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| - Better than some of it's predecessors (Seared and Zeke's anyone?) but a little pricey for what basically amounts to bar food.
Went recently on a Friday (2 couples). Place was crowded with a line around 7. We made reservations and were seated upstairs.
I have to say that for some of the people on Yelp as well as others who told us that the inside was 'transformed', I beg to differ. It's the same chopped up, multi-level, no-flow place it was before with nicer floors and lighting. Bonus is the musty smell is gone. But it's just a weird place that probably needs to be knocked down with a real building put up in its place. Nothing special. And how this place gets away with all the stairs in this day and age of accessibility for disabled is beyond me.
As far as the food, I had the Asiago Chicken which was pretty good (a little on the warm side vs. hot but okay), my wife had a cuban (only ate half of it as it was not very flavorful, friends had some sort of club sandwich (again nothing worthy of writing about) and a burger (hard to screw up a burger). Also had the homemade chips (very good) and the homemade hummus which was a weirdly thin consistency. As if hummus doesn't look enough like baby poop, the thin consistency took that visual to the next level.
Service was good, efficient and friendly.
Bill for 2 people (1 sandwich, 1 chicken, 1 appetizer, 3 drinks) was over $60 (without tip). That said, it's overpriced for the food we had.
Side note: I think some of the management might be a little too full of themselves with this place as we were walking out and I looked down the stairs to the bar where a woman standing at a microphone with cheesy colored lights behind her and looked like she was getting ready to sing. I mentioned to my friend 'oh, they have karaoke here too'. This snooty short guy who worked there and overheard me was clearly miffed with this notion and said rather bluntly 'it's not karaoke, we have live music here'. Well Ahoy Polloi (for you Caddyshack afficianados). Pardon me!
In any case we'll probably give it another try but it was nothing special the first time around, especially for the price.
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