* $40 breakfast for two
* Peculiar meat loaf
* Stale coffee
* Watery hot chocolate for $4.50
* Gargantuan portions
This gimmick of this place is comically heaping portions served on platters the size of toilet seats. That makes up for the mediocre food. The oversized cutlery is another source of amusement. It's like they got a good deal on all this jumbo dinnerware and decided to build a theme around it. Throw in a dorky slogan ("Twisted Farm Food") and you have a sure-fire formula.
The popularity of this establishment demonstrates how easily manipulated people are. It was featured on a TV show. It MUST be good, right? I was suckered into having a meal here but I wasn't captivated by the herd instinct that keeps the throngs flocking in.
I had a meat loaf hash. My culinary experience has not encompassed many types and varieties of meat loaf, so for all I know this was a special gourmet meat loaf that I have not been properly schooled to appreciate. To me it was just peculiar. The waitress informed me that it's a combination of pork and beef. The meat seemed overly ripe. It was compressed like salami, not flaky like typical meatloaf. The hash had big hunks of salami-like meat loaf, home fries, spinach and peppers.
The hash is served in a heavy cast iron skillet. The rock-hard biscuit had a sprig of Rosemary poking out of it like a Christmas tree. There was also a dry Paul Bunyan-sized flapjack accompanied by tiny beaker of syrup not nearly enough to sweeten the flapjack. With the oversized theme, why wouldn't they provide a quart jar of syrup?
The hot chocolate came in a bowl-sized mug with chocolate syrup drizzled on the saucer and sprinkles of cinnamon and syrup on top. Marshmallows floated in the chocolate. I suppose that makes it worth $4.50 even though it was just an envelope of Nestles mixed with too much lukewarm water.
The music is way too loud. They were out of wheat bread, so we had to take rye toast that was just thick slices of stale bread. The coffee had that acrid, overly cooked, bottom-of-the-pot taste.
The room has a strange industrial decor with panels of diamond-tread aluminum and semi-gloss stainless steel. Pointless steel cables sort of lace the whole place together. I would rather eat in a place that emphasizes good food over an oddball decor.
On top of that we weren't served water.