MAESTROS, MILNERTON

Date:  2 March 2010
Hosts:  Simon & Annabelle
Group:  14people

I think we've officially found the restaurant with the worst service.

As most of us had been to Maestro's before, we were looking forward to last night's dinner as we'd all only had good experiences there and the view from the restaurant is stunning!  The view hadn't changed but as for the service...  They had 1 waiter serving our table of 14 AND the whole smoking area!  It took extremely long to get our drinks - bonus points for those of us who took our own wine and didn't have to wait :) 

Their menu is very interesting and we kept ourselves busy reading all the different names given to dishes...Steaks with names like Lindsay Lohan : rehab to Angelina Jolie. 

Starters was ok when it eventually arrived  - maybe a bit over prised for the size of some of the starters.  R46 for 3 stuffed calamari tubes??? 
Mains:  I must say the burgers looked lovely.  The Veal Picata & the Mussels Riesling were 2 definite winners!   Not all the steaks were done as requested and because of there only be 1 waiter (I'm assuming that was the problem) - most of the food arrived cold.  The one piece of steak was just sinew  - needless to say the dogs got their 'doggy bag'.  The line fish was ok - not very tasty.

After several complaints from our host for the night - the owner came to apologise to our table (which was greatly appreciated) yet it didn't make the slightest change in the service.   Even the Kahlua coffee's we ordered was sent back as there was NO Kahlua in the coffee?!?

I can't think of anything else to say about the venue so I would like to end of with a statement that someone made last night:  The whole reason why we're doing the dinner club and the blog (besides for the good company) is to try out different restaurants, to see if they can cater for bigger groups and to give feedback to anyone who's interested. Hopefully it also gives the restaurant owners and managers an idea of which areas need improvement on if any and to give praise to those places who impress us every time!