Chiara
Pasadena, CA 91105-1901
Phone: (626) 564-8696
- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri-Sun 11am-1am
User Reviews for Chiara
04/04/2007 Posted by ssmith288
We went to celebrate my friend's bday. Service was very pushy, trying to make us order more and more. Food wasn't bad nor good. Nothing out of the ordinary. Had a very bad experience when we asked the server to bring out the cake that we brought. Asked server for the plastic knife that came with it but he said that he didn't see anything, so we asked him for a knife and he said that he has big knives and that he can't bring it out to us, so we asked him for a steak knife but he didn't want to give us one and insisted so much that he could cut the cake for us, and that he has a lot of experience cutting cake! hmmmm..... First we thought, such a great service until we got the bill and notice a $7 extra for cutting the cake! No wonder he insisted so much and was so eager to take the cake to cut it. We don't mind paying the extra fee, but we do mind and don't appreciate how they did it. They should have just told us that there will be a fee especially when we insisted that we wanted to cut the cake ourselves. I guess that explains why the plastic knife was missing from the cake. So shady! By the way, the restaurant is no longer called Chiara, now it's called Maraqueta and it's kinda a mix of Brazilian, Mexican, Cuban and something else combined. It's definetely a NO! There are a lot of other good restaurants in Old Town.
10/06/2004 Posted by jrt12
Great little place in Old Town Pasadena that I've been to a handful of times. Interesting food, different than normal fare, definitely worth trying. Good service, good location with alot to do nearby (shopping, movies, clubs/bars). If youre looking for something different, the next time youre in Old Pasadena, check it out.
Pros: interesting food, good location
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