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| - Have to say barely OK, rather than A-OK. Disappointing in a number of ways. This was a dinner occasion with dinner menu and a couple of specials offered.
Menu selection was sparse. Yes, meat, fowl & fish, sandwiches, salads and appetizers, but very few in each category. Thought it was an Italian place, but is listed as category American, so maybe that is part of the confusion as there do not appear to be entrees weighted either way.
Nice clean, open atmosphere and plenty of tables. Service was just fine and Carolina friendly, with pretense. Nice looking bar but this is a wine an beer place only.
Prices not out-of-bounds and an OK wine list.
Tried their ham and white bean soup which was fantastic. Almost like bean chowder it was thick, rich and hardy. A perfect meal or lunch on a cold damp winter day, coupled with their very good bread. Beans, green beans, carrots, lots of ham and certainly onion and some other goodies, so it was like homemade.
Salad dressings are mostly made in-house, at least the ranch, bleu cheese and a few unusual vinaigrettes. Salad sizes were OK, but not huge. Could be shared, but not enough for a full meal.
Chicken piccata was OK. Served with Halloween-orange rice was off-putting, as plain white rice or wild rice would have been better. All the better to sop up the nice lemon caper sauce. Breasts themselves were not flattened, but somewhere in between a regular breast and flattened. Looked like thin chicken fingers. Veggies were the standard summer squash, zucchini, carrot combo and it was sauteed so that there was a bit of char and carmel on them.
Compared with Trattoria Antica and Mama Lena's in Waxhaw, Rippingtons comes in a distant third.
But it is worth another visit to try their onion soup and a couple of other entrees.
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