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  • This place is doomed... I'm almost embarrassed for them. I'll get the 2 positives out of the way... the staff was friendly and I like the overall atmosphere of the place. Unfortunately the negative list is much much longer but I'll try and keep it brief. First red flag was that the place was totally empty about 4:30 pm. Just 1 couple at the bar. Ordered a soda and water and the water itself was probably the worst tasting water I have ever had in my life. In fairness I've never been to Rio or Flint... but it was really really bad. This concerned me since this very well could be the water they use for cooking. Clam Chowder was more of a corn chowder. They don't have crackers but offered to bring croutons instead. But not very good at all. Little did I know that would be the highlight of our meal. Ordered fish tacos which had no taste whatsover. If I didn't know what I ordered... I would have had no clue. It was pure mush battered and fried with tasteless slaw and sauce. I didn't even bother eating the second one... and I'm fat and rarely don't finish meals. Wife ordered killer shrimp which was over priced and the sauce was bland. Guess we were expecting something with flavor or some kick and it had neither. Served with some bread which just tasted old... it wasn't hard... just tasted old.... if they bake it there... perhaps the water made it taste funny. Decided we would try some butter since my daughter wanted bread. The butter was grainy and sort of had a faintly buttered grits type taste and texture I don't know how else to describe it... I mean there is no reason that I should be critiquing butter right? But they gave me no choice b/c it was so odd and gross. Also.. the portion size was 1/2 pound of shrimp with shell on for $17 which seems awfully high... especially when sauce was weak. I believe Hot & Juicy Crawfish is much better and quite a bit less expensive if I recall... Had calamari which wasn't terrible.... but had some breading issues. Fell off and no taste. The dipping sauces weren't very good and the cocktail sauce tasted very cheap and watery. Kids meal was chicken fingers and the batter just crumbled off the super dry and overcooked chicken. (The breading seemed quite different than the calamari but they managed to mess up both) Fries weren't bad... but even the ketchup taste weird. I actually joked about trying the ketchup just to see if it tasted wierd too and I was shocked to find that it did in fact taste weird. At this point I'm questioning if I am sick where everything tastes funny but unfortunately for Killer Shrimp... I'm as healthy as can be. Wrapped up our meal and debated on whether to complain or not... but what can u say when everything was bad. How could they even make it right without just refunding the whole meal knowing there was no chance we would ever come back... so we chalked it up as a loss and moved on. Bus boy came to our table as we were just beginning to wrap things up. Seemed to be urgently trying to clean the table and be in our way as we were finishing our drinks and packing up the 2 kids. I guess they desperately needed our table since they now had 3 tables occupied so it was necessary to rush us off. One last thing that was odd.... the straws for the sodas were literally the same height as the glass.... so that made drinking a little more interesting... luckily I have big lips and could reach the miniature straw. The menu also doesn't have any pictures... not that this is always a big deal... but I would think that a place like this would benefit by showing a few of their dishes since you don't see places like this everyday and should be easy to make the dishes look appealing in pictures anyways. Seems very poorly run and won't be surprised when it is gone in 6 months. Very disappointing.
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