The Economy Shoeshop has a nice atmosphere, and I respect Victor Syperek as an astute local entrepreneur but the service at the Shoeshop is mindblowingly awful. I recently took an out of town friend there for those famous nachos and some beers and he was baffled by the lack of service. I’ve eaten there no fewer than a dozen times and the awful service runs the gamut from an hour to get drinks, appetizers after entrees, blatantly being ignored by waitstaff, and somewhow my add on guacamole never makes it to the table but always makes it on the bill.
This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2008.