Seventy @ Third

I went with a friend who I had not seen in a while. I appreciated being able to sit for a while and enjoy a leisurely meal. I cannot stand locales that just rush you. My food was very good. The restaurant was pretty empty but I have never been to a packed hotel restaurant.  Looking forward to going back.

A pretty classy joint in the lobby of the Waltham Westin hotel (oooo swank you very much!).  There was a wedding going on as my date and I arrived for our 7:30pm reservation, setting the desired romantic mood.  We rounded the corner to - *cricket* an EMPTY dining room.  Alright...maybe 7:30's too early to judge?  Maybe wait a bit?  EHRRRRR!-wrong!  It took up 2.5 hours to have our ENTREE + DESSERT and by the time we left there were only FOUR other tables other than our own (NOT good for a Saturday night!)  Here are my notations from the dinner that was "meh":

*Thank the stars for Groupon!  "Reservations recommended"...not so much.  The place was beautiful!  Clean!  Chic!  ....and empty on a Saturday night.
*It's summer!....SIT ON THE PATIO!  It was REALLY nice (way better than being the only person inside, too).  The recently wed bride and groom came out to have their pictures taken on the patio, too (ahh romance: nothing quite like a summer breeze, power lines and flagpoles, and the sound of the speeding autos of 128 traffic in the background).
*Tick-tock!  I might have understood the duration of time between arrival, order, serve, dessert, check IF there was a full house....but there were four tables.   To our server's credit, she did go above and beyond when it came to the dessert (.  The menu had blueberry pie with maple sorbet, but there was no more maple sorbet (and im not really a "vanilla sorbet" kind of girl).
*Taste: it was there for my Mediterranean Couscous Tamale (though the couscous was a little dry).

The place has potential....but just didn't rope me in.

My husband and I went to this place because we had a groupon. We live in Waltham and I had no idea it was even there. We called to make a 7:30pm reservation thinking that on a Saturday night it would be crowded. We were surprised to see that we were the only two people there. We thought it would be fun to have a restaurant to ourselves and get some really great services. Turns out it was a really weird experience. We started off by being seating and more than 15 minutes passed before our waitress came by to introduce herself. I could understand that happening on a Saturday night but we were the ONLY people there. She had NO OTHER patrons. So she brings us water and proceeds to spill half of it on my side of the table and on my leg.

Side note, there was complete silence in the restaurant. No mood music or anything. So my husband and I basically whispered to each other all night long because it was too quiet!

Best part of the night was the appetizers. We should have stopped there.  Throughout the night, there was a staff setting up for an event. So there was constant movement right near us of assembling tables. It was distracting. Then the rest of the wait staff was clearly setting up all of the tables for breakfast the next day and we felt like we were holding them up from leaving for the night and setting up their last table.

When we got our food, it wasn't great. It was very bland and didn't have great flavor. I know it's supposed to be healthy for you there, but healthy doesn't have to mean bland.

Our waitress for the night was a bit odd for us as well. She kept asking us how everything was and when we kept saying "ok" or "fine" she would just linger for a few seconds awkwardly like she wanted to say something else but never did.

Not a great experience adn I definitely wouldn't recommend this place to anyone. You can go to Moody Street in Waltham for much better food and you're guaranteed to have a much more lively scene!