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| - All style no substance. Went there for brunch this morning. The decor is on point with all the right looks for social sharing in 2018 (read: loads of plants). But a bunch of likes is about all this place seems to be good for (at brunch, anyhow).
We sat beside a table of 4 20-somethings who, when their food arrived, spent legitimately 7-10 minutes simultaneously instagramming their meal from every possible angle before taking a single bite. By the time their insta feeds were full, their food was stone cold. Anecdotally, this communicates exactly what this place is about: things looking really good takes a higher priority over anything else.
On to our meal: service was slow, and it took us almost 10 minutes til she came for a drink order. By the time she did, we had decided on our meal and placed all orders together. The americano looked just like drip coffee, and the food was quite meh. I got the pork belly Benny. The eggs were over cooked, the side salad was minuscule, and the pork was dry - saved only by the small dollop of whatever sauce they're using as their hip hollandaise alternative. My partner had the french toast which was also small, came with too little syrup, ultimately tasted like Wonderland Funnel Cake; which is not a bad thing, if you had have ordered funnel cake.
Also, the music selection was terribly random and not really thought out at all. Within the 60 minutes we spent there, we heard dubstep EDM (at brunch!) into Hotline Bling, and the same Spoon song twice in a row. For a place that seems to have considered every detail on how everything would look behind an Instagram lens, you'd hope they'd put comparable attention to any of the rest of the details.
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