we were the second couple that was seated that night. No way did they run out of leeks 40 minutes into service. Stan Horwitz
