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| - Being a chicken & waffle connoisseur, it was a given that we were going to partake of Hash House's fare. And after perusing their menu, the mouth-watering descriptions of their food certainly fired up my imagination. I could barely wait to see what exactly they would serve up. We showed up to the Quad, and saw the line was already building even at the early hour we arrived. We were quoted a 40 minute wait, and waited exactly that long.
We were seated quickly, and our server was friendly. I ordered the chicken & waffles, and she ordered the fried chicken benedict. For some reason, our server warned us saying it would take upwards of 30 minutes to produce my dish. Not sure why -- she said it was busy. But come on -- it's fried chicken. Doesn't take that long to cook, and if a freaking Vegas restaurant that specializes in the stuff doesn't have it dropping in the fryer every minute, well shoot.
Thirty minutes pass, and our server produces two massively towering plates of food. Four waffles (with bacon in between), two chicken breasts, stabbed with a knife to hold it all together. Lots of sage garnish (of course, sage-fried chicken and all). It looked impressive. Unfortunately, the impressions ended there. Mediocre waffles -- even the bacon couldn't save them. Even more mediocre chicken -- flavorful and seasoned, for sure, but undercooked. Not raw undercooked, but rather, the breading was still doughy and not fully crisp. It was fine and all, but considering I paid $20 freaking dollars for it, totally underwhelming. I spent the entire time looking on at her dish, which looked and tasted considerably better than mine.
If you're a fan of Roscoe's and the like, don't expect the same here. It's all glamor and glitz, and no substance at all. If the dish were half the size and minus all the garnish, it could've actually been decent. Even more so if it didn't take so freaking long to serve. If you like long waits, high prices, and deeply mediocre southern-style grub, then sure, come on down.
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