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| - Came to Scratch today with my family, expecting great things from wonderful Yelp reviews. I dunno, I was underwhelmed. Maybe they had an off day?
Nestled in a little strip mall near rockside, Scratch is an unassuming store on the outside. Inside, they have a neat industrial chic look to it. Their wall where you could sign was a clever indy touch. I thought that the chalk signs were cute on the walls.
So good things first - their menu sounded delicious and honestly there were some good things on it. I enjoyed my tiramisu pancakes, a lot actually, but The Wife did point out that the sauce tasted a lot more like chocolate than coffee and she was right. The home fries were delicious shards of potatoes deep fried perfectly and the French fries were respectable. The chicken noodle soup tasted homemade. Not incredible, but home made. Grilled cheese for the kid was a good value at $2.50, with a full serving of French fries.
Less good- pretty consistently the items that came out of the kitchen looked a lot more ordinary than it sounded on the description in the menu. My wife's Latke Slider did not look like a slider- it was a Latke with corned beef and cheese on it. I'm not sure what is "slider" - like about it. Didn't taste bad but was kind of ordinary. Our waitress seemed a little hard of hearing- we had to repeat nearly everything that we said to her. Seemed nice enough though. Our small salad had more than 5 pieces of slimy wilted lettuce leaves in it. I almost never send anything back to the kitchen but this was too much. So we did.
My sisters biscuits and sausage looked pretty on the plate but were leaden and nearly cool by the time it got to the table. The gravy had started to form a film on top and it was not salty enough. The sausage tasted homemade, which is generally good, but was somewhat forgettable. Pork Belly? Sounds good except when it came to the table, it was just thick cut bacon. Call a spade a spade people- ain't nothing wrong with that. They also didn't give us the sausage that was supposed to come with my niece's strawberry pancake.
In the end, the redeeming factors of Scratch was that it was a pretty good value and had a cool interior. I like that it was a local place. In the end, however, I felt like it wasn't really that difference from what you can get at Bob Evans. Actually to be honest, as much as I hate to say this, but I suspect that we like Bob Evans better. Especially those biscuits. Doubt we'll be back, but I hope that the consistency improves in this restaurant. Maybe we'll try it again in the future if the reviews look good.
Overall, I was disappointed with this place.
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