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| - Tonight I went to mandrake for restaurant week (queen's feast) and it was the worst meal I've eaten since moving to Charlotte over 6 years ago. I've actually never written a Yelp review, but after walking out the door $60 poorer, hungry and annoyed, I thought I'd leave my thoughts here so other hungry restaurant goers could redirect heir reservation to a more worthy location.
Here's the issue. If you do a "prefix" menu, make the meal worth the prefix price. We got 3 plates, tiny plates of food that tasted o.k. The chicken carbonara was two chunks of strangely cooked chicken that tasted like it was not thawed properly and thrown in a skillet frozen. It laid atop a bed of a few noodles with no taste. Let me also mention the strange chunks of fatty hormel Bologna thrown in (the pancetta).
The starters were o.k. - egg rolls were tiny, like the size of a small thumb and the arugula salad was tasty but again, small.
I understand the concept of tapas, but when you craft a queen's feast menu and label it entree, I expect to be full and happy when I leave. But today I didn't have that experience. Rather I left annoyed that I paid that much for nothing. My money literally went no where.
And to top it off, when I didn't eat most of my noodle meal, they acknowledged I didn't like it but didn't do anything about it. They took it away and I sat there waiting for my check to pay for the food I didn't eat because it was gross.
But don't take it from me. Pay them a visit if you're looking for a disappointing culinary experience in uptown Charlotte.
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