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| - I wish I were writing a different revue, but I had a thoroughly disappointing and overpriced Thanksgiving meal at Eddie's House.
Two years ago I dined at Eddie's House on Thanksgiving. It was a fabulous meal, and as Thanksgiving approached this year, I made sure to make reservations early to repeat the experience. I arrived with taste buds ready for another delightful meal. I didn't care that it would be a $49 meal if I were to be wowed by it.
I started with the shrimp cocktail, which was really very good, except that the cocktail sauce was so spicy (hot) that I had to avoid it to the extent possible. The smoked oysters on the cocktail were a tasty but incongruent touch. The stuffed celery was also incongruent, but ok. No problem, the best was yet to come, right?
I was looking forward to my first bite of turkey. When I had it two years ago, I remember tasting herbs that I really enjoyed. This year, nothing. Just turkey. It was moist, but salt was the only apparent seasoning. It had a bit of fat across the top of each slice, but not the bit of crisp skin that I recalled from two years ago. It was all just very average. The green beans were ok, the mashed potatoes were barely ok and obviously re-heated as the texture was off, there were no elevating elements in the stuffing, and only a hint of the giblet gravy. No element of the plate stood out as worth ever experiencing again - even for a fraction of the price. I was SO disappointed. It all tasted mass produced. I couldn't tell that I was eating corn bread stuffing. In a taste test, stove top stuffing probably would have won for flavor alone. I stopped eating my entrée, hoping that dessert would redeem the meal.
It didn't. The apple cobbler was either poorly conceived, poorly executed or both. However it was actually prepared, it tasted like canned apple filling emptied into the skillet (it was served in a small cast iron skillet) topped with a disappointing flavorless Streusel, and heated until almost warm and almost brown on top. Not a cobbler at all. There was a dusting of cinnamon around the edges of the plate, but none in the cobbler. I ate about three bites before abandoning it. I did not take the leftovers with me.
I won't do this again. It's like the care went out of the food preparation, and the focus was on cooking enough ahead of time. I was there early, and it wasn't busy. There is no reason why more care wasn't put into the food. It was like eating Thanksgiving dinner at the home of the grandmother who isn't a good cook. I wonder if anyone bothered to taste it or do any sort of quality control.
Service was friendly, but not very attentive. Maybe they had tried the food...
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