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The Speaker’s Corner is the bar/bistro of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire. The food was quite good — I had a nicely garlicky Caesar, a marvelous slab of roast beef, a decent tiramisu, and the wine list was quite respectable.
On the other hand, as our group of about a dozen or so gathered on the deck (a space not really suited to a large party, based on the furniture, but where they herded us), our waiter took forever to get us a first pass on drinks — which were long gone for quite a while by the time he came back to take further drink orders, still longer to place our food orders, which took additional forever to also get a wine menu, and then actually get his attention to order a bottle (we ordered two, just to avoid later delay). Food came out much later, and it took still longer than that for the wine to actually be poured.
Granted, there were quite a few of us, and we didn’t all arrive at once. But, really, truly, Joe-Bob server was one of the slowest folks to provide table service on record, and for most of the meal copped a serious slackertude.
Of course, we were a large enough group that we got the automatic “tip” added. And if we didn’t have a sales guy paying for dinner, I would have seriously suggested contesting that.
Assuming you miss Slacker Boy as your waiter, the Speaker’s Corner is a quite respectable place to stop for a drink or for dinner if you’re in Nashua. It’s not worth particularly going out of your way to visit, however.