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| - You know, it's rare that I take the time to write a review about a restaurant...either good or bad but this place deserved to be told.
Cevapi is an institution in Bosnia...Croatia...Serbia...etc. They elevate this simple, yet delicious food as much as we elevate burgers here in North America. Ask any of the locals and they'll tell you Cevapi is an artform. Simple to make but very difficult to get it bang on.
There's not a whole lot of places that serve Cevapi in this fine city of ours but at least those places are authentic, reasonably priced and tasty.
I was excited to hear about Hrvati bar...Rodney Bowers' reputation is stellar. How could this go wrong I thought?
Visited last night and was excited. A few of us ordered the Cevapi, large portion @ $15. Comes with fries, kaymak and avjar. I thought ordering the large, I'd definitely have leftovers to take home. 8 pieces of cevapi is quite a lot. What did we get?
MAYBE half of a lepinje that was anything but fresh. C'mon Rodney...Lepinje is dirt cheap. I'm sure you can afford to give a whole piece of the stuff.
8 pieces of cevapi that were SO SMALL it was a joke. Basically, it's 4 regular sized cevaps that have been cut in half to make 8. RIP OFF. And to boot, the cevaps were dry...waaaaaay too dry. Too overcooked and weren't tasty at all.
Onions? Raw onions are the norm. I didn't get any. Should note my friend did get some sauteed onions with her dish. The kaymak was good but i suspect it's really just philadelphia cream cheese. At least the avjar was ok.
I gotta hand it to the guy that was working. Either he was completely new or just a lost soul. Very courteous but extremely slow service, forgetful and looked like he was lost despite the place being kinda empty. But I gotta hand it to the guy, he might have been cooking, bartending and serving all at the same time.
Should also note that they were out of schnitzel and goulash. It was 7:30pm. Should have been prime time and to have 2 items out of stock when there's only about 5 things on the menu is kinda idiotic.
All in all, there's WAAAY better options out there. If you want real cevaps go to Bosna...or Croatia Restaurant. They're out of the way but service and quality is way better. If you want schnitzel, go to any of the other eastern european restaurants around town...Europe Bar, Cafe Polonez, Chopin..etc.
To sum things up - not only is this place is a rip off but it's doing a series diservice to the kind of food they serve.
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