Mama San Lounge Bar

Swing and a miss! Maybe I visited Mama San on an off night, but it just wasn’t for me.
First off, the service here was mediocre. Yes, our waiter took our orders and everything came out promptly. However, he really should have tried harder to mask his apathy and eyerolls. It was very obvious that he felt he had better things do do than spend time at our table. There was zero small talk, and I don’t think he cracked a smile once. To be honest, his monotone demeanor made me slightly uncomfortable. It felt like we were intruding by dining in the restaurant.
As for the food? Not impressed. First off, the menu they have online is NOT the same one they give you in the restaurant. In the restaurant you are actually given two menus: one with Asian cuisine, and another with more western-​fare. That is always a red-​flag for me. Secondly, the only item marked «vegetarian» on the menu were the vegetable dumplings. What’s the point of having a «V» to designate veggie-​friendly when you only use it once? The server did assure me though that the tofu pad thai was in fact vegetarian. There were additional veggie items on the online menu that looked more interesting that unfortunately were not on the one in person.
I had no choice but to go with the pad thai and it was pretty terrible. It was really greasy and had way too much sickly-​sweet sauce on it for my liking. I hate wasting food but I didn’t end up asking for my leftover to be packed up at the end of the night.
Sorry Mama San! Obviously there was a reason the restaurant was nearly empty on a Saturday night.