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| - Came here for their tasting menu but found out their were actually doing restaurant week so we ended up doing that. I was actually a little disappointed because I find that restaurant week menus usually don't accurately reflect a restaurants quality but it certainly was a lot cheaper! $35 for an app, entree, and dessert.
Bread course came first with some butter, this was ok and didn't really stand out.
For apps bf and I got the blackened shrimp cocktail and chowder. The chowder came in a very cute cup and was surprisingly light for a chowder? It seemed more like a soup and was quite clear and was really good, the name just threw me off. My blackened shrimp were great, the shrimp were huge and perfectly cooked though you could tell that it was cooked over a gas fire by the taste. The cocktail sauce was house with I think a tomato base. Do not eat it by itself, it's quite salty!
For entree I got the shrimp and grits and my bf got the fried chicken. I definitely had a lot of shrimp this meal. My entree came with a bed of grits with corn and assorted other things and a line of shrimp on top of it. It was pretty good, a little too salty. You only really notice at the end of the meal though once it has built up. The grits were otherwise perfect for me, very creamy but no cheesy flavor. The shrimp and corn were pretty necessary to impart that extra punch of flavor so it was a nice combination. I could have used maybe half the grits they gave me though! haha
My bf's fried chicken was also massive haha. It was a giant hunk of chicken that looked very nice and tasted really good but the skin was not crispy! I'll give them a pass since they are farm to table rather than a specialized fried chicken place. It came with a mini skillet side of mac and cheese which was quite good but once again there was just so much food!
For dessert we got the cheerwine pound cake and the cheesecake. I was pretty disappointed with my pound cake, it was very dry and every component just made it more so. The cake itself was dry, there was a thick but melted chocolate smeared on the bottom which was dry. The cheerwine sauce, I'm assuming, was drizzled on but there wasn't nearly enough I couldn't really taste anything? Also it kind of soaked into the cake and made it a strange mix of soggy and dry?? Overall I was not impressed. My boyfriends cheesecake was quite good, it was deconstructed with the actual cake part, the crust was a crumble of peanut butter and chocolate and it was quite a good cheesecake that tasted fairly light for a cheesecake.
It was my boyfriends birthday so they actually brought out two pieces of homemade turkish delight, honey and champagne flavoured and that's exactly what it tasted like! Fresh honey and some light champagne. That was actually probably the best part of the meal because the delights were quite delightful and it was my bf's first time trying one.
Everyone in the staff was so nice and probably wished my bf happy birthday ten times and they definitely made us feel welcome. The decor was very nice, kinda hunter's lodge without all the mounted heads. There's plenty of parking but as people mentioned it is a bit of a drive.
Overall I didn't really notice any extraordinary freshness in terms of the ingredients and I could've not known where the owner graduated from college but the staff was just so nice it made dinner very enjoyable.
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