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| - This review is for dinner only: We went for dinner mid-week. It was my first time here, and I found the ambiance cold (literally & figuratively). Waiter and manager were both very friendly and attentive. We were pleased to see they now offer breakfast all day long (always a plus when it's fresh and tasty).
However, we were sad to see their dinner & lunch menu seemed a bit watered down. This is clearly a great place for breakfast, brunch & lunch - dinner, not so much. I'm told they used to have a delicious pork chop entree - but it's completely gone from the menu and the kitchen (we asked). I ordered the soup of the day (basil tomato) which was really great! I also got the chicken salad with a "large scoop" of the chicken salad on top of the sweet salad. Large scoop? I don't think so, it was a very small amount of chicken salad and it was basically a little white meat chicken, with bland mayonnaise and a few small pieces of pineapple. Boring, small and disappointing. We also were expecting some kind of bread or role with dinner that was supposedly really good and typically provided. It never came at all.
My friend ordered the chicken & grits which is 'normally amazing.' Instead, it was greasy (a burgundy colored ring and pools of grease with seasoning pooled her dish), and she had one huge glop of melted cheese - it was actually impressive, but not in a good way. My other friend ordered the crab cake BLT, which was fairly tasty in reality. It had a horseradish flavor throughout, so if you don't like that, beware. Desert time came, and we were ready for our peanut butter pie! They were looking forward to it all week. We ordered it, and the waiter joked, "Great, where's the peanut butter pie coming from?"
We thought he was teasing us, but we learned they keep changing the menu and completely did away with the peanut butter pie. Saddened, we skipped desert and paid. Food was OK at best, but amid their seeming transformation at the moment, they're a bit lost. We probably won't return to this frigid (temperature), drab (ambiance) and lackluster menu. Staff was good, but the food was a miss. Not bad, but not as good as it should have been. Seems they're trying to figure out who they are as a restaurant outside of breakfast... hope they figure it out.
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