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| - I had pretty high expectations for Doughbird being a part of the Sam Fox restaurant concepts, but I left the restaurant feeling a little disappointed. First off, the ambiance and decor is great, as are all of the Fox restaurants. In the beginning, I thought the the combination of rotisserie chicken and pizza sounded really strange but I figured that it could somehow work. We started with the Lebanese Hummus which had a lot of flavor, but the cooks must have dropped the salt shaker in this thing because that thing was way too salty. The bread they served it with was good but they literally only give you one small bread and we had 4 people at the table? A little stingy.
Now, the entrees. I ordered the half bird which was $17 dollars and I chose the crispy potato wedges and I got a side sauce of jalapeno pesto and the Jamaican jerk marmalade. While the chicken was definitely moist and delicious, the sauces were a huge let down. If you are going to charge me for sauce then it better be some damn good sauce, which it wasn't. The jalapeno pesto was just average and it lacked flavor and spice and the Jamaican jerk marmalade was way to sweet for my palate. I came with my wife and my parents and they all ordered different pizzas from the aviator to the wild mushroom to the crispy pastrami. All of them were pretty decent, just nothing really special stood out to me. I wish there were more mushrooms on the wild mushroom and their use of "black truffle" was basically nonexistent. The aviator with all the meats on it was good but the meats made the pizza really greasy.
Luckily, Doughbird was able to redeem themselves with the desserts. We ordered two desserts, the Peach Streusel Pie and the Butterscotch Cake. Both of these desserts were so delightful. The butterscotch cake was probably my favorite, so warm and buttery with a creamy scoop of vanilla bean ice cream to top it off. Overall, I think my expectations were just very high for this place, and it didn't really meet them which kinda let me down. I think they need to make a few changes to menu to make it seem more appealing. I won't be begging to go back anytime soon.
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