Cisero's

Nice atmosphere, and it's on main street so of course location speaking it's great. We wanted to sit outside, but our party of 5 was too big, so inside it was. A bit too cramped for my taste, and too dark. I get the "dimming" effect but this was just too much.

Food wise- standard. Everything was good, really nothing to complain about. Pretty reasonable on the price range. It's a good place for Italian, but not my favorite place to go on main street. Anything you get will be good enough.

I have eaten here at least 20 times in the last 3 years. I like the food and the waitstaff and the restaurant is great for kids, but the hostess/hosts are absolutely horrible and untrained and it is always a disaster at the front. They have no clue what is going on, in multiple occasions I have had reservations and still had to wait an hour. And times I have walked in I have had people there after me with no reservation seated first. Totally a mess, even at times it has been smooth for me it has been a mess for other guests. If you can deal with the frustration it is a pretty good restaurant.

So Ciseros has "brunch" now and this is only a review of that. Not commenting on the bar at night, because it totally fills a need for those who enjoy slamming crappy shooters, getting in fights over pool, doing lines off the toilet seat or maybe getting lucky with a skanky critter from happy valley, all while listening to a brutally bad mix by the CJ du jour.
Although Ciseros has a reputation for bad food (all the good reviews on here were written by people born without a palette or sleeping with the owner) I cannot say whether the brunch food bucks or confirms this view; we didn't make it that far.
We went this morning because we were hungry and hungover and everywhere else had a wait. As it was Silly market Sunday, a super busy time on Main, I can only assume we encountered the A team of staff because having anyone else on hand on a summer Sunday would just be poor management, right?
We were "hostessed" by a mouth-breathing zombie who stared at us blankly until we asked if we could sit down. Then arrived our waiter, who appeared to be retrieved from a dumpster earlier this morning.
1. He was drunk. Not a little bit. Like hammered. This is a fact.
2. When I asked for a latte he said "are you kidding me?"  I kind of wasn't because it was on the menu.
3. When I asked for spinach on my omelette (because there were 4 other things on the menu containing spinach,so i assumed they have it) he said No Way. Why? "I don't know, it's frozen or something."
4. After 45 minutes we still had no water, let alone the coffee or Bloody Mary we ordered. Ps it was 85 degrees out. And the hangover thing..
5. Before we bailed to go forage for breakfast in the woods, as that would be much faster: He served Mimosas to 2 obvious Tweens, served a table of 6 their meals 10 minutes apart - each, never gave the kitchen our order, left a family sitting at a dirty table for 20 minutes while he hung out with a passerby, and emerged from the kitchen with unidentifiable slime on his creepy long mustache. He told one table not to sit outside because they we're "gonna be waiting a long time for service", and just sent another couple away altogether. There were 4 open tables just in the outside section.
Every minute we were there we witnessed another moment straight out of Kitchen Nightmares. It was surreal.
Unless we were being punked, everyone who was working there today should be fired. Ok maybe not everyone, but the manager, the dumpster guy and the hostess for sure.