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Restaurant Review: BBs Bistro

On 3/25/2006

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Contributed by: Francis Miller on 3/28/2006

If you frequent restaurants because of business travel or an aversion to cooking you soon learn to pick up on the little things, beginning with how you are greeted. Here's how our evening at BB's Bistro started out and went.

Bad Sign #1--Walking in to restaurant. Cinder block construction in a strip shopping mall. Not exactly a French farmhouse. Parking lot full of beamers, escalades, navigators. A watering hole for a narrow niche of society, not a broad cross-section.

Bad Sign #2--MaitreDeMiss: Do you have a reservation? No, do we need one? No, but most people have one. Hmm, somewhat pretentious for a place with empty tables.

Bad Sign #3--Seated at a small two-top, on the path from the kitchen to the dining area and abutting a large party, yet to arrive. Cramped.

Bad Sign #4--Average price of dinners, including salad, glass of wine is about $40 per head. Food must be really good or patrons lack parsimony in their dining habits.

Bad Sign #5--Noise level is high because ceiling and roof is corrugated metal. Sounds rise as patrons attempt to be heard and voices escalate. Becomes untenable when large party arrives next to us.

Bad Sign #6--Steak and Lamb arrive. Vegetables great, but N.Y. steak is really a roadhouse sirloin that is fatty and grisly. Take three bites and give up. Wife refuses to give up part of her lamb in previously agreed upon exchange. Lamb looks really good, although at $42 bucks for an entre it should.

Bad Sign #7--Waitress is apologetic as she sees her tip vaporize. Goes in back room to report to next person up the food chain. She comes back and announces $20 will be taken off $80 bill, but no one from management or ownership comes to her rescue. Assume owner's dog gets what was left of my steak.

Bad Sign #8--Patrons are overheard talking about playing tennis with so and so, consummating deals, the price of new Escalades, what real estate area is hot and other trivia. One guy in a Hawaiian shirt obviously suffering from dementia. Confirms my theory about personality types and the cars they drive.

Bad Sign #9--As we depart not a word is said by the maitre de, or anyone else.

Bad Sign #10--As we walk around a BMW, illegally parked in the handicapped zone, we hear animals howling their heads off. Must be the final sign.

Summation: For newcomers who moved to Douglas County to escape the disingenuous culture of the coastal areas and to experience the authenticity of the Rockies, please be aware that there are several good restaurants who serve upscale food in an atmosphere that is comfortable and food that does not require three martinis to stomach. Gabriels and Cafe Monet come to mind.

BB's Bistro was probably envisioned by a person from the East Coast who said, " You know what Parker really needs is ........!" Let's rent a space on the cheap, hire a faux painter, get some menus printed up, hire some perky young girls dressed in black and so forth.

They forgot one thing. Running a successful restaurant is one of the hardest things you can do and you need to be there to manage it, including inspecting the food you procure and you need to constantly get feedback from the patron's experience.

If you judge a restaurant based on the dining experience, quality of food, price of the meal, and attentiveness to patrons, I would rate BB's low. The restaurant has potential but it needs to get a good chef and decide whether it is a piano bar or a restaurant.

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posted on 2/15/2008 @ 9:37:07 PM

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THIS REVIEW IS RIGHT ON THE DOT. WE WENT THERE ON A FRIDAY AND GOT THE SAME RESULTS. WE SHOULD HAVE DONE A SEARCH OF REVIEWS ON THIS PLACE BEFORE GOING.

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