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| - My friends and I were happy to see something go in after 56 East closed and we were hoping that it would prove to be another great place for happy hour. Sadly, not so.
Their happy hour is only OK. Just dollars off of drinks and apps, not half price. They didn't have a cocktail list in their menu (and they've been open for a while now), just a blank page. Our waiter said they were working on a list of their own cocktails, eluding they would be original so I asked him to name some. A cosmo, a lemon drop, a traditional martini or something with peach schnapps. Sounded like the same old tired drinks we've seen everywhere so I went with a glass of wine, Ada G. got a sangria (the only "unusual" drink they offered) and our other friend went for the "exotic" cosmo.
Our drinks came and the sangria was OK but the cosmo tasted like watered down cranberry juice. We all had to try it just to make sure and low and behold, watered down cranberry juice. Not even a whisper of alcohol in it. She ended up sending it back and getting a glass of wine also, can't screw that up.
Our food came and best looking award goes to their mini hot dogs that Ada G. ordered for her little girl. They were honest to god tiny hot dogs in tiny buns. Not cut down to size or anything but actually made that way. Adorable. For us hungry girls we ordered the chicken tamale appetizer, hummus and ceviche. The tamale was a kind of deconstructed dish of little triangle polenta cakes with shredded chicken and tomatillo sauce on them. It seemed that we all enjoyed them. They were nothing phenomenal, but if I were forced to come back here, this might be something I would order. The ceviche was great, except that it came with water crackers. I personally prefer it with tortilla chips but at least the traditional saltines would have been better. Now the hummus. It came in three flavors. One was roasted red pepper which tasted kind of weird, there was a spicy one we all liked and another flavor that tasted off which we skipped but the worst part was that the hummus was runny like they thinned it out to make it go farther. It had to be served in bowls so it wouldn't run all over the plate. It was so runny in fact that it could be used for salad dressing (though based on the taste, you probably wouldn't want to). And again with the damn water crackers! We got a few wedges of pita and a dozen water crackers. Did they buy them in bulk?
I think what finally chased us out the door was that they had their roll up window at the bar open to the patio and it was 108 outside and humid. No one was sitting on the patio. In fact the bar wasn't even full but with the window open the A/C couldn't compete with the heat and it was stifling in there. We couldn't understand why they wouldn't wait to open it until someone wanted to sit out there.
Sadly, this will have been my first and last visit to Fired Up Grill. They followed in 56 East's footsteps and with such a great happy hour, it was too tough an act for them to follow.
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