Symposium Café Restaurant & Lounge – Georgetown

This was my first time visiting your location today. I met 2 of my friends and we came in today for brunch.
My friend ordered a fruit bowl and found a black hair in it. We did not say anything because we had finished our meal and decided not to make any scene about it.
While we waited for our waitress to finish eating at the bar after many attempts to call her over, she finally came over. We asked for the bill and for a glass of water.
When she returned with the glass of water she then spilt ¼ of the glass of water into my Kate spade purse.
No apology laughed it off and never offered to get me a napkin or paper towel to dry it up. I then took my wallet out to pay and it was soaking wet. I am not impressed with her way of handling this situation. I understand that mistakes happen but she could have been a lot more careful first of all and been more understanding to help offer to get me something to clean it up with.
She brushed it off and did not care
I will not ever go back!!!

Came here once, sat down orderd drinks, looked at the menu, the prices were out of this world, so drank up and went to The George Pub, where the food is great, patio is great and the prices are great too…

We had a large group of seven. Service was good. Everyone enjoyed their meals. A good varied menu. Dessert was a big hit.

Gone downhill since it opened. I use to come here weekly with friends but the service has gotten inconsistent and slow. The food quality has also gone downhill and the portions are small and inconsistent. The breakfasts use to be great but no longer. I went last month with friends and one dish came out with a feather stuck in the potatoes. The response we got was an «oops». When her corrected dish finally came out of the kitchen the rest of us were finished. No compensation and no comment from manager just handed her the bill. It is expensive and as the prices go up the food goes down. It is a shame because the atmosphere is really great and they have an excellent patio.

Boasting a nice patio and a clean and elegant setup, this restaurant has a varied menu and the food is great. The problem? The service is consistently brutally slow. We’ve been for breakfast and dinner and both times we waited over an hour for our food to role out of the kitchen. In the meantime, we were left with empty glasses and no one around to ask for a refill. It’s disappointing that the service is consistently so slow as it detracts from an otherwise nice restaurant.

It was ok. My daughters French toast had a long black hair hanging from it. My peameal bacon was blue and under cooked. Potatoes are nice and crispy. Garnish lettuce was rusty and wilted. $ 66 for 3 people to eat breakfast

Pretty good spot. First time here, and the atmosphere is light and comfortable. Made it in the door before the lunch rush. 8 tables got sat within ten minutes and the server did a great job of trying to manage it by herself — and she kept a smile on her face. If she hadn’t, I would have rated this a two star. Food was good. Price was OK. Not overly expensive but not cheap by any means. My wife and I enjoyed the food and the artwork. Seems like the Manager got caught off guard with too little staff. He finally got around to at least assisting with topping up water and coffee. They need runners from the kitchen when food up — my medium steak was well done by the time it got to me. Still good tho.

I like to atmosphere at Symposium it came to georgetown with much excitement. I have been a few times and generally find the service slow and the food to be just okay. The pricing is fairly high. Often to make up for poor service they offer free desert, but that does not really make up for the time a patron has lost.

My husband and I have been to Symposium a few times and it is just ok. We have been for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the food is mediocre. There are not a lot of patios in Georgetown, so this is a nice place to have a drink outside. They have specials every day, which is nice. Service is pretty good, but there are a couple of servers that are very obnoxious and loud, which works on the patio, but not inside during dinner service. We will go back because as another poster said, there is not a lot of choice in Georgetown, but if there was a better option we would not go here.

Mediocre. Don’t expect a culinary experience. Expensive for what you get.
My wife and I have been to Symposium twice. Both times, it was busy, which is usually a really good sign of a great restaurant.
However, Symposium isn’t busy because it’s good; it’s busy because there isn’t any competition for this class of restaurant in Georgetown.
For the bedroom community that Georgetown is known as, one would expect a range of medium class restaurants for folks who pay 500k on a house to enjoy. Symposium benefits from this by being one of the only dimly lit, seemingly quaint restaurants within a 10 minute drive of the city core.
The trouble with Symposium is that it’s «just ok». The laminated, pedestrian menu is what you can find at any chain restaurant. The service is slightly overworked and spotty at best. The prices are slightly more than what you would expect to pay for the quality of the food.
My wife and I might find ourselves here again. However, it will only be as a result of the lack of options in the area.

3.5* really, I just can’t justify giving it 4.
Symposium has a really cool atmosphere that is very Georgetown. Me and the friend I went with commented on how it’d be the perfect place for hip moms to get together, get drunk, and gossip. And we’re pretty sure we saw at least 2 of these groups…
We just went for drinks and dessert. I had the Oatmeal Cookie Martini that somehow actually tasted like an oatmeal cookie. Highly recommended. Their cake selection is pretty extensive and they have some interesting choices for sure. I had a white chocolate cheesecake that was quite delicious.
My only reason for the lack of a stellar rating is that the pricing is a little steep. The $ 8 martini wasn’t all that bad, but $ 8 for a piece of cake? Not like the portion size was huge, either. And then I paid an extra $ 1.50 for ice cream. Just seems kind of odd pricing, especially since this is a regular restaurant with full meals. I could not imagine paying that much for dessert if I’d also bought an entrée there.
I do want to go back and try their entrees though as the place smelled great!