Rude Native Bistro

Location: 15 King St. South, Waterloo, Ontario

Website: http://www.rudenative.com/

Specialty: fusion

Service: mediocre

Food: cold... when it should have been piping hot

Thumbs up?: nope


We visited this restaurant a few weeks ago, on the advice of a friend. We arrived around 4:30 pm on a nice Saturday afternoon, completely famished because we had skipped lunch. There was a whole one other table of people in the restaurant at this time.

I had the Smoked Chicken and Wild Mushroom Penne ($18.95, for a pasta dish??), which arrived a few minutes before Dan got his Sweet Moroccan Curried Lamb on Couscous ($16.95)... this ticked us off a bit because things should be arriving at the same time! My pasta was cold, so I notified the server and she took it back to the kitchen. What they did to re-heat my food I'll never know, but Dan and I have a pretty solid theory: they dumped the pasta back into boiling water, didn't properly drain it, plated it, and threw sauce back on it. The lack of proper draining made the sauce extremely runny, thus no sauce was sticking to the pasta. CRAP! Keep in mind, there was one whole other table in the place, how is it possible to screw up a dish when it's not even busy??

Dan's curry lamb was decent. The potatoes were a nice touch. Dan loves lamb... baaaaah.

Our server was... serving only about 2 or 3 tables for the time we were there, but she hardly came by. Anyway, Dan totally over-tipped her.

It was overpriced, and in combination with my dissatisfaction with the tepid pasta, we will not be returning to the Rude Native Bistro.