I have been such a fan of Port Credit in the last little while - every time I think about coming to Door FiftyFive I've gotten side tracked but I finally made it in!
It was a sweltering hot day and the doors were open so it wasn't really so cool inside the restaurant. We choose to sit inside because it was just too hot to sit still outside - but as I said, being inside didn't really help.
This place has nice decor, it is a little dark inside and the lights flash (maybe that tells the waiter that food is ready?), but overall it's a cool looking place with some high wood table and a cute patio area. I do remember the washrooms being a little weird and dark - but hey I didn't spend a lot of time in there so whatever!
There were a lot of items on the menu that we wanted to try. We decided to each grab a beer and decide on the food. Honestly we waited quite a long time in between ordering drinks and good. It was not busy at all - but there was only one waiter on staff. He did let us know that he was short that day, but since it wasn't so busy it didn't really seem like an issue to us.
The food has a Southern flair feel to it - one of the first places I have visited in a while that has this feel so I was pretty excited! We weren't starving so we ordered chilli, cornbread cupcakes, and chicken wings to share. The wings were quite large and the sauce was really tasty. The cornbread cupcakes were so good and not too dense. The chilli (came with nacho chips) was my least favourite, but it wasn't terrible. I don't particularly think that the food was out of this world, but I definitely want to go back and try a few more items.
I'd like to see if I could give a few more stars next time around - I just didn't see all the hype unfortunately with this visit!