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SCinDC

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  1. Went to Station 9 on Saturday before heading to the 9:30 club for a concert... put me in the "not pleased" camp. The good: the space and location are excellent. It really is a pretty spot, and (I now see why) wasn't crowded. From the outset it looked like things would be good... then, all downhill from there. Once we were seated (at 7:40pm) it took 10-15 minutes before a server showed up to take our drink order. We ordered our drinks (beer and wine only--they were out of my first beer choice) and then started waiting. Another 15 minutes or passed and a somewhat apologetic server returned to take our dinner order. As was the case with the beer, they didn't have my first choice entree, so I settled on the burger. Another 5 minutes (about 30 minutes, perhaps even later -- I wasn't waching the clock at this point, after we sat down) and the drinks finally showed up. (I will admit I get especially irritated by this -- it should never take 30 minutes to DELIVER beer and wine). Thankfully I was with a fun group, because it took almost another solid HOUR for our food to arrive (it came, I looked, at 9:25, a good hour and a half after we sat down) -- and this in a restaurant that did not have every table full. Hilariously, every time food came out from the kitchen, you could see numerous tables looking at it, wishing and hoping it was their food. When it did come, my (second choice) burger was charred to a crisp and completely flavorless, my wife's peanut chicken was so overcooked it was like chicken flavored gum, and my friend's salmon cake was blackened to a crisp. Everyone else's food was okay to poor at best. There's almost no sense going into details here -- were ordered 7 dishes and none were remarkable. The waitress came to ask how it was, and I told her -- and I told her I did NOT want send the burger back as we needed to get to the club by 10pm. Nonetheless, the waitress TOOK my friend's salmon cake and replaced it with a (burnt) chili cheese dip she didn't order. We assumed that meant she would show back up fairly quickly (as she didn't even ask my friend if she wanted to send the salmon back) with the salmon cake, but no dice. We never recieved the salmon cake (and, they at least didn't charge for that). There wasn't a single apology, I'm sorry, or anything for the incredibly long wait (if you're wondering we left, after a delay with the bill, at almost 10:15 --- two and a half hours after we arrived -- which isn't long for dinner, if you, say, have appetizers and desert, but way way too long for one course), poor food prep, or failure to replace the salmon cake. We did however get an $8 free dish that no one ordered or wanted. I wanted this to be a good place -- the menu was interesting, and the space great, but it turned out to be far and away the worst dining experience in terms of quality of service and food I've had in DC. It's a shame that a great spot like Creme is associated with this disaster. On a positive note, we went to Ben's Chili bowl after the show and had a wonderful dinner.
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