TL;DR - Depressing Cafe is Depressing (and sub par)\n\n*the tl;dr on top of a review is quite ingenious imo, anyways*\n\nI ate that this place one time before this review and I completely loved the cheese sticks but forgot everything else on the menu.\n\nSo, I convinced my roommate that Promenade Cafe was THE place to eat since I recalled all the food was so cheap and I didn't want to go to Buzz BBQ.  So let me walk through how I got to 2 stars.\n\nWe are walking in the cafe, I have good expectations at this point (5 stars).\n\nOnce taking a gander at the people at the place, I realized that the average age of cafe went from 70 to about 39, it kind of smelled like Florida.  \n\n(Still 5 stars, eff losing stars for agism)\n\n3-4 different waiters/waitresses kept coming up and asking us what we wanted to drink, it was pretty confusing after awhile. Which was odd since only 4 other people were in the facility.\n\nI ended up getting the 3 course meal for $9.99 which included cheese sticks, spaghetti and meatballs, and some berry cake.\n\nStill, 5 stars up to this point.\n\nThen our normal waitress left to go on break.\n\nThen after I got my cheese sticks (which were delicious) it took a good 20+ minutes for the main course to be served.\n\n(Hmm...losin a star here)\n\nOnce I received my food, I couldn't wait to eat it.  Clearly after the long delay of making this food, I would pretty much be eating gods nectar, right?!  Boy howdy, I have never seen anyone make extremely sub par pasta before.\n\n(Down to 3 stars)\n\nAfter leaving a bad taste, I couldn't wait for desert to come around.  Except that it was a good 30 minutes before we received our desert.  There was about 5 customers and 10 staff, how the hell? On top of that, the berry cake was pretty dry and it was just bleh.\n\n(1.5 stars).\n\nAnd to top it all off, while my roommate and I were waiting for desert.  An elderly woman walked to a table and when the waiter asked her how many people will be joining, she said in a loud and dead tone, \"I'm eating alone tonight\".\n\n(gains a 1/2 pity star, for a total of 2 stars)\n\nHearing that was so depressing, that I couldn't even continue whatever conversation what I talking about.  It completely killed whatever positive atmosphere that was going on at the moment.\n\nI feel like cutting my wrist just thinking about this place, it's almost as depressing as Silverton Casino.