$$$$Price: Expensive • Farm-to-table • Tulsa
* Update* Hunter, GM, invited me back for a redo and I cannot express how happy I am I went. Service and food were better even than past years and made it a spectacular birthday dinner. I would write more, but character limits!!
I treat myself to dinner at Juniper pretty much every year for my birthday. This year my experience was overall very disappointing which is such an anomaly from years past. I was greeted with a happy birthday as usual while at the hostess stand and given my options for where I wanted to sit. Now, this is where my decision probably didn’t help the situation, however I am used to nothing but exceptional service every time I dine at Juniper so didn’t consider my choice to be an issue. As a single diner, I chose a two top in the bar area as to not take up valuable real estate better used by other diners on a Saturday night and it just happened to be tucked in the corner a bit. I was given water and a menu within 5 mins and was a little surprised I wasn’t given a small glass of bubbly wine as a birthday treat as I’ve gotten in years past, but I understand times change. As I sat and waited for my waiter/waitress to take my order, I saw everyone around me getting the exceptional service I was used to at this establishment and felt completely neglected. 25 mins after being sat I had finally ordered and an additional 15 mins after that I had my appetizer, but no wine that I had ordered. I went up to the bar and asked for it and the bartender was deeply apologetic and comped the wine which was very kind. The bartender eventually noticed I was in the bar area and from then on went out of his way to make sure the service was impeccable, but the first half of my dining experience kind of soured the whole night. Most of the food was spectacular as usual. I don’t know if it was just an off night because my experience was so different in years past, but this was a birthday dinner I wouldn’t mind forgetting.
