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| - Truly, I'd give this place a solid 2.5 stars, but yelp isn't about that life.
A friend of mine lives close and convinced me to try it out. Groupon was running a deal and I heard good things about the place, so I decided to venture out on a frigid Friday evening and try it out. I walked into the bar entrance that had a decent amount of patrons there watching some sort of game, and wandered looking lost past a bunch of employees who didn't seem too interested in letting me know it was a seat yourself sort of situation. There was a hostess stand, but I've yet to determine what purpose it serves. Seriously, dudes...a sign would have been nice.
I liked the feel of the upstairs, as there was lots more room and plenty of tables. I sat and waited for my friend and was served water and menus by our friendly server. We saw that there was a cranberry ginger shandy on the menu for $3.50 and each decided to get one. It was delicious, and I noticed quite a few other diners enjoying various drafts as well. They definitely had an expansive beer menu full of things I'd never heard before which is always a good sign in my book.
After having read some reviews, I decided to order the turkey club. My my friend went with the blackened tuna that came with sautéed spinach and red skin mashed potatoes. Our food took awhile to be brought out, but it was okay because we gabbed and gabbed. When our food arrived, my turkey club was ginormous. It was so big I only could eat one fourth of it. I loved the thick carved roasted turkey, the house made bacon and the bread it was served on was delicious. It had some mayo on there too so it wasn't dry. It was a solid turkey club and only $9, including fries. Unfortunately my fries were overcooked and lukewarm.
My friends dish was a total flop. She had me taste a piece and her piece of "blackened" tuna was completely cold. Cold as in, they made it and waited for someone to go slaughter the damn turkey for my sandwich and then served it to her cold. The tuna was not blackened but yet only slightly grilled. The mashed potatoes looked watery and my friend said they were the greasiest mashed she's ever had. It legit had pools of grease around the sides. I'm not sure how one messes up mashed potatoes...
Luckily when we alerted the server he offered to either reheat it (yeah...like that'd be any good...) or get her something else. She went with a grilled chicken wrap that came with fries. She said it was "meh" and picked at half of it and then was just done altogether.
As if this visit couldn't have gotten anymore odd, the check came. When my friend re-ordered, the server mentioned it would be half off because of her troubles, but when the check came we were charged full price for her wrap, but $6.00 each for the shandy we had instead of the $3.50 that was quoted on the menu. Though our server was entirely friendly the whole time and did a great job refilling my water, he was slammed with other tables and we didn't want to cause another ruckus about the incorrect check, especially since we were using the Groupon. We paid and left, giggling about the weird experience the whole walk home.
All in all, the service was nice but the food was a miss. I'd come back to this place for drinks only maybe sometime when the weather is nice, as the patio looked nice in other people's reviews.
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