Sarge's Deli & Restaurant
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 679-0442
06/04/2008 Posted by sagredo
I'm reporting on breakfast only. The food was good, not great. The two people who had omelets liked them, but the blintzes that I had were only fair and served too cool. They tasted all right, but their texture and lack of any butter or fat on the plate made be think that that they had just been defrosted in a microwaved and not sauted, as I had expected them to be. The time between when we ordered and when we got our food was quite long---maybe 20 minutes, even though the place was rather empty. That may have been why the blintzes were cool. The waitress was friendly and attentive, but the grapefruit juice that we ordered turned out to be a Tropicana grapefruit juice DRINK---not juice---and came to the table in its original bottle. The worst thing about my experience, however, was paying for the meal. At Sarge's you pay at a checkout counter, not at the table. The person behind the table was probably an unemployable brother-in-law of an owner. When I arrived at the counter he not only didn't acknowledge my presence, but spent about five minutes putting blank pages in a looseleaf notebook, then another minute or two straightening up his counter. Finally he grudgingly accepted my check and credit card, never once looking at me, and muttering things like "I don't know what I'm doing here" to a fellow employee. (I have to say I agreed with him on that; he certainly wasn't providing service.) Only once before in my life have I ever encountered anyone as incompetent in a service position as him. In summary, I might go back to Sarge's, but if I do I'll make sure before I go in that he isn't the one at the checkout counter.
Pros: decent food, reasonable prices
Cons: service very spotty---nice waitress, terrible cashier
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