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| - Let me just say, I was really pulling for this place. I wanted them to succeed. Opening a restaurant of this size in this economy is insane, and you've got to bring your A Game. Sadly, the Urban Grill fell short. Very short.
The boyfriend and I went there for drinks and a bite. The drinks were a bottled beer and house wine, so there's not much you can mess up there. But we ordered a few appetizers as our meal, and it was not good. At all.
The bartender recommended the nachos. I saw that it had meat (bonus) and brie (double bonus). However, they came on wontons, which threw me off. I ordered them any way. The wontons tasted like old oil, and the meat and cheese mess on top didn't have consistency or a distinctive flavor.
The second appetizer was a fried, wrapped asparagus with some sort of hawaiian pork in it. They were obviously fried in the same oil, and that was all I could taste. Old fryer oil.
The last appetizer, some sort of sweet and spicy chicken wings, were fried in...yep...you guessed it...the same oil. The sauce was decent, sweet with a little heat, but we couldn't get over the old oil taste.
So, two stars for the booze and the decent service from the bartender (plus I felt bad because we were the only ones there at 5 p.m.).
I really wanted to like you, Urban Grill. I really did.
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