Help - cake for 1st anniversary dinner

futuretworf

With our 1st anniversary rapidly approaching, I want to do a small cake for us.  I know that there is Freed's Bakery, who else is a good baker in town?  Do you think this is corny to do?  I was going to have the cake delivered to Hugo's Cellar where we are going to have dinner and then have the cake presented to us for dessert.  Should I use our cake topper as well?

We won't really get to celebrate our anniversary until our trip to San Francisco in July so I kind of wanted to do something special.  Any other ideas?

gina&dave07

I don't think it is corny.  I think it is sweet!  I am not sure where Hugo's cellar is....but we got our wedding cake from Leopolds on Charleston in Summerlin and loved it.  Dave really likes carrot cake and theirs was awesome!  How exciting!! Celebrating your one year anniversary.  I will be big and fat at our one year anniv! 

m+j

That sounds cute!  Your DH will love it! Just a few things you should know, if you don't already.  I'm not sure if you've been to Hugo's, but we have, and the staff was so out of it that it got frustrating.  Make sure to tell them in advance that it's your anniversary and you want things to go smoothly.

We made reservations on what was understandably a busy night for a birthday dinner (happened to be on Christmas Eve), but we still waited over an hour to be seated.  Our reservation was set 6 months prior!  For 30 minutes we sat at our table without drinks, until finally my husband grabbed a waiter walking by and told him we needed to order some water after waiting to eat for 2 hours.  We actually order a very nice (read pricey!) bottle of wine that was never delivered, yet we were still charged for it!  At least the food was amazing.

We decided to give Hugo's the benefit of the doubt and recently returned on a non-holiday, only to have the same crappy service.  The food is spectacular, but the service was subpar at best.  If you want them to coordinate something like receiving a delivered cake and having it ready for your arrival, make sure to stress to them how important it is. 

I've lived here 11 years and I've always heard wonderful things about Hugo's.  Heck, I went there 7 years ago and it was fantastic.  Unfortunately, I think the service has slipped a bit, especially if it's busy.  I think you will be fine if you bug them several times and let them know how important this is.  Just make sure to give them advanced notice to get their act together.

futuretworf

Hugo's is where DH and I had our first date almost 4 years ago.  We have been to Hugo's many times since and never had bad service.  Although, we went for Christmas dinner this past Christmas and it was rather slow but I attributed that to it being a holiday.  The more I think about it, I do not think arranging for a cake might be a good idea.  I would hate to pay the $60 Freed's wants to charge me plus delivery charge for something to go wrong.  Maybe I will just go do a couple of cupcakes somewhere and we can celebrate big in SFO in July while there.

m+j

Do you go certain times of the week?  I really want to give it another shot because the food is fantastic, but I've just had the worst luck there.  And like you, I totally understand that Christmas and Christmas Eve are busy times and figure that was the reason for the bad experience I most recently had. But then again, they make reservations for a reason--to keep a limit on guests and ensure you can accommodate everyone. I figured a restaurant that's been around as long as Hugo's should know how to handle the holiday crowd, but I was totally wrong.  =(

futuretworf

I so agree.  When we went for dinner Christmas night (res was at 5:00) we waited for drinks and the bread FOREVER and then the meal was way long.  We were in no hurry but still.  Anyway, normally we go on Sunday nights or something but try to avoid the weekends at all possibilities.  I am making our res for our 1st anniversary today for Sunday, June 29th and hopefully the service will be better.  If not, it is going to be hard to get me to go back.  We love Hugo's and the salad is to die for - skip the meal personally. 

I did decided to forego the cake though.  I am not up to the headache of a mistake and having to figure out where my $65 cake went.  The Cupcakery was opened by the house so I might have to just go there and buy a cupcake or something - not very romantic but cake is not a good thing to have in our house.

m+j

Good idea!  We will try a Sunday next time!  And I LOVE the Cupcakery.  I think the cupcakes are so freaking good, seriously!  It's making my mouth water and it's 5:00 am!