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| - I live a few blocks away from this place and always see a line stretching outside the door. Curiousity naturally got the best of me, even though deep down inside, I knew that I should avoid it. Southern cooking and vegetarianism typically don't make for a good match. However, I can always find something on the menu and knew that an occasional vegetable does show up in Southern cooking. So I checked it out with my omnivorous girlfriend (who ordered wings and fries). I opted for a side of collard greens and candied yams. We also had a side of mac n' cheese for her daughter. I ordered a Kool Aid as well, which cost as much as 25 packets of Kool Aid in the store. Way, way too much sugar. Seriously, it tasted like a five-year old got his hands on the sugar jar when mixing it. The collard greens were pretty tasty and the yams were decent too. However, neither one of them blew me away by any means. (I recognize that the chicken is the draw here, but still.) My girlfried said the wings were good, but I've have seen her much more enthused about wings at other places. The fries were pretty damn bad. When the check arrived, I had a hard time believing that we were paying $35 for 1 meal, 3 sides, and 3 drinks -- all of which were slightly above mediocre. I left with a big weight in my stomach, which was partially caused by the heaviness of the passable food and partially caused by that fact that I knew I could have gotten three awesome meals at Noodles Ranch (Vietnamese restaurant about 3 doors down in the plaza) for about $15 less.
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