Drove by this restaurant many times and finally decided to give it a shot, boy what a mistake that was. I had pretty much the same experience as many of the other 1 star reviews here; a cute little bar/restaurant with ok food but incredibly...
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Drove by this restaurant many times and finally decided to give it a shot, boy what a mistake that was. I had pretty much the same experience as many of the other 1 star reviews here; a cute little bar/restaurant with ok food but incredibly slow and poor service. For starters, it took quite a while for a host to even acknowledge and seat us at a table. When she finally did, the restaurant had apparently run out of menus so they were sending someone to print more?? Can’t say I’ve ever seen a restaurant run out of menus before but I guess there’s a first time for everything. We probably should have taken this as a red flag and gone somewhere else but we were still willing to give Maxwell’s a chance. Like mountaineers hiking to our doom, we pressed on and ordered a couple of drinks and appetizers. It took over an hour to get our drinks and appetizers out to our table and this was with me flagging down the wait staff several times to ask about our food. Eventually two of our three orders arrive, what happened to our last and final order you might ask? Well according to one waiter, they had ran out of artichoke dip while another waiter told us, shortly after the first, that the dip the kitchen had made was not up to his standards and he was unwilling to serve it to us. Again, another odd experience but thanks I guess from saving our table the troubles of eating a bad spinach dip. The restaurant staff should probably get their story straight for the next person who tries to order the dip though. Halfway through eating our appetizers, another waitress approached us with a Negroni that no one had ordered, it was at this point our party decided to call it quits and try our luck at another restaurant. The cherry on top was they for some reason decided to put the artichoke dip, which we never got, and the Negroni, which we never ordered, on our check. A quick talk to the waitress was all was needed to get things corrected but it felt like Maxwell was just rubbing salt into the wound at this point. So all in all, I would recommend Maxwell’s Plum if you’re looking to kill a couple of hours and have nothing else going on in your life; or if you’re looking for a unique and novel, for better or worse, dining experience!