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| - Oh Flying Fig, how I wanted to love you, but I just couldn't. Let's start from the beginning.
I typically don't review the decor of a restaurant on these Yelp reviews, but I just can't avoid this one. The chairs were ugly and uncomfortable, tables appeared to be made out of the same stuff has a high school cafeteria (just stained darker). The bathrooms had teenager writings and drawings carved into the stalls, the soap appears to be the 99 cent soap from a local WalMart, and the paper towels were that of a fast food chain. Not a great impression.
We skipped the appetizers tonight in hopes of landing a great dessert. Needless to say, we never stayed long enough to even see the dessert menu.
Drinks - I ordered the Old Fashioned. Thus is where menu problem one popped up. According to the menu I was to be charged $8 for a Jack Daniels Old Fashioned.....ummmmm excuses me? $8 for a Jack Old Fashioned? When the star of the cocktail is bourbon and you give Jack we are not off to a good start. My best upgrade available was Maker's Mark, which I still wasn't thrilled about. I also paid a couple of bucks extra to upgrade this from Jack to Makers. Definitely very disappointed.
Entree - I order the Burger. I was super stoked to get this knowing it was purveyed from a local Ohio farmer. Grass fed Burgers are probably my favorite thing ever, besides a pork product. I ordered the burger medium and it came to the table as such.
Problems with the Burger - it was scalding hot. The meat was not rested at all before making its way out to. About 10 minutes into my meal, my medium burger transformed into well done. The meat they used was no less than a 90-10% lean to fat ratio. In my opinion, this is much to lean for a 10 ounce burger. There needs to be some substance and juice to such a hunk of meat! The only sauce offered on the burger was a mustard aioli. This appeared to be nothing more than stone-ground mustard and mayo. Not impressive. They cheddar cheese was non-existent (I honestly could barely see it, and definitely could not taste it). The onion rings were pretty good, as well as the bacon. The house made sweet pickles were neither sweet nor pickles. It tasted like cucumber that had been pickled for less than a day or two. The fries were crispy. However, they came to the table cold and not seasoned. Very disappointed with these as well!
The prices charge at this place are definitely not worth the quality of the food you get. My fiancée and I love going to farm to the table places and one of our favorite restaurants is one. This place gets high marks for investing into the farm to table mentality, however both or our dishes were very poorly executed.
We left Flying Fig early due to the loudness of the restaurant. We are both in our 20's and were getting incredibly annoying by the 40 and 50 somethings in the table behind out shouting and yelling throughout our dinner service. I feel that if I am paying between $25-$40 for an entrée alone, the management staff has the right to tell a table of annoying drunks to shut up. Again, very disappointed. At least a compensated drink or dessert was deserved. We were not the only couple annoying in the restaurant.
Definitely will not be back to this one.
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