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| - Made Winterlicious reservations with my co-worker who has never tried Southern style food before. I've been here for Summerlicious/Winterlicious and on a regular days in the past. The restaurant is fairly small as the main floor sits about 34 people. We were seated on the main floor which was almost at capacity as this place is quite busy during Summerlicious/Winterlicious from previous experiences. There is a bar and a stage upstairs for live performances that usually happen on weekends.
There were only 2 waiters so we had to flag one down to place our order as we had about an hour for lunch. I ordered the Cornbread, Southern Chicken & Waffles, and Brownie Cookies. My co-worker had the Arugula & Beet Salad, Southern Chicken & Waffles (because she never tried it before and I convinced her she had to) and Mini Red Velvet Cake. $18 + Tax & Gratuity. Gratuity was included in the bill and was calculated "before" tax rather than after tax that some places do. (Thumbs Up!)
Cornbread - fresh in house made Cornbread mini loaf *vegetarian*. The cornbread was warm, soft slightly sweet, and moist. It comes with butter on the side, but it's already delicious without it (I put some on anyways).
Southern Chicken & Waffles - Paired with scotch-bonnet-coriander lime syrup & homemade gravy. This was the best part of the meal. It comes with a chicken leg split in half (thigh and drum), lightly breaded and fried. Chicken was moist and the outer layer was crisp and seasoned well. The waffles were golden brown, slightly crispy outside and fluffy inside. Comes with a side of arugula salad which is the same as the appetizer my co-worker ordered. Although the description says the syrup contains scotch-bonnet, it is not spicy at all. No homemade gravy, but comes with sweet thai chilli sauce on the side. For those that like to play with fire in their mouth see *FIRE* below.
Brownie Cookies - Soft, melt in your mouth chocolate cookies, served with vanilla ice cream perfect for dipping & dunking *vegetarian*. Came with 2 pieces of cake which was slightly warm, not too sweet and moist. The ice cream wasn't good quality as it was more icy than creamy texture.
Arugula & Beet Salad - Arugula, beets, goat cheese & walnuts tossed in a white wine & Dijon mustard vinaigrette *vegetarian*. This was a great tasting and healthy salad as the ingredients worked well together. The vinaigrette has some sweetness and not overly sour at all.
Red Velvet Cake - Southern style red velvet cake with cream cheese icing *vegetarian*. The cake was kind of dry compared to my brownie so it definitely needed to be dipped into the unimpressive ice cream.
Service was fairly quick as our food came out in almost no time considering the restaurant was near full.
*FIRE* If you really want some heat, ask them for their hot sauce. It's a scotch bonnet and mango pure sauce. You won't taste the heat initially after you take the first bite, it'll take about a minute to kick in. This is where people try more and more until they go past their limit and start sweating and chugging water (happened to my friends in the past).
Other things I recommend:
Fish-N-Chips- Two pieces of seasoned catfish in a beer batter swimming alongside sweet potato fries and spicy Tartar sauce. I enjoyed this the last few times I ordered it. Comes with sweet potato fries which I really like. Usually Fish-N-Chips comes with just regular fries and you would have to pay a few bucks to upgrade it.
Bacon Mac-N-Cheese - this place has great mac-n-cheese. You won't be able to eat Kraft Dinner mac-n-cheese after eating this. Also, the bacon makes it even more awesome.
Took 1 star off because:
-the red velvet cake was dry
-some better quality ice cream could have been used in the two desserts that we ordered
All in all, a pretty good deal for Winterlicious considering the $18 price point in my opinion.
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