4/5 ItsPrettyBlack Y. 5 months ago on Google
Attended
a
formal
event
Saturday
in
the
Highland
ballroom
and
the
bartending
service
was
horrifying.
The
event
space,
catering
staff
and
chef
were
phenomenal
but
the
bartender
and
his
service
turned
many
guests
away,
including
myself.
He
was
frustrated
with
the
machine
not
working
to
take
cards,
and
thus
created
a
line
and
caused
a
delay
in
us
entering
the
ballroom
to
begin
the
event.
We
all
politely
waited
for
him,
allowed
1-2
ppl
paying
cash
to
move
ahead
and
joked
with
him
to
help
him
calm
down
as
we
helped
troubleshoot
the
machine
(which
only
required
a
restart).
I
ordered
an
old
fashioned
and
before
taking
more
than
several
steps,
turned
around
to
discreetly
let
him
know
there
were
black
particles
in
the
ice
of
my
drink.
He
took
my
drink
and
stirred
it
with
my
straw
in
disagreement.
I
pointed
out
they
weren’t
small
and
very
visible,
requesting
a
remake.
Annoyed,
he
sat
my
drink
down,
got
ice
from
inside
the
area
chilling
the
open
wine
bottles,
placed
it
in
a
new
glass
and
began
pouring
my
previous
drink
with
the
bad
ice
over
the
ice
from
the
wine
bottles.
I
immediately
declined
as
that
ice
is
not
for
serving
if
it’s
chilling
the
opened
bottles.
He
yelled
at
me
in
front
of
the
other
guests
and
event
host
(she
was
wondering
what
the
delay
was
atp
so
the
event
could
start)
“ma’am
you
are
bothering
me!”.
Taken
aback,
guests
gasping
as
him
yelling
at
me,
I
questioned,
“because
I
refuse
to
drink
dirty
ice,
sir?”.
I
now
preferred
no
have
no
drink
and
for
him
to
keep
the
drink
and
what
I
paid
+
tip.
This
was
a
formal
event
so
I
held
my
composure
but
the
treatment
was
uncalled
for,
in
addition,
the
dirty
ice
needed
to
be
addressed!
The
ice
was
visibly
dirty
with
black
particles
inside
&
to
grab
a
drink
as
if
your
own,
toy
with
it
via
my
straw
and
give
it
back
to
me
as
if
acceptable,
get
more
dirty
ice
and
pour
the
dirty
drink
on
top…
all
unacceptable.
He
continued
the
remake
without
ice
(since
the
guests
and
host
were
all
waiting
on
him
to
finish
my
drink
and
the
4-5
ppl
after
me)
and
forgot
to
add
the
alcohol.
Horrible
start
to
a
nice
evening
and
event
and
it
needed
to
be
mentioned
to
make
others
aware.
Again,
the
entire
serving
staff
and
chef
were
phenomenal.
As
the
only
vegan,
he
easily
and
quickly
prepared
an
alternative
meal
that
I
was
very
pleased
with.
I
was
grateful
for
the
host’s
consideration
in
providing
vegetarian
options
and
even
more
impressed
that
the
chef
could
accommodate
a
one
off
vegan
plate.
Well
done
GH.
Had
me
considering
using
them
to
host
a
future
event
but
the
ice
and
bartending
service
needs
attention.