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| - After my third visit to this restaurant, I think it will be some time before I return. First of all, I find it more than a little off putting when the first words out of the waiter's mouth is "Would you like bottled sparkling or still water, or tap water"? It's just plain annoying and seems to suggest that you're cheap if you don't spring for bottled water. What it really says to me is "while you're here we'd like to wring as many dollars out of you as possible and if we have to make you feel uncomfortable while doing so , so be it.
We went for brunch today, and I was going to order the open faced serrano ham and cheese sandwich with mornay sauce until my waiter warned me that the portion is very small and that I might want to order some additional side dishes if I ordered it. Given that he must have weighed 140 lbs soaking wet, I took him seriously and changed my order to the Southpark Fry: duck confit hash, fried oysters, fried egg, and duck jus. Sounds delicious, right? It was merely OK and for $14 there should have been more than two small fried oysters and one ounce of duck confit. There were more onions than anything else in this dish. If this was a large portion, the ham and cheese sandwich must truly be tiny.
My wife had the "steak burger" and again we were annoyed at the small portion. It was the size of a slider and completely unremarkable.
If you want to spend $40 on lunch and still come away hungry, Roosters is your kind of place.
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