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| - Service from a restaurant named "Mellow Mushroom" that proudly displays psychadelic art, giant colorful mushrooms, and various other stoner-culture memorabilia around the store is, as expected, horrible. I sat at my table, menu closed, for at least 10 minutes before I got up and went to the bar to see if I could get a beer. Lo-and-behold! my waitress saw my move and was right over.
After I ordered a pint of her finest, trance-inducing ale (which by the way they may have TOO many beers to choose from - I spent another couple of minutes getting the low-down on each of the local brews, which of course my waiter had a lot of "uhhh I dunno what that one is, I can go ask" moments) we crushed a meatball appetizer and had a large pizza with 'roni and fungus.
I will admit - the pizza was killer. It wasn't the ole moon dog, watered down angry-as-hell Mellow Mushroom before they left Charlotte "forever" pizza... it was the good ole Mellow Mushroom pizza from back in the day before all the drama - delicious.
So 4 pints (that were on special), meatball appetizer (which is like 4 average sized meatballs) a large pie with 2 toppings... ~$50+tip REALLY? how is that a good family night value? Our pizza was around $25 by itself! That's ridiculous, and I don't care how good it tasted. Honestly, for at least $10 cheaper a meal, Hawthornes is a way better value - the only reason to choose Mellow Mushroom is because they have those sweet Dyson-style hand air-blade dryers in the bathroom. Maybe I'll stop into Mellow Mushroom to wash my hands on my way to Hawthornes - they're just the type of thing to keep the stoner in me coming back for more.
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