I'm local. I go to Bantam when I want a break from home cooking for ten years now. Overall the food is pretty much the same it's always been which is to say the cuisine is fine. Service can be erratic. It disturbs me when...we place our order and not one but two couples arrive after us, are served first, and pay their bill to leave while we are just getting our meal. I don't know whether if it's the kitchen or servers lack of urgency accounting for this but it ensures I won't be going back this year. I'm certain when a Bantam person reads this the reaction will be, "Well, it was one of those evenings and what does one dissatisfied customer mean in the big scheme of things anyway?" Easy to do but then there's Tripadvisor on which to rant. I feel better now.More