I came here to celebrate my mom's success in passing her real estate exam and expected to try some west african food. By far the worst restaurant EVER! I have never had such bad service in my entire life! We first came and stood there...waiting for someone to seat us, but it took so long that we just decided to seat ourselves (That should have been a sign for us to leave right then but unfortunately we stayed anyway). We sat down to notice that the table was dirty and switched to another table just to find that it was also dirty (even the salt and pepper shakers had food residue on them). But of course, being the patient person that I am, I decided to wait around longer for the waiter to notice us. We waited and then got tired of waiting so we flagged another worker to see if we can get some service and he told us he will get the waiter. Then the waiter finally got to our table after 20 minutes of us waiting (keep in mind there were only 3 other tables being occupied). The waiter, Okon (I only know his name from the receipt since he didn't formally greet us) said "So do you know what you want?" I responded "We don't even have a menu." He proceeded to give us the menu and walked away immediately. After we got finished looking at the menu and figuring out what we wanted to eat, we had to wait even longer for Okon to come back and take our order. We even noticed a couple waiting at their table before we came in and still weren't greeted, but they were smart enough to leave after waiting for so long. To my surprise, the food came out in reasonable time. It is a custom with african dishes to eat with your hands (I didn't mind this because I am from Philippines so we eat with our hands too). However, the utensils were dirty, so even if I didn't want to eat with my hands, I still couldn't eat with the utensils they provided. We proceeded to eat the food and surprisingly both of our meals didn't taste bad. We got the check after we finished eating and the total was $33.15. I usually leave 20% for decent customer service but since it was very bad customer service I left 12% ($4.00). The transaction cleared on my account 2 days later for $53.15. Instead of Okon taking the $4.00 that I gave him on the receipt, he took $20 as a tip for him. WOW! After all this, he still had the audacity to take $20 from me! Ridiculous! I even called the restaurant about this but of course they didn't answer their phone and the voice mail was too full to leave a message. Words cannot describe how pitiful this restaurant is. I only give them a one star rating because the food was decent, otherwise I wouldn't give them any stars at all. I recommend to stay FAR away from this restaurant, don't waste your time nor your money.More
