Crapsto's

Location: Christo's Restaurant, Stafford Street, Worcester
Meal: Dinner, Saturday evening

Dinner at Christo's was an altogether bad experience. I'm going to just list all the terrible things that happened.

• The service was horrendous. We were basically ignored for a good portion of the evening. It took almost an hour to get our entrees. We were provided with 2 drink servings; you know, firsts and seconds. The wait staff was made up of about 4 college age girls, and an older woman who seemed to be in charge. Except that she didn't seem to mind that the wait staff was, for the majority of the time, leaning on the waitress counter, chin in hand, slack-jawed and blank-stared.
• We never got the extra napkins we asked for, so took some off the next table. The table was NEVER cleared. We were surrounded by dirty, empty dishes and glasses for a good 40 minutes after we finished eating.
  
• We were never asked if we wanted dessert. We didn't. But they should have asked.
  
• We sat for at least 20 minutes waiting for a waitress to come by to see if we wanted the check. Then we waited another 20 to get it after we asked for it. When we got it, there was an 18% gratuity added on. For shame, Christo's. Just because we had a large party, we weren't going to tip for shitty service. The waitress took it off. But really now. How rude. We tipped about 10% and even that seemed wrong.
  
• Almost all of the specials were seafood-based. There were at least 30 seafood casserole type entrees. Apparently, they were trying to use it up before it went bad.
• Out of the 7 seafood entrees, they mixed up 5 of them. The waitress claimed she wasn't very good at telling the seafood entrees apart. The she laughed. Yeah, real funny. One of our entrees was actually given to another table, so that person was the only one who got hot food because they put a rush on a re-do. I had the haddock. it was kind of rubbery. I also had the greek grean beans. The beans were the consistency of a shoelace and there were way too many tomatoes. They were basically gross.
• One of us ordered the monte christo but said, just turkey please. They also put in ham, and forgot the maple syrup.
• The greek salad was just an insult. It was as if the chef said: "To make salad, remove all green leaves from a head of iceberg. Chop up the yellow center and place on plate. Add a miniscule amount of the rest of the ingredients. Serve with super long green onions or scallions or whatever. Dressing goes in a ramekin with a spoon." Nice. Why wouldn't you do the same for the maple syrup? That came in a plastic to go cup with a cover.
• Prices were way too high for what we got. Entrees were around 13. The scallop casserole had about 5 scallops, the small ones.
  
• The saddest part was, this was to celebrate a birthday, and the waitress knew it was a birthday celebration and obviously didn't care. The memory is just painful. I hope next year's is better.