Given the high reviews I've read about Correlis, I decided to give it a try for my birthday. I headed there with a party of 20+ with high hopes. Correlis did a fantastic job of shattering those hopes.
FOOD:
The meal itself was decent enough. Had the seafood crepe canneloni... the sauce was nice, crepe was unique, but they should really rename the thing "baby shrimp crepe canneloni". Only other seafood I found was 2 tiny pieces of crab. Florintine (spinach & seafood pasta) was pretty decent. Seafood cakes and pan-fried oysters were standard. Overall, an acceptable meal.
SERVICE:
Ok, here is where it all goes sour. The servers seem to have good enough intentions. They were friendly and smiled. But only when they were around. Which wasn't often.
Our dinner, chronologically:
1. We had to ask for water 3 times before they finally brought some around after having sat there for 10 minutes.
2. We had to ask them to take our order since they seemed to have forgotten our presence (there were 20 of us in the middle of the restaurant...).
3. They didn't clear the menus until we asked them to, another 10 mins after they had taken our orders.
4. They gave us bread. For HALF the table. We waited, hoping they would bring the rest but it never came. We asked for more bread and they came back with ONE more basket (enough for 5). We had to ask three different servers for bread before we finally had enough for the whole table. Ridiculous.
5. The food came and went, no curteous "how is everything"... but we let that slide.
6. Birthday cake. We brought our own cakes and when they finally brought it out to the table, they gave us no knife to cut it with, no spoons to eat it with, and about 6 plates. Who brings 6 plates for a 20 people? There were no servers in sight, so I had to personally enter the kitchen (twice!) to get enough plates for everyone before they finally smartened up and asked how many spoons we needed. We were splitting up cake for the group... how many spoons do you think we need?!?
7. They wouldn't split the bill up for us. But that's just being nitpicky after a bad night of service.
Overall... the service pretty much ruined the mood of the dinner for us. I wouldn't return, simply because I don't want to put up with that again. If I felt like serving myself, I would've just ate at home.
AMBIANCE:
Nice, clean place. Warm decor.