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| - Elephant Bar's decor creates a sort of trendier version of Applebee's...if it were set in the jungle. The service is very friendly and accomodating, and that alone earns them a star. The food, on the other hand, is just sort of...blah. No, it wasn't necessarily bad, it was just very bland.
My mom and I split the grilled shrimp salad (don't remember what it was called, but I think it was supposed to be Asian-influenced), and the catfish fillet with mango salsa. The salad was pretty good, but how can you really go wrong with grilled shrimp and salad?
The fish, however, was completely flavorless. It was like they didn't bother to season it AT ALL - no salt, no pepper, no nothing. The only time my taste buds had anything to do at all was when I took a bite of fish with the mango salsa (thank goodness for mango salsa!). The rice wasn't even good. It was so dry and flavorless, with each grain scattered across the plate trying to escape from one another. I like my rice fluffy and soft, with just enough moisture for all the grains to want to stick together.
To be fair, I wasn't really expecting much from the food here, so I can't say I was terribly disappointed. Since I live in New York, I probably won't ever return to Elephant Bar. It's almost funny to me how memorably bland the food was. Then again, I should have known better, because you can't spell "bland" without B-A-D.
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