The old saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies to this place. I was trying to find a place to eat and decided to check out this place since it was close. By the name and location I made some assumptions about the restaurant. I thought it was going to be a pub type environment with pub type food. I was half right. It is a pub environment. The menu, however was not pub food. The entrees started at $20. So instead of burgers we had porkchops, steak salad, and chicken.
When you walk in you walk right into the bar which takes up almost the whole bar side of the restaurant. You walk around the bar to the place to be seated in the dining area which has 6 tables. It is very dark because the ceiling tiles are painted black with Christmas lights poked through. There are cloth table clothes which should have been the giveaway that this was not pub food.
We ordered drinks. I am not a tea connoisseur but the tea was awful. It was from a bar tap or mixed out of a can in the back. It was not fresh brewed. My meal started off with the salad. It was covered in red onion. Big chunks and thin slices. There were 2 black olives, a tablespoon of shredded carrots, and a big portion of iceberg lettuce. I had asked for it not to have tomatoes. I asked for Bleu Cheese dressing. It was as thin as water. It had hardly any taste. One of the people with me got wedding soup that was very delicious.
I ordered a dish I hadn't heard of before called Chicken Martini. It was chicken medallions breaded with Parmesan cheese that were cooked until golden on the stove and then baked in the oven. The chicken was a golden brown with a white cream type sauce over it. The chicken was tender but it tasted like you were eating a mouth full of cheese. I love cheese but this was too much. I used a lemon wedge from my tea to squeeze on the chicken to give it a brightness.
I tried the pork chops and they were cooked perfectly. If you go I would highly recommend them. The steak on the steak salad was also nicely done and there was a lot of it. It also came with some very tasty garlic bread.
We were definitely the youngest diners in the restaurant by at least 10 years. It made me want to call the guy, Robert, who does the restaurant makeovers. He would take it from the dark place that it is and bring the decor into 2016. They would draw a younger crowd. You need younger diners for when the seniors aren't able to dine out anymore. They have a good menu and most of the food is good. Sometimes you sacrifice environment for food. This was one of those times.