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| - Ok. The best thing about this place was the uber-comfy booths and buttery leather seats.
For real.
I had been SO stoked about finally going and trying the things people on Yelp raved about - the duck fat fries, the truffled eggs - I was heartbroken as the reality of the mediocre, tiny pieces of food and indifferent service crashed upon me.
My boyfriend and I met after work yesterday and I arrived ahead of him. I ordered his iced tea from the guy who brought me my Rosemary's Piglet drink (Save yourself the 9 bucks, it was tasty at first but then the rosemary overtakes the drink and it's just bitter. Like I feel now, post meal.) and the guy forgot about it, so my BF came in ten minutes later and was already slightly annoyed because he had no tea. Then the guy suddenly remembered and I saw him tell our server and point to our table so SHE could get our tea. (The reason I had not asked her is because she was a sporadic visitor to the table...the servers were all gathered around at the kitchen/grill entrance socializing with their backs to all the tables. There were not that many people there at 5 PM on a Wednesday, so no excuse for late/poor service. Lots of servers, but also lots of apathy.)
Then she brought the iced tea, and we had to flag someone else down a few minutes later for sweetener. It was annoying. Just....bad service. unattentive as anything.
We ordered the truffled eggs and mushroom caps for an appetizer. My one star is for the caps. They were made with what was touted to be homemade chorizio and the chorizio was succulent and spicy, The mushrooms themselves were a little hard and small but the flavor of the chorizio stuffing redeemed them. The truffled deviled eggs were TERRIBLE. Tasted nothing of truffle, they were mayonnaise-y and almost sweet. Yuck.
I then ventured on to the "bacon and eggs" which was porkbelly over "Creamy, cheesy grits". These were the first grits I ever had in a nice place that were actually GRITTY. Terrible. And the tiny strips of porkbelly were overcooked, dry, and just not good. The egg served with them I didn't even touch as the yolk was solid and cold, not over easy and lovely.
My BF got the beef shoulder, which he did like, the 3 ounces that he got, anyway. I have to say, the portions are smaller here than you expect for the cost. And it wouldn't be so terrible if it all wasn't so BLAND.
The duck fat fries just tasted like re-heated, overly crispy then cold again french fries. Huge waste of time.
So we tried everything we wanted to, but in the end I feel like I paid $80 for a mediocre food and indifferent service.
Oh! One thing they are doing right there? The hostessing! And the hostesses! They did everything right - greeted us, told us they were glad we came when we left - they were awesome. And I have to say the manager walked around and asked if everything was ok - but at that point, I was hungry, annoyed, had to be somewhere after dinner and simply didn't feel like getting into it. If I thought they could have made it right, I would have said something. But the flaws are in the way the food was done, when it came down to it. It seems to be working for most people but then I wonder where these people giving Salty Sow four and five stars have been eating?????
Local Bistro or Wally's American Grill - those are places in this genre that are doing it right. This place is all hype, in my opinion.
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