Vista Village Pub

This place is alright.  Nothing super amazing about it, the food is okay, servers are nice.  Place is clean enough.  They pour with a heavy hand and the drink prices are good.  Not my first choice, but its just down the street so I like that.  It's convenient and well priced.

We were regulars for many years, but regular for us means once every 6-8 weeks, not like every week. I assumed the prices were higher than they deserved to be when the owner had to pay royalties to the Hennesey's overlords, but after the jailbreak and makeover to the Vista Village Pub, they went even higher, it seems.

After reducing the frequency of visits to 10-12 weeks apart, and trying to deny the deterioration, I tried one last time a month ago. I even put off writing this review to see if the sour taste would wear off. It has not. VVP has jumped the shark and nothing short of a Kitchen Nightmares makeover will suffice to save it.

My gluten and dairy intolerant wife and I gave them multiple chances to redeem themselves, and they failed. Kitchen failed. Waitstaff failed. Meals had to be returned for not meeting our requirements (easy stuff like no croutons). Beers ordered as pints and charged as pints and brought as smalls.

Feh. The competition has lapped VVP and they haven't responded adequately. Sad, because we rooting for them, but the spark has gone out.

The Pub was pretty full, so we opted to sit in the bar area (not directly at the bar, but the bar-like seating area right across from it). We placed our order with the bartender and waited for our drinks/food. Maybe 20 minutes later our food arrived, but our beers still hadn't. So, we had to go back to the bar and order them again. The nachos were terrible. The cheese wasn't melted to begin with, and when we started to eat them, they were already cold. The chicken tenders weren't bad, but you'd have to be pretty terrible to mess up chicken tenders. They too were luke warm by the time they arrived at the table. One of the waitresses was very distracting. It was really loud in the Pub, but somehow her loud heel-stomps managed to stand out amongst it all. Needless to say, we will not be back.