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| - One of our long-time employees was leaving the company (after about 15 years) so a decent-sized group of us came to Fez for a send-off lunch yesterday. I myself had suggested it to the event decision-maker, but had never been before - I just know that it's had a lot of good reviews, the pics of the menu items on Yelp looked tasty and it's only a few blocks from where I work.
tl;dr: I wasn't impressed. Details as follows: Most of my coworkers wouldn't know flavour if it kicked them in the face, so out of about 14 people, quite predictably the All American burger was the most popular choice. Might as well have all gone to Jack in the Box instead and saved 50%, but whatever. I decided to grab a large basket of garlic and rosemary fries to share with the three at my end of the table, and (unusually for me) chose a salad as an entree. I selected the Barcelona Butterleaf Salad. The fries were pretty good, nothing mindblowing, but the salad was below par. I wasn't after anything fancy, but the nuts were NOT candied like shown on the menu, they were just plain cashews - and the salad was absolutely fucking DRENCHED in the dressing. As in, so much that the lettuce was wilted and I was wincing with each mouthful toward the end because of the extreme vinegary zing. They could have gotten away with a quarter of the amount they put on. I thought that some pickled beet might be nice on the salad and asked if that was an ingredient they could provide. Nope.
I asked a workmate what he thought of his blue cheese burger. He had asked them for a couple of pepperoncinis - again, nada. They offered him chili pepper flakes instead. Basically he told me that it was okay but the meat lacked flavour. Nobody at our table seemed particularly overjoyed. As for me, I don't think I'd want to eat a burger with ciabatta bread. How about a sesame seed bun instead? Too traditional - for an All American burger? Evidently.
This is yet another place that imposes a mandatory tip for large parties - that tip, of course, is your penalty for bringing more clientele into the establishment and forcing the restaurant to make just that much more money. Because it sure wasn't to ensure that all meals were served at the same time to the guests. One of our guys had to wait several minutes for his burger to come out.
Three stars, and I probably won't be back - not as long as there are places like Pho Thanh in the vicinity where you can get double the taste and double the amount of chow for half the price. Not for a place with this level of mediocrity. Seventeen bucks for a shit salad and about ten fries - GOD I wish Pork on a Fork, Greek Wraps and Indian Paradise weren't 20 min drives away.
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