Description: Walking along Shoreline Village I was trying to resist all the delicious smells filling the sidewalk, but when I reached Parker's Lighthouse I broke. The food, as my friend Randy would say, was delicious to the eyes.
First Parker's Lighthouse is located at the very end of Shoreline Village giving it the perfect location facing the sea and the harbor. The walking path that winds along the shore actually cuts though the outside seating area. This is where they make even the strongest crumble; the food looks so good that anyone would run in just to try the tantalizing temptations that filled each table. I was seduced and betrayed by my own senses and went in. The restaurant is three floors, very minimal decorations, but gives a nautical feel. There is a host inside the main door. I told her that I needed seating for one, and she told me where they had open seating and to seat myself. I choose to sit inside (outside was very windy especially the tables facing the open ocean) and went to the third floor. It is very hard to get a bad seat. The walls are nothing but glass offering a 360 degree view of the harbor and ocean. Every seat in the house has an amazing view. The greatness of the place really ends here.
I waited 20 minutes to be given a menu. There were six full tables on my floor, a bar tender, a cook, and two waitress who were more interested in talking about their drunken plans for the night then to bring me a menu so that I could eat and be on time of my whale watching tour. Finally the waitress came over dropped a menu in front of me and walked away without saying a word. I was livid, but when the food came to the table next to me I was convinced that the food had to make up for the "service", if it could be called that I received. The waitress came back 10 minutes later to take my order. Truthfully I think she only came back because she was curious about what I was doing. I was furiously making notes on the back of some old receipt planning all of the evil and nasty things I was going to say about her on IGOUGO (take that useless waitress!!!!)
I ordered the chicken sand which with red peppers and when I saw it arrive my mouth was watering. I quickly took the removed the top piece of bread, quizzically looked at the mushy tomato like thing on my chicken (where was my red pepper?), and like any true Pennsylvanian I poured some Heinz ketchup on it. I was ready to go to town. I lifted the sand which to my mouth and took a bit...it was tasteless. It was almost impossible to eat due to the pieces of chicken that keep falling out so I gave up and ate it with a knife. On the up side the portions were huge so if justified the price that I paid. However the downside to this was that I was given one glass of water, no refills. I was dying for something, but with no waitress in sight I was hopeless.
Once I was finished I sat at the table for 15 minutes debating on how I was going to leave. Again my waitress was no where in sight, which meant no bill, and with my donkey luck if I got up I knew that management would appear out of nowhere thinking that I was trying to walk out. Finally waitress showed up with a pitcher of water (that I could have used 30 minutes before), and I got my check.
I would not recommend this place to any one. Maybe I ordered the wrong item on the menu, got the wrong waitress, or just came on the wrong day, but the service and the food was awful. On each level I saw the staff just standing around talking (with the exception of the people outside, they were moving with the speed of light). However if it atmosphere that you are looking for this is the place. The view was amazing.
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