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| - They say Go Big or Go Home, but Hash House offers everyone the chance to Go Big and Go Bland.
This place offers fun dishes, massive plates, and very little flavor. They sell themselves as a Midwestern-American eatery. And the menu is piled up with ginormous plates of meat and carbs in various forms (chicken and waffles, giant burger, chicken and brie sandwich, etc). The tv show "Man v. Food" helped put this restaurant on the map based on the host's love of the "Chicken Benedict"--which consists of a layer of mashed potatoes with a biscuit, fried chicken, bacon, cheese, spinach, and eggs. It's huge! It's famous! It's okay.
Every which way you turn on this menu is a dish that should be the greatest thing you've tasted--I mean there's nothing "light" on the menu. But despite all the carbs and butter and fat on the menu, most dishes are simply decent. The burger -- flavorless ground beef. The Chicken Benedict -- surprisingly bland. The egg scrambles -- fresh, but surprisingly plain. I seriously want to introduce the kitchen to salt and spices.
I've eaten here several times because of friend's supposed love of the menu, but I just don't get it. The restaurant lures customers in with the promise of indulging in "meat and potatoes" piled high. They've got the quantity right, but the flavor is sadly lacking.
Bottom line: Hash House is worth a visit as a culinary curiosity. But the lack of flavor will prevent most customers from repeat visits.
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