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| - I went here with my parents one night. I love downtown Champaign, there are plenty of interesting and very good restaurants around. Not to mention lots of very good beer bars. This place tries to combine the two with a small but well constructed tap list and a small locally sourced menu. My parents have been here a few times, and warned me of the downfalls (slow service, running out of menu items). Well, I always have to check a new place out and see for myself. After our visit, I had to apologize and thank them for humoring me.
Anyway, a large open room with an island bar. The light fixtures look like Christmas lights bought at Farm & Fleet. The sticks on the ceiling look like they were bought at Hobby Lobby.
We were seated right away, which was a good sign. Though besides the fancy popcorn we were ignored for a long time. I hate to be the person to say service was slow, cause it was a busy night. I can deal with slow, but no acknowledgement what so ever was not good. Incredibly slow kitchen times as well.
We finally put our drink and food orders in at the same time. We were not sure when we would get another chance. I liked their beer selection. 8 taps of good micros. Though they were out of four taps. Half of their selection was out. I like it when a place can go through kegs and rotate the selection, though no. They would rather just not have half the selection. Out of Great Lakes, out of Founders, out of Dark Horse, out of Victory. I ended up with a Sculpin, and my Dad a Goose Island 312. If you are going to have a small selection, you need to keep it stocked.
The menu was similarly small, but looked good. My Dad ended up with the last burger, which is a mix of beef, bison, and pork. Sounds great. He has tried to eat here before, twice actually. Both times out of the burger, so it was good that he finally got to try it. Again, it is good that they can go through the menu like that. Though it is tiring when they keep running out. I had the pork sausage, my Mom Mac & Cheese. It is a tiny menu for dinner, about 5 main courses. I love when a place can do that. Just not enough here to pull that off. Especially when they run out of stuff.
On top of that, not much here was that great. The burger was decent, Mac & Cheese cold, and the sausage was poorly executed with little flavor. They shout from every corner that everything is fresh and local. Fine, but make it good.
This is one of my longest reviews, and I guess it is this way because I had very high hopes and little was as expected. Though I was told before hand that everything was slow, over priced, pretentious, not that good, and often out. This place just left me wanting so much more.
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