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| - This was a disappointing experience for us. Friendly service (a little surprised to hear the wait staff describe something as f-ing but whatever, not a formal place). Cappuccino creamy and frothy. Water refilled. Vegetable frittata was bland with regular toast. No homefries or salad and the eater said they could have made a better frittata at home. Pancakes (Johnny cakes due to southern theme that wasn't particularly apparent at brunch) looked okay. Don't order it for the fruit as there was one blackberry on each of the three pancakes and one anemic strawberry cut into four as the garnish.
Where the kitchen really fell apart was the meatless eggs Benny. It was cold. The eggs were cold, the tomato flavouring underneath was cold, and the mushy English muffin was cold. The boring potatoes that were quartered and baked without enough salt, not fried, were lukewarm. I asked the very friendly waitperson if it could go under the broiler.
They brought a new one. I wish they had just heated up the old one because this was no better. I figured out that the eggs had been cooked but put on cold tomato, possibly warmed wilted spinach, and cold, untoasted English muffin.
I didn't want to complain because clearly the kitchen didn't understand what they were doing so what's the point but the waiter asked so I told, and the owner came over and agreed with my critique. They comped my meal, including my coffee. I appreciated this, and tipped appropriately for the full meal.
So points for attentive service but get your kitchen under control. Maybe sample some of your bland food before you serve it. I wish we had just gone to the Purple Onion.
I don't go out for food that is worse than what I can make at home, and that's a pretty low bar.
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