Elephant Bar Restaurant

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20120616:
As an appetizer we got the garlic bread with marinara sauce. They were delicious.

I'm pretty sure I got the shrimp and chicken jambalaya for my entree.

I think I liked the dish at the time, but thinking about it now it wasn't anything special. From a positive point of view, at least my dish was average tasting. My friend ordered a noodle soup whose broth tasted quite terrible. It reminded me of when I experimented and put too much sweet relish in a bowl of noodle soup.

Upon being handed the check, some of us paid by cash and some of us paid by credit card. For those paying by card, we wrote in the amount we wanted put on each card on the receipt. When our waiter comes back, he clarifies the amount of whatever we write down gets charged the automatic tip on top. This is dumb, because the automatic tip already appears on the receipt and should be something we're taking into account. Anyways, we work out the math and fix the amount we want to give him. So this credit card issue I can overlook. However, we had about $7 extra in cash that we were expecting to get back in change, but didn't. The server should have definitely asked before taking the change. We contemplated fixing the issue, but some of us were lazy, some of us were timid, and some of us didn't care. As such, we left the issue alone and simply decided to not return.

I wrote: "The garlic bread tastes awesome. I like the celery in the jambalaya. Yay. Bad service (see receipt for day we went to Elephant Bar)." 20120623 1:05 AM PDT

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Elephant Bar Restaurant

Relevant Links:
Elephant Bar Website
Elephant Bar Restaurant - Irvine, CA (Yelp.com)*

*As of June/July 2014, this location has closed.