RTP-area local music and culture

["5er (martin)" <mdhall005 AT yahoo.com>]

I have to concur, as some of the worst, and some of
the slowest (they can be mutally exclusive), service I
have recieved in recent memory has been at Federal on
several different occasions.  Right now they are
hitting right around the Mendoza line, with 1 out of 5
visits being decent.   I keep going back because the
food really is pretty amazing. 
But I would be back more often if I felt confident
that I would get waited on within 30 minutes of being
seated, and if after an hour wait my food actually
came out as I ordered it, 30 minutes ago.

-5er

--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> They must recognize your high-caliber ranting skills
> and treat you with
> kid gloves, then. The rest of us are periodically
> treated to the Amazing
> Diappearing Waitress, and just a couple of weeks ago
> I had a bowl of
> soup that took 20 minutes to materialize & was
> more-or-less room
> temperature when it arrived.
> 
> At most other restaurants, these experiences might
> be enough for me to
> write the joint off, given that it's a 45-minute
> drive from my house,
> but the rest of the time the food is so fucking
> great (and when it's
> good, the service is fine), and the beer selection
> so pleasant, and yes,
> the prices so reasonable (although the food is so
> good I don't even
> consider the prices) that I keep going back, *and*
> steering other people 
> to it.
> 
> Late lunch on Saturday seems to be a pretty reliable
> time to go, and it
> works out pretty well with matinees at the Carolina,
> which despite its
> own set of quirks is my favorite theater in the
> Triangle. They both seem
> pretty quintessentially New Durham, in fact. Or I
> guess the American
> Tobacco Mall/Southpoint North is that now?
> 
> Anyway. I love Federal, despite its quirks, and
> isn't that what True
> Love is all about?
> 
> xo
> 
> Ross
> 
> p.s. less black pepper, please!
> 
> Chris Calloway wrote:
> > Also, whether Abby or anybody else, I've never had
> anything but
> > fantastically great and friendly service at The
> Federal, even from
> > the neophyte first-day on the job servers. I'm at
> the point where I 
> > just don't see the need to go anywhere else but
> The Federal if I can
> > get there before the kitchen closes and my
> financial goal in life is
> > to get to the point of making enough money again
> where I can eat
> > there every day. The Federal just excels in every
> category: food,
> > atmosphere, value, and service. And excels in
> those categories to a
> > degree and at a consistency that just seems a
> little surreal. Really,
> > there seems to be some magic pixie dust scattered
> over the place.
> > They do a superhuman job.
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> 


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