Palmetto Grill and Bakery just opened (I believe) around September 01, 2011 in the vacated Mama's Pizza location at Brighton Park. We had high hopes for this new restaurant since it is within walking distance from our house. They have a full menu and a bakery with separate business hours.
They seem to have the typical new restaurant glitches with timing and computers, but they really need to get that Manager out of the kitchen and into the dining room to get feedback from the patrons.
So far we have had lunch and dinner here. So far we are not impressed.
Lunch Food:
The asiago cheese and chicken sausage sandwich, $5.89, was dry and not very warm. And where was the cheese? Couldn't see it our taste it.
The onion rings were greasy and cold but they replaced them.
Dinner:
I tried the lump crab cakes at $14.99 with side dishes of creamed spinach and today's vegetables.
The whole plate came out lukewarm at best.
The lump crab cakes were really not lump crab but a way over-stirred mixture of shredded crab and alot of bread crumbs. Maybe they used to be lumps? Don't know.
The veggies were tasty but again, lukewarm.
The creamed spinach? Ugh. Let's just say that when we mentioned to the server how thick and rich it was for creamed spinach (again, lukewarm too) we were told it was actually the same stuff they sell as an appetizer called spinach artichoke dip.
The server did offer us a free dessert but we declined. They did take 10% off the bill though so they are trying.
Don't know if we'll try the breakfast. We'll let you know.