Copra   

Maybe it was the fact that it was New Years Eve, its a cold evening and downtown traffic is starting to get heavy. Parking was still a bit difficult so you think things are normal. WRONG! tonight is anything but normal. Me and my woman go into Copra a nice mediterrean spot on Charles Street. Only thing is we are the only people there. Or maybe it would have been better if we literally were the only people there. I dont believe that I have ever in my life of going to restaurants being the only patron(s) there. The waiter shows us our seats. Plenty to chose from since its no one else there. So we are sitting there amused and alittle creeped out that no one esle is there. That should have been a sign to get out while we could right. WRONG! we stayed. With the absense of any people there you notice things. In perticular, chairs that are missing part of the backs to them. Which in essence means they are broken. You think that a restaurant would not want to have broken chairs in there establisment but Copra is an exception. We are looking at the menu, which oddly seems a lot different then the online menu and we feel alittle cheated. I stay cold for awhile so im staring at the soup, which by the way says "soup of the night." I hate when menus say "soup of the night," what im I gonna do base the night I come to the restaurant on the notion that you serve cream of crab on Thursday? Right...Gimme a break. So I ask, "what's the soup of the night?" He replies, "Cream of mushroom." I hate mushrooms and my face clearly displayed that I hated mushrooms so why he decided to tell me how good it was and how warm I would be if I got it is beyond me. Put the weed down. So we placed our orders. 3...2..1. Its done in a flash...hell it should be, there aren't any other orders to take! For the lady, crabcakes and mac and cheese. For me, shrimp and calamari penne. Ahhh. Ok. Let me break this down. My dish was ok, the shrimp were great, but I didnt have any sauce. The closest thing that resembled sauce was this green brown liquid that was stirring at the bottom of my plate....no thanks. For the lady, served with the crabcakes was this headache indusing concoction of some sort of salsa. It reminded me of something that could be in an oldtime remedy book. Got a rash...mix ass and sulphur than let it pickle in a jar for 3 days....eat up! But the coup de grace was the macaroni and cheese. It tasted like someone had some old elbow macaroni and threw it in the microwave...no cheese...no seasoning!!! NASTY. So in our disguist, when the waiter came back to ask how was everything, we looked at him with scrunched faes and replied, "it was ookkkk." "Just ok," he said. "Yeah," just ok buddy geez. "So would you guys like anything else," "No...no we're good." I guess being of somewhat sane people...if you can't get us anything else, you've taken our plates away...and we didnt want anything wrapped to go with us....WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU BRING A DESSERT MENU!!!???!!!! No dessert dumbass, just bring us the check, so we can get out of here like everybody else already did. Then a Britney Spears song comes on the radio. I know your thinking what kind of restaurant plays the radio...this isnt a bar this is a restaurant! Then some crap comes on the radio...I say they should put that Britney back on. The waiter hears me, he says something something "Avril Levine." Im like word. Then he said "yeah listening to this drives me crazy, I have to listen to Kanye West 100 times a day." IM DONE!!!!!!! You should be lucky your listening to Kanye homie damn. What type of stuff is that to say. Just take this check please. We are outta here....finally. It was like getting out of a PUNK'D episode. I didnt even care that it was ass cold outside, I was just glad to get out of there. So Copra the hindi word for Coconut, to me translates to: awful food, awful atmosphere and, awful service. Be sure to leave them in 07 along with the nasty taste they left in our mouths

I have been to this restaurant twice and it was wonderful both times. I highly recommed it. Great wine selection and comfort food.

I've visited here 3 or 4 times and get great service from the bartender, Matt. He's very personable and always makes me feel at home. The food is pretty good although a tad high on prices.

With Copra's Salad and Pizza Du Jor's, you can never get bored here. The food is fantastic, and your bound to come back for more.