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| - I had high hopes for this place, and maybe it's just growing pains, but you'd figure after they've been open a couple months they'd have worked themselves out.
Let's start with the good: The staff was super friendly. The fries are world class. Don't know why, but they are. The Nabers IPA on tap is a really good, refreshing, unoffensive example of the style. If they sold it in stores I'd seek it out. The mega pretzel appetizer was tasty and had just the right texture....but $7 is steep.
Which leads me into the not-so-good. The menu sounds great in theory, but the prices are on the high side, and the dishes we had just weren't all that good.
My son's chicken strips were tough, and Naber's either needs to change the oil they're cooked in, or change brands/type of oil altogether. Whatever it was left an "off" taste in them.
My wife's French Dip looked pretty good, the roll was decent enough, but the beef was tough and kind of tinny tasting. Definitely "meh".
I had the corn chowder and the Nuclear Shrimp appetizer together as my meal. The chowder seems homemade, but it was unfortunately very bland. A little blast of salt perked it right up though. The Nuclear Shrimp were spicy indeed, but had also quite obviously been sitting at the kitchen window for a loooooong time. Seems like the kitchen prepared them as an app and put them up but then they sat while the server waited to deliver them as a main course (as requested). Better communication between the two would keep that from happening.
And, we didn't get any place settings until after our meal was delivered. That always irks me.
The manager comped me one of my beers for my crappy shrimp plate without any prompting at all. It's obvious they have customer satisfaction top of mind, but it would be better if they build that satisfaction with better execution in the first place. We'll probably give it another shot some time but we're not going to rush back.
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