Monk McQueens your wine event sure stunk it seems
Making profit per head trumped making new customers instead
Of wowing us with a succulent oyster bar you dished out crackers
And meagre portions subpar. Good-bye Baby Good-bye
The best part of your service was when a server offered to
Give our custom plates a wipe.We agreed but it was in vain
You had run out of service and had stopped bringing out the better
Appetizers. We went home with clean plates
The Event: Salud Chile
The Date: April 2 2011
The Time: 1pm to 3pm
The Place: Monk Mcqueens
No oysters! Our high expectations were quickly blunted when
We entered the event room. Not only no Welcome champagne
and oyster, bar but a scarcity of food tables. A cracker buffet
Dominated the only food station surrounded by dips and a plate
Of cerviche. Waitresses emerged from the kitchen with a repeating
Appy plate of apenemas meat pies and small clams. We assumed
This was just a first course and would be changed up as the afternoon
Progressed. No this would be the only offering from Monk’s kitchen
An outside barbecue with salmon and sirloin beef sticks completed
The food portion of this event. Some ok wines but nothing memorable
Completed our disappointment with this Salud Chile. We couldn’t help
Comparing past much better events hosted at A’Douls.Oh yes the little
Clams were delicious, but hard to get as they were rationed by the
Fast moving servers who seemed to know which hungry groups
to stay away from. Half-way through the event the clams
moved from the endangered food list to the extinct list along with the beef sticks.
Lots of crackers and mineral water left!