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| - My husband and I are big fans of Diners Drive Ins and Dives and this is the only place on the show in Charlotte which we had not yet tried. So hubby says tonight we are eating at Dish! And I was SO looking forward to it.....I love salmon and have eaten and made salmon cakes (or salmon patties) all my life. We both also love fried green tomatoes. We were seated quickly and our server was quick to greet us and suggest a drink special and their "signature" app fried green tomatoes - we said "YES" to both. The drink was good. The app was not. Practically tasteless. The deviled eggs were also very, very bland. Entrees: hubby ordered the pork chop which was pretty good. Very, very thin but tasted ok. His mashed potatoes were horrid. And we both got pinto beans as a side - I make these homemade myself all the time - and these were most certainly from a can. Tender, but extremely bland and in a clear-ish liquid. The salmon patties I ordered were just awful. I really wanted to like them. But they were clearly from canned salmon - not fresh as was demonstrated on Diners Drive Ins and Dives show - and tasted old and somewhat "fish-y". The word that came to mind was "cat food" and I was disappointed to say the least. The orange butter was really tasty and I put some of it on the hours old hard biscuit, and that was ok. The mac and cheese was ok. Reminded me of cafeteria fare from college. I suspect there was some canned cheese sauce in it. The waitress up to this point was friendly. But when she stopped back by and I asked her if fresh salmon is used to make the salmon patties, she hesitated and then said "Well, yeah, I think so." As a server, shouldn't you know for sure? Especially since this particular dish was featured on TV show highlighting the use of fresh ingredients? I told her I could not eat these that they were just really bad. And then we got the cold shoulder attitude. I was trying to be as nice as possible and when she FINALLY asked if I wanted something else, I asked for just the protein part of chicken fried steak - this was brought out promptly but with a nary a friendly air to be found. When she stopped back by to ask us if we wanted dessert (again with cool attitude) and we politely declined, she put the check down and told us to pay her. Well, when we looked at the bill we realized she had rung up three entrees and charged us for all three. So I go up to the front where the register is and after standing there for about 10 minutes the hostess finally asked if she could help us - I explained that I was willing to pay for two entrees but not three, especially when the salmon had been so bad and I had not eaten but a few bites of the salmon. She agreed to have someone remove it from the bill. We waited another 20 minutes or so for this to be accomplished while standing there at the counter... at the front ....with the owner (I recognized her from the show) and our waitress passing us repeatedly and NEVER asking if we needed assistance. Finally the hostess re-appeared and asked us if we needed anything and I told her, "Look, we just want to pay and go - we have been standing here waiting for the corrected bill for quite some time." Hostess gets the bill corrected and waitress now must bring it over to me. I paid and we left. This was a 25 minute drive across town for us and we were really looking forward to it. The entire evening ended up being a big disappointment. The service started out good but as soon as I didn't like my entree it soured. And the food was pretty bad. My husband and I could not believe this place was featured on a TV show. Not sure what happed here - but we will not be back...There are a TON of unique places to eat in this town - we avoid chain restaurants and there are still plenty of great places to go - especially in this neighborhood that offer up flavorful fare and goof customer service.
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