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| - Mixed bag for us tonight at Leroy Fox. I had the Po-Boy w/ zucchini fried, my wife had the North fired chicken w/ mac & cheese, my son had sliders w/ fries and my daughter had kids mac & cheese w/ fries.
Starter: shrimp cocktail - interesting take, shrimp was fat and incredibly good, well cooked and very slightly seasoned. The remoulade replacement for cocktail sauce was a tasty and clever and pleasant surprise: I really liked it.
Sliders - they were fine. Not newsworthy, but fine. Came with fries, and they're pretty good - crispy and tasty.
Mac & Cheese - the most boring mac & cheese I have ever tasted. Creamy, bland, a little overcooked. Just blah. Salt didn't fix it - the cheese was utterly flavorless. Fix that. How hard can mac & cheese be, people?
Chicken - like most popular fried chicken, it's always way too much about the sear and crunch, never enough about the flavor of the chicken. Look at it this way, chef: if I like it off the barbecue or out of the broiler, sans breading, it's well made and flavorful. Make flavor happen AND good breading, you win business. This chicken was as bland as the mac & cheese: Great breading and crunch, but yawn. My wife got the mac & cheese too. Oops. Strike two.
Po Boy - NICE! Shrimp was fresh, sweet, perfectly cooked, and flavorful (note - whatever you did to the shrimp, which was breaded and fried, do that to the chicken). Sauce was simple and lovely, not too spicy and oddly tart, maybe a little extra lemon. Bread was fine, Lettuce was fresh. Tomatoes were good. Too many onions, but hey: take e'm off. This was the winner of the night. Zucchini fries - also nice! Breading was again a winner, and the zucchini wasn't overcooked: it didn't snap, but it didn't squish. I rather liked it.
So: deep fried and breaded stuff with hit and miss flavors for whatever food was encased and featured. Presentation was mom's house, but I don't care. Room is a little tight and busy, and MAN is it noisy. Family land: great for kids and families in the early evening when we showed up. Service was clumsy and irregular but always extremely polite and eager to help. Price was a great surprise - seems very reasonable. No wasted time on 75 exotic beer selections: a couple popular crafts, the regular stuff, fair prices on mixed drinks - smart to focus on the cuisine, even though it needs some maturity. I need 125 beers to choose from I'll go to Taco Mac (and starve to death rather than eat the tripe they serve) or the Saucer.
So: grow up a little bit, cover your seasoning skills under the batter and be flexible, keep that oddball attitude among your staff (kinda like the Pizza Peel; friendly and aloof and always willing to make you happy) and this tight little room could be a serious contender for my money.
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