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| - HABERDISH.
First dinner my girlfriend and I went to after moving to Charlotte. Boy, did we pick a great place to make our introduction to our new city.
Since we live in NoDa, it was a quick walk to the restaurant since its right on North Davidson. It was poppin on a Thursday night and we asked to sit outside. There's a good bit of seating out front and a ton inside, and then to the left of the main dining area there is a sort of inside/outside eating area that is semi-enclosed by a roof, but gives you all the feeling of sitting outside except the sun in your face.
I started off with the Besame Tequila cocktail that was pretty to look at AND delicious. Sometimes you don't get both! It was very sweet, and might not have gone too well with the food we ended up ordering, but oh well.
My girlfriend and I ordered the biscuits with bacon jam, friend chicken tenders (we are obviously children), kale grits, and hushpuppies with sweet tea butter.
Hands down the best thing was the biscuits with bacon jam. The "jam" was literally pieces of bacon mixed with God knows what that was smothered all. over. the biscuits. It was amazing. 10/10 would bacon jam again.
The hushpuppies were fried to perfection and the sweet tea butter was damn good. I'd eat that on any kind of bread.
Chicken tenders, very solid. It came with four different dipping sauces which is always a plus.They're also sold individually so you don't get pigeonholed into ordering too much and can still order different things from the menu!
My only slight gripe was the kale grits. Maybe we got a "meh" batch, but they definitely needed some salt or some sort of salty cheese. They were still good, just lacked as much flavor as the rest of the dishes. Maybe that was the intent? I'm not sure, but I like my grits' flavor to hit me in the face.
Overall, the food combined with the ambience, and the great service, i would 100% recommend this place if you want some damn good southern cooking. Can't wait to go back to try other dishes!
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