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| - I like this place and I have a feeling I'm going to REALLY like it in months to come. I made it to the soft opening today and while it's clear there are a few kinks to work out, as any new restaurant opening may have, I think they will have them easily under control.
To start, the atmosphere is great. They gutted Hartigans, took out the booths, added a great see through garage door (like Nan and Byrons) that will open up to outdoor seating, dazzled up the bar, redid all the wooding on the walls. It feels a lot more spacious and has a nice casual, but not too casual, vibe about it. Basically, for game days, this place will be on point. (They will have a special game day menu that I am interested to check out).
Now the menu and food! I am a fan. Their Apps are definitely the star dishes. For apps we tried the Chicken Wings in OMB Copper Buffalo and Barbalo sauce, the Pork Wings, and the Smoked Duck Tacos. Not a single thing disappointed. The wings were great, I really enjoyed the OMB Copper sauce. The Smoked Duck Tacos were very good too - the house plum bbq sauce definitely has a kick to it but it really complimented the duck. The pork wings were fantastic (Beer Braised Pork Shanks Tossed in a Sweet Chili Cheer Wine BBQ Sauce, yes, please, two times) they are pretty big and pretty delicious.
For our meals, what I remember is the Chipotle Avocado Chicken Sandwich, Smoked Bacon Chicken Caesar Melt, Korean Bulgogi Lettuce Wraps, and a Flank Steak Sandwich (also sweet potato fries and house chips). Everything looked great, I had the Flank steak sandwich and I enjoyed it - a little too bready but I thought the amount of food was filling and tasted great. The person who had the lettuce wraps, which has flank steak in it too, thought it was a little salty but overall a great dish.
All in all, the food was interesting in a good way; I was impressed not to see a standard menu, by any means. There are a lot of great looking things that I want to try (like the Smoked Duck French Dip and the T.E.D. Sandwich - 'Turkey Every Day,' i think thats what it stood for.)
We unfortunately didn't get to see their beer list, so I am also very interested to see that when its finally open (They will also have liquor, I believe). Given that they were still doing construction today and that it was there soft opening, you expect a few kinks. the food took quite a while to come out but I imagine that that is something that will be smoothed over in a short amount of time. The service was great though - heavily staffed, really polite waitresses. (She offered a song and dance while we waited, I mean, c'mon, that's great stuff!)
Maybe small edits once they're open but this place has GREAT potential and it looks like it will reach it. I know that once its fully up and functional that I will probably be back frequently!
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