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| - I was really psyched for SOHO to open. Having spent the past few years in the South, my husband and I were excited to once again have access to southern food. The atmosphere was 5 stars, the service was 6 stars, and maybe we just picked the wrong things on the menu, but the food was mediocre. I hate to have been disappointed by it because I was really pulling for SOHO, and I'm sure we'll try it again!
The happy hour cocktail (the Corpus Christi, I think), was a strange blend of carrot juice and some but not all of the ingredients that would have made a good bloody mary - it reminded me of the time in 7th grade a friend poured pickled juice into my orange juice to trick me. It was just weird.
We got Oysters Rockefeller, but the greens in it were really stringy and I did not enjoy it at all. My husband described his steak as "decent," but the Grayson cheese and fried egg combo on the grilled cheese was too funky - it fell more towards palate-challenging than comfort food, and the BBQ chips that it came with were good, but not remarkable. The biscuits were good (but would have been nicer had they been warm), and plenty of other plates leaving the kitchen looked beautiful and delicious. And even though we weren't blown away by the food, we were too stuffed to order the little donuts I coveted from across the room.
In sum, we left feeling full, but not necessarily satisfied. We'll have to try again soon and be better about choosing our dishes, I think.
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