seven.....up?

ok, next on our Belleville stop is the restaurant/bar 'Seven'. We've heard several things (good and bad will not be included in this text) about this place, but since we had a business meetings of sorts last night - we decided to meet here. I REALLY wish that I could say great things about this place......but, I can't.
Perhaps I should first describe the venue.....off mainstreet, seemingly hip cocktail bar. Sadly, it was less than hip w/ marginal menu items. I really did go there w/ the best of intentions, wanting the St. Louis experience in our little Belleville town. Alas, no go. While our waitress was VERY attentive, perhaps asking too often if we needed anything, the ambiance was lacking....not to mention the onion turnover. I will say that we got there while the sun was still shining, so we opted to sit in the patio area. However, after the sun set the patio became a narrow back alley w/the feel of a rapist's playground. Yes, my friends, that means NO LIGHTING. Not even a damned candle on the cheap Lowes patio table. If I were really going to snob out, I would tell you that the waitress brought my bottle of wine to the table already uncorked and didn't even let me sample it before leaving. However, given that I really do hate the pomp and circumstance of opening a bottle of wine - I wasn't too offended. To boot, My martini-drinking friends tell me that the classic dry martini was neither classic nor cold.
I really like to consider myself an open-minded person, but COME ON. This place has been open for a while. They should have worked out the bugs. I don't know what was worse....the service or watching my friends slowly simmer into a boil of outrage and aggravation at the piss-poor service. Now is probably is the time to discuss OVERPRICING. Ok, we have already established that I'm no food critic, and I should probably let you in on the secret that I'm no sommelier either. But, I do know one thing and that's cheap wine. They charge 10.00 per glass of Kendall Jackson Chardonnay. Come on folks! First of all we're in Belleville, IL not Napa. I know you gotta pay the bills and all, but let's not kid ourselves. I can run down to Schnucks and get the same bottle for 13 bucks. In short, this place needs a chainsaw enema of good food service. If we want Belleville to become the lustrous business area that we envision, then someone has to step up to the plate.
Sorry folks at Seven, but you need to get on the ball.