I don't really get the hype surrounding this place. I wanted to like my experience here. It has a great vibe and looks so promising that I was expecting a wowing culinary experience. Unfortunately, it really didn't live up to the hype.
I had the chili and garlic broccoli. For starters, I didn't know WHAT I'd be getting. Is it going to be a chili with garlic and broccoli? Would it be chili with garlic flavoured broccoli? Or would it just be broccoli with chili and garlic seasoning?
Turns out it was just a plate of broccoli with a whole lot of garlic and barely any chili flavouring. It was drenched in oil and was just so limp that I almost felt bad for the poor broccoli. It's hard to do broccoli wrong, but this place sure did. I could have poured the grease off my plate and into a cup after eating the broccoli. Weird.
I then tried the tomatoes - charred onion and avocado salsa, pimento toast. This was a bit better but the pimento toast was also greased up. There was too much pimento cheese on the toast that it just sort of overpowered everything. The tomatos were good but again soaking in too much oil.
Overall, I was fairly disappointed with the food at Rose & Sons. I'm confused as to why it's getting so much buzz.