King West has a lot of popular bars and restaurants with quirks that help them stand out from the crowd. This seems like one of the places which has an interesting and well executed menu, but is just not worth any hype.
It's got an all-American thing going and I believe each dish on the menu is from a different local (don't quote me here!!). I had the Maryland crab cakes (which is a salad that comes with 3 cake cakes). The crab cakes were good. However, nothing too spectacular. The lettuce was bitter. I despise salads and the only reason I ordered this was for the crab (and I wasn't feeling like anything too heavy).
My friends got the chicken and waffles. I tasted it and have to say while it was nice it was a bit on the sweet side. One of my friends had ordered it just a couple days prior and felt that it was a bit dry that time and a bit sweet this time. I mixed in some "hot sauce" (a house sauce that was deemed to be hot by the server? It wasn't hot btw) and it did wonders to balance out the over-sweetness.
We also shared the EPI-Pen ice cream. It was a chocolate and pea u butter ice cream with crushed peanuts on top. Sort of like a drumstick. It was a seriously large portion of ice cream and too much peanut butter for my liking.
Thus far the food while mediocre and pricey does not warrant the 3 stars. For all of that and the good service I would likely have given this place 4 stars. They have drink specials and are friendly and quirky; all things I like.
However, they have a 20% preset tip on their debit/credit machines. If you don't know by now, this is my personal pet peeve with restaurants. Preset/suggested tips makes me tip less than the original 20% I was going to leave!! It's seriously rude to expect your customers to tip at 20% and it leaves them feeling ashamed when they cannot AFFORD that much. I understand that the clientele in the King West area is on the somewhat wealthier side. Or at least they like to think they are. But you will have customers who are from other locales coming by and it's not cool to make them feel pressured to tip higher than what is customary!!
All in all, mediocre place with quirks that might appeal to those who love the States.