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| - Hit or miss? maybe...but it was a miss for me.
Keep in mind that I'm not reviewing the bar part of Comet Grill, just the grill part. My wife and I popped in for lunch the other day. We have heard raves about the burgers and fries being the best in the Queen City so with that lofty build-up in mind along with a hankering for some great fries we stopped in. We both love good french fries and I realize that they are not easy to cook properly. If you are using fresh cut potatoes (frozen fries need not apply) then they absolutely have to be cooked twice to get the crisp exterior that stays crisp and the cooked and fluffy interior that actually tastes like potato. Single cooked fries are good for a few minutes while they are hot, think 5 guys, but go downhill and get limp and soggy quickly upon cooling. We ordered cheese fries, along with chicken wings as well as a grilled pimento cheese sandwich with even more of the supposedly award winning fries. We didn't order burgers because, quite frankly we have never found one in a restaurant as good as our fresh ground home made burgers.
The fries: they were not good, they came out pretty hot but were not crisp and they went downhill from there. Oil not hot enough, only one fry and potatoes that may have had too high of a moisture content can all contribute to anemic, limp fries and these were all that and then some. The cheese was just clumped on and cooled the fries down even faster. Green onion on top was a nice touch but the fries should have been the hero but they were a zero. Big disappointment.
Chicken wings were well cooked, hot and crisp. We got the garlic Parmesan cheese flavor and they were OK flavor wise. Too much salt but proper frying gets them 3 stars overall.
Pimento Cheese Sandwich. I wanted to like this thing. I am a huge fan of pimento cheese and this was like nothing I have ever tried. Strange recipe and I can forgive them that. but the killer was the smell of the oil on the bread. The sandwich had been grilled on the flat top or in a pan with some old, rancid smelling and tasting oil. I let my wife smell it and she recoiled at the first whiff. The plain fries that came with the sandwich were no better than the others. Anemic, light in color, soggy, limp, seasoned with what tasted like Lawry's Seasoned salt.
Maybe the beer is good and cold and the live music is hot, but as for me, if these are the best fries Charlotte has to offer, I certainly don;t want to try their burgers.
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