Is okra visually stimulating and fresh? Yes. It has a nice inviting decor in a newly redeveloped north central building. But my new rating guide is by asking one question: did i eat anything that i want to go back for. Unfortunately with a party of 5, nothing we had was memorable.
Although not perfect but the service is good and personable. It is the food. Using southern dishes and trying to refine them and charge higher price for a refinement that actually basterdises the great cheaper igredients such as catfish, bone marrow, grits, ham hock, does not work. Almost everything is sweet, from the tomato base of the small meatballs, to the base of the short rib and even the muscle broth.
And stop messing with the bone marrow by adding jam. Bone marrow does not need make up.
Good atmosphere, but another failure of creating memorable food.